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Wednesday, July 29, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
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commands the National Guard) had done
their jobs responsibly the feds would not be
there now.
Bottom line: if you live in a safe neighbor-
hood, thank the police. If you live in a dan-
gerous neighborhood, welcome the police!
Donald Harner
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To the Editor:
As a response to Craig Eisenbeis9 column
about his <adventure= to Cuba and to provide
him with a bit of education about the hor-
rific history of the revolution that plunged
the Cuban people into their continuing police
state existence: Please note that the Cuban
people are the victims of this repressive
regime, not victims of the USA.
In 1959 within weeks of taking power
after an armed revolt against the corrupt dic-
tator Batista, Fidel and Raul Castro, along
with the revolution9s chief enforcer and
murderer Che Guevara, began the summary
executions of Cuban business owners, land
owners, professors, teachers, bureaucrats,
police and military leaders. Che Guevara was
made Castro9s commander of the La Cabana
prison, and the firing squads began. Che was
asked by the foreign press about the justifica-
tions and legality of the executions by firing
squad his answer was <These concepts of tri-
als and legal procedures are unnecessary in
a revolution; they are an archaic bourgeois
detail. A revolution must become a cold
killing machine, motivated by pure hate.=
Raul Castro said in an AP interview in 1959
that <Executions were about revenge and
redress.=
The <revolution= led by the Castros and
Che was responsible for over 6,000 assas-
sinations in the Oriente Province alone,
(remember this next time you see some
<woke hip= ignoramus wearing a Che-in-his-
beret T-shirt)
Cuba fast became a police state with
Soviet assistance and they both began export-
ing communist revolution and stirring up
trouble with Cuba9s neighbors, our neigh-
bors, all in America9s backyard during the
Cold War.
Over 100,000 refugees fled, most land-
ing in Miami, these people had their homes,
businesses, farms, investments, cars and
property seized by the state, no private prop-
erty allowed, (unless you are the communist
elite).
Craig Eisenbeis, you need to ask one of
these thousands of Cuban exile families
if they think the <USA is the bully= as you
put it. Or ask these victims of the Cuban
totalitarians if the U.S. policy towards the
Cuban government is <just because they
have a different way of life,= not a way of
life the vast majority of them desire or have
chosen.
The Cuban people are trapped in a police
state that has provided them nothing but
oppression and impoverishment. As to your
ridiculous statement about the Cuban health-
care system, even if their system did work,
which it does not, the trade-off for the tyr-
anny and poverty the population endures in
not even close to worth it. Further propa-
ganda you were fed on your Cuban <adven-
ture,= or intentionally pass along in your
article, is that there is some benevolence and
charitable quid pro quo provided by Cuba
in sending their doctors abroad, it is well
documented** they are mere slaves of the
state and the Cuban government does this as
a form of obtaining hard currency for their
backward repressive communist economy.
Craig maybe your next <adventure= should
either be to the library to research the evils of
the history of the communist Cuban govern-
ment or to Miami to speak with some Cuban
exiles.
Eric Knirk
**NYT 9/29/17, WSJ 12/25/19, BBC
5/14/19, Reuters 12/12/18, Civil Rights
Defender 2/24/20
BUSINESSES: Direct
contributions help
weather storm
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corner of Cascade Avenue
and Pine Street, had to reduce
their indoor seating from 14
tables to eight or nine to meet
state guidelines to mitigate the
spread of COVID-19. Unlike
some other restaurants in
town, their potential for out-
door seating is limited 3 so
there9s a pretty tight cap on the
amount of business they are
able to do. During the indoor
season, Cork Cellars offers
wine tastings and live music,
which brings a crowd. Those
activities may not be feasible
this winter.
<That alone makes me ner-
vous,= she said.
Buck said they were
encouraged by patrons to give
the crowdfunding campaign
a try, with Paulina Springs
Books9 successful effort last
spring serving as an example.
<It was hard to ask,= Buck
said. <But people do want to
help.=
A Sisters-area man and his
wife are conducting a quiet
campaign to encourage just
such direct assistance.
The local man, who asked
not to be identified due to the
nature of his effort, has been
providing direct cash dona-
tions to local restaurants.
<I just couldn9t sit by and
look at what was happening
with COVID and the local
businesses and not do some-
thing,= he said. <My heart
goes out to them (local busi-
ness owners). They9re trying
as hard as they can.=
Patronizing local busi-
nesses and restaurants is
obviously important, but the
local giver asserts that, in
these extraordinary times, the
extraordinary step of direct
cash donation is necessary.
<You don9t normally just
give to a restaurant or a cloth-
ing store or whoever it is,= the
man said. <But this is a time
when you might have to do
that if we want Sisters to be
the spunky place that it is.=
The giver said that he and
his wife chose to donate to
restaurants because they feel
a particular connection to the
dining community here. But
he encourages others to choose
a business or a type of busi-
ness and do something simi-
lar to help keep Sisters vital.
<All businesses are impor-
tant,= he said. <Pick a few
businesses in Sisters that are
important to you and help
them out.=
He believes that if enough
local people with the means
to do so regularly contribute
to businesses of their choice,
Sisters can weather the eco-
nomic storm.
<One of the things that
impresses me about Sisters 4
and I get this from your news-
paper 4 is the community
spirit,= the man said. <It9s a
very encouraging thing and it9s
way more than I would have
expected. It warms my heart.=
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