Pres. Obama today continues a state of emergency declared in 1996.

[dixiegrrrrl]

I kid you not.

To the Congress of the United States:

Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date.

In accordance with this provision, I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that the national emergency declared with respect to the Government of Cuba's destruction of two unarmed U.S.-registered civilian aircraft in international airspace north of Cuba on February 24, 1996, as amended and expanded on February 26, 2004, is to continue in effect beyond March 1, 2010.

Barack Obama.

The White House, February 23, 2010.

[rabs]

1. Direct result of the "dry foot, wet foot" policy and shootdown of Miami anti-Castro group's planes

(Obama continues the farce.)

MIAMI (CBS4) ― For more than adecade the mystery surrounding the secrets behind the shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue airplanes by Cuban military jets has remained elusive. To find answers to that mystery, the CBS4 I-Team spent a year digging through once-top secret documents about the shoot down.

In those documents as well as interviews with nearly one dozen major players in the event, the I-Team discovered details that raise questions about whether the U.S. government might have prevented it had someone in Washington taken more decisive action.

The I-Team's investigation raises serious questions about the White House's role in the shootdown.
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Richard Nuccio served as the top advisor on Cuba to President Bill Clinton. Nuccio now serves as Director of the Civitas International Program at the Center for Civic Education in Calabasas, California.

Nuccio says after the "wet foot/dry foot" policy was put in place, the Brothers to the Rescue actions became more provocative and more political.

"They (Brothers to the Rescue) started to redefine their mission as one of not helping innocent people at risks for their lives but to carry out a political agenda of harassing and threatening the Cuban government by over flights, dropping leaflets (from the air into Cuba)," Richard Nuccio told the I-Team.

That created tensions which were discussed in secret talks and cables between Havana and Washington in 1994, 1995 and 1996.

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http://cbs4.com/iteam/brothers.rescue.cuba.2.1337438.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. That is one of the best replies to a post I have ever seen.

Thank you !!!
Explains a whole lot.

But...why TODAY do we need a state of emergency ???

[Judi Lynn]

3. It's been a long time since I've seen such a valuable post, rabs. This is an important one.

Will be keeping this one permanently for reference every time a lunatic tries to bring up the shootdown again.

Thank you so much, and thanks to dixiegirrrrl for the original post.

[Better Believe It]

5. And the Obama administration insists on callling Cuba a terrorist nation!

The only problem is they have been unable to describe any terrorist actions allegedly conducted by the Cuban government.

[Billy Burnett]

6. But there are anti Castro exile terrorists (CIA black operatives) walking free in Miami.

Orlando Bosch is one of the more famous of them, but there are literally hundreds who have engaged in terror ops with their various groups (such as Alpha 66, Commandos F-4, CANF, etc) roaming around unfettered in Miami.

There are coconspirators with these groups and the US goverment in Cuba (the US gov has the declared goal of the termination the system of government in sovereign Cuba) that the US and RW media refers to as "dissidents" - which are altogether different from native Cuban opposition parties.

Shameful to see so many DUers who express solidarity with said "dissidents" who have aided and abetted the terrorist organizations in Miami and have directly aided and abetted the US government's goal of overthrow of the sovereign gov of Cuba.


:hi:

[Judi Lynn]

4. Tried to rec. your thread but I got here too late! Thank you for sharing this. n/t