Ros-Lehtinen Warns: 'Do Not Be Fooled by Cuban Regime's Ploys'

[Mika]

Ros-Lehtinen Warns: 'Do Not Be Fooled by Cuban Regime's Ploys'
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ros-lehtinen-warns-do-not-be-fooled-by-cuban-regimes-ploys-97982894.html

Demands Freedom for All Political Prisoners, Entire Cuban Nation

WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, commented today on reports that approximately 50 Cuban political prisoners may soon released. Statement by Ros-Lehtinen:

"Today, countless Cuban political prisoners remain languishing in the dungeons of the Castro regime. Their only crime? Standing up for the basic rights and human dignities of the Cuban people. Their only aspiration? To see the Cuban people live in freedom.

"Castro's thugs round up innocent Cubans merely for wanting freedom and democracy. They throw them in dark, squalid cells and cynically label these political prisoners as common criminals. Some die as a result of the torture they endure at the hands of their jailers. Others disappear into the abyss of repression, hidden from the outside world until they are callously used as tokens for the regime to barter with.

"For decades, the Cuban tyranny has used the long suffering prisoners of conscience as pawns to manipulate the international community into believing the charade that the Cuban dictatorship is anything but brutal and oppressive.

"Those who perish in Castro's dungeons deserve better than to be used as ploys by the Castro apparatus to extract concessions and financial rewards that will enable the regime to extend its stranglehold on the Cuban people.

"And the nightmare rages on. All those men and women being repressed in Cuba are imprisoned, whether or not they find themselves in an actual jail cell.
"We must not be fooled. Until all political prisoners are liberated; all political parties, labor unions, independent media are legalized and allowed to operate freely; until the Cuban people are able to exercise their universal rights free of coercion and intimidation, maximum pressure must be exerted on the Cuban tyranny."

SOURCE House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Republican Office)

Reads just like the posts of some the wingers here.

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[bemildred]

1. She is desperately afraid that Amurkins will be allowed to visit Cuba. nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. People like Ileana are going to be so screwned when they realize the word is out

she and the others have been dealing in lie constantly all these many years.

It's just a matter of time before her name becomes a joke for all the dirty lies she and others have told since the 1060's.

[flamingdem]

5. I am so looking forward to seeing her expression when travel to Cuba opens up (soon I think) nt

[Peace Patriot]

2. Gee, does that include the people in the torture dungeon on the other end of the island?

Oh, I get it. WE get to torture "terrorists," spies, plotters and whoever the war lords in Afghanistan sell to the U.S. military, but Cuba can't even arrest people who collude with the CIA on sabotage, psyops, destabilization, riots, airline bombings, hotel bombings, assassination and overthrow of the government?

As for labor unions, COLOMBIA is the country where THOUSANDS of union leaders have been KILLED--half of them by the Colombian military (according to AI) and the other half by their closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads. Where is this asshole's condemnation of Colombia? Cuba may outlaw unions (I don't know) but Cuba is a country where everybody has free medical care, everybody has access to a free college education, everybody eats, everybody has shelter and every able-bodied person has useful employment--and union leaders are not shot, and are not hacked to death and their body parts thrown into mass graves, and aren't made to watch while their pregnant wife is cut open. These are the things happening IN COLOMBIA, right now, today, not Cuba. Cuba is a CIVILIZED country. You can't say that for Colombia. In fact, you can't say that about the United States any more, given the horrors the U.S. government has inflicted on helpless prisoners in torture dungeons around the world, and given the slaughter of one hundred thousand innocent people in the first weeks of bombing alone, in Iraq, and given the on-going slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan.

Jeez. I can't stand this kind of lying. It is torture to me to even read it. It is so-o-o-o sick. And it is such an insult that Diebold/ES&S has put major sickos like this into positions of power. I don't for a minute believe that this psycho was elected by anybody.

[Mika]

4. The gov of Cuba does not outlaw unions.

Every vocation and every profession is represented by a democratically formed union.

To get a clearer picture of how Cuba developed its democratic systems I strongly urge all to read this book....

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0968508405/qid=1053879619/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-8821757-1670550?v=glance&s=books



Post 1959, it all started with organizing labor by elected union representation, and then expanded outward.

That is exactly the topic of the national tour the revolution's leaders undertook right after Batista's ousting.

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[Peace Patriot]

6. Thanks! I wasn't sure.

Obviously, the fascista want only USAID-funded unions. They're killing the leaders and members of unions that are truly representative, by the thousands in Colombia and have begun the slaughter in Honduras. This sick jerk loves unions, I'm sure, and just wants to do everything she can for workers and the poor.

:sarcasm: