Posted on 04/13/2002 10:11:30 AM PDT by 4Freedom
The presence of Pro-Navy protesters today in front of the gates at Camp Garcia in Vieques will be nothing but a provocation, according to anti-Navy activists.
They say the group Renacer Estadista is merely trying to provoke trouble, though Renacer claims that is not their goal.
Renacer is expected to turn over to military personnel a document expressing its support for military practices in Vieques.
But anti-Navy activist Robert Rabin said, "We will not allow the pro-Navy to provoke our people."
The anti-Navy movement will be joined today by controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, who is to visit Vieques.
Pro-Navy activist Luis Sanchez said his groups intention is merely to reaffirm its position that the Navy should stay in Vieques.
At press time, Navy officials said the number of "people detained" on federal restricted land was 19 since exercises began April 1. No one was detained Wednesday, however.
Navy spokesman Lt. Corey Barker said there was a rock throwing incident at Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba, which was reported to Ceiba police.
"A rock was thrown over the fence, hitting a military service member's private family minivan within the base," he said. "It broke a passenger window. The service member was not injured."
Barker described Wednesday as "another successful day of air-to-ground exercises without interruptions or delays."
Meanwhile, Vieques firefighters were investigating the origin of two fires Tuesday night at Monte Carmelo. Anti- Navy activists alleged the fires were started when Navy security personnel fired flares into the area, while the Navy alleged the first fire was started by the activists.
Barker said the first fire was allegedly started by protesters. When military firefighters went to put out the fires, the protesters allegedly ambushed them with rocks.
"They had to pull back until security forces could be brought in and the security forces did use tear gas to disperse the protesters so the firefighters could put out the fire," he said.
The second fire, he said, was set off by canisters the military used to disperse the crowd and that fire was put out by the municipal firefighters.
Any big, fat checks, from Saddam Insane, cashed in Puerto Rico, lately?
But anti-Navy activist Robert Rabin said, "We will not allow the pro-Navy to provoke our people."
The anti-Navy movement will be joined today by controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, who is to visit Vieques.
So free speech only applies to opponents of the Navy? And didn't Rigoberta Menchu say that the USA deserved September 11 or something like that?
Menchu is controversial because her book was a complete and total forgery.
. . .another gathering of the 'People of the Lie'. . .
for the 'controversial side of Rigoberta; see below. . .could not make link; but David Horoiwitz shares the truth of this 'Nobel Prize' winner. . .
I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar EXPANDED COVERAGE I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar by David Horowitz. Heterodoxy | December 1998 / January 1999. ... http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/horowitz/1999/david2-26-99.htm More Results From: www.frontpagemag.com
. . .another gathering of the 'People of the Lie'. . .
for the 'controversial side of Rigoberta; see below. . .could not make link; but David Horoiwitz shares the truth of this 'Nobel Prize' winner. . .
I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar EXPANDED COVERAGE I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar by David Horowitz. Heterodoxy | December 1998 / January 1999. ... http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/horowitz/1999/david2-26-99.htm More Results From: www.frontpagemag.com
ooop!!! meant 'WOMAN'. . .almost, maybe. . .
Who're the leftists, in your opinion? Of course you must mean Robert Rabin and that over-stuffed, Guatemalan, lyin-Mayan, 'packetera', Rigoberta Menchu, don't you?
You also must be upset with the anti-Navy activists trying to stone our servicemen and the pro-Navy activists that are risking their lives to show that anti-Navy activists are just a handful of well financed Marxists.
C'mon, I just don't want to see a great Libertarian patriot, like yourself, be mis-understood.
I don't like much of wwhat she says, but she didn't say that.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is author of I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Verso, 1984) and Crossing Borders (Verso, 1998). She wrote a letter to President George W. Bush after his September 20 address to Congress. Kay Yanisch translated this excerpt. I would like to express my solidarity and condolences to the American people after learning of the painful actions in your country. I share indignation and condemn the threats that these acts of terrorism carry.
In the name of progress, pluralism, tolerance and liberty, you leave no choice for those of us who are not fortunate enough to share this sensation of liberty and the benefits of the civilization you wish to defend for your people, we who never had sympathy for terrorism since we were its victims. We, who are proud expressions of other civilizations; who live day to day with the hope of turning discrimination and plunder into recognition and respect; who carry in our souls the pain of the genocide perpetrated against our peoples; finally, we who are fed up with providing the dead for wars that are not ours: we cannot share the arrogance of your infallibility nor the single road onto which you want to push us when you declare that "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."
Hours earlier, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu offered her support to those protesting against the Navy, which has owned three-quarters of the island since World War II. Menchu saw several of her family members tortured or killed during her own struggle for human rights for the Mayan people of Guatamala, victims of a U.S.-backed repressive regime in her country that forced her into exile.
Part of the U.S. military that she blamed for causing "huge wounds" in Central America was trained in Vieques - including many Puerto Ricans who served in the Navy.
"That's why this fight is our fight too," said Menchu, seated next to Vieques Mayor Damaso Serrano, who spent four months in jail for breaking into Navy grounds and interrupting bombing runs. "It's a peaceful movement and from this moment on, I'm your ally. Vieques will be on my agenda. Whenever I speak, I will speak of you."
Students cheered during her tour of the town. "You're a wonderful role model for women. [BARF! mine] Long live peace. Out with the Navy," read one banner.
Menchu said she was impressed at the breadth of the movement to get the Navy to leave its premier training facility in the Atlantic.
She confessed to being afraid to speak about Vieques before for fear of losing her U.S. visa or being portrayed as a leftist, communist or as being against the United States or it's military.
"My presence here is to say no more silence on Vieques," Menchu said. "Keep going and don't be quiet, because when you're quiet injustices continue."
Message to the 'dodo headed' Libertarian in charge of the INS: DEPORT MENCHU, WHO'S NOTHING MORE THAN A LEFTIST, COMMUNIST WHO'S ALSO AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND IT'S MILITARY!
Just look at how they behave after receiving 100's of billions of U.S. Taxpayer's dollars over the last 100 years.
There's a move afoot, in the Puerto Rican Congress, to make Spanish the island's 'official language' and get rid of all government documents in English. How about that for a sharp stick in the eye?
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