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the Republican Agenda in Florida vs Elian Gonzalez

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Posted by petew on April 26, 2000 at 10:28:43

In Reply to: A correction. posted by Ears on April 25, 2000 at 23:49:51:

Herman Jacobs is so obviously wrong I don't know where to start. Let's just pick on one of the more obviously rediculous statements:

"What might Castro do if, at ten years of age, he begins to show any sign of "counter-revolutionary" thinking? What might happen if Elian--declared a "hero of the revolution" the day he returns to Cuba--eight years later were to announce that he wished he could live in freedom? Don't you suppose Castro will keep Elian under particularly intense scrutiny to make sure that doesn't happen?"

What might Castro do, if he's still alive two, four, six, or eight years from now? I suppose he might be pissing his pants at the very least, foaming black puss from his tobacco-stained lips, looking under every bed for his friend Nikita who promised to send him a Cadillac if he let the Russians put nukes aimed at Washington in the corners of every sugarcane and tobacco field. Kennedy is dead Mr. Jacobs, so is "shoeless" Nicky K. Castro is a ghost. The cold war is over. Mr. Jacobs, where do you get your crackpot ideas? Have you listened to Castro's speaches lately? The man is gone, finished, kaput. He's as good as dead. Revolution will be in all the papers any day now. Generals will be fighting over a sinking ship, and Castro denounced as a trator. Things will get bad, and then better. Have some hope and faith in the almighty dollar! In God we trust, all others pay cash! Cuba died the day the Russians stopped shipping oil and the German tourists started flocking in with their Deutschmarks. Cuba has been bleeding citizens for many years now--it's only a prison insomuch as the United States is doing whatever we can to keep them from arriving safely on our shores. We should be sending cruse ships to pick them up. America needs these people more than ever. They are, after all, North Americans like us! Wake up! There are no Communists playing dominoes in your closet! Juan Gonzalez was positioned in exactly the right place to capitalize on the new Cuban economy. Mr. Jacobs want's us to believe in his gross generalizations that everyone in Cuba lives exactly the same life. He's spouting Castro's communist propaganda better than Castro ever did. It just ain't so, and it never has been. Many people suffer wretched deprivations--just as many do in the United States. Which is worse--to be destitute and free, living over a steam vent in Philadelphia with a wicked crack habit or hopeless alcoholism, or the same situation in Havanna? Suffering doesn't care about a political agenda. What can we say about the future Elian might see in Cuba? Well, let's take a look at what he faces in Miami:

The man who owns the house he's staying in is a convicted drunk driver, who told the TV cameras that Elian would have to be taken by force and that he had a pistol to back him up. At least two of the Miami relatives seen with the boy are felons convicted of crimes with weapons. Yesterday the Miami relatives told the press that they had "removed all the weapons from the house" before the INS arrived. Whew! I feel safe, how about you? The boy is seen at 1 AM making a video tape, quite obviously as a propaganda tactic to support the motives of his captors--opps--relatives. These same relatives have created a complete fantasy life around the child--placating him with toys, excursions to Disney World (yea, that's real)and attentions that they can't possibly maintain, and keeping him from all of the people and routines that have had real meaning to him all of his life. I don't know what the motivations of these relatives are, but I have little doubt about the other players:

Who is the Governor of Florida? Hum...who could it be? I wonder if it's the brother of the Cocaine-smoking, party-animal, Governor of Texas, a presidential candidate of a political party long known to do anything, no dirty trick too abhorant, to win an election? Humm--and the Mayor of Miami? I don't suppose he has any political ambitions that might prompt him to cower to the Cuban ex-patriots? Heck no, even though he told his police force to make sure they don't push the crowds too far back--so they can easily be seen by the media and are certain to interfere with any attempt by Janet Reno to collect the boy herself--unarmed, which she would have done had it not been for the intelligence--once again received from the Mayor's police force, the there were guns in the crowds... and Majority leader Trent Lott, Castro's right-hand man, leader of--you know, the party that openly encourages US citizens to ignore the Census, the Census ordered by our Constitution--an illegal act subject to criminal penalties? Well hell, I know Castro must be worse than that! I mean, as bad as these politicians are, we know Castro is worse--isn't he?

Well is he? Hey, has anyone seen him lately? Is he alive today? And if he is, and the Gonzalez family decides to return to Cuba, is it likely that the Castro regeme will begin a campaign to repress the boy and his family and friends and teachers? Is that probable? Is it logical? Is there a chance in Hell that that will happen? That's what Mr. Jacobs proposes--at least that's his propaganda campaign. And who does Mr. Jacobs report to?

Yea, it's the Miami relatives, and the Republican Party that are conducting a "re-education" campaign against the boy--not Castro. They are the mind-washers and truth-spinners we have to fear. "Oh my God! The photographs are being brainwashed and injected with Heroin by Janet Reno!" Give me a break! The boy is back with his father, and the evil Janet Reno and her storm troopers have reunited the boy with his schoolmates and teacher from Cuba--to begin the slow process of re-grounding the kid in reality, and allowing him a chance to recognize and cope with his horrific ordeal, and learn that in quiet times, the people who really love and care about you will be realized.

The Republicans have everything to lose by letting this family alone, and letting the legal process work without the interference of political ambitions. The Miami relatives mean well, but have stupidly let themselves be influenced by forces way beyond their ability to control or even comprehend. Castro may be a bad man, but he's on his way out. The Hate Campaign and devisive politics of the Republicans is just beginning. Who can't see this? Who among us is so politically nieve to think that the Republican Party doesn't have an interest in aiding and abetting the slander and corruption of the Clinton administration, Janet Reno's Justice department, and anyone who stands in their way? Herman Jacobs is an idiot, his motives are transparent.

Let me look into my crystal, and forecast a future for Cuba: by this summer, Castro is gone. There's a brief power struggle, but a consortium of the Mafia, a few far-sighted Fortune 500 companies, and some international Drug Kingpins make a deal with a young, emerging Cuban power group, and soon Resort Casinos, and high value-added production facilities--pharmaceutical companies and chip-makers, begin a building boom that can exploit the cheap, skilled-labor market 90 miles from our shores. Who's going to build our HDTVs? Mexico had better shape-up. It's a brave new world out there. Jesse Helms wants Daimler-Chrysler and Toyota to build SUV's in North Carlolina, not Cuba, so he does whatever he can to screw the pooch. Wake up! We have seen the enemy, and he is us.

Let the past be past. Let's make a vision quest. What kind of world do we want to live in? What kind of people are on the school board in your own community? Leave the poor kid alone. George Bush and Al Gore think you are stupid. If you don't vote in your local elections--your mayors, your township supervisors, your school boards, you've proved them right. The national elections are a done deal--bought and paid for. What's going on in your hometown? Who cares about Cuba? We are the ones suffering ignorance and oppression. Physician, heal thyself.

Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow. --Horace

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