19-03-2010, 07:03 AM
Except he wasn't a political prisoner. And he certainly isn't a hero. He was a criminal in jail where he belonged. There are few if any martyrs in the counter-revolution as they have no principles they are prepared to die for. Most happy to go to the highest bidder and usually cheaply at that.
His name does not appear on the list of so called political prisoners drawn up by the US in 2003. He had been a habitual criminal since 1988. He was tried for the crimes of "unlawful entry" (1993), "assault" (2000), "fraud" (2000), "assault and the possession of a sharp weapon" (2000: wounds and a fractured skull inflicted on the Cuban citizen Leonardo Simon with a machete), "public disorder" (2002), and other charges bearing no relation to politics. He was released from jail in March 2003 on parole and then promptly committed another crime on the 20th of March. He was jailed again for breaching his parole for the crime he committed and was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. Because of his aggressive behaviour in prison his sentence has had to be increased. He received medical attention at all times and it was his 'supporters' who encouraged him to go on and continue the hunger strikes for their own perverse purposes. Thereby weakening his body when he next went on hunger strike. His demands, which they knew would be turned down, included having a television, stove and telephone in his cell. That's what he was prepared to die for? How pathetic. .
More media than at the Oscars have arrived in Cuba and the people on the street are telling them to go home because everyone knows the guy is a criminal. If the media and their handlers want to do something for Cuba they should press the US to lift the illegal blockade. Sound more like they want to divert attention away from the real human rights abuses being committed by the US and aided and abetted by their European lackeys in the secret prisons and rendition venues of the world. On the other hand Cuba has a well known and respected human rights record starting with low infant and mother mortality and finishing with extending the life of Cubans to live longer than those in the US. In between birth and death people have free education, free health, employment and guaranteed basic foods.
Go find a real hero Ruben. Why aren't you posting about the real Cuban heroes? The 5 political prisoners in the US jails. They were fighting the well documented extensive US terrorism against their small and militarily defenseless country. Trumped up charges in a fixed system that passes for justice in the US. Even their families unable to visit them because the US deny them this basic human right. And Zapata is certainly no Bobby Sands. Bobby Sands and his fellow prisoners of war did not die for a tv in their cell. Nor were they common criminals. But I remember the US being rather silent on that one. Like they are on so many things.
Cuba has offered to give the US any and all of the counter-revolutionary mercenaries which are on the US 'political prisoner' list (and their families) as long as the political prisoners in the US are returned to Cuba to their families. Strangely the US is silent on that too.
His name does not appear on the list of so called political prisoners drawn up by the US in 2003. He had been a habitual criminal since 1988. He was tried for the crimes of "unlawful entry" (1993), "assault" (2000), "fraud" (2000), "assault and the possession of a sharp weapon" (2000: wounds and a fractured skull inflicted on the Cuban citizen Leonardo Simon with a machete), "public disorder" (2002), and other charges bearing no relation to politics. He was released from jail in March 2003 on parole and then promptly committed another crime on the 20th of March. He was jailed again for breaching his parole for the crime he committed and was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. Because of his aggressive behaviour in prison his sentence has had to be increased. He received medical attention at all times and it was his 'supporters' who encouraged him to go on and continue the hunger strikes for their own perverse purposes. Thereby weakening his body when he next went on hunger strike. His demands, which they knew would be turned down, included having a television, stove and telephone in his cell. That's what he was prepared to die for? How pathetic. .
More media than at the Oscars have arrived in Cuba and the people on the street are telling them to go home because everyone knows the guy is a criminal. If the media and their handlers want to do something for Cuba they should press the US to lift the illegal blockade. Sound more like they want to divert attention away from the real human rights abuses being committed by the US and aided and abetted by their European lackeys in the secret prisons and rendition venues of the world. On the other hand Cuba has a well known and respected human rights record starting with low infant and mother mortality and finishing with extending the life of Cubans to live longer than those in the US. In between birth and death people have free education, free health, employment and guaranteed basic foods.
Go find a real hero Ruben. Why aren't you posting about the real Cuban heroes? The 5 political prisoners in the US jails. They were fighting the well documented extensive US terrorism against their small and militarily defenseless country. Trumped up charges in a fixed system that passes for justice in the US. Even their families unable to visit them because the US deny them this basic human right. And Zapata is certainly no Bobby Sands. Bobby Sands and his fellow prisoners of war did not die for a tv in their cell. Nor were they common criminals. But I remember the US being rather silent on that one. Like they are on so many things.
Cuba has offered to give the US any and all of the counter-revolutionary mercenaries which are on the US 'political prisoner' list (and their families) as long as the political prisoners in the US are returned to Cuba to their families. Strangely the US is silent on that too.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.