The infamous enemy of the people named Oleg Atbashian has published another dangerously subversive story in the American Thinker. Below is a slightly rewritten and updated version:


According to voter registration records, Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper who held three abducted local women in captivity for over a decade, is a registered Democrat.

Even more interesting is the timeline: Ariel Castro kidnaps his first victim, Michelle Knight, 21, on August 22, 2002. After a month and a half of raping the imprisoned girl half his age, on October 5, 2002, he decides to register as a Democrat. In about six months, on April 21, 2003, he abducts his next victim, Amanda Berry, aged 17. Almost a year later, the imprisoned women are joined by 14-year-old Gina DeJesus.

But at least we know he didn't vote for Mitt Romney in the last election.


Why is this important?

When the identity or the party affiliation is yet unknown, the pattern is to speculate publicly about the possibility of the criminal being a privileged white conservative Christian, Republican, and a Tea Party member -- and never that he could be an immigrant Hispanic Democrat voter playing bass in a meringue band.

In today's divisive climate, the identity of a perpetrator is always a political issue, especially when a crime is committed by men against women. According to the Daily News, "What the neighbors saw was terrifying and dehumanizing: Naked women on dog leashes, crawling in the dirt. A lady clutching an infant and pounding on a window for help."

If any of the brothers were a Republican, this news would have been trumpeted by the mainstream media as tangible proof of the Republican War on Women -- a narrative invented by Democrat strategists and maintained by the media in a successful effort to defeat Republican candidates in the 2012 election cycle.

However, when a real act of war on women is perpetrated by a Democrat voter in the manner that even the most zealous Democrat strategist couldn't have dreamed up in their worst nightmares -- involving abduction, imprisonment, rape, torture, malnutrition, beatings while pregnant, and killing babies -- the media doesn't think the party affiliation is relevant.

I'm not saying that in this case it is. What's relevant is the relentless media bias, taunting, and bullying of conservatives and Republicans.

Unhappy with the overall media coverage, one of our readers decided to do his own research of the Castro brothers' party affiliation and contacted this author with his findings and this note:

I couldn't find anything on their political views in the newspapers, which is a sign they are NOT Republicans. I then searched public nation-wide voter registration records and found this giant file. It's now official: the Cleveland kidnapper is a registered Democrat. This answers the question, which side actually 'wants women barefoot, illiterate, and pregnant'.

Another good question is, what had prompted this reader to even think about doing this research? Apparently, he is one of many Republicans whom the continued media slander is causing to constantly look over his shoulder and, at any sign of trouble, check whether the guilty could be Republicans, and sigh with relief when they aren't.

It isn't a symptom of a healthy nation when a large segment of the country's population, including men and women of all colors and ethnic backgrounds, is being systematically and unfairly defamed and pestered by another segment of the country with the help of the media and the political establishment, creating a hostile cultural and work environment, which leads to persistent feelings of worry, unease, frustration, and fear.

Perhaps it's time to expand the dictionary definition of harassment as follows:

POLITICAL HARASSMENT: systematic and continued tormenting of one party or a group, including insults, slurs, and demands intended to disturb, upset, and demoralize political opponents. The purposes may include prejudice, personal malice, attempts to apply pressure on Congress to pass a bill, force someone to resign or to grant political favors, blackmail (I'll out you to the boss unless you change your stand on certain issues), or merely sadistic pleasure from making someone fearful or anxious.

In a way, the Democrat political machine, which includes the mainstream media, are trying to do to the Republicans and the rest of the country what the Castro brothers did to the women they abducted and forcibly put in their "care."

It would only be logical if Hollywood were soon to release a "fact-based" horror movie about the Castro brothers, presenting them as conservative Republicans, Tea Party activists, and privileged white middle-class business owners, under the title Binders Full of Women.

That's why the news that Ariel Castro is a Democrat is relevant, after all.


The People's Cube member who uncovered Castro's voting registration is known as "Mi" - and he deserves an extra-large ushanka tip and a Beet of the Week Award pending the end of the sequester.

The link to the gov't CSV file stopped working. Most likely, the American Thinker's readers are clicking on the link for evidence -- and the government's FTP-server is too underpowered for that. Interestingly, because it is an FTP, rather than HTTP-server, the admins will not know, who is sending such a surge of traffic their way

I just added a screenshot of the CSV file (opened in Excel) into the article. Probably should have done it earlier, since a picture is worth a 1K words.

Didn't these guys have something to do with the Glorious Cuban Revolution???

Court Judge ordered Castro held on $8 million bond

Castro -- who is on unemployment benefits, according to his attorney -- would have to put up $800,000 in cash plus some sort of property of comparable value to the bonding company as collateral

No, No! Say it isn't so!

A terrorist is a registered democrat?

I'm amazed he was registered at all!

[img]images/clipart/Prog_Off.gif[/img] Excellent proof of this, Comrade Red Square! Thank you!

Otherwise, the MSM will do, as you expect, turn you into a liar in spite of the truth you reveal.I take this personally because my birthday is August 22! In addition to to other things that motivate me in a smilar manner.

Comrade Mi

I love you!

UPDATE:
Some interesting numbers I didn't see before -

- Ariel Castro abducted his first victim, Knight, 21, on August 22, 2002.

- According to the gov't record, he registered as a Democrat on Oct.5, 2002. That means he decided to become a Democrat after 44 days of raping an imprisoned girl half his age.

- His next victim, Berry, 17, was abducted on April 21, 2003, in a little over six months.

- Almost exactly a year later, they were joined by DeJesus, then 14 years old.

OMG! This is my birthday! (not that it means much but, still, this is my birthday!)


- Ariel Castro abducted his first victim, Knight, 21, on August 22, 2002.

Democrat -- this is supposed to be news???

Relax comrade. You try raising 3 slaves and a dog on public assistance.

This mentioning of Mr. Castro being a Democrat is not fair. If he were a Tea Party member or Rush Limbaugh listener such affiliation would not be mentioned.

--Comment from a Parallel Universe--

Seeing as how he's from Ohio, the question isn't whether he voted for Romney, but how many times he voted for Obama.

Well, Of Course Kamerad Castro is A Glorious Member of The New Peoples' Party! And as for those unfortunate Shamefully Misguided Girls who Obviously Headed Into Chose A Life Of Shameful - Non-Sharia - "Personal Acts", is there any question why Kamerad Castro was simply Determined to keep their sexual physical indiscretions in A "Family Setting"! All Praise Be Upon Kamerad Castro!

Cannot my esteemed comrades-in-theft-and-subjugation not realize that there are no crimes, only criminals?

Jay Carney on Benghazi, in which our Many Titted Empress so splendidly acquitted herself. "That was a long time ago." Yes, and how terrier-like for you, Jay, to keep blaming Bush. Well, at least W is alive to know that he can take the mantle from Tail Gunner Joe for being the most reviled person ever to shine a light into a pig sty.

Crime is subjective. If you're connected, you're a grandee and can commit no crime. If you're a contrarian, that is contrarian to western civilization, that which remains, instead of contrarian to the Glorious People's Revolution, you can be assured that if you lifted a lip against a beggar peeing on your shoe then the third-place trophy that your mentally challenged son got in a Special Olympic game will be the result of obvious crony capitalism and will prove that you're using air that progressives could make better use of. And your challenged son will be hounded by refugees from botox and leg-waxing parlors.

Geez, Comrades. I'm having fun although it doesn't sound it. I'm perfecting the art of being passive-agressive with bossy people, including, and most especially, government. It's amazing how irritating I can be by being obsequious and demanding that they tell me EXACTLY what they want me to do. Let's remember that government is authority without accountability in any meaningful way.

Look who's back from the "Inspection" of the Gulags!

If anything is missing from the liquor cabinet at the Rancho, I've never been there, and won't go back again. Separate topic, if my watch SOMEHOW ended up in the hallway bathroom, I'll need that.

Tovarichi, I am now just seeing your new, and revamped avatar. I much approve. I am a commissar of caring and conspicuous compassion but really, I have over the years learned to love theory.

After all, I do like math. It describes something or it fails. Once I found I liked it, I decided to use it only in computation of the needed rations for the gulag. So I am wheeling toward your world view: let's theorize the hell out of something. After all, socialism is a hell of a good idea. And let's lynch that porch monkey Tom Sowell who said that socialism is an idea that has failed every time it's been tried and only an intellectual could believe in it.

Ah, Tom. To the wall with you. You'll have a bullet at dawn for having the temerity of actually speaking the truth. You know, when the little boy said that the emperor had no clothes, the parade paused, and then moved on.

In today's terms, Mr. Obama's state department would be threatening the little boy, demoting him to being a spurge. After all, if a ray of light falls into a pig sty, blame the light.

So I blame YOU, Tom Sowell. I blame YOU! How dare you not be a captive African American.

And also don't worry about the liquor cabinet. I always give each guest a really good first shot, and I have here on the Rancho the grandson of Dr. Mengele, who doesn't do surgery but has moved onto psychoactive drugs. People ever know what hit them. The second drink is grain alcohol.

Now I'm going into nationwide production. It will be called Red Bullshit and I can make them PAY for a chemical Jiffy-Lobo(tm).

Father Theo, I trust that the Inspections went well - it's good to see your shiningly dour (and yet surprisingly sweet) face here amongst the various and sundry commie progressive flotsam and jetsam!

Ahhhh, such a time it is! I can only assume that the antenna over the Rancho has been functional and that you've been in receipt of all the glorious news of late - the revolution is, um, progressing well! Something, of course, needs to be done (and hopefully soon) about this Cruz character, and the kerfluffle over Benwhatsit is, of course, ridiculous - but we continue to move FORWARD! at an amazing pace.

Splendid to see you again! Stick around, the fun gets deeper by the day :)

Can't we figure out something to ban after this heinous crime?

Now that we know Castro is a Democrat...

Comrade People's Director, I'm thinking that both dog leashes and back yards should be banned.

But that's just me.

I received an email from an Israeli reader that I'd like to post here.

Yossi wrote:Thank you for this post. Funny, never having visited the USSA I am not a registered Republican but you could substitute the words Israeli, Zionist or Jew seamlessly throughout the article… the 1947 movie “Gentleman's Agreement” could have been made today.

Yossi Kir-on
Jerusalem

In other international news - this story has been translated and published in a Russian (St. Petersburg) online magazine.

Кливлендский маньяк - демократ

In a way, the Democrat political machine, which includes the mainstream media, are trying to do to the Republicans and the rest of the country what the Castro brothers did to the women they abducted and forcibly put in their "care."

New signs of it appear daily, as well as new additions to the definition of political harassment. Beatings and dog leashes, anyone?

IRS apologizes for inappropriately targeting conservative political groups

The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews.

Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:
And also don't worry about the liquor cabinet. I always give each guest a really good first shot, and I have here on the Rancho the grandson of Dr. Mengele, who doesn't do surgery but has moved onto psychoactive drugs. People ever know what hit them. The second drink is grain alcohol.

A-Ten-Hut !!!

Fall in line maggots.

Why I think there is still hope for you yet Father Prog.

I think you are on to something here.

Now we all know the outcome of any trial this gentlemen would receive.

He is found guilty, DHS will release him free and blame it on Sequestration.

Soon thereafter he will be offered a job as a professor at Columbia University.

I'm old school, I say an eye for an eye.

As such, I propose that I lead a platoon of my men to liberate the gentleman and send him over to the El Rancho and you and your Domestic Partner(s) ™ keep him chained in your basement.

He's gonna love that Igor fellow with the hat and the crazy dance ... or is his name Bruno? I forget.

Please, let us not forget the Future Workers in this. I do not believe it is entirely necessary to ban dog leashes, after all, it is an effective tool to teach defiant Future Workers in our re-education camps submission to The Party™. Additionally, it might anger some of our Sharia-compliant brothers if we remove one of their most effective tools. No, I think it would be fully practical to ban REPUBLICANS! Then we wouldn't have to waste resources in determining the perp's affiliation. I also have a feeling this story wouldn't exist if the Victim were brave enough to wet her pants while blowing her State Approved Rape Whistle™.

Comrade Sovremennyy, I believe that you've cut right to the heart of the biscuit, to mix a metaphor - these so-called "victims" obviously didn't blow their State Approved Rape Whistles™ OR vomit OR claim it was "that time of the month" OR wet their pants.

Obviously, the whole thing was their fault.

As has been said before, the Castro Brothers were just trying to provide food and shelter for a trio of needy, no doubt Rethuglikkkan, womyn!

And look what they got for it.

As the good Sgt. said above, however, I foresee excellent positions at various Ivy League universities for these decent and progressive brothers, once the brou-ha-ha dies down!

As well, of course, as a tour of the popular television talk shows.

Both of you have missed the point, between the Sandra Flucke Condom-testing institute and our comrades at Planned Parenthood, there won't be any USSA "future workers" since nobody will be "punshed with a baby!" We just tap the millionaires and billiionaires until they are bled as dry as the fueltanks in thier corporate jets, then we're all nice and green and organic and Mooslim, and Dear Leader's images will be painted on the sides of buildings, and his speeches will play on our Obamaphones... Next Tuesday will be GLORIOUS! FORWARD!

It's now also in the Washington Times:

Update:
Within an hour of posting this Friday night in the Washington Times, the story was at the top of Google News, at #2 below CBS and right above Huffington Post. The Washington Times page already had 1.4K likes on Facebook (that's 1,400 likes)

By Saturday morning this story in the WT moved to #1 in Google News for the key words "Ariel Castro kidnapper" and is in the middle of the page for "Ariel Castro," while the red picture of Castro as Che Guevara is among the top images. The count of likes on Facebook increased to 2,300.

Red Square wrote:Can't we figure out something to ban after this heinous crime?

Now that we know Castro is a Democrat...

Um, er, Democrats?

I reported this fact (comrade Ariel Castro democrat) in Wikipedia. Immediately some comrade from Wikipedia's section of the party took care of business and erased it.

Frum, are you surprised? I saw something from a Canukistan paper (the good ones are very good) in which he talked about an antipodean editor named Tabletop who manically changed every single reference to fact if it contradicted her idée fixe of global warming.

Don't you just love the totalitarians?

ROCK, I do thank you for your kind words. I would turn red from blushing, but then, well, I am red. Not only from my Irish heritage but also ugly starts from the bone and works its way up. And boy am I a Made Prog. My bones make MRI machines gag and by the time it works its way up to the skin, the walls are weeping.

That's why our Many Titted Empress so loves to come to the Rancho. I mean, there is just so much ugly here that she feels at home. Even with she gets entirely liquored up and digs her trotters into my flagstone (didn't know that trotters could do that, did you?) and then shits out all the barbecue I've made from the proles impaled on the south forty, she still doesn't feel bad.

Because being a prog never means having to say you're ugly, revolting, gut-wrenchingly awful, or nasty.

That's what Nanski sobbed on my flabby shoulder the last time she was at the Rancho.

Pardon. That was a really good fart. I should have called Guinness. After all, all my excretions, as the Madest of all Made Progs, are worthy of commemoration.

Just ask Nanski, who confessed that to me at the Rancho, as she perched on my finest leather sofa, her talons ripping it, and while she shit, as she does, on my finest Oriental rug.

Thank god the mulberries aren't bearing now. At least Nanski's shit was white instead of purple. That's too close to red.

Sgt. NeoTroll, I do thank you for your consideration, and I quite agree that some people need a really stern talking to, and with a wag of the finger to boot. That's our fine criminal-justice system. Why I love the weekends. I watch Chris Matthews pulling various things out of the air to make accusations which aren't even circumstantial, to overnight videos of prisons.

So very seamless. Our dear friends on the left--US, GODDAMN IT--wanting to control everything, to squirm in the warm comfort of the all-encompassing nanny state, to the nanny state's ultimate resolution: a high-security prison. Like, er, the Mother Country, the USSR.

That's why I so value Red Square's presence here, and although it's technically his website, because I'm the Madest of Made Progs, I proclaim it mine, he has antennae unsurpassed in recognizing the threat of competing ideologies.

We are Progs, damn it. We are the good people because we say we are. Now that's really begging the question, as properly understood, and pardon my sniff.

Because we are good, because we say we are, because we're Beliebers, [ I just threw up ] it follows that what we want is good. Because we're good. Because we say we are.

I love liberals. I really do. The self-righteousness which is so fetching; I grant myself my own self esteem. Hell, I didn't have to translate those skeins of Virgil or Cicero; I didn't have to prove those theorems. I didn't have to write those compilers. I didn't have to pivot those matrices. I didn't have to grow the business. I didn't have to make the deals. I didn't have to figure out just how to deliver the most information as fast as possible and of course for a, spit spit, profit.

I just had to be the great, good and glorious me. Remember: Prog shit don't stink.

Goddamn it, I'm going to sue the universe because it invented gratuitous self-esteem before I had actually done anything to earn it. All my life wasted.

Pamalinsky wrote:

Red Square wrote:Can't we figure out something to ban after this heinous crime?

Now that we know Castro is a Democrat...

Um, er, Democrats?

Since it was a Republican who went to such pains to point out Ariel is a Democrat, I say this is the perfect opportunity to ban Republicans! Anytime something like this happens, what's the first thing Republicans do? They move heaven and destroy the earth to expose the subject's ties to The Party--like THAT'S supposed to be a crime! They think this way they can divert people's attention from their own crimes.

Republicans care about nothing but discrediting Democrats and will seize any opportunity to do so. It's despicable.

So let's ban them now, while this horrific incident is still fresh in everyone's minds and we have momentum! THEY'RE the terrorists!

Besides, why does anyone in this country need a Republican?

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Besides, why does anyone in this country need a Republican?

To build the monuments celebrating the triumph of the Ideology of the Glorious Utopian
World of Next Tuesday™ of course.

After draining their bank accounts that -&until they are no longer useful serving the collective
not so much.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:
We are Progs, damn it. [highlight=#ffff00]We are the good people because we say we are. Now that's really begging the question, as properly understood, [/highlight]

Father Theocritus,

Thank you. Finally someone has illustrated the informal fallacy of petitio principii as intended. I grow weary of the phrase "begging the question" as it is so often used by blabber-mouths on MSLSD, and elsewhere, to lay the groundwork for another question. Somewhere Aristotle is smiling.

However, when a real act of war on women is perpetrated by a Democrat voter in the manner that even the most zealous Democrat strategist couldn't have dreamed up in their worst nightmares -- involving abduction, imprisonment, rape, torture, malnutrition, beatings while pregnant, and killing babies -- the media doesn't think the party affiliation is relevant.

How can a man who shares the same last name of one of the most esteemed liberators and freedom fighters of the modern age be so overlooked as a potential key strategist for the democrat party? Could this be the man who Herr Schleickmeister learned a thing or two about how to properly use a Cuban cigar?

The "fact" that this man is discovered to be a registered democrat makes about a much sense as heterosexual marriage.

Comrades,

I just learned that much bedeviled, maligned comrade Ariel Castro was also on unemployment benefits. Quite a necessary accessory to crime.

At this point what does it matter?

My sources tell me Dear Leader was relieved to find out this information. He knows that being incarcerated will not prevent Comrade Castro from voting for him in 2016.

Craptek wrote:petitio principii

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that one. Now we'll all go for argumentum ad verecundiam.

Oh. Wait! DO NOT DO THAT! I am who I am because that's all that I am, which means that by definition I am an authority. You see? Prog. I'm an authority.

Please do not forget this. Bouncy Baby Barry Bama is this great fellow. Protected by a ring of steel from Chicago thugs and totalitarians. I swear; I'm weeping now. All I have is the North Forty for my impaling stakes.

The south made the Rancho upwind and although I have no problem with causing as many difficulties as possible for anyone who is not, well dear Father Prog Theocritus, Defender of the Fascist Faith, Issuer of Regulations, and most of all, impaling people that I just don't like.

I have it on good faith that Steve Miller is investing in impaling stakes for his own little fiefdom. Well, you know that once a fascist, always a fascist.

And I am not going to be done down by Godfrey's Law. What's some stupid law? I love fascism. Pour on the regulations. Slather on the restrictions. Accuse people of doing things that they didn't, and have a merry whip-around of baseless character assassination. You know, if our beloved Many Titted Empress--may her hooves be forever free of pig shit, that is shit that is not hers, for it always smells so sweet, coming from her steatopygic fundament--could do it, entirely in anticipating of what SHE was going to do, or what might come out.

Oh. How I love her. And since it's nothing but that damned argument toward authority, all that matters is who has the biggest swinging, well you know. And I do.

Even if I don't.

And as I, with my enormous self-regard (the Perfect Prog), know for a certainty that I AM the biggest authority on everything, and this is crucial: I'm the ultimate authority on who is an authority.

I'm licking my lips as though they were sealed by gelatinous braised beef cheeks. So wonderful. And this is just as fine too.

Now as always, I prove that the Highest Purpose of a Prog is begging his own question.

This is called autoencephaloproctology.

Oh, Good God, Father Prog, you have taken steps toward pedantry! I never expected this from you. Never!

Your term, autoencephaloproctology, does imply looking directly into one's ass to find the truth. From one's brain to one's asshole.

Knowing that your knowledge of life includes math, I'll accept this. It's only fair. But, don't think your fancy words dissuade me from your actual intent here. A massive deflection!

Nicely played, dear Father Prog.

I really cannot stand those who want to decide from whence I derive my thoughts, either from my brain or my asshole. It's none of their business!

Earlier in my life, I took issue with someone who also took issue with the idea that pride goeth before a fall. My experience showed me how true this is. I saw it coming.

She contended that you don't get to lose pride until you actually fall. Not true, according to me. You don't know it until you experience it according to her.

She accused me of being pedantic. My guess is that she looked it up in Biblical references. She will never admit it. Actually, it is somewhat of a controversial issue. Something I never knew.

Until I addressed it.

And per Democrat tradition, Comrade Castro is entitled to cast one vote for himself and 3/5ths vote for each of his slaves.

Comrade Robespierre wrote:And per Democrat tradition, Comrade Castro is entitled to cast one vote for himself and 3/5ths vote for each of his slaves.

Adorable. This must make Laika headlines. I was impressed that Comrade Castro (Ariel, not Fidel) had taken on a scholarly beard, eyewear and body language. Kinda philosopher's beard and charm.

Ariel Castro's house is being torn down as part of a deal that spared him a possible death sentence. He was sentenced last week to life in prison plus 1,000 years.

Registered Democrat cried when recalling many happy memories with sex slaves

Prosecutors say Castro cried when he signed over the house deed and mentioned his "many happy memories" there with the women. They highlighted the teary-eyed scene to illustrate Castro's "distorted and twisted" personality.

Sexual access to one's slaves has been and remains a treasured right of the Democratic party from the antebellum period to the present.

Ivan Betinov wrote:Sexual access to one's slaves has been and remains a treasured right of the Democratic party from the antebellum period to the present.

It is an accepted right of those who protect the people, who work tirelessly for the people's equality.

The link to the gov't CSV file stopped working.

The data appears to have been moved from the FTP-server (which is still up and contains materials pertaining to the most recent elections) to an HTTP one. The Cuyahoga County's downloads page links to the rvht.csv. The spreadsheet is up to date -- what I just downloaded was last changed January 24th at 7pm (892247 entries). (Sincere thanks to the County officials for keeping public information easily accessible to, well, the public.)

Though there are 203 voters with the last name "CASTRO" on the current list, none of them have the first name "ARIEL".

Comrade Mi I love you!

Deeply and profoundly touched. Thank you.