Finally, Cuba Is Harboring a Terrorist!

[Catherina]

Finally, Cuba Is Harboring a Terrorist!
May 4, 2013

Dawn Gable


Assata Shakur

HAVANA TIMES — After 40 years, the FBI has arbitrarily labeled Assata Shakur a terrorist. The former Black Panther was convicted of murder in 1973, for her involvement in an altercation with New Jersey police that left one officer dead.

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It seems unlikely that the announcement of her transformation from criminal to terrorist coincidently occurred the day after the State Department was supposed to release its annual report “justifying” the continued inclusion of Cuba on its list of countries that “provide critical support to non-state terrorist groups and repeatedly provides support for acts of international terrorism.”

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What does Assata’s new status have to do with Cuba being designated a State Sponsor of terrorism?

In the past several years, the State Department’s stated reasons for keeping Cuba on the list have dwindled. The most recent reports seem more like attempts to demonstrate why Cuba should be taken off the list. The rationale last year was reduced to: members of the ETA and the FARC, as well as fugitives from U.S. justice reside in Cuba.

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Well, not any more. Since Cuba refuses to support real terrorists, the FBI, with or without the State Department’s collusion, has taken it upon itself to invent one! With no new evidence, no retrial, and indeed no change to the FBI’s description of her crimes and convictions, Assata Shakur was upgraded to terrorist at the agency’s whim, just in the nick of time. The anti-Castro, Cuba lobby has just won an enormous victory and one can hardly keep from admiring such deviously effective maneuvering.

http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=92521

[flamingdem]

1. This shows so clearly

that it is the US that wants the embargo to continue. I know that's obvious to most of us here but plenty of "smart" people justify the embargo saying that the Castro Brothers want it because it allows them to make excuses and to stay in power.

Now it's very graphic that the US always moves the goal posts, like Lucy they pull out the football every time.

[Catherina]

2. This embargo is one of the sickest things we've ever done

and to add insult to injury, we placed our Guantanamo Concentration/Torture Camp there.

What's Cuba's crime? Showing the world there's another way. Can't have that lol.

[Mika]

3. I certainly don't justify the US sanctions.

But, I do recognize the political/financial machinations that are entailed.
The status quo rules because it suits those with power (and money).

[flamingdem]

4. Down the line they won't be called upon to take responsibility

when Cuba is thriving and friends with Brazil and China and we've lost the golden opportunity to help them when they held out their hand as they have done.

remember when Obama said he would respond if they held out their hand to the US?

[Judi Lynn]

5. Our great Comedian in Chief. How can the Republicans continue to hate him?

He has done their side so much good. He should be declared a hero in South Florida, and get his own day named for him, just like the mass murdering bomber, Orlando Bosch.