Lessons from The Island Prison

The Cuba I Saw. Read it all, but how about this:

Here's something on Obama's wish list: the civilian security system. In Cuba, it's called the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, or the CDR. Billed initially as an extra security force, "a collective system of revolutionary vigilance," it puts at least one government spy in the neighborhood. And those spies monitor everything. Even an extra bag of groceries is suspect.

A model for our President Barack Obama's new IRS health care enforcers!!! But Michelle will be happy to know there's no obesity there.