[Marxism] Terrorists on the loose in the U.S.

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Politicians and pundits are all atwitter, and quaking in mock fear,
over the prospect of some "terrorists" (and alleged terrorists who
"can't be tried") being imprisoned in U.S. prisons, or even, gasp, let
loose in the U.S. They've all forgotten that there are numerous
terrorists walking the streets of the United States. Of course these are the 
"good" terrorists, the ones whose acts of terrorism were directed against Cuba.
The
gang in New York had 30 pounds of fake C-4. Luis Posada Carriles, along
with Gaspar Jimenez, Pedro Remon and Guillermo Novo Sampol, were all caught and 
convicted
in Panama with 20 pounds (some sources say 30) of real C-4, attempting
to blow up an auditorium in which Fidel Castro was speaking to a room
full of Panamanian students. Just four months later,
under pressure from the U.S., the four were pardoned by the outgoing
Panamanian President (now a U.S. resident, naturally), and Jimenez,
Remon, and Sampol were all given a heroes' welcome upon their arrival
in Miami (for various reasons, Posada was required to sneak into the
country less than a year later). 

Posada,
Jimenez, Remon, and Sampol, all of whom have been involved with other
acts of terrorism as well, not to mention Orlando Bosch, Posada's
partner in masterminding the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cubana airliner
which took the lives of 73 people, are all now walking the streets of Miami,
free men, with one of them, Posada, being sheltered to this day from
extradition to Venezuela, where he is still wanted on 73 counts of
first-degree murder.

Two other terrorist associates of Posada, Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat, 
were caught
with dozens of machine guns, rifles, C-4 explosive, dynamite,
detonators, a grenade launcher and ammunition. They spent a year in
prison, and now they too are walking the streets of Miami.

On the other coast, there was Robert Ferro, a man whose name has not once
made the national or even regional media; only the local paper has
covered his case. Why is that so astonishing? Because Ferro had a cache
consisting of 1,600 firearms, including 35 machine guns, 130 silencers
and two short-barreled rifles, along with a hand grenade, military
rocket-launcher tube, and grenade parts, not to mention 89,000 rounds
of ammunition! Ferro had even been spent two years in prison earlier
after being caught with C-4. His latest sentence was 65 months,
although, given the history of such people (Alvarez and Mitat had both
been sentenced to longer sentences, then had their sentences reduced),
we shall see how much time Ferro actually spends in prison (if, indeed,
the information ever makes the news). It will be interesting to see
what sentences are forthcoming for the would-be terrorists in New York,
with no actual C-4 in their possession. I'm betting on a lot more than 65 
months.

And
Posada? The U.S. has now, after years of investigation, decided that he
lied when he said that he wasn't involved with the bombing of hotels in
Havana in the 90's which, among other things, killed Italian tourist
Fabio di Celmo. So they've charged him with terrorism, right? No, in a
feat worthy of the Olympic gold medal in mental gymnastics, they've charged him 
with perjury for lying when he said he wasn't involved with those acts of 
terrorism. But actually charging him with terrorism?
No, that would be too much to fess up to, after years of protecting him
(continuing to this day) from prosecution for the murder of the 73
victims of the Cubana airliner. 

Terrorists in the U.S.? Oh yeah, we've got plenty of them running around. And 
I'm not even mentioning
the biggest terrorists of them all, the ones responsible for raining
terror and death on the heads of the Afghan and Iraqi people.


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