haquihana, check out this article...Marxist communist brainwashing on American soil. Supported by the Clinton/Gore administration.
Oh, I forgot, this gang of wonderful communists just visited the boy because they care....
newsmax.com
Brainwashing Began the First Day at Wye, Congressman Says
NewsMax.com
Friday, April 28, 2000
Outraged that the State Department allowed 10 Cuban government officials to descend en masse on Elian Gonzalez the very first day of his arrival at the so-called retreat at Wye River, a congressman charged that the boy is being brainwashed "on U.S. soil."
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said Elian is "being placed under a systematic program of brainwashing, and it is being done on U.S. soil, under the protection of U.S. officials. What do a dozen Cuban state security agents have to do with the bonding process between a father and a son? It is monstrous and Orwellian."
Describing the predawn rain that tore Elian from the bosom of the family that has lovingly sheltered the boy since his November rescue as "blatantly illegal," the congressman said: "They lied under oath, after hours on Good Friday. It was based on the lie that Elian was an illegal alien. He was never illegal," he fumed. "Now, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, they are systematically brainwashing that defenseless boy."
Frank Calzon, spokesman for the Center for a Free Cuba, told the Washington Times that the only people not being allowed on the Wye Plantation are the Miami relatives and the media.
"I thought this was a family dispute. Why do they need all these diplomats? They are turning the plantation into something outside the jurisdiction of the United States," he said.
Listed among the 10 Cuban officials visiting Elian Tuesday were two first secretaries, one second secretary, two counselors, four support officers and the "spouse of second secretary." The State Department, which refused to give the names of the Cubans, said the purpose of the visit was to bring "supplies,? the nature of which was also kept secret.
Incredibly, according to a blockbuster story in today's Washington Times, the only newspaper to reveal the shocking visit, one of the 10 is thought to have been Armando Collazo, a man D.C. police say was one of the Cuban thugs who viciously attacked and beat peaceful protesters outside the Cuban Interest Section in Washington.
Fidel Castro himself first reinforced the widespread belief that Elian would be brainwashed once he was in the hands of his communist father when the Cuban dictator said it was essential that Elian's "rehabilitation" process - to help him get over recover from the shock of his "kidnap" by the Miami relatives and his dramatic "rescue" by armed U.S. agents last weekend - begin immediately - if not in Cuba for the moment, then in the U.S.
"The essential thing is to save the boy, both mentally and physically," he told reporters.
Experts familiar with Marxist rhetoric note that "rehabilitation" is the word communists use to describe the extended psychological torture others call brainwashing.
Castro even released photos of the Cuban retreat where he said Elian will spend at least three months being "rehabilitated" once he arrives in Cuba.
As the Times story noted, a federal appeals court has forbidden Elian from being taken to any Cuban property outside U.S. jurisdiction. It did not forbid visits by Cuban officials, however, a loophole the government appears to have exploited in permitting the 10 so-called diplomats to see and possibly intimidate Elian on his first day at Wye by their sheer numbers.
Moreover, because the United States does not have diplomatic relations with Cuba and only allows a delegation to handle matters dealing with Cuba to be in Washington, regulations forbid Cuban officials from traveling more than 25 miles in any direction outside the nation's capital. Cuban diplomats, many of whom are thought to be members of the DRI - Cuba's version of the former Soviet KGB and GRU police-state and spy agencies - must request permission five days in advance to go beyond that limit.
The State Department generously waived the five-day waiting period and gave the Cubans immediate authority to go to the Wye River plantation complex, which is a full 70 miles from Washington. a senior State Department spokesman confirmed to the Times.
"We provided authorization for [the 10 Cuban officials] to go out there the day the boy was moved," the spokesman said. "They did not have permission to stay the night."
"If people want to believe that Wye Plantation is being turned into a Cuban re-education camp, they can believe that. I don't know any way to convince people otherwise," the official said.
According to the Times - the only major daily newspaper to cover the shocking story of the attack on the anti-Castro demonstrators outside the Interest Section on 16th Street Northwest on April 14 - government and congressional sources said Collazo's name was on a list of 10 Cuban officials involved in the attack. His card was found by police at the scene after the incident.
According to Times reporters Tom Carter and Jerry Seper, a D.C. Police Department report said the incident took place at about 7:30 p.m., when "10 unidentified Cuban employees of the mission came out and began to assault the demonstrators on the front sidewalk." The report said there were about 20 anti-Castro Cuban-Americans on the streets peacefully protesting Elian's return to Cuba.
It would appear that not everybody in the Clinton administration is harboring near-romantic feelings about the bearded dictator. According to the Times, while the Clinton administration has continued to be more cooperative than confrontational with Castro's repressive communist government in the Elian Gonzalez saga, one senior State Department official went out of his way to blast Castro's actions in the matter as "absolutely deplorable.
Peter Romero, assistant secretary of state, charged that Castro has used the custody battle over the boy in an effort to create "a diplomatic-political clash" with the United States. He said Castro had "manipulated" the affair for "complete domestic purposes." |
