Cuban regime delivers ransom note to White House for American hostage Alan Gross
The Cuban regime of the Castro brothers have delivered a ransom note to the Obama White House laying out the price for the release of Alan Gross, the American aid worker they captured almost three years ago and have been holding him for ransom ever since.
[...] Today, the story of those spies -- called La Red Avispa, or the Wasp Network — rolled up by the feds 14 years ago is barely known in the United States. But its members, now known as the Cuban Five, are national heroes in Cuba – the subjects of mass demonstrations, their pictures on billboards and posters – and their petitions for freedom are championed around the world by Nobel Prize winners, celebrities like Danny Glover, even former President Jimmy Carter.
And they may now prove key to the tense impasse between Havana and Washington over the fate of jailed American contractor Alan Gross, arrested three years ago Monday for distributing sophisticated satellite equipment to Cuba’s tiny Jewish community and later sentenced to 15 years in prison for “acts against the independence and/or territorial integrity of the state.” (Gross says he was only bringing Internet access to Cuba.)
While the U.S. is demanding that Cuba release Gross, who visitors say is angry and frail, having lost 110 pounds in prison, Cuban officials say they are willing to do so only if President Barack Obama will release the Cuban agents.
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Of course Gerardo Hernandez, Castro's good little stinky convicted spy, guilty of murder conspiracy, mouths off in an interview from prison, about how he understands the suffering of Alan Gross. As if he gives a rats ass and has an ounce of compassion for those rotting in Castro's prisons. As if, he's also just a hostage, as if he were denied due process, as if he's lost over a hundred pounds. As if they are somehow equal. Please.
So Gross is angry. He has every right to be VERY angry at Obama, but so far there’s been no sign of that, only the opposite. So who's he angry at? The Castro regime? Well, yes, but that’s like being angry at a snake for being venomous or at a skunk for stinking. That leaves…yep, the eternal dumpster and punching bag…TA-DA!!!...“THOSE PEOPLE,” who can be safely maligned and vilified at will. But it’s OK, really--they’re used to it, and besides, they have to serve some useful purpose, now don’t they?
Humanitarianism to the rescue! Wait for it, because I think it’s only a matter of time. The media will now be much more interested in this story than previously, since Obama is in a much more "flexible" position, and the onus has been put where all the usual suspects want it: on “those people” as the problem, the obstacle, the heartless "very radical right-wing Cuba haters." It's the script, stupid.