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While I am on a roll abouth political bitching, the US Justice Department has blocked the release of a Cuban-born exile wanted by Venezuela and Cuba in connection with a plane bombing.
BBC News covered this story HERE
Luis Posada Carriles who is an anti-Castro activist has been directly linked to the Cuban plane that exploded over Barbados in 1976, killing all 73 people on board - including Cuba's entire fencing team.
The US Justice Department has blocked his release from a Texas detention center pending deportation.
Carriles deportation is for him to stand trial for the crimes he has been linked to and or committed that clearly note "Terrorist" activities. The United States Government will not turn him over in fears that he may be tortured. Tortured???
I find this to be very odd, considering that the news story that was released at the end of last September that came to my attention, when Maher Arar was arrested by the U.S. at the airport, sent to a detention center in Brooklyn, then rendered by Bush to Syria where he was tortured. Ten months later he was set free by a government panel that found that Maher Arar, a Syrian born Canadian was nothing but a totally innocent man, arrested and tortured by the U.S. Government.
Keep in mind that Arar was tortured; by the actions of the U.S. handing him over to Syria, they had known that this would be his fate.
The U.S. government says that they will not hand over Carriles to Cuba or Venezuela, yet this man is the sole suspect in a terrorist bombing that killed all 73 innocent people in a plane bombing.
What I find to be annoying in regards to this issue, is that the U.S. is holding a double standard on this so-called “War on Terror”, of which only seems to be a war when it fits the agenda of our government. This obstruction of justice on such a crime appears to be due to the fact that the U.S. is at odds with Cuba and now Venezuela. Our government will not deal with these countries when it comes to legal matters in fear of Carriles possible torture? If Cuba or Venezuela wants to place him on trial, is there nothing more Democratic in the sense of freedom and democracy, for having this man stand trial for a supposed crime he had committed. Yet our government will not allow this in fear of him being tortured. Didn’t the U.S. government for many years work on having Libya turn over the Lockerbie Scotland bombers to be held on trial in the U.K. for that terrorist act? Here we are using the double standard, taking on the role of Libya for their past actions in blocking democracy.
If Carriles was from China, would we not turn him over to the Chinese government? We can allow the so called Iraqi government to have had a trial for Sadaam and then watch him being hanged on a videophone? We hear of torture in Iraq on its peoples by the Iraqi police and military of which we trained. The U.S. has minimal contact with Syria and holds Syria as a participant in the so-called “Axis of Evil” based upon their alleged support for aiding and working with Iran and Hezbollah.
Why is there a noticeable double standard in these examples?
This just makes me wonder if the “War on Terror” is a political smokescreen aimed at our own countries citizens & at the men and women of our military’s expense. Perhaps war profiteering was the actual objective in Iraq? This opens up a new chapter in why and how we are fighting terrorism and why we ignore it if it is not on our agenda. Are there really any clear objectives that anyone can stand behind, when a double standard of the moral belief in why this war is taking place has contradictions to its justification?
Keep in mind that Mr. Carriles - a former CIA operative - is being held in the US for crossing illegally from Mexico after serving time in Panama for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Which is it…the crossing of the border illegally or the plot to kill Castro, what is the point of our not handing him over to stand trial?
Washington D.C. May 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive posted additional documents that show that the CIA had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner. The Archive also posted another document that shows that the FBI's attache in Caracas had multiple contacts with one of the Venezuelans who placed the bomb on the plane, and provided him with a visa to the U.S. five days before the bombing, despite suspicions that he was engaged in terrorist activities at the direction of Luis Posada Carriles.
Is this all a cover-up? Possibly…In my opinion, it may be a result of our own governments’ fears that Mr. Carriles may leak information as to U.S. knowledge on covert actions and support of such acts, making the U.S. a participant in the countries we name “The Axis of Evil”.
This is not solely an issue with Bush’s presidency, as the entire documentation and paper trail of events dates back to 1976. Our countries long history clearly shows a lack of diplomacy with Cuba and now Venezuela; all of which are a part of the growing international problems we are facing today. We can dictate to the world on freedoms and democracy as a way of life, but when it comes down to the U.S. government following these same ethics, we fall short & lately that fall feels like a plunge! Remember the entire Illian Gonzalez fiasco...the family of Cuban-Americans who were desperately pleading for him not to be sent back to Cuba? Here was an innocent boy that was being taken care of by his Cuban-American family in the U.S. Gonzalez was taken by gunpoint in a raid by our government; then turned over to Cuba. We handed over an innocent child to a country that we will not recognize or have diplomatic relations with and not to leave out that it is considered an enemy of the U.S. This child was living with relatives of who Illian Gonzalez’s mother and himself where fleeing Cuba to be with. The mother died in her attempt to find freedom for her and her son in the U.S., and we send Illian Gonzalez back to Cuba. Double standard when we turn away those seeking the freedoms this country preaches and yet harbors a documented terrorist within its own borders.
My monthly political topic rant quota has been fulfilled!
BBC News covered this story HERE
Luis Posada Carriles who is an anti-Castro activist has been directly linked to the Cuban plane that exploded over Barbados in 1976, killing all 73 people on board - including Cuba's entire fencing team.
The US Justice Department has blocked his release from a Texas detention center pending deportation.
Carriles deportation is for him to stand trial for the crimes he has been linked to and or committed that clearly note "Terrorist" activities. The United States Government will not turn him over in fears that he may be tortured. Tortured???
I find this to be very odd, considering that the news story that was released at the end of last September that came to my attention, when Maher Arar was arrested by the U.S. at the airport, sent to a detention center in Brooklyn, then rendered by Bush to Syria where he was tortured. Ten months later he was set free by a government panel that found that Maher Arar, a Syrian born Canadian was nothing but a totally innocent man, arrested and tortured by the U.S. Government.
Keep in mind that Arar was tortured; by the actions of the U.S. handing him over to Syria, they had known that this would be his fate.
The U.S. government says that they will not hand over Carriles to Cuba or Venezuela, yet this man is the sole suspect in a terrorist bombing that killed all 73 innocent people in a plane bombing.
He faces deportation, but it cannot be to Cuba or Venezuela to stand trial because of the fears he might face torture. The U.S. notes that no other country has been willing to accept him.
Venezuela wants to try Mr. Carriles - who was born in Cuba but has Venezuelan citizenship - in connection with the bombing of the plane, which was flying to Cuba from Caracas.
Venezuela wants to try Mr. Carriles - who was born in Cuba but has Venezuelan citizenship - in connection with the bombing of the plane, which was flying to Cuba from Caracas.
If Carriles was from China, would we not turn him over to the Chinese government? We can allow the so called Iraqi government to have had a trial for Sadaam and then watch him being hanged on a videophone? We hear of torture in Iraq on its peoples by the Iraqi police and military of which we trained. The U.S. has minimal contact with Syria and holds Syria as a participant in the so-called “Axis of Evil” based upon their alleged support for aiding and working with Iran and Hezbollah.
Why is there a noticeable double standard in these examples?
This just makes me wonder if the “War on Terror” is a political smokescreen aimed at our own countries citizens & at the men and women of our military’s expense. Perhaps war profiteering was the actual objective in Iraq? This opens up a new chapter in why and how we are fighting terrorism and why we ignore it if it is not on our agenda. Are there really any clear objectives that anyone can stand behind, when a double standard of the moral belief in why this war is taking place has contradictions to its justification?
Keep in mind that Mr. Carriles - a former CIA operative - is being held in the US for crossing illegally from Mexico after serving time in Panama for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Which is it…the crossing of the border illegally or the plot to kill Castro, what is the point of our not handing him over to stand trial?
Washington D.C. May 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive posted additional documents that show that the CIA had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner. The Archive also posted another document that shows that the FBI's attache in Caracas had multiple contacts with one of the Venezuelans who placed the bomb on the plane, and provided him with a visa to the U.S. five days before the bombing, despite suspicions that he was engaged in terrorist activities at the direction of Luis Posada Carriles.
Is this all a cover-up? Possibly…In my opinion, it may be a result of our own governments’ fears that Mr. Carriles may leak information as to U.S. knowledge on covert actions and support of such acts, making the U.S. a participant in the countries we name “The Axis of Evil”.
This is not solely an issue with Bush’s presidency, as the entire documentation and paper trail of events dates back to 1976. Our countries long history clearly shows a lack of diplomacy with Cuba and now Venezuela; all of which are a part of the growing international problems we are facing today. We can dictate to the world on freedoms and democracy as a way of life, but when it comes down to the U.S. government following these same ethics, we fall short & lately that fall feels like a plunge! Remember the entire Illian Gonzalez fiasco...the family of Cuban-Americans who were desperately pleading for him not to be sent back to Cuba? Here was an innocent boy that was being taken care of by his Cuban-American family in the U.S. Gonzalez was taken by gunpoint in a raid by our government; then turned over to Cuba. We handed over an innocent child to a country that we will not recognize or have diplomatic relations with and not to leave out that it is considered an enemy of the U.S. This child was living with relatives of who Illian Gonzalez’s mother and himself where fleeing Cuba to be with. The mother died in her attempt to find freedom for her and her son in the U.S., and we send Illian Gonzalez back to Cuba. Double standard when we turn away those seeking the freedoms this country preaches and yet harbors a documented terrorist within its own borders.
My monthly political topic rant quota has been fulfilled!
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