The damn article doesn't even mention that three days after this sentencing, three of these guys were actually executed! Nowhere in the article does it even suggest this fact.
Can you imagine what would happen if Oklahoma executed one guy a week after he was sentenced? The entire world would outraged. Let a favored leftist dictator murder some folks and he gets a wave of a finger.
I've asked the governor of Texas to send a study group (the Dallas Morning News has many friends and business interests in Cuba and can handle the details) to see if we can learn anything about making our criminal justice system as efficient as that of the noble Cubans. We got guys on death row for 18 years who are given another trial because their lawyer at the original trail wore a bow tie. Three days for dispatch would solve all these problems,, just like Fidelito, a blessed man of the people, does.
"The pope expressed 'profound pain' over the recent firing-squad executions"
Memo to the Pope:
Words don't mean sh!t to the Anus of Evil.
Your Holiness, you need to exorcize Satan from Fidel.
You have your traditional methods or, if you wish to live to see a successful outcome, send the U.S. Special Forces.
Our Special Forces have been sending the evil of this world to Satan's Waiting Room for years now.
Another suggestion, switch from CNN to Fox News. In future you can save your breath regarding Fidel's fusilamientos.
Memo to President Bush:
Ronald Reagan's Executive Order 12333 renewed Gerald Ford's prohibition of assassination of foreign leaders.
You ought to secretly rescind this EO and charge Tommy Franks with the expedited termination of Castro with extreme prejudice.
Memo to the Leftist Urinalists e.g. ABC, CNN, CBS, NYT et al:
Castro is not "president"--a president is elected.
Castro is a dictator [butcher, tyrant, putzhead for life, et cetera].
Castro is developing biochemical weapons while permitting China to operate two signals intelligence bases 90 miles away.
Castro should die this year; 2003 should be Castro-free.