W: "If you harbor terrorists, you are just as guilty as the terrorists", remember that?

[ck4829]

Think of how angry Americans would be if Pakistan's government let Osama bin Laden emerge from his cave of refuge and take up open residence in Islamabad?

A scene just like that is the reality here in the United States where Luis Posada Carriles, who ranks in the top ten list of the world's most prolific terrorists, is living freely in Florida--despite his known involvement in blowing up a civilian airliner and other bombings and assassination attempts over more than forty years. Since May, when a Federal judge tossed out the minor charges of immigration fraud leveled by Alberto Gonzales's Justice Department, Posada has been enjoying life in Miami's hard-line Cuban exile community. The U.S. media has all but forgotten about him. His victims, however, remain seared by this remarkable injustice and so should we.

Today, after all, marks the anniversary of the mid-air destruction of Cubana Airlines flight 455, which took the lives of 73 passengers and crew, including the Cuban Olympic Fencing team and a group of teenage Guyanese science students on their way to Cuba to go to medical school. Their families will commemorate this day of loss, as they have for 31 years, wondering whether Posada and his co-conspirator Orlando Bosch--who is also living freely in Miami--will ever be brought to justice.

But for those of us in the United States, the case of Luis Posada Carriles is not only about a long overdue legal reckoning for the victims of terrorism, it is about the hypocrisy of the purported leader in the global fight against international terrorism now harboring a renowned purveyor of terrorist violence. "The United States cannot tolerate the inherent inhumanity of terrorism as a way of settling disputes," declared a 1989 Justice Department ruling that Orlando Bosch should remain detained or deported after he illegally returned to the United States from Venezuela. "We must look on terrorism as a universal evil, even if it is directed toward those with whom we have no political sympathy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-stephens/the-terrorists-among-us_b_67409.html

[TomInTib]

1. Posada Carriles holds the keys to many locked closets.

He's untouchable.

And he is also one of the reasons that I do not have much of a problem with people bearing sidearms.

Maybe someday...

[malaise]

2. I'll never forget this bombing

Never. :cry:

[muntrv]

3. "....but if you support Amurka, you're not a terrorist," says chimpy.

[woodsprite]

4. We're living in the United States of Tortuga. n/t

[SaveAmerica]

5. Does he have any connections to the Bush family? Or is that a stupid question

since he's evil and got away with murder?