Posted on 04/30/2005 5:08:43 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
Can you imagggggginnnne something like this happening to you? You meet a nice Cuban guy in Miami, he tells you he hates castro, and somehow he doesn't look as ugly. Then he says he likes you, he loves you and eventually you fall in love with him. You marry him and he gets busted and hauled off to jail. For espionage against the United States of America. Only then do you learn he was using you and your bonafides in the community as his uhhh 'beard' so he could get around Miami and inform to castro's deadly agents about all of your family and your friends.
That's what castro is capable of! Communists don't see people as human beings! For him, people like you and me are not people, but mere mud in his socialist Marxist materialistic dialectic. We are there for the using. Not even the KGB did that back in the bad old days! Back in Soviet times, if there were two commie spies busted, rest assured both were always two commies in it together. But castro does! for him, whatever 'serves' his revolution (read: himself) is the guiding moral force determining what he does. Tell me if this doesn't give you a picture of his inhuman character - that he can do this to another person, while the heirs of Stalin would not?
So when this vile castro punk (and you have got to be a real freak to live in and experience the freedom of Miami and still reject it, for the sake of castro) got arrested and put in jail where he belongs, he left behind more than just a trail of destruction against the United States. He also mentally damaged this lady and took years from her life. And she called his using of her and her affections rape. And a US judge took one look at that and he agreed with her.
Given the enormity of the act, and given the comparable lawsuit payouts against US corporations, I would argue that the payout was too low. Still, it was a right ruling. President Bush was happy to pay castro's fine out of castro's own frozen funds. Justice has been done.
The Reuters article is here.
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