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Events Since The Oral Argument Of February 14th |
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In the five months since the oral argument the following events of note have occurred that support both the substantive defense of the Five as well as their argument on venue: a Cuban terrorist arrested with more than 1500 weapons, another one confessed having given $1.4 million to purchase weapons for overthrowing the government in Cuba, and a member of the Miami Board of Education confessed feeling threatened if he votes against the exile wishes. |
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Mission Against Terror |
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When stripped to its essentials, this story is truly heart-breaking and asks the obvious question: Why? What did they do to warrant such ruthless punishment? Why aren’t they spoken of in the United States? The answer finds itself in the unexplainable: it’s incredible that thousands, no, millions of people should be so well informed and so obsessed by the war on terror and not know anything at all about these five Cubans that are suffering a total of four life sentences plus 75 years in prison for fighting against terrorism. By ignoring them – unconsciously or otherwise – there is an acceptance of the criminal hallucination that the US judicial system employs when dealing with anything related to the Cuban Revolution. |
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Additional Punishment |
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On December 14, 2001 the judge of the court that sentenced the Cuban Five imposed an additional sanction that actually helps terrorism. According to the sentence applied to René González - and two weeks later against Antonio Guerrero - once they had finished their prison terms they would not be allowed to frequent places where criminal groups operate in South Florida. |
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Alarcon: "The Cuban 5 Have Been the Victims of Torture by the US" |
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Deliberately isolated in five different prisons spread throughout the immense U.S. territory, the Five are also suffering from the fact that the District Attorney's office and the FBI constantly separated them from their families in order to try and crush their spirits, explained Ricardo Alarcón. This article was published on December 18, 2004 by the American Political Newsletter COUNTERPUNCH. |
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Bush's Hypocrisy: Cuban Terrorists |
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Bush can count on cheers whenever he delivers a favorite line from the Bush Doctrine enunciated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks: "Any country that harbors a terrorist is equally guilty as the terrorist." But this supposedly clear cut rule applies differently when a Bush ally is implicated in terrorism and the Bushes are the ones doing the harboring.
While the anti-harboring principle is cited when invading Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration continues to turn a blind eye to the presence of right-wing Cuban terrorists living in the United States. |
