No 645 “En mi
opinión” Abril 24, 2014
“IN
GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño Editor
AMENPER: Acción Afirmativa, fin de un Anacronismo
Cuando se estudia historia secular, o la Biblia, que es el testamento de la
historia de Dios con la humanidad a través de su relación con el pueblo de
Israel, no podemos tener un concepto correcto de los hechos si no nos ponemos
en el contexto de la época.
Por eso Washington, Jefferson y los otros padres de la patria no dejan de
ser menos patriotas y hombres rectos, porque fueran dueños de esclavos.
En el contexto histórico la esclavitud era una institución universalmente
aceptada, hasta para los que la sufrían.
Por eso tampoco debemos pensar que las leyes que Dios de dio a Moisés para
el pueblo judío cuando era una tribu nómada en el desierto y que leemos en
levítico tenga un valor doctrinal para nuestros días.
Claro que para la preservación del pueblo judío durante el éxodo tenía Dios
que imponerles leyes higiénico-dietéticas como no comer esos puercos con septicemia
hemorrágica que hubieran diezmado o extinguido al pueblo en aquellos tiempos y
otras leyes para esta situación particular.
Pero lo que Dios limpió, no podemos considerar inmundo, hoy que no existe
prácticamente las enfermedades porcinas como antes y las condiciones higiénica
de nuestras ciudades no tiene ninguna relación con las condiciones de Moisés
durante el éxodo en el desierto.
No es que Dios haya cambiado, lo que ha cambiado son las condiciones y la
época. Aferrarse a doctrinas y principios fuera del contexto de la
época, tiene un solo nombre, y este nombre es anacronismo.
En los Estados
Unidos, durante los años de prejuicio y discriminación contra las personas que
no fueran anglosajonas, era posible legislar la discriminación, pero era
imposible legislar el prejuicio. Cuando el poder estaba en manos de
personas que por generaciones pensaban que sólo las personas que eran “WASP”
(Blancos anglo sajones protestantes) tenían el derecho a la educación y a
trabajos ejecutivos, porque las otras personas tenían un intelecto no
desarrollados, eran como niños a que había que proteger, manteniéndolos
separados;entonces una ley como “Acción Afirmativa”, tenía una razón de ser.
Pero la
historia siguió su curso… Hoy tenemos hasta
un presidente negro, un fiscal general
negro, hispanos y negros en la corte suprema y en todas las posiciones ejecutivas
de la nación. Usar el racismo para imponer
un racismo a la inversa es un anacronismo criminal, porque se está creando una
nueva discriminación racial hacia los descendientes de los antiguos
discriminadores, y esto es revancha por motivos orientados como venganza pero
primordialmente dirigidos para fines políticos.
No hay diferencia, el nuevo racismo, como el anterior, es
socio-políticamente motivado, tratando a las minorías como niños que hay que
proteger para mantenerlos esclavos de la dependencia, y a los anglo-sajones
blancos, como malos a los que hay que castigar.
Por eso, como minoría, aplaudo a la Corte Suprema por votar a favor de la
libertad, a favor de que haya una verdadera igualdad racial, en que
anglosajones, hispanos y negros, sean una sola raza a los ojos de la ley. Que
no me traten como un niño, que no me protejan, sólo le pido que me den
libertad, lo demás es mi problema.
Esto
es progreso o qué? Aparentemente EEUU necesita aún más criminales en las calles
segun Eric Holder. Breaking: DOJ To Flood Streets With Felons. The new
policy is set to take effect as soon as next week.
Eric Holder’s Justice
Department has come under fire multiple times in recent months for embracing
policies that many feel provide undue leniency toward violent felons. Under
Holder’s leadership, the agency has publicly supported giving
felons the right to vote, rewarding them
with free phone service and transportation, and even commuting the
sentences of some prisoners.
According to a new
initiative announced Wednesday, a huge number of criminals currently in prison
are about to receive a get-out-of-jail pass from the DOJ based on the fact that
they have already served at least 10 years of their sentence.
These criminals,
all convicted of drug offenses, will be able to apply for release under the
policy, provided they might have gotten a lighter sentence had they committed
their crime more recently.
“Older, stringent
punishments that are out of line with sentences imposed under today’s laws
erode people’s confidence in our criminal justice system,” said Deputy Attorney
General James Cole. “I am confident that this initiative will go far to promote
the most fundamental of American ideals – equal justice under the law.”
While many leftist
activists believe mandatory minimum sentences are outmoded and should be
eradicated, those tasked with presenting the case against these offenders feel
otherwise. In a letter sent earlier this year to Holder, the National
Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys said the status quo is “worth
preserving” because it gives prosecutors “leverage to secure cooperation from
defendants.”
The Justice
Department, however, is anxious to open the prison doors for thousands of
convicts. The new policy is set to take effect as soon as next week.
According to one source cited
by Fox News, the total number of prisoners that could be granted clemency is
more than 23,000.
A sudden influx of
prisoners in communities across the U.S. will likely correspond with an
increase in violence and the prevalence of drugs, especially considering the
nature of the crimes for which these criminals were convicted.
Of course, with
Holder’s promise to work toward restoring their right to vote, releasing
criminals ahead of two contentious election cycles might just provide an added
boost to a deeply damaged Democrat Party.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-doj-flood-streets-felons/#3x13MmTjCXV6WUJe.99
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-doj-flood-streets-felons/#3x13MmTjCXV6WUJe.99
Watch: Could DNA Prove Obama Is Ineligible For
Presidency?
Will an obscure intelligence advisor in
England show the way for Americans to finally get rid of the illegal presidency
of Barack Hussein Obama? KRIS ZANE
Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate has been
almost universally deemed a forgery, long before Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio’s
forensic examination found it to be created digitally and never having existed
in paper form. Without even a digital examination, it is obvious it is a
cut-and-paste job, with at least eight different typewriter fonts.
Despite this fact, and despite Obama clearly not being
a natural-born citizen—his father, Barack Obama, Sr. being a subject of the
British crown as admitted by Obama—the dozens of lawsuits filed against Obama
charging that he’s not a natural-born citizen, or that his birth certificate is
a fake—have been summarily dismissed for invalid reasons.
Americans have found themselves in a quandary: we know
Obama is ineligible to be President; we know his birth certificate is fake—yet
we appear to be powerless to do anything about it. But there may be a
novel way that Americans can prove Obama is not a natural-born citizen: have a
Special Prosecutor demand Obama submit—like Clinton did in 1998—a DNA sample to
prove that his mother and father are who he says they are.
This, however,
may have already been carried out—by the CIA!
According to British intelligence advisor and author
of the just-published book, Spyhunter,
Michael Shrimpton states that the CIA took a DNA sample of Obama prior to the
2008 election and found that the woman Obama now states is his mother, Stanley
Ann Dunham, is not related to Obama—and his mother may in
fact be a foreign citizen!
Shrimpton is no tinfoil hat-wearing kook: He has
dozens of contacts in both the British and American intelligence agencies and
has access to a huge cache of intelligence documents.
Will an obscure intelligence advisor in England show
the way for Americans to finally get rid of the illegal presidency of Barack
Hussein Obama?
Barack Obama has been methodically dismantling the
United States, shredding the Constitution, and enslaving us to the Chinese with
crushing debt; so let us hope Michael Shrimpton can show us how how we can
prove Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen and may in fact be a foreign
citizen.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/dna-may-prove-obama-foreign-citizen/#C5Dh3ykcRJW3DTQB.99
Se descubre “acuerdo secreto” entre los Heat y el alcalde Giménez
• El “acuerdo secreto” le costaría a Miami Dade $121 millones
adicionales
MIAMI 24 DE ABRIL DE 2014, nhr.com—Como en los viejos “golpes de estados” de nuestros países
latinoamericanos, en Miami Dade aparentemente acaba de ocurrir algo parecido,
entre el dueño de los Miami Heat y el alcalde Carlos Giménez.
Sorpresivamente el alcalde Carlos Giménez y
Micky Arison, chocaron al conocerse un acuerdo secreto que se realizaba “tras
bambalinas”.
“Aparentemente todo se estaba haciendo en
privado entre el cabildero de los Heat, Jorge Luis López y la administración”,
nos dijo un funcionario del condado que nos dio la información a condición
de no divulgar su nombre.
De acuerdo con esta fuente, Jorge Luis
López aparentemente estaba bajo la impresión de que ya era un hecho lo que él y
Giménez habían acordado, Micky Arison también lo creía, pero Giménez dice que,
“aún no hay acuerdo”.
Según detalles que hemos conocido, “el
dueño del Miami Heat, Micky Arison hizo el anuncio del posible trato el
miércoles informando que el condado iría a extender 10 años más el
contrato, el cual vence el 2030”.
Arison hizo sus declaraciones en un correo
electrónico que le enviara a los fanáticos que compran boletos fijos todo el
año, esto fue lo que molestó al alcalde Giménez quien se apresuró a asegurar
que “No tenemos un acuerdo ni he recomendado ninguno”, el acuerdo , ya no lo
era secreto.
Micky Arison escribió en su
correo, “este es un acuerdo entre los Heat y el alcalde para mantener al
equipo jugando en el terreno propiedad del condado hasta el 2040”.
Giménez se lamentó de que Arison haya
enviado el correo electrónico, “es lamentable que los Heat hayan dicho esto
ahora”, dijo el alcalde.
Si este “acuerdo secreto” llegara a
aprobarse, le costaría al condado Miami-Dade $121 millones adicionales hasta el
2040 por concepto de subsidios que señala el “acuerdo secreto” y hay que
sumarle otros $6.4 millones que el condado le paga anualmente como parte de los
términos acordados cuando se firmó el contrato original en 1996.
Algunos comisionados están molestos con
este “acuerdo secreto”, el comisionado Juan Carlos Zapata declaró al Miami
Herald que “el acuerdo es muy generoso para los Heat”, dijo Zapata y señaló,
“es una cosa horrible, nunca he visto algo tan ridículo”.
Si los comisionados ratifican el “acuerdo
secreto”, el subsidio anual aumentaría de $6.4 millones a $12 millones en el
2031 que sería el primer año del nuevo contrato de arrendamiento extendido.
El abogado-cabildero de los Heat e intimo
amigo del alcalde, Jorge Luis López declaró que los Heat no se lamentan de
haber hecho el anuncio, “el. –Arison–se sentía cómodo en anunciar el estado de
las negociaciones, la administración tiene siempre el derecho de reconsiderar y
cambiar su opinión, tenemos respeto por el alcalde”.
“EMO” O SEA QUE LA ADMINISTRACION DEL
CONDADO MIAMI DADE SIGUE SIENDO TAN MIERDA, TRAMPOSA, Y TRAIDORA COMO SIEMPRE
LO HA SIDO. LRGM
Shocking Video: Harry Reid Just
Accidentally Revealed His Stunning Disrespect For Americans. The most frightening
thing is that most politicians in Washington probably secretly agree.TOM HINCHEY
In
a recent interview, Harry Reid took a hard stance against the Bundys and their
supporters, calling them
“Domestic Terrorists” among
other names.
One
of the most important things revealed in that interview was not something that
Harry Reid said, but what he did. Watch closely as Reid talks about the Bundy
situation, and see what he does as he says “Federal Land.” It is very revealing
about what he, and most likely, many other policians in Washington really think
about the public (and even the private) land in America.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-harry-reids-body-language-live-interview/#4RA3jEjovOZHGRsz.99
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-harry-reids-body-language-live-interview/#4RA3jEjovOZHGRsz.99
IN REFERENCE TO IRS CORRUPTION AND THE
COUNTRY'S INDIFFERENCE DISMISSED AS IS "ONLY A FEW MILLIONS"
How can so many
people dismiss the huge state of corruption now in government by saying “OH! IS
ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT COMPARE TO BILLIONS ELSE WHERE” .I keep hearing the same
remarks over and over again to minimize the corruption. And many of the people
saying the phrase are suppose to be in key positions or positions of
leadership. If this thinking and acceptance is what most people agree on there
are big consequences and much more changes “to the moral code of the country”.
The indifference toward corruption in government nowadays is incredible.
I have even heart
the same phrase when millions of dollars are stolen from medicare or a
government official takes thousands of dollars for kickbacks . AND also the
mazing situation is that many accept the corrupt act and the outright stealing
as nothing to be concern with for as long as the amount is acceptable to their
mentality . If this thinking continues sooner the corruption will move
throughout the country in different forms . Such as a police officer will ask
for money in exchange for writing a traffic ticket or a government official
will request cash ‘FAVOR” for no a number of different reasons.
I am amaze how
idiots are now in key positions in government AS WELL OF OUTRIGHT CROOKS. The
future of the country is not very bright with this new mentality . Instead of
the country elevating to bigger and brighter things we appear to have lower the
code of conduct to the level of many of the countries that we once criticized
and call them “BANNA REPUBLICS”.
Jorge Aguiar
Doral, Florida
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The Reverend's girl has come home to
roost!
Chicago born and raised...just like
our POTUS!
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The daughter of
President Barack Obama's former pastor was convicted on Friday of laundering thousands of dollars
from a state grant for a Chicago-area job-training program, federal prosecutors
said.
A federal jury took less than two hours to
find Jeri Wright, 48, the daughter of Jeremiah Wright, guilty on all counts for
her part in a fraud scheme led by a former suburban police chief and the
chief's husband, according to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Central
District of Illinois in Springfield .
The $1.25 million state grant was for a
not-for-profit work and education program called We Are Our Brother's Keeper,
owned by Regina Evans, former police chief of Country Club Hills, and her
husband, Ronald Evans Jr.
Wright, a close friend of the couple, took
as much as $11,000 from checks worth more than $30,000 that were supposed to be
for work related to the grant, prosecutors said. About $20,000 was deposited
back into accounts controlled by Regina and Ronald Evans.
The couple has pleaded guilty to the fraud
scheme.
"If you take and misuse government
money, and then lie about it, you will be held accountable in a court of
law," said Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois.
The grant agreement was supposed to
provide bricklaying and electrical pre-apprenticeship training and GED
preparation at the Regal Theater, another entity owned by the couple. Little,
if any, of the training provided in the grant agreement was ever completed,
according to prosecutors.
Jeremiah Wright was the Chicago pastor
whose inflammatory church sermons, which often condemned U.S. attitudes on
race, poverty and other issues, became a focus during the 2008 presidential
campaign. Obama quieted the controversy with a speech putting the quotes in the
context of race relations.
Jeri Wright also was convicted of making
false statements to law enforcement officers and giving false testimony to a
grand jury. The maximum penalty for money laundering is up to 20 years in
prison, and five years in prison on the other counts.
Wright, of the Chicago suburb of Hazel
Crest, told reporters outside the Springfield federal court house that she will
appeal, according to media accounts. Her attorneys were not immediately available
for comment.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 7.
Delinquent IRS employees paid bonuses by the agency.
The IRS was in damage
control mode Tuesday after an audit revealed that it paid bonuses to employees
who were in trouble over tax issues themselves.
More than $2.8
million, plus thousands of hours of paid time-off, were doled out over two
years to employees who had recently been disciplined for various types of
misconduct, according to an audit report. About $1 million of that money was
given as bonuses to 1,100 employees who were in trouble over tax related
issues.
The tax problems
include willful understatement of tax liabilities, late payments and
under-reporting of income, according to the report issued by the Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The report says that
providing awards to employees who fail to pay taxes "appears to create a
conflict with the IRS's charge of ensuring the integrity of the system of tax
administration."
GEORGINA LOPEZ: Identifican a cuatro fugitivos de
EEUU que viven en Cuba
Un bloguero de Miami dice que ha localizado en Cuba a cuatro
fugitivos de Estados Unidos —un hombre acusado de lavar $30 millones, dos
personas buscadas por fraude al Medicare y un hombre buscado por el robo de
$180,000 en monedas de 5 centavos.
“Desde la dictadura cubana nos dicen a muchos de los que
defendemos la libertad de expresión en Cuba ‘La Mafia de Miami’, pero a los
verdaderos criminales que roban y estafan los esconden”, escribió el martes el
bloguero Luis Domínguez.
Domínguez escribió que Jorge Emilio Pérez de Morales, de 50
años, un fugitivo acusado de lavar más de $30 millones robados por otros al
Medicare y mandados a Cuba, vive ahora en el barrio Santa Fe de La Habana con
su esposa, Zuzel Monné Díaz.
Esa zona está “congelada” —bajo restricciones de quién puede
vivir ahí por razones de seguridad nacional, escribió Domínguez en su
blog Cuba al Descubierto, dedicado a publicar detalles íntimos del gobierno de la isla y
sus altos oficiales.
Pérez, Monné y el actor y productor cubano Jorge Perugorría
tienen una compañía registrada en España, Santa Fe Pictures SL, según la
entrada publicada por el bloguero. Domínguez le entregó una copia a el Nuevo
Herald.
Madelín Bárbara Machado Barroso, de 40 años, buscada desde el
2009 por 16 cargos de fraude al Medicare y cinco cargos de lavado de dinero,
esta viviendo ahora en El Vedado, La Habana, según Domínguez. Su nota incluye
las direcciones exactas de los fugitivos.
Y Guillermo Díaz Pérez, buscado por estafar al Medicare $254,000
desde el 19 de abril del 2007, ha estado viviendo en la ciudad de Camagüey
desde mediados del año 2008, agrego el bloguero.
Domínguez escribió que también tiene información de que Angel
Ricardo Mendoza Bartelemy, buscado por el robo de un camión cargado de $180,000
en monedas de 5 centavos del Banco de la Reserva Federal en el 2004, ha vivido
en el barrio de Santa Fe desde el 2006.
El bloguero no hizo públicas sus fuentes, diciendo que quería
mantenerlas en el anonimato para protegerlas.
Autoridades de Estados Unidos han estimado que la mayoría de los
más de 80 cubanos-americanos fugitivos de cargos de fraude al Medicare están
viviendo en Cuba.
Domínguez dijo que solo unos cuantos de ellos están en la lista
de buscados de Interpol, la organización policíaca mundial.
GEORGINA LOPEZ: Inversionistas
envían carta a Obama sobre oportunidades en Cuba
En el documento, dicho grupo asegura que
proporcionando conocimientos y asesoramiento técnico a los ciudadanos de la
isla en el sector no estatal, es una forma de asistencia humanitaria.
Las calles de La Habana están
llenas de cuentapropistas, dueños de salones de uñas, cafés, restaurantes,
peluquerías, galerías de arte y talleres de reparación de teléfonos celulares,
según la Americas
Society Council of the Americas.
Y por primera vez en 55 años, un número
creciente de cubanos ahora pueden comenzar a forjar sus propios destinos,
iniciando sus propios negocios, incrementando su autosuficiencia y la
independencia del Estado.
En una carta dirigida al presidente Obama, dicho grupo asegura que dada la situación económica en Cuba, proporcionando conocimientos y asesoramiento técnico a los ciudadanos en el sector no estatal es una forma de asistencia humanitaria.
En el amplio espectro de empresas que han surgido en los últimos cinco años, existen contrapartes profesionales individuales y organizacionales obvias en los Estados Unidos que podrían proporcionar tanto asesoramiento técnico como conexiones y aportación financiera.
Entre otras muchas recomendaciones, el grupo también asegura que los empresarios individuales en la isla deben ser capaces de comprar insumos muy necesarios para sus negocios de fuentes mucho más baratas y poder vender a un mercado mucho más grande: los Estados Unidos.
Según Americas Society Council of the Americas viajaron a Cuba para reunirse con los empresarios de la isla en virtud de una licencia general para establecer relaciones comerciales permitirá que este sector no estatal se expanda, pero más importante aún, dicen, ayudará a EE.UU. y a los cubanos a gozar de una de las libertades y los principios más centrales para el capitalismo: la libertad para ejercer el comercio.
En una carta dirigida al presidente Obama, dicho grupo asegura que dada la situación económica en Cuba, proporcionando conocimientos y asesoramiento técnico a los ciudadanos en el sector no estatal es una forma de asistencia humanitaria.
En el amplio espectro de empresas que han surgido en los últimos cinco años, existen contrapartes profesionales individuales y organizacionales obvias en los Estados Unidos que podrían proporcionar tanto asesoramiento técnico como conexiones y aportación financiera.
Entre otras muchas recomendaciones, el grupo también asegura que los empresarios individuales en la isla deben ser capaces de comprar insumos muy necesarios para sus negocios de fuentes mucho más baratas y poder vender a un mercado mucho más grande: los Estados Unidos.
Según Americas Society Council of the Americas viajaron a Cuba para reunirse con los empresarios de la isla en virtud de una licencia general para establecer relaciones comerciales permitirá que este sector no estatal se expanda, pero más importante aún, dicen, ayudará a EE.UU. y a los cubanos a gozar de una de las libertades y los principios más centrales para el capitalismo: la libertad para ejercer el comercio.
IN REFERENCE TO IRS CORRUPTION AND THE COUNTRY'S
INDIFFERENCE DISMISSED AS IS "ONLY A FEW MILLIONS"
How can so many people dismiss the huge
state of corruption now in government by saying “OH! IS ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT
COMPARE TO BILLIONS ELSE WHERE” .I keep hearing the same remarks over and over
again to minimize the corruption. And many of the people saying the phrase are
suppose to be in key poisons or positions of leadership. If this thinking and
acceptance is what most people agree on there are big consequences and much
more changes “to the moral code of the country”. The indifference toward
corruption in government nowadays is incredible.
I have even heart the same phrase when
millions of dollars are stolen from medicare or a government official takes
thousands of dollars for kickbacks . AND also the mazing situation is that many
accept the corrupt act and the outright stealing as nothing to be concern with
for as long as the amount is acceptable to their mentality . If this thinking
continues sooner the corruption will move throughout the country in different
forms . Such as a police officer will ask for money in exchange for writing a
traffic ticket or a government official will request cash ‘FAVOR” for no a
number of different reasons.
I am amaze how idiots are now in key
positions in government AS WELL OF OUTRIGHT CROOKS. The future of the country
is not very bright with this new mentality . Instead of the country elevating
to bigger and brighter things we appear to have lower the code of conduct to
the level of many of the countries that we once criticized and call them “BANNA
REPUBLICS”.
Jorge Aguiar. Doral, Florida
Delinquent IRS employees paid bonuses by
the agency
NEW
YORK (CNNMoney)
The IRS was in damage
control mode Tuesday after an audit revealed that it paid
bonuses to employees who were in trouble over tax issues themselves.
More
than $2.8 million, plus thousands of hours of paid time-off, were doled out
over two years to employees who had recently been disciplined for various types
of misconduct, according to an audit report. About $1 million of that money was
given as bonuses to 1,100 employees who were in trouble over tax related
issues.
The tax
problems include willful understatement of tax liabilities, late payments and
under-reporting of income, according to the report issued by the Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The
report says that providing awards to employees who fail to pay taxes
"appears to create a conflict with the IRS's charge of ensuring the integrity of the system of
tax administration."
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THE BAY OF PIGS - A HOMAGE
TO BRAVERY AND RESOLVE.
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As my Cuban brethern commemorate this 53
year anniversary, for me it is bitter-sweet. I look back at all that was
lost. Personally, my heritage, familial history in fragments, and family
ties severed, never to be reconnected. The illusions of a
pleasurable walk on Varadero Beach or sunning under the Cuban sky, which
according to my mother (and older Cubans), are skies like no sky in the
entire world.
As the elders in
my family pass away one by one, and I recall the seemingly unending sobs of my
beloved mother, who yearned for her homeland and family, but who at the same
time was so very much an American patriot, grateful to this country for
welcoming us and ushering us to freedom, we would have otherwise not known; I
wonder what Cuba would have grown to become in the world, just 90 miles from
Key West, and what America could be if Cuba would have been free.
I ask myself how
the Kennedy administration could have looked away and turned its back on a
people who wanted a free country, the hypocrisy of an administration who
claimed to be spreading freedom in all the world, except of course for a tiny
island in the Caribbean which could have been an amazing trade
partner with its abundant resrouces such as sugar cane, tobacco and
red clay, and of course a stunning vacation destination. In the words of
Christopher Columbus who wrote upon landing in Cuba on 28 October 1492, “This
is the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen.”
We see the hand
of the Cuban people in Miami (of old), and the many resourceful, innovative
Cubans who fled to America and have become among the richest and most
influential in the scope of business, music and architectural
design.
I love this
country and I am American in all but birth, and while I am berefet of
all that makes me Cuban, other than to remember everything that Mom taught me
and the memories she shared with me through the years, my heart is pained when
I read these historical facts of what happened to a group of brave freedom
fighters, not American freedom fighters, but Cuban nationals who heard about
hope and change and knew deep down inside that it's definintion was
insidious and evil. Much like what we are seeing in this great
country today.
I suppose I
am very thankful, because had the Kennedy administration honored its
commitment to this tiny island, I would have never known life in these United
States and my life would have probably turned out very different than it is
today. Still, as I look at the U.S. political arena of the past 30-40
years, and especially with the current demogoguery in the White House; I wonder
how long before our country sides are littered with mass graves, of people like
me, who would prefer death to enslavement under a
federal government hell-bent on making all but the elite few, supplicants
of statist rule.
I look with
disgust and disdain on the ivy-leaguers and academia in general who have
ushered in the very model of socialist and tyrannical ideology which is
infecting this country like a malignant tumor, waiting to make its way through the
entire nation, until the prospect of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
is but a distant memory, to be enjoyed only by the wealthy few, and complicit
supporters of this terminal disease we know as the current political ruling
class.
May the lessons
of the failures of other countries and the path which some of us are so happily
following to the same ends, remain fresh in our minds, so that we can continue
to stand together, fighting shoulder to shoulder to defeat the abhorent mindless chantings of yes we can, and
hope and change and the mentality of what difference does it make?
WHAT
REALLY HAPPENED THE BAY OF PIGS (PLAYA GIRON, CUBA)
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
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(You
always hear and read of a “fiasco,” a “defeat” a “disaster” at the Bay of Pigs,
53 years ago this week. But you rarely hear about the cause. Here it is.
“They
fought like tigers,” writes the CIA officer who helped train the Cubans who
splashed ashore at the Bay of Pigs 53 years ago this week. “But their
fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach.”
That
CIA man, Grayston Lynch, knew something about fighting—and about long odds. He
carried scars from Omaha Beach, The Battle of the Bulge and Korea’s Heartbreak
Ridge. But in those battles Lynch and his band of brothers counted on the
support of their Commander in Chief. At the Bay of Pigs, Grayston Lynch (an
American) and his band of brothers (Cubans) learned—first in speechless shock
and finally in burning rage—that their most powerful enemies were not Castro’s
Soviet-armed soldiers massing in nearby Santa Clara, but the Ivy League’s best
and brightest dithering in Washington.
Lynch
trained, in his own words, “brave boys who had never before fired a shot in
anger”—college students, farmers, doctors, common laborers, whites, blacks,
mulattoes. They were known as La Brigada 2506, an almost
precise cross-section of Cuban society of the time. The Brigada included men
from every social strata and race in Cuba—from sugar cane planters to sugar
cane cutters, from aristocrats to their chauffeurs. But mostly, the folks in
between, as befit a nation with a larger middle class than most of Europe.
Short
on battle experience, yes, but
they fairly burst with what Bonaparte and George Patton valued most in a
soldier: morale. No navel-gazing about “why they hate us” or the merits of
“regime change” for them. They’d seen Castroism point-blank.
Their
goals were crystal-clear: firing-squads silenced, families reunited, tens of
thousands freed from prisons, torture chambers and concentration camps. We see
it on the History Channel after our GI’s took places like Manila and Munich. In
1961 newsreels could have captured such scenes without crossing oceans. When
those Cuban freedom-fighters hit the beach at the Bay of
Pigs 50 years ago this week, one
of every 18 Cubans suffered in Castro Gulag. Mass graves dotted the
Cuban countryside, piled with hundreds who’d crumpled in front of Castro and
Che Guevara’s firing squads. Most of the invaders had loved-ones among the
above.
Modern
history records few soldiers with the burning morale of the Bay of Pigs
freedom-fighters.
From
the lethal fury of the attack and the horrendous casualties their troops and
militia were taking, the Castro brothers and Che Guevara assumed they faced at
least “20,000 invading mercenaries,” as they called them. Yet it was a band of
mostly civilian volunteers their Soviet armed and led-troops outnumbered
20-to-1.
“Where are
the planes?” kept crackling over U.S. Navy radios two days later. “Whereis
our ammo? Send planes or we can’t last!” Commander Jose San Roman kept pleading
to the very fleet that escorted his men to the beachhead. Crazed by hunger and
thirst, his men had been shooting and reloading without sleep for three days.
Many were hallucinating. By then many suspected they’d been abandoned by the
Knights of Camelot.
That’s
when Castro’s Soviet Howitzers opened up, huge 122 mm ones, four batteries’
worth. They pounded 2,000 rounds into the freedom-fighters over a four-hour
period. “It sounded like the end of the world,” one said later. “Rommel’s crack
Afrika Corps broke and ran under a similar bombardment,” wrote Haynes Johnson
in his book, the Bay of Pigs. By that time the invaders were dazed, delirious
with fatigue, thirst and hunger, too deafened by the bombardment to even hear
orders. But these men were in no mood to emulate Rommel’s crack Afrika Corps by
retreating. Instead they were fortified by a resolve no conquering troops could
ever call upon—the burning duty to free their nation.
“If
things get rough,” the heartsick CIA man Grayston Lynch radioed back, “we can
come in and evacuate you.”
“We
will NOT be evacuated!” San Roman roared back to his friend Lynch. “We came
here to fight! We don’t want evacuation! We want more
ammo! We want PLANES! This ends here!”
Camelot’s
criminal idiocy finally brought Adm. Arleigh Burke of the Joints Chief of
Staff, who was receiving the battlefield pleas, to the brink of mutiny. Years
before, Adm. Burke sailed thousands of miles to smash his nation’s enemies at
the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Now he was Chief of Naval Operations and stood aghast
as new enemies were being given a sanctuary 90 miles away! The fighting admiral
was livid. They say his face was beet red and his facial veins popping as he
faced down his commander-in-chief that fateful night of April 18, 1961. “Mr.
President, TWO planes from the Essex! (the U.S. Carrier just offshore from the
beachhead)” that’s all those Cuban boys need, Mr. President. Let me order…!”
JFK
was in white tails and a bow tie that evening, having just emerged from an
elegant social gathering. “Burke,” he replied. “We can’t get involved in this.”
“WE
put those Cuban boys there, Mr. President!” The fighting admiral exploded. “By
God, we ARE involved!” Admiral
Burke’s pleas also proved futile.
The
freedom-fighters’ spent ammo inevitably forced a retreat. Castro’s jets and Sea
Furies were roaming overhead at will and tens of thousands of his Soviet-led
and armed troops and armor were closing in. The
Castro planes now concentrated on strafing the helpless, ammo-less
freedom-fighters.
“Can’t
continue,” Lynch’s radio crackled - it was San Roman again. “Have nothing left
to fight with ...out of ammo…Russian tanks in view….destroying my equipment.”
“Tears
flooded my eyes,” wrote Grayston Lynch. “For the first time in my 37 years I
was ashamed of my country.”
When
the smoke cleared and their ammo had been expended to the very last bullet,
when a hundred of them lay dead and hundreds more wounded, after three days of
relentless battle, barely 1,400 of them—without air support (from the U.S.
Carriers just offshore) and without a single supporting shot by naval artillery
(from U.S. cruisers and destroyers poised just offshore)—had squared off
against 21,000 Castro troops, his entire air force and squadrons of Soviet
tanks. The Cuban freedom-fighters inflicted over 3000 casualties on their
Soviet-armed and led enemies. This
feat of arms still amazes professional military men.
“They were abandoned on the beach without the supplies
and support promised by their sponsor, the Government of the United States.”
“They
fought magnificently and were not defeated,” stressed Marine Col. Jack Hawkins
a multi-decorated WWII and Korea vet who helped train them. “They were
abandoned on the beach without the supplies and support promised by their
sponsor, the Government of the United States.”
“We
shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in
order to assure the survival and the success of liberty!”proclaimed
Lynch and Hawkin’s Commander-in-Chief just three months earlier.
-IN CASE OF GOVERNMENT TYRANY-
“USE THE SECOND
AMENDMENT”
“LA LIBERTAD NO
ES GRATIS”
<IN GOD
WE TRUST>
“En
mi opinión” Lázaro R González Miño
Editor.
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