VIVE LA PINKO REVOLUCION!

Here's an interesting one from the Expat Forum - living in Indonesia: A site for expatriates: Ross McKay; a "teacher" and ahem.."novelist", living in Jakarta, rails against "undesirable" gays and lesbians who might be teaching in Indonesia with their sexuality "unidentified" by their employers. Yikes ! (any volunteers for an expat anti fag Gestapo out there?) Dear old Ross, brimming with that touchingly sentimental expat nostalgia for his home country, refers to Western countries as "sickly societies" for their disgusting tolerance of gays and condemns Jakarta schools because they "turn a blind eye to perverts" and offer them employment. Browsing through Ross' previous posts on this expat forum, he openly expresses his hatred for communists, gays, Muslims, Indonesia, The Jakarta Post newspaper and well...pretty much everything, yet chooses to live in Indonesia, presumably because, as a senior citizen (an assumption based on his fierce condemnation of the ideology of Che Guevara, popular with Citizen Smith student types in the 1960's and 70's), he can still get laid, since he despises pretty much everything about the country. In a series of further tirades on this website for dollar earning expatriates, Rossie attacks Metro TV for showing the old and silly Hallmark TV series "Fidel", because the ailing cigar chomping Cuban beard is a horrible communist. If he'd bothered to watch the series (admittedly, staying in on a Saturday night, consistently, for over a month, might indicate a serious lack of a life!) he would discover that it chronicles Castro's life from the ideological young man, to the people's guerrilla freedom fighter to the intolerant, iron fisted motor mouth dictator that he became; skipping over some of the major events in the fiery beard's near five decade rule such as the US' failed attempts to invade Cuba and overthrow him and the CIA's repeated, and often hilariously creative, attempts to knock 'im off (remember that ludicrous beard falling out idea !?) and instead, includes the exodus of the Cuban boat people, the plight of Huber Matos and Castro's chaotic, hair brained mismanagement of the island's economy and the quick descent of the man into megalomania. Hardly a sympathetic portrayal, so don't worry Ross, I shouldn't think that many viewers will be inspired into pulling on combat fatigues and running to the Puncak mountains to begin a revolutionary insurgency for the people (although if there was one country that needed one...) after seeing this Hollywood masterpiece. Interestingly enough, like Ross (and here is the only remote similarity), Castro also considered homosexuals, in the earlier part of his regime, to be social and ideological deviants, throwing Cuban homos into jail and forced labour camps and later shipping them to the United States and furthermore, Castro frequently uses his pitbull security forces to beat up and surpress non government groups for congregating in public in the manner that Mr McKay advocates that the Indonesian security forces should do to various Muslim groups. So if Ross is looking for a country that outlaws gays (although Fidel claims they're a bit OK now apparently) and has a violent and intimidating security force willing to bash up and jail free speakers and citizens who step out of line and since he clearly hates SBY's Indonesia so much, then Fidel's Cuba sounds much more like his kind of place, and hey, communist or fascist, these are just ideological terms right ? A tyrannical regime is a tyrannical regime... and oh, they have lots of hookers now in Havana too...Vive la revolucion !(but hurry up before the deteriorating 80 year old dictator finally snuffs it and Cuba descends in a ghastly Western style "sickly society")