When Castro Became A Communist

Continues the misguided U.S. policies towards Castro in dealing with the problem of the refugees. While our soldiers die on Iraq ending a regimen of terror in that country, the American Coast Guard return to Cuba, another brutal terrorist haven, those Cubans who are trying to flee from the Island-prison. That is criminal and immoral.

CUBAN MAKE FREEDOM BID IN FLOATING CHEVY TRUCK

CNBC called this feat a marvelous work of engineering. Beyond belief was the attempt at crossing the Florida Straits in a floating flatbed truck with 55-gallon (250-litre) drums strapped to its sides, tires still in place, a propeller attached to its drive shaft and a driver behind the wheel. According to the Coast Guard: "We've seen surfboards, pieces of Styrofoam, bathtubs, refrigerators. But never an automobile," It was a pity that the Coast Guard destroyed this piece fit for a museum as a proof of human ingenuity in its quest for freedom.

The violation of President Johnson’s Cuban Immigration Adjustment Act by President Clinton continues under President Bush. The immoral policy of wet feet, dry feet by returning to the Island-Prison those Cubans intercepted before touching U.S. land defies logic. It is important to keep in mind that only one in four reach alive at our coasts and those intercepted and returned to Cuba face death or up to 10 years imprisonment under subhuman conditions in Castro’s dungeons. After all, Cubans have not been a burden, but a positive immigration for the United States with its highest level of education among all the Hispanics in U.S. according to the U.S. Census, with the highest percentage in the top income bracket and the lowest among the lower brackets. Although Cubans are legal political refugees who came invited by President Johnson, in the context of the immigration problems in U.S Cubans are just a tiny drop on the tsunami of illegal aliens arriving to our shores.

Cuban naturalized Americans vote and played an important role in Bush’s election and now feel betrayed by the continuation of this inhuman policy. We should keep in mind that Castro is the longest lasting terrorist in the world and the only person who once tried to nuke our cities. Nevertheless Castro continues to bully into submission to his will the American Presidents. 90 miles off the coast of Florida with a seething hatred for America, Castro is not just another tyrant. He's the only living dictator who tried to get the Soviet Union to nuke the United States. Now Castro is developing at least the capability for biological weapons, and he's got the right connections with rogue states to cause us headaches.

Naïve Americans think that by opening their market and purses to the Cuban tyrant the oppression will end in Cuba. Just the opposite will result from giving taxpayers’ money to Castro. Forty-four years of trade with 170 countries, many of them as capitalists as ours, has only resulted in more oppression and delaying the return of freedom and democracy to the Cuba. What we need is a real blockade just as the one that was imposed upon South Africa if we want to end the terrorist menace so close to the U.S. As stated by Senator Richard Helms: “Unfortunately, some in Washington are all too willing to give Castro what he wants. At the least they should stop pretending that they are doing this to promote Cuban democracy.”

Cubans sure truck-boat was odd enough for entry

Miami Herald
7/25/2003

HAVANA - (AP) -- The Cubans who converted a 1951 Chevy pickup into a boat and puttered to within 40 miles of Florida said Thursday they were sure that the sheer audacity of their act would guarantee entry into the United States.

But they were spotted in the middle of the Florida Straits by U.S. officials and returned Wednesday to the island.

''We thought that they would let us in because it was so outrageous,'' Ariel Diego Marcel told Associated Press Television News.

''They told us we would not be able to go to the United States because it was illegal,'' added Eduardo Pérez Gras.
In the group were nine men, two women and a baby.

Pérez Gras said his uncle and owner of the truck, Luis Gras Rodríguez, came up with the idea to convert the vehicle. The truck was made into a boat by attaching three empty metal drums on each side to make it float and connecting a propeller attached on the drive shaft to push it along.

''If they had let us get to Key West, we would have been able to drive it right onto the sand,'' he said.

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