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Refugee Women, Children, and Infants Water-cannoned to Death Near US Southern Border—
Townhall.com ^ | December 1, 2018 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 12/01/2018 6:57:39 AM PST by Kaslin

Maria Meza is the Honduran migrant who was catapulted to media stardom this week for being in the right place at the right time for an intrepid Reuters photographer who caught the U.S. Border Patrol red-handed in the act of performing its duty by defending the U.S. border.

Best we can tell—despite her claims of “I thought we were all going to die!”--she was not hurt, even slightly, and neither were any of her five children. 

Nonetheless the Media/Democrat/Celebrity complex is all over Trump like a cheap suit for his “brutality.” 

On the other hand, Maria Garcia is a Cuban refugee (a genuine one, that is) whose son, husband, brother, sister, two uncles and three cousins were wantonly massacred in cold blood while they were all seeking (legal) asylum in the U.S.  In all, 43 (genuine) Cuban refugees were wantonly massacred, 11 of them children. Carlos Anaya was 3 when he drowned, Yisel Alvarez 4. Helen Martinez was 6 months old.

But you’ve never heard of Maria Garcia, have you amigos? Or of the horrific massacre from which she barely escaped with her life, have you amigos?

Didn't think so. Here I’ll help with a few details:

“This was a very heroic and patriotic act!” Fidel Castro gushed in August 5 1994 while decorating one of his subjects named Jesus Gonzalez as “Hero of the Revolution.” 

This “heroism” consisted of ramming his steel-prowed Russian cutter against a flimsy boat full of desperate Cuban escapees—then blasting his water cannon against dozens of women and children clinging desperately to the sinking boat and drowning them. 

"MI HIJO! MI HIJO!" Maria Garcia screamed as the water jet slammed into her, ripping half the clothes off her body and ripping Juan's arm from her grasp. "JUANITO! JUANITO!" She fumbled frantically around her, still blinded by the water blast. Little Juan had gone spinning across the deck and now clung desperately to the tug's railing 10 feet behind Maria as huge waves lapped his legs.

WHACK!  The steel patrol boat turned sharply and rammed the escape craft from the other side. Then - CRACK! another one crashed it from the front! WHACK!  In Cuba you don't do something like this without strict orders from WAY above.

"We have women and children aboard!" The escapee men yelled. "We'll turn around! OK?!

WHACK! the Castroites answered the plea by ramming them again. In seconds the escapee craft started coming apart and sinking. Muffled yells and cries came from below. Turns out the women and children who had scrambled into the hold for safety after the first whack had in fact scrambled into a watery tomb.

With the boat coming apart and the water rushing in around them, some got death grips on their children and managed to scramble or swim out. But not all. The roar from the water cannons and the din from the boat engines muffled most of the screams, but all around people were screaming, coughing, gagging and sinking.

As mentioned, Maria Garcia lost her son, Juanito, her husband, brother, sister, two uncles and three cousins in the maritime massacre. Please click here for more details and thorough documentation on this massacre. 

And all this death and horror to flee from a nation that experienced net immigration throughout the 20th century, where boats and planes brought in many more people than they took out - except on vacation. (Despite what you saw in The Godfather, actually, in 1950, more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. than Americans in Cuba, as befit a nation with a bigger middle class than Switzerland.)

This was obviously a rogue operation by crazed deviants, you say. No government could possibly condone, much less directly order such a thing! Right?

Wrong. Nothing is random in Stalinist Cuba. As mentioned, one of the gallant water-cannon gunners was even decorated (personally) by Fidel Castro. Perhaps for expert marksmanship. A three-year old child presents a pretty small target. A six-month old baby an even smaller one. "Magnificent job defending the glorious revolution, companero!

But perhaps my claim that the “Democrat /Media complex glorifies the perpetrator” strikes some of my amigos as unnecessarily hyperbolic? Or as a blatant exaggeration? Or perhaps even as “fake news?”

Fair enough. Let’s have a look:

“Fidel Castro could have been Cuba’s Elvis!” (Dan Rather.)

“Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly–even paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure!” (NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.)

"Castro's personal magnetism is still powerful, his presence is still commanding. Cuba has very high literacy, and Castro has brought great health care to his country." (Barbara Walters.)

“Fidel Castro is one hell of a guy! You people would like him! Most people in Cuba like him." (CNN founder Ted Turner at Harvard Law School during a speech in 1997. Within weeks CNN was granted its coveted Havana Bureau, the first ever granted by Castro to a foreign network.)    

“Fidel Castro…educated (Cuban) kids, gave them healthcare, totally transformed the society.” (Democrat Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders.)

“Viva Fidel! Viva Che!” (Two-time candidate for the Democrat presidential nomination Jesse Jackson, bellowing while arm in arm with Fidel Castro himself in 1984.)

"Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, I frankly like him and regard him as a friend." (Democrat presidential candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and “Conscience of the Democrat party,” George McGovern.)

“Fidel Castro first and foremost is and always has been a committed egalitarian. He wanted a system that provided the basic needs to all Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education…We greeted each other as old friends.” (Former President of the United States and official "Elder Statesman” of the Democrat Party, Jimmy Carter.)


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The rest of the title is: But Democrat/Media Complex Glorifies Perpetrator
1 posted on 12/01/2018 6:57:39 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Just watched a PragerU video with Tucker Carlson from Oct. about illegal immigration. It will destroy America by giving permanent power to the heathen left.

https://www.prageru.com/videos/illegal-immigration-its-about-power


2 posted on 12/01/2018 7:01:05 AM PST by Boomer (The other name for "Democrat" is "Nation Killer")
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To: Kaslin

Fake news. But when there ARE incidents, why are you taking infants into what is conceivable the line of fire.

This is the shame caused by Soros. He needs to be arrested, processed and executed.


3 posted on 12/01/2018 7:01:10 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Vaquero
He needs to be arrested, processed and executed.

NP with that ordering changed.

4 posted on 12/01/2018 7:08:45 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Boomer

Great video

Thanks for posting :)


5 posted on 12/01/2018 7:17:33 AM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multiplayer issue voter)
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To: Kaslin

Great article for people whose history started yesterday...


6 posted on 12/01/2018 7:20:13 AM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multiplayer issue voter)
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To: Boomer

But who will pick my lettuce?


7 posted on 12/01/2018 7:23:12 AM PST by NotchJohnson
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To: redinIllinois

There are some who believe that ‘history’ is something about their browser ...


8 posted on 12/01/2018 7:24:55 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: NotchJohnson

Your lettuce will be picked thanks to a restored Bracero program that worked for many years, but was ended by Jerry Brown during his first term in office (circa 1975) because he decided American people wanted those jobs (they didn’t) and so the illegal entry into the US began in earnest, and those illegals lost the protections of state and federal law, and the chance to become citizens if they desired, which many of the braceros did not.


9 posted on 12/01/2018 7:28:00 AM PST by erkelly
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To: Vaquero

“........why are you taking infants into what is conceivable the line of fire?”...……

The idiots that use kids as human shields care nothing about those kids and think the kids very presence will protect them from any resistance...…..WRONG!


10 posted on 12/01/2018 7:29:25 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Kaslin

Good article. Castro’s regime was one of the most brutal in human history! Yet, Obama loved and idolized this vicious tyrant. How soon we forget!


11 posted on 12/01/2018 7:33:04 AM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t call me amigo.


12 posted on 12/01/2018 7:46:41 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Kaslin

Oh this is a really good one!


13 posted on 12/01/2018 7:47:57 AM PST by MarMema (don't forget to stock up on dogfood)
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To: Kaslin

<...“Fidel Castro first and foremost is and always has been a committed egalitarian. He wanted a system that provided the basic needs to all Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education…We greeted each other as old friends.” (Former President of the United States and official “Elder Statesman” of the Democrat Party, Jimmy Carter.)...>

That’s why all those Americans in Miami are taking boats to sneak into Cuba.


14 posted on 12/01/2018 8:02:15 AM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: Kaslin

I hate commies, socialists, leftist, and so-called progressives. They are all, one and the same, murderous, nihilistic sociopaths, every last one of them.


15 posted on 12/01/2018 8:16:32 AM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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To: budj

save


16 posted on 12/01/2018 8:22:24 AM PST by varina davis (President Donald J. Trump in 2020!)
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To: semaj

“I hate commies, socialists, leftist, and so-called progressives.”

I attended the funeral of a good friend this week who was a socialist-leftist, and Catholic. I don’t know much about Catholics, but from all I’ve gathered through 70 years, I’d have to say her church is into some new-age crap. There were “why can’t we all just get along” type posters all over the church. Including Muslims was there. During the message / homily / whatever, priest kept saying they want unity among all — as long as “all” meant becoming Catholic. (I don’t think that’s normal ... is it?)

But I digress... Her husband who remains is a Bernie-voting, gun- and GOP-hating socialist. Everybody needs to get all the free sh!t they want compliments of the taxpayer. The wealthy need to take care of the others. THEY have a nice house on the lake and a home in Florida, several cars, boats, too many man toys to count, tons of savings, etc. BUT - it’s interesting to note that when the property tax notices came out, he was the first one on our street beating cheeks down to the Assessor’s Office, and first on the list for Board Of Equalization hearings to lower HIS taxes.

Since the minute the funeral ended, he basically told us to back off. We believe it’s because we’re conservatives. This in spite of the fact that we were the only ones there for the family while his wife was sick and dying, and for years before that. I hate these people.


17 posted on 12/01/2018 8:30:38 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Great things never come from comfort zones.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

First of all did anyone even read the name of the article???? Fake news it talks about water cannons used near the US Border BS its in reality a story about Cubans good god read before you respond its a fake news gazette....


18 posted on 12/01/2018 8:48:56 AM PST by straps (What a joke...)
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To: budj

Miami sucks big time.
Speak English or be white.
They will kill you for spite.
Miami sucks big time.


19 posted on 12/01/2018 8:56:59 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: straps

I didn’t respond to the article. I responded to Post #17. Do you seriously think I’d believe, or even read, an article with that title?


20 posted on 12/01/2018 9:12:53 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Great things never come from comfort zones.)
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