Does this guy remind you of someone???

[Nateddi]

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why ofcourse, he is the grandson of right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista. He is now serving on the Florida supreme court thanks to Jeb Bush.

[Beyond Good and Evil]

God Bless America, I'm moving to Havanna....

[Xvall]

Arrg! Remind me to kill myself if I'm ever going to be tried on the Supreme Court..

[Dan Majerle]

Nateddi,

so what if he is the grandson of a dictator who ruled last in 1959? Did he committ any of his grandfathers crimes? Has he done anything wrong to deny him of his current position in the supreme court of Florida? You are judging him on what his grandfather did. You claim to be a communist and adhere to principles of equality, well in that case why don't you extend this principle to such a man who is being treated "unequally" based on a family member who fate decided would be apart of his distant family tree.

[Shyne]

its getting hot in here so take off all your clothes...

[Lefty]

i agree wholeheartedly, shyne
*takes off all clothes*

[Xvall]

Well he probably has a grudge against communism. And Nateddi never said anything bad about him Reuben. He's just stating a fact.

[boadicea88]

I'm packing my bags- Cuba, here I come!! Really Nateddi?

[peaccenicked]

Any friend of jeb Bush is hardly likely to be anything other than a neo-fascist.

[BOZG]

Yeah you can't really judge him before you know much about him but it could be very likely that he is probably very far from being a comrade of ours.

[Anonymous]

Yes and dont forget that the granpa of George Bush was a great frend of hitler!(Absolute true) And now Bush isnt a bit like him!!!!
(sarcasm)

[Supermodel]

I already have all my clothes off.....

[vodun]

Quote: from Beyond Good and Evil on 12:54 am on July 13, 2002
God Bless America, I'm moving to Havanna....
Good! Bye bye!

[Avamatha]

Y'know, I'm grand doughter of my grandmom, and her husbad - so as herself - was a complete natzi.

Just like me, huh?!

*Taking off her clothes and putting them to a suitcase to move to Hawanna with the rest of the community, because it's fun and she's always wanted to visit Cuba*

[RedRevolutionary87]

i dont get it....who is that?...who is he supposed to look like?...y are lawn gnomes eating my carpet?...im scared

[Felicia]

Quote: from Shyne on 1:44 pm on July 13, 2002
its getting hot in here so take off all your clothes...


...I'm getting so hot, I wanna take my clothes off!

[j]

This is what is so bad about this guy:

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
Can new justice tell patriotism from terror?
By Wayne S. Smith
July 13, 2002

Writing on these same pages some weeks ago ("Who is a Terrorist?" Sun-
Sentinel, May 31), I reminded readers that according to President
Bush's own definition, anyone who harbors a terrorist or supports a
terrorist is a terrorist. But where, I asked, did that leave his own
father and brother Jeb and some of his closest political allies
in Florida, all of whom in one way or another had supported, among
other exile terrorists, Orlando Bosch, linked by the Justice Department
to over 30 acts of sabotage and violence, including the downing of a
Cubana airliner in 1976 with the loss of over 73 innocent lives? Should
father, brother and a number of close political allies all be
considered terrorists?

The question now poses itself again even more poignantly, for Gov. Jeb
Bush has just appointed Raoul Cantero to serve as a justice on the
Florida Supreme Court. The objection to Cantero is not that he is
former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista's grandson. That is irrelevant.
Nor is it that he defended Orlando Bosch in court. Of course not.
Everyone has the right to a defense attorney. That is one of
the strengths of our system.

But Cantero did far more than act as defense attorney. Back in 1988
and 1989, he was an advocate and supporter of Orlando Bosch, appearing
at meetings in his honor and indicating his enthusiastic support for
Bosch in interviews on Miami radio. Bosch, he said, was "a patriot."

Do Floridians really want a justice on their Supreme Court who cannot
distinguish an act of patriotism from an act of terrorism?

Of course, Cantero is not alone. It is not surprising that Bush
appointed him, for the governor himself was, and still is, part of the
Orlando Bosch claque. Along with a gaggle of South Florida city
commissioners, state legislators and other community leaders, including
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and then Sen. Connie Mack, Jeb Bush
lobbied for Bosch's release from INS custody. He even met with hunger-
striking Bosch supporters. Acceding to this pressure, in 1989, the
first President Bush freed Bosch and allowed him to live unrepentant in
Miami.

Nor have Bosch's supporters ever recanted, disavowing their support for
Bosch and repudiating his tactics. Not Ros-Lehtinen, not Gov. Bush, and
most certainly not Raoul Cantero, the new Supreme Court justice. One
must assume, therefore, that they continue to support him.

And what of Bosch himself? Has he mellowed at all? No, far from it. In
a signed opinion piece which appeared in the June 16 edition of Diario
de las Americas, he described the efforts of dissidents in Cuba to call
for a referendum, i.e, the so-called Varela Project, as a "sacrilege,"
and denounced the dissidents themselves, from Oswaldo Paya and
Elizardo Sanchez to Vladimiro Roca, as a group of "naïve pacificists."
Their sins, he made clear, were their willingness to co-exist with the
Castro government and their rejection of violence as a tactic.

Clearly, Bosch remains as committed to violence as ever. In a
democracy, he says, violence is "invalid and a crime." But in the Cuban
context, he says, "The banner of pacificism cannot be waved." In other
words, violence is the only path. Reading his statements of June 16,
one has the sense that were it within his power, he'd be back to
blowing up passenger planes.

But where does this leave us, then, in terms of the credibility of our
war on terrorism? President Bush had said that one cannot pick and
choose one's terrorist friends. But that is precisely what has happened
in the state of Florida. The governor, his newly appointed Supreme
Court justice, the congresswoman from Miami and various other state and
local officials continue to support Orlando Bosch, an arch-terrorist.
And, as I pointed out on May 21, he is not the only one. And all
this, apparently, with the approval of President Bush.

This simply takes us back to the concept of one man's terrorist being
another's freedom fighter. Other nations may look at this and ask
themselves why they should take seriously our commitment against
terrorism.

Wayne S. Smith is a senior fellow at the Center for International
Policy in Washington, D.C. and a former U.S. diplomat with service in
Argentina, Brazil and the Soviet Union in addition to Cuba.

Copyright © 2002, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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SUN-SENTINEL of Fort Lauderdale
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

[RedRevolutionary87]

oooo ok i see now....im not scared anymore

[Alejandro C]

This was a very obvious attempt at apeasing the large anti-castro group of voters by electing Batista's grandson. That part is really obvious. These are the group of people that overwhelmingly supported bush and ended up making a huge difference in the last election. Remember, oh yeah, florida, its where he won the presidency.

[Beyond Good and Evil]

Im not judging him on who his grandfather was, Im judging him on who he is: a supporter of the Cuban-American Foundation, which facilitates anti-communist terrorism against Cuba.

[Angie]

I wouldn't say that Bush won the election, as such ...