In an article in Cuba's communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, the 14-year old Gonzalez said he would never let ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro down. He joined more than 18-thousand others who joined the group on Saturday.


*twitch* *twitch* gibbergibber *drool*

Cue Robot Chicken's Disney/Elian sketch...

sad? why is that sad?

viva communism!

/Obligatory

yawn

He has "joined" Cuba's Young Communist Union

not news. in soviet cuba (ha-ha), this is pretty much compulsory.

well duh

Who cares about this stupid kid? He's just a friggin commie.

zeroPOINTzero how did you get that photo of me and my friends?

I fail to see how this is sad.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Who cares about this stupid kid? He's just a friggin commie.

Government coercion is something we should all look down upon, no matter where or who.

WaltzingMathilda: I fail to see how this is sad.

It's always sad when the cultists win.

Almost lol-worthy. But the possibility that lack of Freedom of Speech/Association played a part in this is cutting into my lol.

If he'd stayed here, and joined the Communist Party, THAT would have been funny.

Just like Pope Ratzinger "joined" the Hitler Youth...

I wonder if he misses Disney World.

He must have pirated some mp3s.

WaltzingMathilda: I fail to see how this is sad.

The kid got washed up in our country, stayed with family and we pointed a gun in his face and shipped him back to freakin Cuba, where he was trying to escape from to begin with. I'm not surprised hes a commie now. To tell you the truth if I were him id probably do the same. America was not kind to him.

/Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free my ass.

HarrisonBergeron: Just like Pope Ratzinger "joined" the Hitler Youth...

I suppose that was better than getting shot in the head. Elian Gonzales tho, he was forced into the commie cargo cult at gunpoint by US soldiers.

And we used to be such a NICE country too....

I remember when he was in the United States, his family had him wearing a t-shirt with American flag on it and using a cell phone. When the press just happened to stop by their house to film him playing in the family front yard.

Oh, the irony makes me laugh. Viva la Propaganda!

Seen weeping...

HarrisonBergeron: Just like Pope Ratzinger "joined" the Hitler Youth...

Zing!

Has anyone ever wondered why there was someone waiting in that room with a camera to take that perfect photograph?

WaltzingMathilda: I fail to see how this is sad.

Cause he should be right here in america, where he could have the freedom to be deported for being an "illegal" immigrant.

Probably not as weird as Brownies. They had us all dancing in a ring with joined hands around a toadstool with an owl on top. Then we had to sell lame ass sandwich cookies that came in two exciting flavours of vanilla or chocolate, the kind of cookies old people let get stale and then dunk in their tea. This was Canadian Brownies, mind you. As far as I can tell, it was some pagan goddess biscuit racket.

Girl Scouts got those kick ass mint cookies.

The best they can do is a 3 year old photo?

zeroPOINTzero Ah, a candid shot of the Icy Hot Stuntaz Soviet Bloc counterparts

Apples01: Has anyone ever wondered why there was someone waiting in that room with a camera to take that perfect photograph?

Because everyone knew it was coming, it was just a matter of time, and so they wanted to make sure the incident was documented?

Just a guess...

Hope3fully next time he invades the country he will liberate some Cubans.

EsteeFlwrPot: WaltzingMathilda: I fail to see how this is sad.

The kid got washed up in our country, stayed with family and we pointed a gun in his face and shipped him back to freakin Cuba, where he was trying to escape from to begin with. I'm not surprised hes a commie now. To tell you the truth if I were him id probably do the same. America was not kind to him.

/Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free my ass.

We didn't send him back there because he was Cuban or because our government hates 'commies' or whatever, it was a custody battle between his father and his dead mother's family and he was sent back to Cuba to live with his sole remaining parent, which was the right thing to do.

Apples01: Has anyone ever wondered why there was someone waiting in that room with a camera to take that perfect photograph?

YES! What the hell is up with that?

Spare me the bullshiat about us forcing him back. His dad wanted him back and the US had to oblige. He wasn't escaping shiat. His mom was. Betcha if his dad died and his mom wanted him back we would have had him home to Cuba in a few days.

Elian's never gonna give Castro up, never gonna let Castro down, never gonna run around and desert Castro.

/neat

Aww some Americans are sore over Elian's decision to be a communist despite his visit to Disney World.

For shame. My violin is playing.....

Actually in Cuba you do have a choice whether or not to join the Young Communist Union.

18,000 of them joined on the same day?

Smells fishy to me.


/that's what she said

FunkOut: Probably not as weird as Brownies. They had us all dancing in a ring with joined hands around a toadstool with an owl on top. Then we had to sell lame ass sandwich cookies that came in two exciting flavours of vanilla or chocolate, the kind of cookies old people let get stale and then dunk in their tea. This was Canadian Brownies, mind you. As far as I can tell, it was some pagan goddess biscuit racket.

Girl Scouts got those kick ass mint cookies.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAH....HAAHAHAHAHAHAAH....

This post made me laugh, and also slightly made my head hurt, in a good way. Kind of. I think it was: pagan goddess biscuit racket. HA HA HA....

/love thin mints
//has voluntarily eaten Brownies

Ra_: The best they can do is a 3 year old photo?


There's only digital camera in Cuba, and they all have to share it.

/Can't wait till Castro dies.
//Throwing a party when he does.

Catymogo1: Actually in Cuba you do have a choice whether or not to join the Young Communist Union.

In Cuba, Young Communist Union join YOU!

retarded: EsteeFlwrPot: WaltzingMathilda: I fail to see how this is sad.

The kid got washed up in our country, stayed with family and we pointed a gun in his face and shipped him back to freakin Cuba, where he was trying to escape from to begin with. I'm not surprised hes a commie now. To tell you the truth if I were him id probably do the same. America was not kind to him.

/Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free my ass.

We didn't send him back there because he was Cuban or because our government hates 'commies' or whatever, it was a custody battle between his father and his dead mother's family and he was sent back to Cuba to live with his sole remaining parent, which was the right thing to do.

THIS. And even if you decide there is a case, his father is still the far better choice than the pack of drunks and crazies he was with in Miami.

This was only an issue because the psycho Cuban "exile" community in Miami saw an opportunity to make political points. They didn't give two shiats about the kid at all. The raid to get him the hell out of there was unfortunate, but it didn't need to happen.

America gave Castro a huge political victory all while disenfranchising a large population of anti-communistic Cuban exiles living in south Florida.
During the 2000 presidential race, Bush should have phoned Clinton to thank him profusely for basically bestowing the Presidency to him. Florida was won by only a few hundred votes which I'm sure was cast by many pissed of Floridians.

/Yes, I know they were probably politically active Republicans anyway.
//Yes, I know Broward and Dade were overwhelming Gore counties.
///Still, it was still big doo-doo in S.Florida during those elections

Catymogo1: Actually in Cuba you do have a choice whether or not to join the Young Communist Union.

yeah, only it's kinda like the choice not to submit to a breathalyzer.

Hes probably a terrorist now.

EsteeFlwrPot: /Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free my ass.

That has never been true without papers. We'd be a nation of 1 billion if it were.

He was too young to be "trying to escape." That decision was being made for him. We have no idea what he wanted.

Shaster: Apples01: Has anyone ever wondered why there was someone waiting in that room with a camera to take that perfect photograph?

YES! What the hell is up with that?

The guy who took the photo (a journalist with the AP) snuck into the house during the raid.

The_Sponge: /Can't wait till Castro dies.
//Throwing a party when he does.

If y7ou invite me I will bring much rum coke and limes to make Cuba Libres.

retarded: We didn't send him back there because he was Cuban or because our government hates 'commies' or whatever, it was a custody battle between his father and his dead mother's family and he was sent back to Cuba to live with his sole remaining parent, which was the right thing to do.

Yeah it's the right thing to do to ship a kid to be with his father and live in poverty in a communist country run by a dictator?! Are you kidding me? You must be joking.

WaltzingMathilda: He was too young to be "trying to escape." That decision was being made for him. We have no idea what he wanted.

Obviously his mother decided it was worth risking their lives to leave the country. Things couldnt have been that great. HIs father didnt join her for a reason and now look, hes a freakin commie.