Little Havana: Or chegitz does something, very, very, very VERY stupid

[VetLegion]

I che for bravery.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Pekka
So, demonstrating against a known terrorist is a left wing issue now?

I never bothered reading what he was protesting for or against.

[Pekka]

Well, against an infamous terrorist.

[TCO]

A likely story. Everyone knows leftists protest to try to get chicks.

[chequita guevara]

I've already got a chick, who is furious with me for getting involved, and even more pissed for going on tv to denounce these ****ers. God I'm a ****ing idiot. I basically just did the equivalent of going on tv in LA and denouncing the Crips.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
It is interesting about how all the people who ***** and moan about the Arab street and how there aren't any moderate Muslims doing any counter protests or standing up and denouncing terrorism are now the same people telling Che that he and his "junior comrades" shouldn't have "pulled a stunt" by opposing those Americans (new Americans are still Americans) who would defend terrorists.

Hey Ozzy, thank you for saying this, cuz this is basically the idea I used to denounce them on tv. Some of the gusanos are blaming us for the violence saying we provoked them (be existing). So I said, if someone were holding a rally to support Osama bin Laden and we showed up to protest that, would anyone say we were provoking them to violence. The guy in the red shirt then called Posada the Osama bin Laden of the Western Hemisphere.

[chequita guevara]

But they don't use my footage at all.

http://cbs4.com/video/?id=28662@wfor.dayport.com

[chequita guevara]

Reuters pics

http://search.us.reuters.com/news/search.aspx?site=USPHOTOS&blob=posada#

[chequita guevara]

Apparently this has really blown up in the gusanos faces. The right winger Cubans are all denouncing each other over the attack, the progressives in South Florida are uniting to defend free speech in Miami. We'll see if it goes anywhere.

[techumseh]

It seems that, having escaped harm, you now have an excellent platform for both defending democratic rights and exposing US hypocracy on terrorism. Good luck.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Even then, why assume that the police would be able to intervene fast enough to save you from from being beaten up by a large mob?

So, in a country renowned for its support of 'free speech' and notable for a future President of the United States having defended British soldiers accused of murdering colonists, your advice to che exercising his right to protest at the public support shown for someone accused of mass murder, is basically, 'don't do it, in case something bad might happen'.

[MOBIUS]

Che

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by molly bloom



So, in a country renowned for its support of 'free speech' and notable for a future President of the United States having defended British soldiers accused of murdering colonists, your advice to che exercising his right to protest at the public support shown for someone accused of mass murder, is basically, 'don't do it, in case something bad might happen'.

Which reminds me of my Israeli settlers thread. I wonder which position DinoDoc takes there.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III


Which reminds me of my Israeli settlers thread. I wonder which position DinoDoc takes there.

I suspect much of the criticism of what che did stems from people's disapproval of his politics. Which doesn't say much for them, if they can overlook what he's protesting about.

The brother of the Italian tourist killed by a bomb in a Havana hotel in 1997 told the Miami Herald:

"It's like a New York or New Jersey resident who lost a relative in the September 11 attacks, and the mastermind of this terrorist act is living in Canada. Wouldn't they be upset at the Canadian government?"

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/09/148243

[Colon™]

Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is a Cuban born Venezuelan national, an anti-Fidel Castro militant, anti-communist para-military and former CIA operative who has confessed to participating in a number of terrorist plots against Cuba. Posada was active in Operation 40, a CIA anti-Castrist operation in the early 1960s. He has been condemned for his involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner which killed seventy-three people. Despite requests for extradition by Venezuela to face charges, and calls for Posada to be prosecuted in the United States for terrorism crimes, Posada is presently being tried in by authorities in Texas on the charge of illegally entering the U.S.

Posada, nicknamed Bambi,[1] is also said by Manuel Contreras, head of the Chilean DINA secret agency, to have been involved in Operation Condor, namely in Orlando Letelier's murder in Washington, D.C., a few weeks before Cubana de Aviación's explosion [2]. Posada has denied involvement in the airliner bombing, but has admitted being part of a plot to bomb Havana hotels, which led to the death of an Italian tourist. In addition, he was jailed for an assassination attempt on President Castro in Panama in 2000, although he was later pardoned by the Panamanian authorities.[3][4] After flying away to Honduras, he arrived in the US in 2005, and is currently held by US authorities in Texas on the charge of illegal presence on national territory [5]. Washington has refused Venezuela's demands for extradition. Journalist Ann Louise Bardach, author of Cuba Confidential (2003), recently declared to Amy Goodman on Goodman's radio program, Democracy Now, that the FBI had destroyed in 2002 its documents and proofs (including Western Union originals) concerning Posada Carriles. At that time, Panama had a case opened against Carriles. [6].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles

Anyone who believes this is one-sided or incorrect?