Ben Carson, a famed neurosurgeon who also served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development for former President Trump, went after the FBI’s raid against Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion this past Monday, drawing a comparison of the action to those carried out by Infamous communist tyrants such as Fidel Castro and Mao Zedong.
Before serving within Trump’s administration, Carson had been well-known for leading surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins who were joined at the back of the head and performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb.
“Never in my lifetime did I think I would see an American law enforcement agency be run and weaponized like the FBI this evening,” explained Carson via a social media post. “This is a frightening development in our modern political arena. This is the way of Mao and Castro, not Washington and Lincoln.”
Mao Zedong, who previously ruled the entirety of communist China with an iron fist, killed well over 45 million people between the years of 1958 and 1962 as part of his “Great Leap Forward” policies, read a report from the Washington Post. His “Anti-Rightist Campaign” carried out between 1957 and 1959 was punctuated with the persecution of people who called for capitalism or went against the heavily enforced one-part rule and state-run collectivization.
When it comes to Fidel Castro, the Cuban tyrant, it was stated by Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch, “As other countries in the region turned away from authoritarian rule, only Fidel Castro’s Cuba continued to repress virtually all civil and political rights. Castro’s draconian rule and the harsh punishments he meted out to dissidents kept his repressive system rooted firmly in place for decades.”
To contrast this, Abraham Lincoln stated in his timeless first Inaugural Address: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“Our Republic is one where we have the freedom to think, say, and believe what we want without fear of government intimidation, that includes the President. If we lose those basic freedoms, we lose it all,” explained Carson. “I am praying for our country right now because I’m not sure anything else can fix what is transgressing.”
“Pray for our country this evening. It can and will be saved because We the people are waking up,” he stated in warning.
I am praying for our country right now because I’m not sure anything else can fix what is transgressing. Pray for our country this evening. It can and will be saved because We the people are waking up. pic.twitter.com/PzYR8xiXM3
— Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) August 9, 2022