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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-29-09 12:34 PM
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Cuban Five issue to the UN Gen Assembly
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Cuban Five issue to the UN Gen Assembly

Managua: President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D Escoto said on Thursday that he will raise the issue of the five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in US prisons before the Assembly.

In remarks to Prensa Latina at the Augusto Cesar Sandino international airport in Managua, D Escoto announced that he will discuss the fight against terrorism in his closing speech of the current ordinary period of sessions of the UN General Assembly.

Mainly the case of The Five, as Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez are internationally known. They have been held in US prisons since 1998, recalled D Escoto.

They were detained for warning Cuba of terrorist plans organized by Florida-based anti-Cuban groups.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/08/29/wld04.asp
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 03:07 AM
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1. You know, this sickness of reversing the truth--that has afflicted us so badly with the Bushwhacks--
and I don't mean just lying, but rather taking the truth and turning it on its head, and then justifying torture and murder and mass deaths and war, and massive thieving, using the language of truth (for instance, bringing "freedom" to Iraq by slaughtering a million people, or calling the grossest forms of exploitation and death "free trade") is trackable to Miami. The anti-Castro Miami mafia was certainly not the first to employ this form of propaganda--Super-Lying or Uber-Lying--but they have been one of the most successful examples of this sickness in the political sphere in the US prior to the Bush Junta.

They paved the way for the Bush Junta. The Cuban Five were trying to prevent acts of terrorism--such as the CIA/Miami mafia bombing of the Cubana airliner. And they get thrown in prison here and treated like terrorists--and the actual terrorists--the bomb planters--not only go free, but are celebrated as heroes in Miami (or in certain circles in Miami--I shouldn't condemn all Miamians). Similarly, this anti-Castro mafia is filthy on drug trafficking and associated crime. They were filthily corrupt when they ran Cuba like a brothel, and they brought their corruption with them to Miami, and claim to be "freedom fighters.". And out of this cauldron of corruption comes the US "war on drugs" which is anything BUT a "war on drugs." It is the opposite of that. It protects the big drug lords, and simultaneously provides filthily corrupt fascists who are in league with the anti-Castro mafia in Miami, in Colombia, with $6 BILLION of US tax dollars in military aid, to protect the big drug lords' networks all the way back to the source, and torture and kill political leftists, union leaders, human rights workers and others as a sort of side benefit.

And Bush then gives the filthily corrupt leader of Colombia the "Medal of Freedom" and calls Colombia "the greatest democracy in Latin America" or some such Super-Lie.

It is quite mind-boggling what the Miami mafia has accomplished. They basically run US foreign policy in Latin America. And that policy is truly "Alice in Wonderland" jabberwocky. Real democracy, when it arises in Latin America--as it has done recently-- is reviled, slandered, smeared, hated, and all the resources of our government go into overturning it, and when one of these democracies rejects the US "war on drugs" and actually starts interdicting big drug shipments and catching major criminals, the lies and slander increase exponentially, and assassination and war plots are hatched, to put a stop to it. (I'm thinking of Bolivia, but it's a pattern.)

The Miami mafia has driven our public policy INSANE.

Again, they are not alone in being the BIGGEST LIARS of all time. They have plenty of company. But as a recent phenomenon, in the political sphere in the US, they can place their black star up there with the Bush Junta and AIPAC as examples of "Red Queen" logic: If the white roses offend you by their color, order them to be painted red! It doesn't matter if the roses are then dead roses. What matters is that everybody has to see them as red, because you say so. And if anybody disobeys you in this INSANE dictate, "off with their heads!" Quite literally.

That's US foreign policy in Latin America, as run by the Miami mafia. Poor innocent Alice, who can't understand the logic of this, doesn't realize how much money has changed hands to force this insanity on everybody all across the Land of the Red Queen.

The Cuban Five, who were trying to STOP terrorist acts are in prison, and the self-admitted terrorists, who planted a bomb on an airliner full of people, blowing them all to smithereens, are the toast of Miami!

It is not far from that 'logic'--not far at all--to blowing a hundred thousand people to smithereens to "get Saddam" and to steal their oil.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 06:25 AM
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2. excellent post.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 07:24 PM
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3. While I'd Like to Blame It All on One Prime Mover
There were and still are assholes all over this land, burying us in their hatred, greed and fear.
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