Speaker Boehner's State of Union Guest Is an Ex-Political Prisoner From Cuba; Will Media Ignore?

NewsBusters ^ | January 20, 2015 | Ken Shepherd

[george76]

The State of the Union address this year falls one day after the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. So it's quite fitting that Speaker John Boehner have as his honored guest a black human-rights activist.

But alas, said human-rights activist is also a Cuban dissident, a former political prisoner of the Castro regime and a critic of resident Obama's push to normalize relations with Cuba without any concomitant political and economic reforms on the island to empower the impoverished, oppressed people there.

We will watch to see what mention, if any, is given by network journalists tonight to Jorge Luis Garcia Perez. It's safe to predict he will be ignored outright or his appearance briefly noted, and that in such a way as to minimize his compelling story.

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Antunez, the 43-year-old leader of Cuba’s civic resistance movement, served more than 17 years in prison, with the Castro regime releasing him in 2007 ahead of expected European sanctions. He lives in Cuba and will return there in two weeks. He was imprisoned in 1990 after participating in a pro-democracy march. In prison, he refused to wear the uniform provided and rejected communist re-education lessons, which resulted in guards sending him to solitary confinement and adding more years to his original five-year sentence.

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He is an ambassador for the Cuban resistance — for those struggling inside Cuba,” Antunez told the Washington Examiner on Monday night through an interpreter. “He especially feels that he is here representing all of those prisoners who are not released in response to the Obama-Castro” agreement.

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No agreement that excludes the Cuban resistance and the Cuban people can be considered legitimate

[Organic Panic]

The media WILL ignore but they will have a collective orgasm with the illegal alien guests. (living in the shadows yet invited to the SOTU pep rally)

[Michael.SF.]

Will the media ignore?

Boehner (I hope so) or the guy from Cuba (I hope not)?

[RginTN]

if Boehner had some spine he would also ave as his guests those Conservatives targeted by Obama’s IRS. Now that would get some media notice!

[Dqban22]

OBAMA TO THE RESCUE OF CASTRO STALINIST REGIME

The Chinese maintain an advanced electronic base in the center of the Havana province to intercept all electronic communications in U.S. and is equipped for eventual cyber attacks to U.S.

Putin is reopening the spy base in the outskirts of Havana that was closed after the dismembering of the Soviet Union.

Six months before the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attack to New York and Washington, Fidel Castro, speaking at Tehran University in Iran on May 10, 2001, vowed that “the imperialist king will finally fall”, that their cooperation would put the U.S. down its knees. The hatred of the Castro brothers against U.S. has not mellowed after 56 years in power.

After Obama surrender to the communist regime the American base in Cuba, Castro might give the Guantanamo base to Iran to consolidate and strengthen the Cuban ties to the Islamic terrorist network, an alliance that started since the very beginning of taken power in Cuba the communist revolution.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks george76.

...a black human-rights activist... a Cuban dissident, a former political prisoner of the Castro regime and a critic of resident Obama's push to normalize relations with Cuba without any concomitant political and economic reforms on the island to empower the impoverished, oppressed people there.