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The media covers for the murderous Fidel Castro and does his dirty work
Gerard Jackson
According to Mark Coultan, Washington correspondent for the Age, “Luis Posada Carriles has turned into an international embarrassment” for the US because available evidence shows that he is more of “a terrorist than anyone in Guantanamo Bay”. This is a remarkable statement for two reasons:
Firstly, how could Coultran possibly make such a judgement without detailed knowledge of the terrorist background of Guantanamo detainees? Secondly, Posada Carriles has already been tried for blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1977. He was tried by a military tribunal and by a civilian court. In each case he was acquitted of the crime.
Coultran cites as evidence the New York Times’ allegation that a FBI “document placed him at a meeting at which the attack was planned”. Note the weasel language. It claims attended a meeting that planned the bombing. However, it does not claim that he participated in the planning. That hasn’t stopped this pro-Castro rag from demanding that Carriles be handed over to Castro for a show trial and execution. Using the NYT as a reliable source does very little for Coultran’s credibility. As further evidence of guilt Coultran relates that Carriles fled Venezuela after Chavez ordered another trial.
(The Castro-loving Coultran apparently belongs to that leftwing school of thought that believes ideological enemies must be tried as many times as is necessary to get a conviction, i.e., trumped up evidence and rigged court proceedings. This is the same kind of thinking that holds votes should be repeatedly counted until a Democrat wins, a la Washington State).
I guess it is only to be expected that Coultran neglected to mention that Chavez is a Marxist-Leninist thug and a close ally of the brutal Castro and that he has not only stacked the courts with Marxist-Leninists but he has brought in hundreds of DGI agents to “Cubanise” the country. There is also the small matter of Chavez’s support for FARC, a Marxist-Leninist gang of narco-terrorists. Funny how Coultran overlooked that little fact, just as he overlooked the fact that Castro is a drug-running sponsor of international terrorism who is helping FARC and is now allied to the terrorist regime that runs Iran.
Coultran’s coyness in overlooking Castro’s terrorist record is in keeping with the role the Age has played in covering up that callous brute’s terrorist activities. You’ll never find in Coultran’s rag anything about Castro scheming to detonate a 500 kilo bomb in Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdale’s and Grand Central Station the day of the Macy’s parade 1962 (See Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant for details and documentation). Nor will you find any stories about his training facilities and funding of the IRA, FARC, PLO, SDS, ETA, etc. Then there are the torture chambers, firing squads, child abuse and human experiments. (Armando Valladares, Against All Hope).
Coultran does tell us that Carriles did say he was prepared to be tried by an international court so long as “Cuba” was tried for shooting down two civilian aircraft in 1976, and the 1994 sinking of a tugboat that killed “about 40 men, women and children in 1994”.
As I do not share the sensitive Mr Coultran’s diffidence in criticising the sadistic child-killing Castro, let me examine these two incidents in closer detail.
The shooting down of the civilian aircraft took place on February 1996, not 1976, in international airspace. The planes were flown by Brothers to the Rescue, an organisation dedicated to rescuing victims of Castro’s regime. The attack was premeditated and was based on information provided by Castro’s Miami-based Wasp spy network. The network was later busted by the US and its members tried jailed. And how did Mr Coultran’s rag react to all of this. It treated it as a joke! That’s the compassionate Age for you.
In Castro’s smart set comes unstuck and amid Miami vice and farce (The Age 3 January 2001) Mark Riley ridiculed the trial of the five Cuban agents who helped plan the shooting down of an unarmed civilian aircraft. Rather than inform his readers about what this vicious spy ring was really about, Riley preferred to make smart-aleck comments about “Maxwell Smart”.
As evidence of where his true sympathies lie Riley refused to condemn Castro’s premeditated murder of these men or offer a single word of sympathy for their relatives. Yet this is the same creep who accused the US of executing children and the mentally ill (McDeath a winner for the networks, 16 June 2001) without ever once complaining about Castro’s mass murders.
Without a doubt, Riley is a true bleeding heart liberal, except when it comes to Castro’s mangled victims.
The sickening hypocrisy of The Age is unbelievable. This rag supported Hanoi’s bloody conquest of South Vietnam. It viciously lied about Australian troops committing atrocities. It cheered on Allende’s attempt to turn Chile into a Cuban torture chamber. It heaped praise on the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas while pouring scorn on President Reagan. It covered up Castro’s drug-running, sponsorship of international terrorism and mass murder and torture at home. It also celebrated the activities of the child-killing sadistic Che Guevara, the same thug that set up Castro’s Gulag.
Out of curiosity I did a quick search of The Age for Abu Grahib and Guantanamo. Each searched turned up more than 200 documents. I then did a search for the notorious Boniato prison where Castro has tortured and murdered numerous political prisoners. Strangely enough The Age archives contained nothing on this hell hole. It was the same for “Cuban political prisoners” and “Cuban Gulag”. I regret to say that the rest of the media isn’t much better.
I also searched for Jenin and once again found more than 200 items. For those of you with short memories Jenin was a terrorist base that the Israeli army cleared out. The Western media, including The Age, reported that the Israelis massacred some of the inhabitants. The report was found to be terrorist fabrication. Naturally, The Age did not see fit to apologise.
No doubt about it, the political bigots that run The Age are a truly nasty piece of work.
Note: If it is found that Posada Carriles should be tried a third time for the destruction of a Cuban airliner, let it be in an American court. Moreover, demand that those, particularly in the media, who are pursuing Carriles also insist that charges of terrorism be laid against Castro.
Gerard Jackson is Brookes’ economics editor
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 6 June 2005
On 13 July 1994 the tugboat Treco de Marzo tried to flee Castro’s paradise with 72 refugees on board. Castro ordered an attack on the tugboat. Forty-three refugees were killed, 11 of them children: the youngest victim was Cindy Rodríguez Fernández age two. The magnanimous hero of the left refused to allow the surviving adults to attend their children’s funeral. One of the animals who participated in the massacre was personally decorated by Castro for bravery.
Angel Abreu was murdered
on Castro’s orders while his
media admirers yawned