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Will Obama Now Pardon Cuban Spies?
Townhall.com ^ | May 9, 2015 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 05/09/2015 12:58:22 PM PDT by Kaslin

Well, it’s official. After last month’s chat and handshake with Stalinist dictator (and mass-murdering sadist) Raul Castro, President Obama kindly removed the Castro family fiefdom from the State Department’s list of “terror-sponsoring” nations.

“Sadist” might sound hyperbolic but it amply applies here. As well known by Cuba-watchers Raul Castro’s first official act in Jan. 1959 was lining up 150 potential regime opponents in front of a ditch and having them machine gunned and bulldozed into a mass grave. By the end of the year he had signed off on 550 murder warrants. Six years later the bullet-shattered bodies of an estimated 16,000 Cubans lay in mass graves and 350,000 other Cubans (1 in 16 of the Cuban-population, a higher political jailing rate than Stalin’s during ten Great Terror) suffered in the Castroite Gulag.

While a rebel in the hills Raul delighted in tying the blindfold, then lovingly shattering the firing-squad victim’s skull with the coup de grace blast himself, much like his colleague and bosom-chum Che Guevara. Most of these murder victims were young Cuban campesinos (rednecks) who rubbed Raul and Che the wrong way (i.e. scoffed at the communism these two Soviet agents already practiced and preached.)

But back to the current issue. Given that Cuba is no longer a “terror-sponsor” or even a “threat to our national interests” will Obama now pardon the Cuban spies in U.S. prisons?

If not—why? What could be more logical? Ana Belen Montes was convicted the same services on behalf of Castro as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted of on behalf of Stalin: espionage. Here’s part of Cuban spy Ana Montes’ courtroom defense in 2002:

"Cuba poses no significant threat to the U.S. or any of its hemispheric neighbors. No evidence exists that Cuba is trying to foment any instability in the Western Hemisphere…I believe U.S. policy towards Cuba is cruel and unfair, profoundly unneighborly. My greatest desire is to see amicable relations emerge between the United States and Cuba. I hope our government will abandon its hostility towards Cuba and to work with Havana in a spirit of tolerance, mutual respect, and understanding.”

Here’s U.S. President Barack Obama on April 11, 2015:

"Cuba is not a threat to the United States...They don't implicate our national security in a direct way...On Cuba, we are not in the business of regime change. And let’s be clear that we're prepared to partner and engage with everybody…I'm optimistic we'll continue to make progress and that this can indeed be a turning point not just between the United States and Cuba but for greater cooperation among countries across the region."

Should this poor woman continue to suffer in prison for the “crime” of being a bit “ahead of the curve” on U.S. foreign policy? I mean, what’s a little military secret-sharing among friends? Her heart was clearly in the right place, Obama policy-wise. “She certainly meant well,” our President must think to himself.

Recently your humble servant had to “break the news” to John Stossel and a CATO Institute Cuba “expert” on the number of Castro spies that penetrated our Defense and State Departments during Democratic administrations. These penetrations always happen during those much-bally-hooed (by liberals and libertarians) U.S. “diplomatic openings” to Cuba when “cultural and commercial and educational exchanges…blah…blah” blossom between our two nations. Cuba–watchers can only imagine the wholesale infiltration going on nowadays!

Here’s a fascinating datum: Havana’s Museo de la Revolucion has a “Cretin’s Corner” where U.S. presidents are caricatured and vilified. These “Cretins,” however, all turn out to be Republicans. Not a single Democratic president (not even John “Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis” F. Kennedy is featured.)

In fact, historically the public declarations of prominent Democrats and the diary entries of convicted Castro spies have been remarkably similar. If this again sounds hyperbolic, let’s play a game I’ve titled, “Castro Spy or Prominent Democrat Jeopardy--Who Said It?” ….OK, let’s get started!

"Fidel has lifted the Cuban people out of the degrading and oppressive conditions which characterized pre-revolutionary Cuba. He has helped the Cubans to save their own souls. Cubans don’t need to try very hard to make the point that we (the U.S.) have been the exploiters."

If you answered: "That’s from the diaries of convicted (in 2009) Cuban spy Walter Kendall Myers," you are correct! Next question:

"I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime…"

If you answered, "Gosh, that certainly sounds like a convicted Cuban spy?... But I’m gonna say its Democratic President of the United States John F. Kennedy speaking to French Journalist Jean Daniel in Nov. 1963." Correct again! Next quote:

"Everything one hears about Fidel suggests that he is a brilliant and charismatic leader."

"Hey, isn’t that convicted Castro spy, Kendall Myers, again?" you answer. Yes! You win again. Next:

"Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, a man I regard as a friend."

"Gosh, again that sounds like the spy but I’m guessing that was Democratic Presidential candidate and the man known as the Conscience of the Democratic Party,” George McGovern?" Yes! Right again!...but that was too easy. Here’s a toughie:

"Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education..the Cuban embargo is the stupidest law ever passed in the U.S."

“That sure sounds like former U.S. Democratic president James Earl Carter,” you answer—and win!

(For the sake of this column, please overlook that all of the above talking points issued by Castro to his propagandists are demonstratively false. The point here is to show who in the U.S. parrots these KGB-concocted lies.)


TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: communism; fidelcastro; raulcastro; resident0bama

1 posted on 05/09/2015 12:58:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

All I know for sure, is that when it comes time to pardon Obama, I hope no one does it.


2 posted on 05/09/2015 1:01:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Kaslin
Question: "Will Obama now pardon Cuban spies?"

Answer: If it harms America then yes, of course.

3 posted on 05/09/2015 1:02:35 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Kaslin

Is Cuba going to allow baseball players to play in the US now?

Or will they still need to escape?


4 posted on 05/09/2015 1:17:47 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Some Weather Underground terrorists fled to Cuba.

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/130724

(excerpt)

Members of an associated group, the May 19th Communist Organization, are still on the loose. Obama may have been a member of the group during his time at Columbia University in the early 1980s. The FBI does not seem to have made much headway under Obama in finding these fugitives, but it did put black terrorist Joanne Chesimard on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list. We noted that the search for Chesimard, hiding in Cuba, could begin by wiretapping President Obama’s friends, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and other members of the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground helped Chesimard – a convicted cop-killer – escape from a New Jersey prison in 1979 and flee to Cuba.

A Vietnam veteran, Larry understood that the comrades of the Weather Underground were North Vietnamese Army troops and their communist terrorist front organization, the Viet Cong, operating in South Vietnam. The Weather Underground wasn’t anti-war, it was pro-war. A Weather Underground bomb factory discovered by the FBI in San Francisco had bombs, killing instruments, and communist literature, but no anti-war tracts.

Weather Underground members traveled to Cuba and even the old Soviet Union for advice and training.


5 posted on 05/09/2015 1:22:07 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Kaslin

I predict Obama will empty the prisons of drug convicts before he leaves office.


6 posted on 05/09/2015 1:27:15 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

The American electorate simply had to have their negro community organizer out of Chicago as President, They got him and now we see how a negro community organizer out of Chicago as President governs-if that is what one can call governance!


7 posted on 05/09/2015 1:28:25 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Kaslin

Of course he will pardon Cuban Spies . And any murderers, terrorists and saboteurs. ANYTHING the illegal alien commie islamonazi infiltrator can do to weaken USA, you can COUNT on it.


8 posted on 05/09/2015 1:29:24 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“When the righteous are in authority, people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, people groan)
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To: Kaslin
Only if they take Danny Glover back with them ...

Mel Gibson, too ...

9 posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:45 PM PDT by x
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To: faithhopecharity

Don’t forget the freedom fighter, Joanne Chissamard (sp?)


10 posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:56 PM PDT by melancholy
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To: faithhopecharity

That was my thought too


11 posted on 05/09/2015 1:33:31 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: x

Why Mel Gibson?


12 posted on 05/09/2015 1:34:38 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Just a little joke about them being in the same movies together. Mel’s not pro-Cuban, so far as I know — whatever his many other faults.


13 posted on 05/09/2015 1:40:09 PM PDT by x
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To: ifinnegan; Gamecock
That's being worked out right now.


14 posted on 05/09/2015 1:42:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Kaslin
Obama said..."we're prepared to partner and engage with everybody."

And I'm sure he means everybody.

Except Israel.

And with the possible exception of the rest of America's allies.

15 posted on 05/09/2015 1:46:48 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
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To: Kaslin

He will, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he pardons Joanne Cheismard.


16 posted on 05/09/2015 5:53:34 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: x

It’s curious how being a supporter of murderous totalitarian regimes (always of the left) earns one the moniker of “humanitarian.”

Danny, you’re too old for that $hit.


17 posted on 05/09/2015 6:18:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: TBP
He will, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he pardons Joanne Cheismard. Chesimard. Aka Rose Shakur -- after whom Tupac renamed himself, to honor a person who killed a white cop.

Of course Obama will honor her, she offed an ofay cracka Beast cop. Righteous! </s>

18 posted on 05/11/2015 12:05:01 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Tupac was her nephew, from what I’e read.


19 posted on 05/11/2015 8:44:04 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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