Reply #10: We can afford to lose this kind of baloney! [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

(snip)...narrow-mindedness and intolerance are driving events in the streets of Little Havana. It's civil disobedience that has nothing to do with commitment to liberty and everything to do with exacting political vengeance and reclaiming lost wealth, power and privilege. It's hard to see any commitment to democracy in a movement that violently threatens second-generation Cuban Americans who disagree with its views.

As an immigrant, I should be inspired by the Cuban exiles' political clout, but I am not. I do not see them as role models for empowerment. Elian's saga has nothing to do with immigrants' efforts to gain equal access to the American dream. If anything, the Cuban exiles' actions reveal a stubborn refusal to assimilate into America's democratic culture.

And their friends -- Miami's mayor who virtually cleared the way for civil mayhem and all the politicians blinded by votes and campaign contributions -- are equally to blame for the warping of due process and U.S. foreign policy. (snip)

(snip) Let us hope that the poll results also reflect a public that has grown weary of the Cuban exile agenda, and the politicians who feed on it and enable it to wield an undue and corrosive influence on American politics. (snip/)

http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.07/000407-cubanexiles.html