Yes, Chicago is the node for all things in favor of normalizing relations with Castro: Barack Hussein Obama, Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan, unrepentant former terrorist William Ayers, and now: Orbitz! According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago’s Orbitz Worldwide will be lobbying Congress to lift travel restrictions on travel to communist Cuba. Instead of sending money to the families of political prisoners… instead of campaigning for democratic reforms in Cuba… instead of of lobbying Congress to pursue a Cuban policy that empowers democratic activists on the island… instead of calling attention to the decades of anti-Americanism and decades of human rights abuses… Orbitz will be spending unknown sums of money lobbying Washington in order to open up business with the Castro regime.

Starting tomorrow, they will be hosting a website that will feature links to send petitions to members of government urging them to unilaterally allow travel to the communist regime. Indifferent to how the regime will use this money to further the repression of the Cuban people, they will offer a $100 credit towards Cuba travel to everyone who lobbies the government via their site. Barney Harford, president and CEO of Orbitz, calls the Castro’s Caribbean Gulag “a magical country.” Here are some pictures of that “magic":

Here’s the CEO in all his amoral glory:

This is a perfect example of how greed and corporate interests are teaming up with communist sympathizers in leading the charge against freedom in Cuba. I, for one, will boycott Orbitz for its indifference to human suffering and I urge others to do the same… and hopefully, free market participants will also defend the freedom they enjoy by switching to another service like Expedia, Priceline, or Travelocity. That is, unless they jump on the pro-communist bandwagon too.

-AG