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July 9, 2002
Stanton and Madsen
God, Incorporated
Kurt Nimmo
IDF, Gangbanging
with Tanks
Bill Christison
Disastrous
Foreign Policies
of the US Part 3:
What Can We Do About It?
July 8, 2002
Rick Mercier
Yucca
Mountain Bound
Lev Grinberg
The
BUSHARON Global War
Tariq Ali
How Bush
Used 9/11 to Remap the World
Lori Allen
The Tugs
of War:
Palestinian Life Under Curfew
July 7, 2002
Alexander Cockburn
White
House Crooks
July 6, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Loose
Lips:
Liberty, Democracy & Bush
Michael Neumann
What's
So Bad About Israel?
Steve Baughman
Ashcroft's
Vendetta:
Lynching John Lindh
July 5, 2002
Ahmad Faruqui
Bush Freezes Peace Process
Todd May
Independence
and Terrorism
Rahul Mahajan
Why I
Won't Celebrate the Fourth of July This Year
July 4, 2002
S. Brian Willson
What
the Flag Means to Me
Philip Farruggio
Independence Day and
the Working Poor
Tom Gorman
The Uncommon
Pledge
of Allegiance
Chris Floyd
Jungle
Fever:
Bush's Bolivian Mercenaries
July 3, 2002
Francis Boyle
The Death
of the Oslo Accords
Mokhiber / Weissman
Cracking
Down on Corp. Crime
Robert Jensen
Lynne
Cheney's Primer
Behzad Yaghmaian
An Alternative
to the G-8s Africa Initiative
Toward a Global AIDS Fund and a Living Wage
John Borowski
Public
Schools Under Seige
Norman Madarasz
Brazil,
the Workers' Party and the Financial Times
July 2, 2002
Leah Wells
The Wedding
Was a Bomb
CounterPunch Wire
Trial of
the SOA 37
Edward Hammond
Bombing
the Mind:
The Pentagon's Drug Warfare
Sam Bahour
Ramallah
Occupied:
Uninvited Guests Become Neighbors
July 1, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Brazil's
Triumph
June 28/30, 2002
Kathleen Christison
The True Story of Resolution
242 or How the US Sold Out
the Palestinians
Cockburn / St. Clair
Death,
Juries and Scalia
Tarif Abboushi
Bush's
Double Standard
on Israel
N.D. Jayaprakash
Seething
with Rage:
The Palestinian Saga
Michael Yates
Taking
the Pledge:
Teachers and the Flag
Stephen Zunes
Bush's
Speech a Setback
for Peace
Walt Brasch
The Pledge
v. The Constitution
Cockburn / St. Clair
Strikers
as Terrorists?
Tom Ridge Calls Longshoremen
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July
8, 2002
The Bush Family's
Bloody Pals
Florida a Sanctuary for Terrorists
by Jack McCarthy
Florida is not only a sanctuary for retirees and
tourists. It is also a haven for terrorists, some retired some
still active.
Now Florida doesn't harbor the kinds
of terrorists who would interest our bumbling "Homeland
Security" inspector Tom Ridge mind you.
These are the kinds of terrorists who
would be welcomed at a backyard BBQ thrown those WASP Sopranos,
the Bush family.
A few of them have recently been in the
news.
First there's the notorious Orlando Bosch,
the anti-Castro fanatic who most likely blew up a civilian Cuban
commercial airliner in 1976, killing all 73 passengers aboard,
including the entire Olympic fencing team.
Although he denied ultimate responsibility,
Bosch called the incident "a legitimate act of war."
Bosch served a decade in a Venezuela
prison for the heinous deed before finally going on trial. To
the shock and horror of many, Bosch was acquitted and subsequently
returned to the U.S.
Visa-less, Bosch was arrested for parole
violation in connection with his shooting a cannon at a Polish
ship docked in Miami.
President Bush, the 80s model, was strongly
urged by Attorney General Dick Thornburgh-- who called Bosch
an "unrepentant terrorist"--and many others in law
enforcement to give Bosch the bum's rush in the form of a deportation
notice.
But thanks to some heavy-hitting lobbyists,
Bosch not only wasn't deported -- he was granted a pardon.
As it happens, the heavy hitters took
the form of the future Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and Raul Cantero
III, the latter being Bosch's attorney.
Jeb at the time was the campaign manager
for the dreadful Illena Ros Lehtinen, a candidate for Claude
Pepper's old congressional seat and a strong supporter of Bosch.
Jeb is now being heavily lobbied to appoint
Raul Cantero to be Florida's first Hispanic state supreme court
justice.
There is some resistance, but not as
much as you would assume in light of the events of 9/11.
One Miami radio host implored listeners
to email their objections to Bush.
The July 2nd St. Petersburg Times editorial
succinctly outed the Bush-Bosch-Cantero connection and warned
Bush to consider the international ramifications of appointing
an unrepentent apologist for an unrepentant terrorist to sit
on Florida's highest court.
And then we have the Salvadoran terror-twins
currently on (civil) trial in West Palm Beach, former Salvadorian
generals Jose Guillermo Garcia and Carlos Eugenio Vides Casonova.
These two papa and baby Bush(s) favs
have more blood on their hands than a Chicago butcher and have
lived a comfortable life in Miami for nearly a decade.
Besides the blood of many thousands of
Salvadorans, they are widely believed to have approved the murders
of 6 American nuns, killed by their troops. Soon after these
Mansonesque murders, the twins were asked to leave the country.
And they did.
And they were welcomed with open arms
by their sponsors, the US government and the state of Florida
which the terror twins now call home.
For the second time the generals are
face-to-face in court, this time in the Federal court in West
Palm Beach, facing fellow Salvadorans who accuse them of aiding
and abetting their time on the torture rack in El Salvador.
On Tuesday June 25th former U.S. ambassador
Robert White testified at the trial. In response to claims that
the twins were unaware of such activities, White vividly explained
to the jury why the truth was quite otherwise.
White told that even after showing then
Salvadoran Defense Minister Garcia a tape of his soldiers shooting
down school kids in a school house, the general merely "shrugged"
and sauntered away. Not fazed in the least.
More recent testimony by the Salvadoran
victims has been compelling and has linked the terror twins more
directly with the murder and mayhem.
It's hard to say whether or not Bush
will suffer much if Cantero gets the nod. The Florida press corps,
despite some good moments, has mostly been domesticated by Bush.
Even the likes of Carl Hiaasen seem to
have little time for holding Bush's big feet to the fire and
most settle for firing blanks at the generic "Republican-dominated
state."
The truth is that Bush is one of the
worst governors ever. But while his charm works well with the
press, his approval ratings, which were falling pre-9/11, are
slowly headed south again.
A silent (near) majority is taking notice
finally of what Jeb Bush and his marauding privateers have done
to this state and the institutions and services people rely on
such public schools, higher education and health care.
A campaign tape which recently fell into
the hands of a Democratic Party operative showed that even national
Republican officials consider Jeb vulnerable.
It's bad enough Florida harbors terrorists
like the Salvadoran twins and Orlando Bosch. But Floridians are
beginning to get fed up --and even terrorized--over Jeb's wholesale
destruction of state government.
Jack McCarthy is CounterPunch's Florida correspondent.
He lives in Tallahassee and can be reached at: jackm32301@yahoo.com
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