MESSAGE from Cuban Fiver, Rene Gonzalez

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Cuban Hero Jailed in US Sends Message to Rally in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 18 (acn)Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban
antiterrorist fighters held in US jails sent a message to a
demonstration taking place at Havana´s Jose Marti Antimperialist
Tribune, where Cuban youths, workers, members and leaders of the Young
Communist League have gathered tonight to protest the recent decision by
the US Supreme Court, under the orders of the US administration, to not
review the case of the five Cuban heroes, who were given extremely long
and unfair sentences for fighting terrorism.

ACN brings you the full text of Rene´s message:

Dear compatriots;
Friends from the world;

Once again the judicial mask of the most hypocritical society that has
ever existed falls down exposing the true face of US imperialism and
insulting the world conscience with a cynical message: Their own laws
will not prevent them from securing the impunity of their own terrorists.

It has not been difficult to understand the meaning of the term change
in the jargon of the US establishment --at least when it refers to Cuba.
The web of crimes, genocide, arrogance and meanness that has shaped the
psyche of this empire will not be disentangled by the election of a new
charismatic president timely drawn out of a still oppressed segment of
the American people. To us, the Five, who for over a decade have been
treated with despicable viciousness and cowardice, it is but the
reiteration of an already familiar moral: It does not matter how low our
captors have fallen, they can always prove their infinite capacity to
fall even lower.

For our families and for us any time is already too late to do us
justice; and the same is true of the decimated native peoples; of the
countries whose territories have been usurped; of the millions of human
beings burned to death by incendiary bombs, vanished by accomplices to
dictatorships, tortured under the advise of Yankee officers or massacred
around the world by corporate appetite. It is much too late to do
justice to the thousands of victims of terrorism against Cuba, the same
terrorism whose prevention is our unforgivable crime.

We, the Five, can be considered fortunate in comparison with those
millions of victims; innocent children of all ages; people of every race
and creed who under all kinds of ordinary circumstances have become
collateral damage; human beings deprived of the basic right to life in
the safety of their homes, with their families, who have been suddenly
and unexpectedly removed from their daily lives. We are five soldiers
proudly and consciously occupying our trench, who have decided to rise
for something rather than to fall for nothing. We are the living mirror
of the moral values of a people where the enemy –helpless and full of
rage-- can see its own lack of values, its spiritual poverty, its frail
image and all its evils. We are five Cuban revolutionaries the enemy
will never subdue, an enemy that will live every day of its life with
the humiliation of not understanding why.

To the peoples of the world, the shamelessness of this process is but
the repetition of an old lesson: We are facing an empire that will not
stop before any crime if it believes it can get away with it. No ethical
consideration or universal outcry will make it stop but the price
imposed by resistance.

To the Cuban people, the real target of this act of vengeance, it
becomes another reason to be united, to not believe in appearances, to
always expect the worst from the aggressor, and to never cease in the
construction of a society where the hypocrisy, revanchism, indignity,
deceit and cowardice that fostered a process like ours are never taken
for human virtues, as it is the case in the neighboring empire.

That will be the only measure of justice worthy of all its victims.

Ever Onward to Victory!


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[Judi Lynn]

1. If someday they can go home, they will be greeted as heroes, even if it's many years away.

The people of Cuba will NEVER forget them.

Hope they will be able to keep hope alive.

[Zorro]

2. What's ironic

is that he's probably better fed and making more money in a US prison than he would if he were an ordinary citizen back in Cuba.