Statement by Ana Belen Montes -- The Miami Herald - Oct. 16, 2002Just like 90+% of the rest of the minions inside the Beltway.'An Italian proverb perhaps best describes the fundamental truth I believe in: `All the world is one country.' In such a 'world-country,' the principle of loving one's neighbor as much as oneself seems, to me, to be the essential guide to harmonious relations between all of our ''nation-neighborhoods.'' This principle urges tolerance and understanding for the different ways of others. It asks that we treat other nations the way we wish to be treated -- with respect and compassion. It is a principle that, tragically, I believe we have never applied to Cuba.
``Your honor, I engaged in the activity that brought me before you because I obeyed my conscience rather than the law."
Her loyalty is not to the democratic-republican legislative-made laws by which we abide ... process, but instead to The Party.
The noble thing for her to do would have been to admit early on, that she prefers a dictatorship and then move there.
She's done nothing noble here and instead was more interested in causing us harm.
Her purpose in the United States was to harm the people.
And she was doing it in time of war; the penalty is the most severe.
I expect that she will get off quite easily and comfortably because of her sex and her "ethnic background."
Nevermind the sacrifice of the people who are the same sex and ethnic background yet have endured what she probably never could, to be free.