RESPONSE TO OBAMA'S MIAMI SPEECH

[magbana]

Picked up from CubaNews: it is not readily apparent that the author is the person who sent it to the list. But it was too good not to pass along.
magbana


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Obama and Cuban Terrorists
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:16:25 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: Walter Lippmann <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: CubaNews <[email protected]>


From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: 5/23/2008 10:28:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Correction

Corrected & published response to Obama:

I agree Senator McCain's view of the Americas is out of touch, but so is telling CANF, sons of forces ousted from Cuba for crimes against humanity, that theirs is a legacy of conviction, commitment to freedom, and hard-earned prosperity.

Your message of freedom must first stand the constitutional test in Miami.

You spoke of freedom from fear, leaving out acts of terrorism perpetrated with absolute impunity against the people of Cuba; financed by CANF (by convicted terrorist Posada Carriles's own account to the New York Times), costing more than 3,000 lives, and countless suffering.

You spoke of dissidents treated unfairly, yet this very week Cuba has put forth irrefutable evidence of convicted terrorists from South Florida sending those ?dissidents? hefty contributions through the US Interest Section in Havana. That was a missed golden opportunity to attack the duality of Bush?s bogus war on terror.

You said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Five Cuban political prisoners languish in US federal prisons for infiltrating organizations in Miami such as CANF, in order to avert acts of terrorism. They were unfairly tried in Miami and sentenced from 15 years to 2 consecutive life terms. This Administration continues to deprive them of basic human rights, while politicizing their case and squandering resources, in order to appease those applauding you in Miami.

You vowed to be a relentless advocate for democracy, but like Bush and McCain failed to define it, preferring instead to speak to fascists about Roosevelt's speech on the Nazis.

You called Hugo Chavez a demagogue. Yet, while Exxon makes record profits, Chavez sells natural gas to the poorest in our country at modest prices. Maybe you shouldn?t spend too much time with extremists Miami.

You spoke of freedom from fear in the America of Marti. Yet it was US meddlesome policies and expansionism that Marti taught us to fear the most.

While you are forced to raise millions of dollars to run for public office, Cubans can run for public office for free. While you promise to make health insurance available to all, Cubans enjoy one of the best healthcare systems on the planet, for free. While you promise to make college loans available, Cubans enjoy free education.

When I look at the coffee mug with your photo on it at work next week, I?ll blush.

Chronology of terror
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/miami5/terrorismo/cronologia/index.html


http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/mayo/juev22/felipe.html


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WALTER LIPPMANN
Los Angeles, California
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
"Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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[EFerrari]

1. Well done!

:applause:

[roody]

2. k