Chris Simmons Now “Respectable”
Recall that last summer when Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons was outing such as Marifeli Perez-Stable and Julia Sweig , such crackpot chusmeria made him a tad declasse for "respectable" exile circles, which treated him very gingerly.
Babalu blog (and radio) was among the few who proudly stood with the Lieut. Col. and helped him broadcast his vital message.
Well..it took a while, but "respectable" circles seem to be finally catching up with Babalu
I respect my cat's litter box more than the "respectable" circles you're talkin' about...
So are the Miami Herald and FIU doing anything about Perez-Stable and others like her? Are they even acknowledging that there is, shall we say, legitimate cause for concern? I seriously doubt it. Don't ask, don't tell. When and if the government acts as it did with the Myers couple, then maybe they'll (gasp!) admit that, just possibly, they should have looked into the matter a bit more. Perhaps.
Related but not on topic
Today I could not open Miami Herald News on the web
Is this a general failure?
Larry Daley
daleyl@peak.org
Money quote:
After the inevitable disappearance of the communist dictatorship in Cuba, when the intelligence archives are opened, we shall see how the Ministry of the Interior -- trained by the KGB and the Stasi but with a lot more imagination, with its thousands of agents and collaborators, its dozens of satellite organizations and its huge resources devoted to collecting information, releasing disinformation, disseminating propaganda -- or even killing, if necessary -- achieved such amazing successes.
Volumes will be written.
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I think we should trade Castro these 2 old senile geezers for Oscar Biscet. Then if Cuba wants the "Cuban 5" back, they can trade every single political prisoner on the island for them (500 or more).
Carlos Alberto Montaner omits mentioning that his intimate friend Marifeli Perez-Stable has been accused of being a Castro spy. Montaner and Perez-Stable are both members of the Miami Herald's Board of Contributors. They have frequently appeared together on TV programs in Miami. Montaner has been telling the Cuban exile community that those are lies against Perez-Stable. In contrast, last Thursday, Armando Valladares published an article in the Washington Times directly accusing Perez-Stable, Julia Sweig, and their comrades of being Castro agents. Read it here at
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/18/their-men-in-higher-ed/
When these accusations against Perez-Stable surfaced in Nov. 2006,
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/marifeli.htm
she had ACLU attorney John de Leon send threatening letters to those circulating the facts. She failed to follow up with legal action. Perez-Stable has not dared to respond to the Valladares accusations in the leading conservative newspaper in America.