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thepeel
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: Anti-war group aborts demonstration in Miami |
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Anti-war group aborts demonstration plans in Little Havana
Peace activists in pink dresses and tiaras demanded the arrest of anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles Saturday, but aborted plans for a demonstration in Little Havana after Carriles supporters rushed their vehicle.
The six activists, of the Codepink anti-war group, had planned to speak to reporters outside the landmark Versailles restaurant to publicize their campaign against Carriles-- a former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner.
However they were met by some 200 irate Cuban-Americans who consider Carriles a champion of freedom. Some ran at the activists' truck as they arrived, tearing off its pink fringe, while others shouted sexist slurs.
"We're not in Cuba. We're supposed to have free speech," said Medea Benjamin, one of the group's founders. "This is indicative of how a small group of Cuban-Americans are holding the rest of the community hostage."
Carriles supporters sprinted through surrounding streets looking for Benjamin's truck while bystanders shouted "prostitutes" at her group. They eventually decided to meet with press in the parking lot of a downtown police precinct three miles away.
Benjamin said the group would stick with plans to distribute postcards in Miami Beach and other parts of the city, asking the FBI to Posada Carriles on its most wanted list.
"He's a known terrorist. This man should be behind bars," she said. "We feel our government should be consistent. We go looking for terrorists all over the world."
A U.S. judge dismissed seven counts of immigration fraud against Posada Carriles, 80, in May, ruling that agents were deceitful in their interviews with him. But Benjamin and others want prosecutors to investigate him further in connection to the airline attack that killed 73 people, and bombings that targeted tourist spots in Havana.
Posada Carriles has kept a low profile since his release from U.S. detention last year, although his paintings have appeared in a Little Havana gallery.
His supporters say Posada Carriles is not a terrorist but a hero of their struggle to oppose Fidel Castro's communist regime.
At Versailles, a crowd of mostly older men waved Cuban flags. One poster read: "Pink is close to red." Nearby, a man wore a t-shirt depicting revolutionary icon Ernest "Che" Guevara with the word "murderer" printed across the top.
"They are always attacking Posada Carriles, who is a tremendous patriot," said Olga Feo, 79, among those gathered. |
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-0112codepink,0,5381051.story
While I'm against war and etc these Code Pink fools are part of a cadre that ruined virtually every anti-war protest I've been to. Good on the Cubans. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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Luis Posada Carriles is a loyal servant of the Bush crime syndicate.
How dare this anyone criticize such a ... "patriot"?
BOMBS AWAY !!!
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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This sounds like it has the potential to be a good story.
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| that ruined virtually every anti-war protest I've been to |
Please explain. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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This adbusters story, one of the top 5 of 2007 in my opinion, gets to the heart of it. The writer is from Rolling Stone and quite good.
http://www.adbusters.org/the_magazine/71/The_American_Lefts_Silly_Victim_Complex.html
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What makes the American left silly? Things that in a vacuum should be logical impossibilities are frighteningly common in lefty political scenes. The word �oppression� escaping, for any reason, the mouths of kids whose parents are paying 20 grand for them to go to private colleges. Academics in Priuses using the word �Amerika.� Ebonics, Fanetiks, and other such insane institutional manifestations of white guilt. Combat berets. Combat berets in conjunction with designer coffees. Combat berets in conjunction with designer coffees consumed at leisure in between conversational comparisons of America to Nazi Germany.
We all know where this stuff comes from. Anyone who�s ever been to a lefty political meeting knows the deal � the problem is the �spirit of inclusiveness� stretched to the limits of absurdity. The post-sixties dogma that everyone�s viewpoint is legitimate, everyone�s choice about anything (lifestyle, gender, ethnicity, even class) is valid, that�s now so totally ingrained that at every single meeting, every time some yutz gets up and starts rambling about anything, no matter how ridiculous, no one ever tells him to shut the *beep* up. Next thing you know, you�ve got guys on stilts wearing mime makeup and Cat-in-the-Hat striped top-hats leading a half-million people at an anti-war rally. Why is that guy there? Because no one told him that war is a matter of life and death and that he should leave his fucking stilts at home. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess you wouldn't have approved of Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg et.al. trying to levitate the Pentagon in '67. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I very, very strongly opposed the war in Iraq. I went to the protests and immediately felt like an outcast for being "normal". How in the hell do these people expect middle America, soccer moms and the like, to be able to relate to, as Tabbi says, guys wearing beret's on stilts and women with bare *beep* and stupid slogans like "shave off Bush"? |
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