You'd think the federal government would have FINALLY done something about this, as things got out of hand a very long time ago, and stayed that way!
The FBI named Miami "terror capital of the United States" years ago, and Human Rights Watch and other rights agencies have condemned this climate of intimidation and lethal coersion time and time again:
In February 1992, a few weeks after the militant exile group Alpha 66 demonstrated outside the radio station, three men broke into the building late on a Sunday night, looking for Aruca. Informed he wasn't there, they beat and tied up the operations manager and ransacked the station. Terrorists have also firebombed Marazul Charters--in 1989 and again in 1996--attacks that Aruca says were directed at his radio program. No one was arrested in any of the incidents and police never accused Alpha 66 of a link to the beatings at the station. "We have constant pressure on us," says Aruca. "We are a well-listened-to program, but companies cannot advertise with us. They are afraid."
Aruca is not the only journalist who has been targeted in Miami. Emilio Milian, the general manager of another Miami radio station, WWFE 550-AM, has sharply criticized anti-Castro terrorism. He lost both legs when his car was blown up in 1976.
Human Rights Watch/Americas issued reports in 1992 and 1994 that condemned the perils to free expression in Miami and warned that right-wing radio stations were inciting groups to violence. "Only a narrow range of speech is acceptable, and views that go beyond these boundaries may be dangerous to the speaker," said the 1994 report, the last study the group made of the region.
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http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=766~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It really rubs some of us the wrong way to think of these absurd, brain-dead, obnoxious bullies actually running a U.S. town this way, just to make sure no one dares to air views they don't like. It's truly an insult to the entire country, and a black eye to a government which pretends to value human freedom, and "homeland security."
Sure glad Rafael del Pino got out of that house the radio hosts were identifying before the mobs started showing up, just to deprive them of the satisfaction. I've heard of this stinking practise in Miami for many years, and I'm surprised to see a Miami newspaper actually went wild and mentioned it publicly for the whole country to see!
Yes, indeed, these are
Bush's beloved BASE. He's made trip after trip after trip to Miami to bathe in their nasty friendship, using Miami as a launch pad for some of his truly unworthy speeches, among his gibbering, leering, violent fans, even dragging a known BOMBER/assassin on stage to sit behind him for publicity. Just one big happy family if you are criminally insane!
The saving grace to this story is that they targeted a real asshole, someone probably just as obnoxious as they are, who stole an entire airplane to make a political statement instead of getting a visa, and buying an airplane ticket the way 20,000 Cubans are invited to do each year, per extravagent U.S. arrangement.