"Ladies"? Not by any definition of the word I am familiar with.
Posted on 01/28/2008 2:30:25 PM PST by Wyatt K
One of today's more bizarre news stories has to do with a demonstration which the Code Pink ladies tried to stage in Miami's Little Havana, protesting the presence in the United States of Luis Posada Carriles. The locals, mostly Cubans who have fled Castro's island prison, became a bit angry and began to chase the ladies out of the area with some choice comments.
Code Pink is, as everyone who reads the blogs knows, an organization of "peace ladies" led by Medea Benjamin, a far-Left activist who once described Castro's gulag as a "socialist paradise."
The choice of little Havana and Posada Carriles seems bizarre at first. After all, what's that got to do with the Iraq war, the principal target of Code Pink protests? The answer sheds a lot of light on the role of the media and the way that left-wing agitators are endlessly creative in their efforts to stay in the headlines.
For those who haven't followed the story, here is the background. Luis Posada Carriles is one of those soldiers of fortune who worked with the CIA cowboys in Central America during the Cold War. (Exactly what he did is not known with any degree of precision.) After Castro's takeover in Cuba he had taken refuge in Venezuela and acquired Venezuelan citizenship. Sometime in the late 1970s he was accused of having planted a bomb on a jetliner which was carrying members of a Cuban sports team. Everybody on the plane--Cubans and non-Cubans--perished.
Posada Carriles was subsequently tried in Venezuelan courts and found innocent of all charges. However, Venezuelan law does allow a person to be tried for the same crime more than once.
Thus when Chavez came to power in 1998, Posada Carriles -- knowing of Hugo's close relationship to Fidel -- thought it the better part of valor to flee the country. He entered the United States illegally through the Texas-Mexican border.
Normally the correct procedure would be to extradite him to Venezuela and allow him to face trial again. However, Chavez has already declared that "he doesn't need a trial; we already know he's guilty." This of course puts the United States in the impossible position being unable to extradite Posada Carriles at all.
As for Chavez, his comments weren't just spur of the moment observations; the ugly truth is he doesn't want Posada Carriles back in his country. He's worth far more to the Venezuelan strongman and his Cuban friends living here -- even in confinement or under house arrest--where he can be pointed out repeatedly as living proof that the US harbors and condones terrorists as long as they are "on our side."
Meanwhile, while the US can't extradite him, it can -- and has--charged him with illegal entry. That's pretty small beer compared to the crimes of which he has been charged, but there isn't much else that we can do.
The Code Pink ladies understand that these complexities are not generally known by the public -- and certainly the MSM has done nothing to enlighten it -- so they decided to make a big fuss in Miami knowing perfectly well the kind of hot reception they would get. Their purpose was not to convince the Cuban emigre community that Posada Carriles is a criminal. They did this to make sure the "Posada Carriles/plane bomb/terrorist/US complicity" meme landed once again on the front pages of our papers -- and not just our papers, but the Guardian, El Pais, Le Monde, etc.. Time will tell whether they have succeeded.
LOL, No where to run, No where to hide.
Hope on - they won't.
The locals, mostly Cubans who have fled Castro's island prison, became a bit angry and began to chase the ladies out of the area with some choice comments.
I would pay to see that! I wouldn't call them ladies...
yet if we return criminals to countries where they will be tortured the looney left whine like the little pukes they are....
roflmao !!!
Code Pink Idiots
Well, it is important because the media does not know he was already tried and they don’t know there is no double jeopardy in Venezuela and they don’t know Chavez has said he is guilty and no trial is needed. This is important because Code Pink is not going to tell the truth. They want to fool people into believing that the US harbors terrorists and therefore the US is a terrorist state. They don’t tell you that with Chavez’s announcement that no trial is needed for him because everyone knows he is guilty we cannot legally extradite him.
This was posted a few weeks ago on FR complete with video link. So much for the UNREPORTED and UNKNOWN details.
FR report
Sorry about that. I kind of like to monitor this groups activities because they are so dishonest I believe they appeal to the ignorant. I was not totally enlightened by what happened until I read this. Why do you never see these details reported in the mainstream media and you have to look so hard for them is beyond me. Thanks, I know you all are on the ball even though the media may not be.
Not all the members of Code Pink are “ladies”.
None of the members of Code Pink are “ladies”.
Fixed it for you
"Ladies"? Not by any definition of the word I am familiar with.
Obviously, quite a few people on this thread never saw the earlier FR report.
Thanks for posting this one, Wyatt.
Thanks for the ping, RB!
And Wyatt, thanks for this story.
It’s good to have more than one article on the same story.
It also looks this may be two events, one on the 18th, and the other on the 13th.
And then you'll want to make your own anti-Code Pinko video.
Thanks for finding this stuff, Wyatt.
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