Reply #1: Absolutely! They'll be the guests of the Spanish government, living off the taxpayers, [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

getting lodging, food, etc., and still bitching about it to anyone who will listen to them.

I read something by one guy months ago complainng his accomodations really weren't at all what he would have expected. I posted it back then.

What a maroon.

They don't like the problem they confront, because going to Spain and free-loading off the government throws a wrench into the machinery, making it more difficult for them to then come here (after living in another country first) to mooch off the U.S. American taxpayers just like the Cuban immigrants who arrive in the US by plane, or simply show up on dry land and claim their rights under the Cuban Adjustment Act, which allows them instant legal status, (never to fear, as everyon ELSE does who arrives illegally, immigration agents, jail, and ejection) instant work visa, social security, taxpayer-financed housing, free food, free medical treatment, free financial assistance for education, etc., etc., etc.

So they can whoop it up in Spain, or bitch until they faint over their meager gifts from the Spanish government, but that will wreck any plans they could ever have of doing the same thing here.

There have been "political prisoners" who have been so cranky about not getting enough out of the Spanish government they have written back to others in Cuba and warned them not to come.

Wonder if that's why some of those clowns have claimed they want to stay in jail and not be released because they want to champion the cause of other "political prisoners" until they are realeased, too.

From some odd right-wing rag, a story on the Cuban dorks in Spain:

It's not easy to get to the Welcome, the hostel chosen by the Spanish government to house the Castro regime’s former political prisoners during their first days of freedom. Unlike many of the one-star hostels in Madrid, it is not downtown but in a remote neighborhood. It takes almost an hour by subway and fifteen minutes by bus to get to the secluded industrial zone, and by nightfall it becomes desolate and soulless. There are no shops or parks nearby.

It’s been over six months since the first of the 52 political prisoners rounded up during the crackdown of 2003 known as Primavera Negra (Black Spring) were freed by Fidel Castro and began arriving in Madrid. In that time, many of them have already started to question the government that gave them refuge. Some have even joined the ranks of the political opposition in Spain, and all have discovered that finding work in the country with the highest unemployment rate in the European Union is no easy matter.

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The anxiety is shared by Julio César Gálvez, also a journalist, 66, sentenced to 14 years and in Madrid for months now. “For me, who has spent seven years in prison and nearly a year in solitary confinement, this hostel is a luxury. But for my wife and my son, who had a house in Cuba, it’s not. We all sleep in one room and bathrooms are shared with other guests.”

Gálvez is wearing a short-sleeved shirt, “the same one I was wearing when I was arrested in 2003.” Neither he nor any of the others owned winter clothes when they arrived. For clothing and small everyday things, they depend on the generosity of acquaintances or Cuban exiles in Miami who send them money without ever meeting them. For the basics—housing, food, transportation passes, school tuition and supplies for their children—they depend on the generosity of the socialist government, led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2171

Waaaaaaaaaaa. :cry: