Congresswoman: ‘I Welcome The Opportunity Of Having Anyone Assassinate Fidel Castro’
Congresswoman: ‘I Welcome The Opportunity Of Having Anyone Assassinate Fidel Castro’
In a new documentary, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) — who was “recently tapped to become the top Republican on the House International Relations Committee” — talks casually on video “about how proud she is to represent Cuban ‘freedom fighters’ living in exile in Miami and on the island.” She then says, “I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people.” Watch it:
Last year, right-wing evangelist Pat Robertson was widely criticized for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The White House called Robertson’s remarks “inappropriate,” and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) labeled them “stupid” and “ludicrous.” Robertson later apologized. “Is it right to call for assassination? No,” he said.
Ros-Lehtinen, “who has never hid her loathing for Castro, says the clip was spliced together,” the Miami Herald reports. “A spokesman for Ros-Lehtinen said she’s never called for anyone’s assassination, but Ros-Lehtinen said she can’t rule out that she ever mentioned Castro and a potential assassination. ‘If someone were to do it, I wouldn’t be crying,’ she said.”
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“I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people.â€
Did she just say she supports the killing of a 30% supported president?
December 11th, 2006 at 11:14 amIs it far right for her to play her base like her bass?
December 11th, 2006 at 11:14 amYou bet. They elected her, she’s singing their tune.
Unless of course there’s a law somewhere that makes it a crime to advocate assasination of someone.
She is a genuine first grade NeoCon supporter.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:15 ami just find it amazing how members of congress and the leading teevee chattermonkeys have absolutely no hesitation advocating the assassination of troublesome leaders; or the use of nuclear weapons to pre-empt iran’s development of nukes (that would include russert, tweety, blitzer, dobbs).
December 11th, 2006 at 11:18 amIt seems Castro is on his way out due to old age which was caused by all the failed attempts of the US to assassinate him in the first place. I don’t know why all these people are obsessed with Castro. Even the media has an orgy whenever there is news that his health is decreasing. I’d like to see him come back just to piss off people like this.
Btw… where are all the illegal immigration opponents to Cubans just coming over to our shores? Isn’t that dangerous? There could be a terrorist coming over with them. Way I see it, every illegal alien should be treated equally, no matter which country they are from, whether in the end we decide to send them all back, or grant amnesty.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:18 amI bet she is a Christian.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:20 amOoops, my bad there are two asses in assassination!
December 11th, 2006 at 11:22 amtapped to … House International Relations Committee
can that tap be TURNED OFF ?!?!?!?
December 11th, 2006 at 11:23 amDid she just say she supports the killing of a 30% supported president?
—- Juan C
Gee, I believe she might have.
Has this woman been taking late night brainwashing sessions with Pat Robertson?
Why haven’t these people advocating assasination been arrested yet? It is against the law, ya know.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:26 am….the only thing ole’ Ileana is “tapped” to become is “tapped out” by the voters next time ’round.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:27 amWashington, DC Office
2160 Rayburn H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515-0918
Telephone: 202-225-3931
Fax: 202-225-5620
well, i just called her office and the guy that answers the phone says that what we are seeing and hearing on the tape is not what we are seeing and hearing on the tape…
it is all an illusion….
December 11th, 2006 at 11:32 amthe guy at her office said that if you look at the tape closely, her lips do not match the words and that they cleverly took words she spoke and spliced them together to make it sound as if she said what she said.
i am warning you all that these republicans live in a world of their own creation and that reality does indeed have a liberal bias, as mr colbert suggested…
December 11th, 2006 at 11:41 amwell, i just called her office and the guy that answers the phone says that what we are seeing and hearing on the tape is not what we are seeing and hearing on the tape…
it is all an illusion….
—- interleukin-10
Ahhhh, another Republican that doesn’t believe in those science fiction gadgets called video cameras, I see….
December 11th, 2006 at 11:42 amI have no problem with what she said about Castro. He must die and I don’t really care how. Luckily, he seems to be on his death bed, so she won’t have to bother assassinating him.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:44 amOk. So let’s say that the video was doctored by the ‘liberals’ as her spokesman claims. Tell us dear Spokesperson, if she didn’t say what the video says she said, then what exactly did she say?
December 11th, 2006 at 11:45 amDo you still think the Comedy Central is showing news? John Stewart himself said it one time. “This is a comedy, not a news show”. But then get full of himself.
The news is not news anymore unless you watch FOX
ROTFL, ROTFL, ROTFL, ROTFL
December 11th, 2006 at 11:45 amLets make up a story and invade Iraq and Afghanistan … lets torture people including kids in front of their parents, lets attack Iran, lets assassinate Castro…..etc.
These people are insane … and should for that reason alone be removed from their duty’s and positions in the government.
The USA breaks international laws everyday …
we are in violation of the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty by not destroying nukes in our arsenal that was agreed upon years ago in the U.N.
We are in violation of laws against manufacturing germs for germ-warfare … the U.S. has over 124 germ-warfare labs across the United States - in populated city’s and in neighborhoods.
All good reasons for the U.S. to attack you - if it was a country they didn’t like doing these things.
They are a stomach turning embarassment to all good Americans.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:47 amBut I don’t appreciate other countries calling him the Devil in front of the UN.
Comment by Jeff
Chavez is a clown, no doubt about it. But he hasnt invaded any country. Bush deserves to be called not just that, but far worse.
BTW, the worst thing you can do in front of the UN is to say this:
‘They can produce enough dry biological agent in a single month to kill thousands upon thousands of people. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for vast amounts of chemical weaponry: 550 artillery shells with mustard gas, 30,000 empty munitions, and enough precursors to increase his stockpile to as much as 500 tons of chemical agents. Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical-weapons agent. Even the low end of 100 tons of agent would enable Saddam Hussein to cause mass casualties across more than 100 square miles of territory, an area nearly five times the size of Manhattan.’
Colin Powell
December 11th, 2006 at 11:55 amSadly, Fidel will probably not live to see all of South, Central, and the southern half of North America stand up to and refuse to embrace the wanton destructive and exploitative materialism that (again, sadly,) the United States has come to represent in the world.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:57 amBut I think he can see the emerging writing on the wall…… (or should I say fence…….)
Anyone know how to read lips? That would resolve this issue of whether or not she actually said those words in a syncronized manner, or if the video was doctored.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:57 amShe should resign from the Congress immediately and be prosecuted too!
December 11th, 2006 at 11:57 amI know off topic:
The most embarrasing moment that someone can have in the UN:
Before he resigned, Secretary of State Colin Powell even appeared before the UN, held up a vial of anthrax, and showed some fuzzy photographs of the areas where he claimed Social Security was hiding its weapons systems. “How do I know that? How can I say that? Let me give you a closer look. Look at the image on the left. On the left is a close-up of one of the four chemical bunkers. The two arrows indicate the presence of sure signs that the bunkers are storing chemical munitions.”
December 11th, 2006 at 11:59 amIs it just possible that Republicans can keep getting stupider? Where is bottom? How long will it take for them to find it?
December 11th, 2006 at 12:01 pmI don’t know why people hate Castro so much … we supported corporate interests over the interests of his country, so he turned to the Russians. His crimes, if you weigh them against the crimes of US appointed and supported dicatators, aren’t that severe. In fact, Bush has commited more crimes than Castro in his short tenure than Castro has committed over his entire reign.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:02 pmAnd if you look at the condition of the people, our politicians keep pointing out how poor they are, but they are better off economically than they were under Batista. Our politicians point to how corrupt his government is, and whine about it, but that is because it is a socialist form of corruption rather than capitalistic. I’m sure if Castro were giving huge payouts to corporations and allowing said corporations to suck dry the souls of the Cuban people, we would have no problem with him.
Another thing: Her statement regarding how proud she is to represent Cuban ‘freedom fighters’ living in exile in Miami and on the island. Unless those folks are American citizens, she wasn’t elected to represent THEM.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:04 pmSome more interesting information about her:
Ros-Lehtinen has supported and sponsored legislation for the Church of Scientology [1], attended Scientology events [2], received recognition from Scientology publications [3], and collected numerous sizable campaign donations from prominent Scientologists [4]. Although earlier biographies listed her religious affiliation as Roman Catholic, she no longer makes reference to her religion in her official biography.[5] Her mother was Jewish but converted to Catholicism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen
December 11th, 2006 at 12:07 pmwhy aren’t the so called ‘cuban freedom fighters’ in cuba, fighting for their freedom rather than lobbying our government to do it for them? Castro fought to free them from Batista. If Castro is unpopular, and the Cuban people want freedom, they can do it themselves, it is not the job of our government to do it for them.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:10 pmHer statement regarding how proud she is to represent Cuban ‘freedom fighters’ living in exile in Miami and on the island.
Comment by impeachcheneythenbush
Freedom fighters??? Like Posada Carriles who blew up a plane full of cubans and US decided to protect him in US soil? mmm…but Fidel is the terrorist, I guess.
Freedom fighters, like Reagan used to call those nice nun-killer, peasant torturer, Columbia-CIA drug supported Contras…but the Sandinistas were the terrorists…oh, ok.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:13 pmRos-Lehtinen has supported and sponsored legislation for the Church of Scientology [1], attended Scientology events [2], received recognition from Scientology publications [3], and collected numerous sizable campaign donations from prominent Scientologists
—- impeachcheneythenbush
I see now, the Thetans from Xenu made her do it, instead of it being a plot by those science fictionite video cameras that are out to get her.
LOL
December 11th, 2006 at 12:20 pmyes, juan, carriles will probably get a medal and some sort of pardon from bush for his fine work…
have i mentioned lately how much I HATE BUSH…
December 11th, 2006 at 12:21 pm[…] place after the sentence “All human life is sacred” keeps getting bigger. Permalink| […]
December 11th, 2006 at 12:22 pm#34…Juan, you accidentally transposed your words in your posting. It was the Sandinistas who killed nuns, imprisoned priestes, tortured peasants, and commited genocide against the Miskitos…It was the Contras who liberated Nicaragua from the Sandinista’s totalitarian rule….Just wanted to correct you there, buddy. I am sure you mistake was inadvertent.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:25 pmthe Thetans from Xenu made her do it
Werent those the ones that sent the Marshallow man in Ghostbuster? :)
December 11th, 2006 at 12:27 pmwayne,
ahhh, it is much clearer once you understand her reality… is there anything worse than a republican-scientologist-neoconserative?
December 11th, 2006 at 12:28 pmI am going to stop referring to past posting numbers in my messages. So many messages get deleted that things get confusing.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:31 pmI am going to stop referring to past posting numbers in my messages. So many messages get deleted that things get confusing.
Comment by Exley — December 11, 2006 @ 12:31 pm
it’s about time you caught on, o wise one…
December 11th, 2006 at 12:34 pm:)
Just another ridiculous rewriting of history by Exley.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:36 pm“…and that they cleverly took words she spoke and spliced them together to make it sound as if she said what she said.” Comment by interleukin-10 — December 11, 2006 @ 11:41 am
The fact that she spoke these words, whether on the video, or at any other time remains the same. SHE SAID IT and that is all that counts; when she said it is not important.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:42 pmJust wanted to correct you there, buddy. I am sure you mistake was inadvertent.
—- Exley
It was your hero Raygun, with Negroponte that supported the right wing death squads that murdered the nuns Exley. Once again your knowledge of history seems to be faulty.
As ambassador to Honduras, Negroponte played a key role in coordinating US covert aid to the Contra death squads in Nicaragua and shoring up a CIA-backed death squad in Honduras. During his term as ambassador there, diplomats alleged that the embassy’s annual human rights reports made Honduras sound more like Norway than Argentina. In a 1995 series, the Baltimore Sun detailed the activities of a secret CIA-trained Honduran army unit, Battalion 3-16, that used “shock and suffocation devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves.” In 1994, Honduras’s National Commission for the Protection of Human Rights reported that it was officially admitted that 179 civilians were still missing.
A former official who served under Negroponte says he was ordered to remove all mention of torture and executions from the draft of his 1982 report on the human rights situation in Honduras. During Negroponte’s tenure, US military aid to Honduras skyrocketed from $3.9 million to over $77 million. Much of this went to ensure the Honduran army’s loyalty in the battle against popular movements throughout Central America.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:42 pmWell at least Dummy Guy laughed at his own joke this time.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:43 pmwell, i just called her office and the guy that answers the phone says that what we are seeing and hearing on the tape is not what we are seeing and hearing on the tape…
it is all an illusion….
—- interleukin-10
Damn, I am a magician and I would love to learn that trick.
Juan, you can’t call Bush the Devil, because by your own admission, there is no Devil.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:44 pmWho cares what you like. People that live in reality calls ‘em likes we sees ‘em and George W Bush is the fu*king devil.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:45 pmJust another ridiculous rewriting of history by Exley.
Comment by VerbalKint
Juan is infinitely more patient than I am with that bozo.
(Exley, when I say “bozo,” I am referring to you, only you, and no one else but you. You can thank me later.)
December 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pmI guess my post didnt make it.
Here it goes again:
Six of the most distinguished Jesuits in the world were viciously murdered at the Central American University in San Salvador in 1989 by a battalion of the Alcatl regiment trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA. That extremely brave man
Archbishop Romero was assassinated while saying mass. It is estimated that 75,000 people died.
They were killed because they believed a better life was possible and should be achieved. That belief immediately qualified them as communists.
The United States finally brought down the Sandinista government. It took some years and considerable resistance but relentless economic persecution and 30,000 dead finally undermined the spirit of the Nicaraguan people. They were
December 11th, 2006 at 12:47 pmexhausted and poverty stricken once again. The casinos moved back into the country. Free health and free education were over. Big business returned with a vengeance. ‘Democracy’ had prevailed.
Actually, VerbalKint, I am quite accurate (as always):
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Miskito Indian leaders on Thursday asked the independent Permanent Human Rights Commission to probe crimes against humanity they allege were committed against their people under Nicaragua’s Sandinista government of the 1980s.
The leaders said at a news conference that they also would demand that government prosecutors take legal action against those who allegedly killed at least 150 of their people, burned houses, destroyed crops and slaughtered livestock.
The complaints stem from clashes between the Sandinistas - who were trying to create a new, leftist society throughout Nicaragua after overthrowing dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979 - and the English-speaking Indian peoples of the Caribbean coast who were trying to establish greater autonomy from central control at the same time….
“Our demand is against the Nicaraguan army for the crime of genocide, so that justice is done and so that the relatives of the victims are compensated,” the Miskito statement said.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:48 pmJuan, you can’t call Bush the Devil, because by your own admission, there is no Devil.
Comment by robert
Ha! Clever guy. :)
December 11th, 2006 at 12:50 pmI didnt call him the Devil. He is a lesser evil minion.
wayne,
the person to whom you are speaking is somewhat delusional in all matters. in other words, if he can get something wrong, he will.
people like that wouldn’t know a negroponte death squad if it was caught dragging his family members out their house, cuffing them with rope, slicing their throats, and then setting the empty house ablaze…
hey, isn’t that happening in iraq now too? hmmm…hey, isn’t negorponte the head of american intelligence—again…
ah, probably just a coincidence.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:52 pmWhat I posted regarding Nicaragua its not mine. Here it is.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:53 pmHey Juan….My article is from AP. From where is your article?
December 11th, 2006 at 12:53 pmmmm…Im getting deleted.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:55 pmOk, Im convinced, you were right. It was ok to kill 75,000 in order to avenge 150 (if true).
December 11th, 2006 at 12:57 pmSorry for the long post.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:00 pmHi, Zoo. :)
Is it just possible that Republicans can keep getting stupider? Where is bottom? How long will it take for them to find it?
Ever hear of a bottomless pit? … Diver down.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:07 pmExley: “It was the Sandinistas who killed nuns, imprisoned priestes, tortured peasants”
Exley, it was just a couple of years ago that the government of Honduras admitted that members of its military killed and raped four American nuns. And, it was part of the Contra and other right-wing paramilitary stategy to terrorize peasant villages which tried to start agricultural coops. And, we now know that the planes that brought the Contra terrorists illegal weapons, carried cocaine back to the U.S. I hate to break it to you, but in the 80’s, the people of Nicaraqua chose the Sandinista Party and the Contras were the terrorist group trying to overturn the Sandinista electoral victory. Exley, revisionism doesn’t work with history anymore. There’s too much flow of information for lies like yours to gain much traction.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:07 pmCan Paul Simon sue her for that website “638 ways to kill Castro?”
December 11th, 2006 at 1:08 pmSome Americans don’t appreciate Chavez referring to Bush as the “devil.” Fine, but most Americans don’t know that one of the first things the Bush administration did when they took office is try to stage a coup in Venezuela to remove Chavez from office.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:10 pmThis is exactly why the Cuban Five came to the U.S. to fight terrorism against their homeland, and THEY are the ones in prison. Give me a break.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:14 pmhey, isn’t negorponte the head of american intelligence—again…
ah, probably just a coincidence.
Comment by interleukin-10
Yeah, it’s just coincidence that once Negroponte got involved in Iraq, the Iraq government started using death squads.
Just an illusion, ignore the man behind the curtain pulling levers. =P
December 11th, 2006 at 1:17 pmHi, Zoo. :)
Comment by Juan C
Hi Juan,
I hope you are doing well.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:20 pmhi, z! the tom delay site has found about thirty people to say nice things about tom and so it is back in operation! the site i made has had over 15,000 hits of people who wanted to see the REAL blog… :) /// liars and crooks and raw story linked to it, but, the boys at tp didn’t…
wayne, that is a remarkable coincidence about the deathsquads in iraq…isn’t life just filled with wonder and irony!
//i posted this on the kofi thread by accident//
December 11th, 2006 at 1:29 pmthe site i made has had over 15,000 hits of people who wanted to see the REAL blog… :) — interleukin-10
Saw your recreation of the blog hit Rawstory, congratz =)
http://www.rawstory.com/ news/ 2006/ Former_Rep._DeLay_indicted_on_state_1210.html
December 11th, 2006 at 1:37 pmOMG! Raw Story, j. There will be no living with you now. Heh. :)
December 11th, 2006 at 1:51 pmoh, yeah, z… the phone has been ringing off the hook…i am having lunch with keith olbermann, lewis black, jon stewart, and hugo chavez…
they called me ’somebody’ that is something i can put on the reusme…sure…. :)
December 11th, 2006 at 1:57 pmGood idea, Castro is not a communist………………The have a good health care system because the people do it themselves.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:01 pmLOL, your also linked in the POAC ( project for old american centurty) email newsletter, j.
Cool
December 11th, 2006 at 2:01 pmwayne, i have yet to have a good espresso today so i am perhaps slow, but, i don’t know what you mean about a newsletter… unless j is juan…
December 11th, 2006 at 2:12 pmthey called me ’somebody’ that is something i can put on the reusme…sure…. :)
Comment by interleukin-10
There are worse things, right!?
We’ll have to make sure to catch Keith’s show today, maybe he’ll have something — about your new blog — or your lunch. But KO is a gentleman, so he wouldn’t brag about having lunch with you…
December 11th, 2006 at 2:13 pmi don’t know what you mean about a newsletter… unless j is juan…
— interleukin-10
it was you, you also hit their front page as well as their email newsletter
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/
Tom DeLay “discovered the impact” of the blogosphere yesterday, and had to take down the site after 75 minutes because of the comments. The screenshot has been preserved for your enjoyment 12-11
December 11th, 2006 at 2:35 pmJack: “This is exactly why the Cuban Five came to the U.S. to fight terrorism against their homeland, and THEY are the ones in prison. Give me a break.”
Jack, it is a crime in the U.S. to plot and attempt to carry out an assassination. Do you believe in the rule of law or not?
December 11th, 2006 at 2:37 pmThe screenshot has been preserved for your enjoyment 12-11
Comment by Wayne
That is priceless, Wayne. :)
December 11th, 2006 at 2:39 pmCastro has sucessfully laughed in every Presidents face since Kennedy! My question to the Rep. is, “what’s been holding you and your countrymen from taking back Cuba? I know what it is, Talk’s cheap,action cost more! They’ve been more than happy to sit on their asses,ie;sidewalk commandos, for over 40 years and talk about how bad they are! Then they get their puppets on a string, congressmen/women to pass one bill after another that doesn’t accomplish anything but wasting time and money in Congress.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:41 pmShould we except a mass exodus out of South Fla when Castro dies,I doubt it! But one thing for sure is, there’ll be no one holding them back to go home!The gig will be up, no more bogeymen holding the f
Fighting Cubans in Miami anymore!
BlueDog, I don’t know about Honduras, but there were four nuns killed in El Salvador in the 1980s by an extremist death squad, which was allegedly under the control of Roberto D’Aubuisson. The United States did not support D’Aubuisson. In fact, during the 1984 campaign for the presidency of El Salvador, the Reagan Administration openly threw its support to D’Aubuisson’s opponent, Jose Napoleon Duarte, who eventually won and was instrumental in bringing peace to El Salvador, which eventually defeated the communist insurgency (armed and supplied, in part, by the communist Sandinista government in Nicaragua). In Nicaragua, the contra freedom fighters were primarily peasants and Miskito Indians who had suffered under the totalitarian, brutal Sandinista regime. Eventually, with the help of the United States, the contras were able to force the Sandinista dictatorship to held free and open election under international supervision. Having at last the opportunity for a fair election, the Nicaraguan people rejected the communist Sandinistas and elected Violetta Chamorro (the wife of an anti-Somoza newspaper publisher) as president of the newly-democratic Nicaragua.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:59 pmAmerica loves murderers. She fits the bill of terrorist leadership that feeds our reputation as a terrorist state that endagers the entire globe. In a sane country she would be arrested for such statements.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:01 pmwayne,
thanks! i had no idea… cool…
December 11th, 2006 at 3:14 pmCastro outlived all his foes and the 2nd generation of cuban americans don’t really want to go back to Cuba, not even if the island is invaded by the US, ask them, they love Florida an the US, they don’t want to go back to a 3rd world country for anything !! So at the end, Fidel Castro won.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:18 pmExley, you are delusional…………..Yes, freedom fighters who attacked women and children. Thank you for talking about the great president Ronald Reagan. Did he not sell weapons to some evil nation or something. Leave troll.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:43 pm[…] Liberal think-blog Think Progress has its panties in a tizzy because Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida wouldn’t care if someone took out Fidel Castro. And the problem with that is…? It’s not like the dude doesn’t know we’ve wanted him dead for decades. I think the exploding cigar tipped him off. Or maybe it was the poisoned cold cream… […]
December 11th, 2006 at 4:09 pmNot a fan of Castro but this woman is nuts.
December 11th, 2006 at 4:18 pmShe and Pat Robertson should be jailed for this kind of incitement to murder. It doesn’t matter who you want to kill, if you go around saying “Please, someone just kill that man.” you are a criminal.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:01 pmFreedom Fighters! Is that like French Fighters?
December 11th, 2006 at 6:02 pmOr maybe it’s just closest to terrorists.
That woman is a terrorist sympathizer.
There’s a war on against such things.
If the name of George W. is substituted for Fidel, that is a position I could support.
December 11th, 2006 at 6:37 pmRep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) — who was “recently tapped to become the top Republican on the House International Relations Committee†—
You’re doing a heckuvajob, Elly!
Typical Bush apointee. The antithesis of everything the Committee stands for…
Oh, the Diplomacy!
December 11th, 2006 at 6:45 pmNow if the head of a foreign government called for the assassination of Chimpy, we would have bombed them back to the Stone Age. Shameless.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:01 pmafter we get castro can we start on all the commies who glowingly refer to themselves as (puke) “progressives�
Comment by braindead
Try it, and see what happens, chickenhawk.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:42 pmIf not by assassination how else is a dictator removed? Military coup? Give me a break. The people in Cuba are not free Fidel is responsible for unforgivable atrocities. If someone would have assassinated him 40 years ago it would have been great.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:26 pmThe people in Cuba are not free Fidel is responsible for unforgivable atrocities.
Comment by Joeslogic
Could you please name one?
December 11th, 2006 at 11:50 pmHere are few for you, Juan:
Cuba routinely denies human rights abuses, fails to investigate or punish those who commit them, and retaliates against those who denounce them, particularly prisoners.116 The persistence of human rights violations in Cuba is undoubtedly due, in part, to the fact that Cuban officials have faced virtually no consequences for the thousands of human rights violations committed in the past forty years. Yet, Cuba has clear obligations under international law to offer effective remedies to victims of human rights abuses, arising from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Cuba’s ratification of the Convention Against Torture.117
The Cuban government has committed egregious, systematic human rights violations since the 1959 revolution. But the exact numbers of victims wrongfully killed, imprisoned, tortured, exiled, arrested, or suffering other human rights abuses by the Cuban government is impossible to know, in part due to the government’s secrecy about its human rights practices. Human Rights Watch has monitored human rights practices in Cuba for over ten years. During that time, we have documented scores of cases of wrongful arrests, detentions, prosecutions, exile, and other abuses. Moreover, the human rights violations committed in the early years of the Castro government stand out as particularly severe. Historian Hugh Thomas, who acknowledged the impossibility of knowing precisely how many executions and other human rights violations had occurred, estimated that by early 1961, the Cuban government had “probably” executed some 2,000 Cubans, while by 1970, the government had, “perhaps,” executed 5,000. Thomas does not specify whether these executions occurred following trials, but notes that “in the case of political crimes, there [was] no rule of law.”118 Thomas cites a Castro speech in in 1965 in which the Cuban leader admitted that Cuba had 20,000 “political prisoners”—an unclear number of whom had participated in armed actions against thegovernment.119 Human Rights Watch is not aware of the Cuban government providing restitution to any victim or family member for any of these human rights violations.120
Human Rights Watch
December 12th, 2006 at 12:44 amHere’s another incident for you, Juan (By the way, Juan, I think it is very humorous the way you feign ignorance of Castro’s crimes):
Without other avenues for redress, several Cuban exiles brought a historic human rights case before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (hereinafter the commission), the human rights body of the Organization of American States (OAS), in 1994. Although Cuba is not a member of the OAS, the commission considers the Cuban government responsible for protecting the rights enshrined in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. On October 16, 1996, the commission approved a public report concluding that on July 13, 1994, Cuba violated the right to life of forty-one people who died when Cuban government boats rammed, flooded, and sank the 13 de Marzo, a hijacked tugboat loaded with civilians fleeing Cuba.129 The report also found that Cuba violated the right of personal integrity of the thirty-one survivors of the sinking, and violated the rights to transit and justice of all of the seventy-two persons who attempted to leave Cuba.130 The report provides shocking survivors’ testimony of the Cuban government’s deliberate attempts to sink the boat. Statements by President Castro and the Interior Ministry regarding responsibility for the incident provide a disturbing counterpoint to the victims’ experiences. Clearly, the government’s effort was to exculpate itself from responsibility, rather than conduct a serious investigation and punish those responsible for this incident.
Human Rights Watch
December 12th, 2006 at 12:47 amWhat a little nut, she is part of the republican problem in Miami and the 30% who still support the big nut in office.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:50 ammmm, my post didnt make it.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:40 amAnd, Ex, I meant atrocities…you know, like 600,000 dead civilians…just sayin´.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:41 amThe country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has made speeches claiming that the Holocaust is a myth and that the murder of European Jews has been exaggerated.
Speaking of asassination.Are we actively trying to take this man out?
December 12th, 2006 at 4:09 amWashington Post makes a very good point today:
“Fidel Castro — Mr. Pinochet’s nemesis and a hero to many in Latin America and beyond — will leave behind an economically ruined and freedomless country with his approaching death. Mr. Castro also killed and exiled thousands. But even when it became obvious that his communist economic system had impoverished his country, he refused to abandon that system: He spent the last years of his rule reversing a partial liberalization. To the end he also imprisoned or persecuted anyone who suggested Cubans could benefit from freedom of speech or the right to vote.
The contrast between Cuba and Chile more than 30 years after Mr. Pinochet’s coup is a reminder of a famous essay written by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the provocative and energetic scholar and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who died Thursday. In “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” a work that caught the eye of President Ronald Reagan, Ms. Kirkpatrick argued that right-wing dictators such as Mr. Pinochet were ultimately less malign than communist rulers, in part because their regimes were more likely to pave the way for liberal democracies. She, too, was vilified by the left. Yet by now it should be obvious: She was right.”
December 12th, 2006 at 10:29 amDear Juan - You are to be commended for your steady and unwavering support of Marxists “Presidents” and other Leftist leaders. I certainly thought you’d have taken a break from the keyboard action when the Leftists were clogging Mexico City and throwing their temper tantrums and fists in Parliament…..
But I suppose you have been to Cuba many times and examined that “worker’s paradise”. According to my neighbour, who was fortunate enough to leave Cuba as a kid, Cuba was a great place - for standing in lines…..the cooking oil line…..the 2 egg a week line…..the flour line….the bar of soap line…….The saddest thing about about Cuba? They have the MOST educated prostitutes in the world. This is due to the fact hookers can make more money than doctors……Pitiful……
Juan, with your fine suggestions, maybe you could help clean up the mess in Mexico. After you help clean up that Third World Narco State, which is loaded with resources and hard-working people - but RIFE with corruption and violence - maybe you would be so kind as to turn your “constructive” criticism to your neighbours.
December 12th, 2006 at 11:10 am[…] This is what my Congressional representative is like: In a new documentary, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) — who was “recently tapped to become the top Republican on the House International Relations Committee” — talks casually on video “about how proud she is to represent Cuban ‘freedom fighters’ living in exile in Miami and on the island.” She then says, “I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people.” […]
December 15th, 2006 at 11:06 am[…] Clips from a new documentary recently appeared on YouTube in which Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) was caught saying, “I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people.” […]
December 20th, 2006 at 4:29 pmAs noted above, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen had claimed that the filmmakers created the impression that she called for Castro’s assassination, when she in fact did not.
Now, she’s had to admit that she lied, and indeed she did say what the film shows her saying.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:23 pmExecutive Order 12333
United States Intelligence Activities
December 4, 1981
Nuff said. This woman is very dangerous, as is President Bush and his right wing morons. She obviously doen’t believe in the Constitution, nor the Holy Bible; I believe there are words to the effect of: “Thou shalt not kill.”
December 24th, 2006 at 10:29 amwow , you American’s have some damn funny shit in your political circles, scary too think that these people may also have a hand in foreign policy.
January 8th, 2007 at 11:18 amWouldn’t be more interesting having anyone assassinate another president??
January 31st, 2007 at 5:41 pmI was just joking.
Please no more war, no more killings!!!