Lies & Slanders of the Washington Post Against the Cuban 5
On December 31, 2011, the Editorial Board of the Washington Post published an editorial entitled
"Cuba should finally release Alan Gross." The editorial of the Post is an insult to anybody's intelligence and is full of unsubstantiated lies.
The Post laments the
universal support that the cause for the freedom of the Cuban 5 enjoys,
and what they do not say is that this support, sustained for more than a
decade, grows everyday in direct relationship to the amount of
injustice that the US is committing against the Five Cuban
antiterrorists.
The Post's end of the year editorial openly exposes its
right wing and ultra conservative view. The glaring omission in
the editorial is that it never mentions that the reason the Cuban 5 came
to the United States in the first place was to monitor anti-Cuba
terrorists groups based in Miami.
The only thing the Post did not do in
this editorial was to turn admitted anti-Cuba terrorist Posada Carriles
and his partners into victims. With their silence they have remained
consistent in their sheltering of these violent groups and individuals.
The Post has had no problem repeating over and over again what
journalists paid by the US government have said to demonize the Five to
sway public opinion. In addition it also lies about the reasons why Alan
Gross was arrested and convicted.
Their editorial piece
dismisses the opinion of artists, intellectuals, Nobel Prize recipients
and even Jimmy Carter who asked for the freedom of the Five and a
solution to the case of Gross. And with absolute arrogance the article
ends by advising President Barack Obama to impede the solution of both
cases.
The Post, instead of
informing their readers continues to perpetuate the myths against the
Cuban 5 antiterrorists and calls for the punishment to continue against
them and their families as it has for the past 13 years. With this
deceit they also block any solution in the case of Alan Gross whom they
feign concern for. (See article at the end)
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READ THE ARTICLE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cuba-should-finally-release-alan-gross/2011/12/29/gIQAGB10SP_story.html
Cuba should finally release Alan Gross
By Editorial Board, Published: December 31, 2011
TWO LEADERS of Cuba's
Jewish community have visited American Alan Gross at the
maximum-security military hospital in Havana where he has been confined
since Dec. 3, 2009. They lighted Hanukkah candles with him, emerging
later to pronounce him healthy and hopeful. But for Mr. Gross's family
in Bethesda, this report was cold comfort. Gaunt and depressed, the
62-year-old was not among nearly 3,000 prisoners granted amnesty by
President Raul Castro on Dec. 23; though an ailing mother and daughter
await back home, Mr. Gross remains under a 15-year sentence for "acts to
undermine the integrity and independence" of Cuba.
Cuba's accusations
stem from Mr. Gross's humanitarian work, on behalf of a company that
operates with U.S. democracy-promotion funds, to support his fellow Jews
on the island. Specifically, he helped them establish an intranet and
improve their access to the Internet...
