The Macho Violence of the Cuban Exiles - Saul Landau

[flamingdem]

Last edited Mon Jun 11, 2012, 02:04 AM - Edit history (1)

by SAUL LANDAU

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/11/the-macho-violence-of-the-cuban-exiles/

You can disagree with violent anti-Castro dogma, but such dissent could also get you killed – or your business torched as happened on April 25 to Airline Brokers Co. Some Cuban exiles apparently take free speech so seriously that they punish those who use it in “inappropriate” ways.

Miami has witnessed countless incidents for five plus decades where those who consider their own views on how to bring freedom to Cuba as so pure and irreproachable, that anyone who challenges their doctrine merits a bomb, a bullet, or an accelerant.

Ironically, these extremists don’t do their macho violence in Cuba. They choose safer places. Orlando Bosch and his cohort Luis Posada Carriles said they were trying to free Cuba when they masterminded the bombing of the Cuban passenger plane over Barbados in 1976. If you believe in freeing Cuba, so their logic goes, you become free to kill all 73 on board. How this helped to free Cuba – well, you know.

By fighting for freedom in Cuba – or claiming to – you get a license from God to destroy and intimidate in the United States or anywhere else. Indeed, in Miami hundreds of bombings, shootings, and arson have occurred – all this mayhem in the name of that glorious cause of freeing Cuba. Although no one has yet actually explained how a fire or shooting in Miami helps liberate Cuba. .... MORE AT LINK

[MADem]

1. You say MORE AT LINK but you don't provide the link!! Cliff hanger!!! nt

[flamingdem]

3. gettin' sloppy

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/11/the-macho-violence-of-the-cuban-exiles/

[MADem]

12. Thanks for the link--that was a good read.

This paragraph summed it up!

The “patriots” have no plans to “free Cuba,” only rhetoric with phrases like “return Cuba to freedom” (non-existent in Cuba before the revolution), and “get rid of the dictatorship” (which some of them supported under Batista). But decades of violence in the United States has hurt this country, but had no effect on Cuba. Ironically, the macho perpetrators even deny their deeds, but nevertheless get honored for doing them and accept the honors.

[NBachers]

2. Uhh, yesss, a link would actually be constructive . . .

[flamingdem]

3. oops

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/11/the-macho-violence-of-the-cuban-exiles/

[Judi Lynn]

5. So good to read Saul Landau's comments. Hope he hasn't put himself in danger for doing this.

We definitely remember what happened to the radio talk show host, the excellent, decent Emilio Milian, who left his office, went to his car, and lost both legs, and would have died, lying on the ground if people hadn't run over to look after him and call the ambulance immediately. His big sin was also speaking against "exile" violence in Miami.

Saul Landau has been a voice of conscience and wisdom for years. Hope he'll be safe and healthy forever.

Here's an article regarding the same sorry buncha creeps:

Monday, Jan 14, 2008 06:00 AM CST
The coddled “terrorists” of South Florida

Anti-Castro Cuban exiles who have been linked to bombings and assassinations are living free in Miami. Does the U.S. government have a double standard when it comes to terror?

By Tristram Korten and Kirk Nielsen

http://www.salon.com/2008/01/14/cuba_2/

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Something I just found, published last April:

Apr
30
Miami: Still America's Bomb Capital
From January 1, 1959 Till Today

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Dr. Robert Ingram (above) is one of the most decent, most intelligent (Ph.D, former President of the National Conference of Black Mayors, etc.), and most famous people ever to serve on the Miami-Dade County School Board. In 2005 Dr. Ingram voted with the 6-3 majority to ban the 34 copies of an innocent little book entitled Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba) that were in Miami-Dade County libraries.



The little book (above) and 24 other unchallenged children's books about other countries from a respected publisher were meant to introduce American children ages 7 to 9 to children in foreign countries. It was non-political but apparently radical Cuban exiles objected to the cover photo because it depicted smiling Cuban children on the island, a sight that every tourist who visits the island is apt to see. Normally, of course, the banning of even extremely trashy books would find the ACLU, the U. S. government, etc., rushing forth to object. But this was Miami. No one rushed to Miami regarding Vamos a Cuba.



Just before he died in September of 2007, Dr. Ingram released a very heart-wrenching statement explaining how ashamed he was to have voted to ban the little children's book about Cuba. But he said, had he not voted to ban the book, he feared that either he or members of his family would have been car-bombed. Of course, considering that Dr. Ingram's painfully remorseful statement came from Miami, it received little attention in the equally intimidated U. S. media.

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More:
http://cubaninsider.blogspot.com/2012/04/miami-still-americas-bomb-capital.html#!/2012/04/miami-still-americas-bomb-capital.html

[flamingdem]

7. Wow, that's quite a story

A toe curling deathbed confession. It's not easy stayin' alive in America's Bomb capital! And then there's Rick Scott ignoring the Justice Department and scrubbing the voters who might help change things.

[mopinko]

6. lots of us here in chicago worry about ozzie guillen.

hope he has learned his lesson and will stick to baseball from now on. prolly not, tho.

[EFerrari]

8. Amy's show today was Landau and Mariela Castro.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/11/will_the_real_terrorist_please_stand

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/11/mariela_castro_daughter_of_cuban_president

[flamingdem]

9. Great, thanks for the links

nt

[EFerrari]

10. I've never heard Mariela Castro speak before.

She's very impressive, imo.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Not to be missed! Saul Landau. Spectacular.

Particularly important, what he has to say about Alan Gross. Ha ha ha. Amazing.

Absolutely MUST see his new film.

Just learned it's available at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YZ3M7K/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B005SHXXI6&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0F1SX4E8CPTCZBGDNN64

The entire conversation is irreplaceable.

Wanted to say it's so good Mariela Castro got to speak with someone as honorable as Amy Goodwin while she was here.

Thank you so much for handing us the link to this program.

[roody]

13. I would love to see Castro (Mariela) interviewed

by lamestream media.

[Judi Lynn]

14. We'd never see them do a straight interview,without hours of honking propaganda before & after,

or without criminally stupid questions from a haughty interviewer, making an ass of him/herself posturing wildly to show howling disdain for her government and her family.

It would never happen with an interviewer acting like a grown-up human being, like Amy Goodman. They're just not capable, and they're not willing to let the public make up its own mind about anything.