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Refugee Women, Children, and Infants Water-cannoned to Death Near US Southern Border—
Townhall.com ^ | December 1, 2018 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 12/01/2018 6:57:39 AM PST by Kaslin

Maria Meza is the Honduran migrant who was catapulted to media stardom this week for being in the right place at the right time for an intrepid Reuters photographer who caught the U.S. Border Patrol red-handed in the act of performing its duty by defending the U.S. border.

Best we can tell—despite her claims of “I thought we were all going to die!”--she was not hurt, even slightly, and neither were any of her five children. 

Nonetheless the Media/Democrat/Celebrity complex is all over Trump like a cheap suit for his “brutality.” 

On the other hand, Maria Garcia is a Cuban refugee (a genuine one, that is) whose son, husband, brother, sister, two uncles and three cousins were wantonly massacred in cold blood while they were all seeking (legal) asylum in the U.S.  In all, 43 (genuine) Cuban refugees were wantonly massacred, 11 of them children. Carlos Anaya was 3 when he drowned, Yisel Alvarez 4. Helen Martinez was 6 months old.

But you’ve never heard of Maria Garcia, have you amigos? Or of the horrific massacre from which she barely escaped with her life, have you amigos?

Didn't think so. Here I’ll help with a few details:

“This was a very heroic and patriotic act!” Fidel Castro gushed in August 5 1994 while decorating one of his subjects named Jesus Gonzalez as “Hero of the Revolution.” 

This “heroism” consisted of ramming his steel-prowed Russian cutter against a flimsy boat full of desperate Cuban escapees—then blasting his water cannon against dozens of women and children clinging desperately to the sinking boat and drowning them. 

"MI HIJO! MI HIJO!" Maria Garcia screamed as the water jet slammed into her, ripping half the clothes off her body and ripping Juan's arm from her grasp. "JUANITO! JUANITO!" She fumbled frantically around her, still blinded by the water blast. Little Juan had gone spinning across the deck and now clung desperately to the tug's railing 10 feet behind Maria as huge waves lapped his legs.

WHACK!  The steel patrol boat turned sharply and rammed the escape craft from the other side. Then - CRACK! another one crashed it from the front! WHACK!  In Cuba you don't do something like this without strict orders from WAY above.

"We have women and children aboard!" The escapee men yelled. "We'll turn around! OK?!

WHACK! the Castroites answered the plea by ramming them again. In seconds the escapee craft started coming apart and sinking. Muffled yells and cries came from below. Turns out the women and children who had scrambled into the hold for safety after the first whack had in fact scrambled into a watery tomb.

With the boat coming apart and the water rushing in around them, some got death grips on their children and managed to scramble or swim out. But not all. The roar from the water cannons and the din from the boat engines muffled most of the screams, but all around people were screaming, coughing, gagging and sinking.

As mentioned, Maria Garcia lost her son, Juanito, her husband, brother, sister, two uncles and three cousins in the maritime massacre. Please click here for more details and thorough documentation on this massacre. 

And all this death and horror to flee from a nation that experienced net immigration throughout the 20th century, where boats and planes brought in many more people than they took out - except on vacation. (Despite what you saw in The Godfather, actually, in 1950, more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. than Americans in Cuba, as befit a nation with a bigger middle class than Switzerland.)

This was obviously a rogue operation by crazed deviants, you say. No government could possibly condone, much less directly order such a thing! Right?

Wrong. Nothing is random in Stalinist Cuba. As mentioned, one of the gallant water-cannon gunners was even decorated (personally) by Fidel Castro. Perhaps for expert marksmanship. A three-year old child presents a pretty small target. A six-month old baby an even smaller one. "Magnificent job defending the glorious revolution, companero!

But perhaps my claim that the “Democrat /Media complex glorifies the perpetrator” strikes some of my amigos as unnecessarily hyperbolic? Or as a blatant exaggeration? Or perhaps even as “fake news?”

Fair enough. Let’s have a look:

“Fidel Castro could have been Cuba’s Elvis!” (Dan Rather.)

“Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly–even paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure!” (NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.)

"Castro's personal magnetism is still powerful, his presence is still commanding. Cuba has very high literacy, and Castro has brought great health care to his country." (Barbara Walters.)

“Fidel Castro is one hell of a guy! You people would like him! Most people in Cuba like him." (CNN founder Ted Turner at Harvard Law School during a speech in 1997. Within weeks CNN was granted its coveted Havana Bureau, the first ever granted by Castro to a foreign network.)    

“Fidel Castro…educated (Cuban) kids, gave them healthcare, totally transformed the society.” (Democrat Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders.)

“Viva Fidel! Viva Che!” (Two-time candidate for the Democrat presidential nomination Jesse Jackson, bellowing while arm in arm with Fidel Castro himself in 1984.)

"Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, I frankly like him and regard him as a friend." (Democrat presidential candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and “Conscience of the Democrat party,” George McGovern.)

“Fidel Castro first and foremost is and always has been a committed egalitarian. He wanted a system that provided the basic needs to all Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education…We greeted each other as old friends.” (Former President of the United States and official "Elder Statesman” of the Democrat Party, Jimmy Carter.)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cuba; democrats; fidelcastro; watercannon
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To: Boomer

I.O.W it will be the end of our nation.


21 posted on 12/01/2018 9:35:59 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: NotchJohnson

I hope the next crop of lettuce pickers wash after defalcating.


22 posted on 12/01/2018 9:40:06 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Kaslin
Refugee Women, Children, and Infants Water-cannoned to Death Near US Southern Border—

Bullshit.

23 posted on 12/01/2018 10:14:39 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: MayflowerMadam

This goes to my point that Leftists are ultimately selfish in their motivations. It is a type of pathological selfishness. If it means oppressing and demonizing the opposition, that’s what they do. Principles and even handed ness get in the way of their getting what they want.


24 posted on 12/01/2018 11:12:59 AM PST by Crucial
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To: MayflowerMadam
I responded to Post #17.

Talking to yourself again?......LOL!

25 posted on 12/01/2018 11:54:49 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: GoldenPup
Refugee Women, Children, and Infants Water-cannoned to Death Near US Southern Border—

Did YOU even bother reading the article? He's referring to Aug. 5, 1994.....That's all the hint I will give you.

26 posted on 12/01/2018 11:59:20 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: GoldenPup

Can’t you read?

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27 posted on 12/01/2018 12:03:54 PM PST by Mears
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To: Kaslin

Taking away the loss of lives, the saddest thing about that story and all the others like it, is that the kids of today won’t believe it or they’ll ignore it as an anomaly. When I say kids, I’m talking about the David Hoggs up thru young adults in their mid-late 20s.

The older radical Leftists completely ignore those parts of history. They have romanticized everything about Cuba, Castro, Che, Communism and all the other ‘isms’. Those folks are the community activists, liberal politicians, city councilman/woman, college professor, school administrator, social media VIP, etc. And they have indoctrinated the younger generations that all is OK with the aforementioned isms, dictators and tyrants.

They don’t tell those kids that Mao killed millions because they didn’t want to follow him lockstep. They turn it around and make it look like they deserved it.

They’ve been told that Che was a cool guy, that smoked and wore a cool beret. They downplay and/or completely dismiss that he was nothing more than a mass murdering henchman for Castro. They won’t believe you when you tell them that Castro had people that are/were, HIV positive, rounded up and forced to live in, basically, a prison. They’ll say that didn’t happen and that the Right is making all of that up.

I can’t remember the name, but there is a company that is one of the largest publishers of textbooks in the US. And they publish so much Leftist BS, that they’re basically rewriting and changing American history and guess who lets them get away with it, the Leftist academic and administrators who firmly believe all those lies.


28 posted on 12/01/2018 12:21:58 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Kaslin
Hillary and Chelsea bringing up sniper fire at the airport again??
29 posted on 12/01/2018 5:29:27 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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30 posted on 12/01/2018 7:57:36 PM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks for posting
Think of obama groveling to this regime!


31 posted on 12/03/2018 3:04:23 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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