Posted on 12/17/2014 2:35:55 PM PST by John S Mosby
"On Wednesday, Obama administration officials confirmed to The Post that Cuba has freed American citizen Alan Gross. Gross, who was detained in December 2009 while working as a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, had been accused of espionage and sentenced to 15 years in prison by Cuba. His imprisonment was a major problem in relations between Washington and Havana.
Gross was not freed by accident. According to ABC News, his release is the culmination of more than a year of "secret back-channel talks at the highest levels of both governments." And, importantly, his release comes at the same time as an agreement by the U.S. government to release three Cuban citizens, part of the "Cuban Five."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Five
The last 3 were released TODAY by our marxist in chief and his asst. holder-- released murderers of the Brothers to the Rescue air flight rescue planes which were shot down over international waters (planes were spotting balseros, rafters escaping the Cuban gulag on the Straits of Florida). Now that the dictator in chief thinks he can write immigration law, then Cuba should be opened up to open immigration-- just like Jimmah Cahtah, whom he has surpassed in liberal treachery and lies.
THIS is who obamaumao is- a marxist in chief, apologizing for the one last safe place for freedom in the world, the USA-- and now does this- on behalf of the falling oil prices and desperate Russian agents and diminishing cash from/to client states of Cuba (who has chinese wells drilled offshore) and Venezuela. To his utter eternal shame- which he will not have. Juxtapose this action with Diane Feinsteins self righteous indignation-- and you will see that Gitmo closing is not far behind. All of the fellow traveller venture socialists are doing their job for their foreign masters. Waited until Congress had recessed. It never stops, him an Val Jarrett.
Thanks to the Canadian nickel mine owners (who pay the castros a "tipping" fee % taken out of the 5 cents an hour labor of Cubans in Cuban nickel mines, btw-- said money going to Castro's private accounts-- Slavery anyone? Protests from NAACP?- doubt it). Thanks Canada-- great work. And a Left wing Pope who is all in favor of communist dictators apparently.
In a "swap" (unequal) for Alan Gross of AID, and an unidentified US intelligence officer who had been 20 years in a Cuban prison (who is a patriot, and whom we should be briefed on to acclaim and take care of - for he/she is surely insane at this point). The 60's generation continues to do the dirty work of Ayers, Dohrn and the Comintern. Deo Vindice. De Oppreso Liber. Molon Labe.
An utter travesty. Fundamentally transformed, yes, like the twin towers after 9/11.
Venezuela can’t support socialist Cuba anymore because of the crashing oil price: So Obama is giving socialist Cuba a lifeline because Obama is for socialism. the socialist Cuban regime can now continue to oppress and genocide the Cuban people. Barack Obama is pure evil.
It's called treason!
He'd go but no cabs will take him.
Here is an idea: Obama goes to Cuba with all of the Mohammedan thugs presently in Gitmo. Obama renounces his citizenship to become a Cuban citizen. And we call it an even trade.
Don’t think for one minute that Feinstein’s report didn’t figure into this. Just moments after the normalization was announced, an administration hack on Fox used the report to point out that America has it’s own problems with inhumane treatment of others as well as Gitmo.
Ah yes, Newscorp FoxNews. Newscorp execs endorsed John F. Kerry in 2004.
An utter travesty. Fundamentally transformed, yes, like the twin towers after 9/11.
It’s called treason!
it was ONCE called treason.
Cluelessness on Cuba (Humberto Fontova)
12,26,2014
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First off, if Castro secretly favors the embargo, then why did every one of his secret agents campaign secretly and obsessively against the embargo while working as secret agents? Castro managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent U.S. history. The spys name is Ana Belen Montes, known as Castros Queen Jewel in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.
In fact, few U.S. foreign policy measures in recent history have been as phenomenally successful as our limited sanctions against the Stalinist Robber-Barons who run Cuba. First off, for three decades the Soviet Union was forced to pump the equivalent of almost ten Marshall Plans into Cuba.
This cannot have helped the Soviet Unions precarious solvency or lengthened her life span. Secondly, the U.S. taxpayer has been spared the fleecing visited upon many others who reside in nations who eschew embargoing Cuba.
Per-capita-wise, Cuba qualifies as the worlds biggest debtor nation with a foreign debt of close to $50 billion, a creditrating nudging Somalias, and an uninterrupted record of defaults.
In 1986 Cuba defaulted on most of her foreign debt to Europe. Seven years ago Frances version of the U.S. governments Export-Import Bank (named COFACE) cut off Cubas credit line. Mexicos Bancomex quickly followed suit. The Castro regime had stuck it to French taxpayers for $175 million and to Mexican taxpayers for $365 million.
Bancomex was forced to impound Cuban assets in three different countries in an attempt to recoup its losses.
A bit later we heard from another Castro sucker: The Cuban regime has a long track record of failing to pay back our loans, lamented South Africas Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry, Geordin Hill-Lewis. In 2010, South Africa had to write off R1.1 billion in bad Cuban debt, and on Friday we wrote off another R250 million in bad debt. The time has come for South Africa to invest in strategic partnerships that deliver prosperity for our people.
in 1960 stormed into almost 6000 U.S. owned businesses (worth almost $ 2 billion at the time) and stole them all at Soviet gunpoint. A few American business-owners resisted. One of these was Howard Anderson who owned a filling stations and Jeep dealership (not a casino or brothel, which were relatively rare in pre-Castro Cuba, by the way.) Ill quote from Anderson v. Republic of Cuba, No. 01-28628 (Miami-Dade Circuit Court, April 13, 2003). In one final session of torture, Castros agents drained Howard Andersons body of blood before sending him to his death at the firing squad.
The Inter-American Law Review classifies Castros mass burglary of U.S. property as the largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history. Rubbing his hands and snickering in triumphant glee, Castro boasted at maximum volume to the entire world that he was freeing Cuba from Yankee economic slavery! (Che Guevaras term, actually) and that he would never repay a penny!
This is the only promise Fidel Castro has ever kept in his life. Hence the imposition of the Cuba embargo, not that youd know any of this from the mainstream media.
The burglarized (and often brutalized) American owners filed those property claims against Castros regime with the U.S. government. Theyre worth $7 billion todayand must be settled before the so called embargo is lifted.
This settlement provision for lifting the embargo was codified into U.S. law in 1996 by the Helms-Burton act, which means only Congress can lift the embargo, obviously after a vote. But the votes are not there.
Shouldnt Rand Paul know this?
In 1967 libertarian icon Murray Rothbard seemed highly bereaved and aggrieved to hear of Che Guevaras whacking. Here his encomium to the Stalinist who outlawed private property under penalty of torture-chamber and firing-squad:
Che is dead, and we all mourn him. Long live Che! Why? How is it that so many libertarians mourn this man?...What made Che such an heroic figure for our time is that he, more than any man of our epoch or even of our century, was the living embodiment of the principle of Revolution
we all knew that his enemy was our enemythat great Colossus that oppresses and threatens all the peoples of the world, U. S. imperialism.
Ron Paul regards Murray Rothbard as one of Americas greatest men and greatest heroes of freedom. Rand Paul, considers it an honor to have met Murray Rothbard and a privilege to have once driven him to the airport.
So lets hope simple cluelessness motivates Rand
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