[CubaNews] Sun-Sentinel edit: "exiles rally violently in support of" Posada

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Notice that they cannot call Posada a terrorist.
He's only a "suspected terrorist" in their words."
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/editorial/sfl-edittdposadajan30,0,2770240.story

Posada

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board

January 30, 2007

ISSUE: Cuban exiles rally violently in support of suspected
terrorist.

They may be only a few hundred people in a city of almost 400,000,
but they give Miami a bad name. They're the Castro-obsessed hard core
of the Cuban exile community, and recently they rallied to demand the
release of an anti-Castro terrorism suspect.

But they didn't just rally. They also attacked two
counter-demonstrators, chasing the young men back to their car while
punching, kicking and spitting on them as they fled. This, you see,
is why the exiles left Fidel Castro's Cuba: to embrace freedom and
the inalienable right to such things as free speech. Unless the
speech happens to disagree with theirs.

The object of their devotion, Luis Posada Carriles, has been accused
by Cuban and Venezuelan authorities of conspiring to bomb a Cuban
jetliner in Venezuela three decades ago. He has been in U.S. custody
for two years on suspicion of illegally entering the country, and is
now charged with naturalization fraud and six counts of lying to
authorities.

Scores of people died in the bombing Posada is suspected of plotting.
The U.S. government has strong evidence linking Posada to the
bombing. That alone should keep him in U.S. custody even if he
weren't charged with immigration violations.

The government has shown a tendency to bow to political pressure from
the Cuban exile community, but why should it? Supporters of Posada
and his ilk are fringe groups that operate on the margins and usually
end up disgracing themselves, as they did recently. The victims of
their attack should consider coming forward to press charges.

Orlando Bosch, another Cuban exile with a shadowy past, told Ruth
Morris of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that if Posada were to die
in jail it "would be a problem for this country" because "2 million
people protesting is a lot of people."

He's dreaming if he thinks 2 million people would care. He'd be lucky
to get the same few hundred hard-core supporters who share his
obsession.

BOTTOM LINE: Both their demands and their actions are unacceptable.

Copyright  2007, South Florida Sun-Sentinel





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