From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:44:27 -0800
Fidel's love for children
and CIA child murders
By *Trendy I. B. Everfickle
No. 151, 10-16 April 2000
I have to admit to considerable satisfaction with the way the media,
particularly
Australian journalists, have reported the vicious kidnapping of poor little
Elian.
Though I'm very disappointed in dear Cameron Forbes describing Fidel (he
always tells
me to call him Fidel) as a dictator (The Australian, Justice dangles on a
G-string,
7/4), but I dare say he had to pander to Murdoch's bourgeois prejudices. If
it were
otherwise he would have repeated the CIA's outrageous lies about Fidel
running drugs,
and murdering and torturing people. And he also wouldn't have exposed those
Miami-based Cuban thugs as would-be law-breakers and fanatics. Yes, I can
always
count on Cameron to do the right thing.
And this brings me to one of the CIA's most horrific atrocities. It was the
summer of
1994 and 10 Cuban children and 22 adults had taken a daytrip on the tugboat
Trece de
Marzo. It was a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky and the children were
having a
simply wonderful time. It was then that a US Coastguard vessel on a secret
CIA
mission came upon them. In a cruel attempt to destroy any evidence of its
presence in
Cuba's sacred waters it opened fired on the tugboat, killing all the
children and
nearly all the adults.
Fidel was so stricken with grief when he heard the news that he rang
immediately to
tell me of the atrocity. What can I say. The poor darling was almost
incoherent.
Stuttering between heartfelt sobs he cried: "How could they? How could even
American
imperialists be so callous and evil?" Poor naive Fidel, even after all these
years he
still has now idea of how evil the CIA and its Miami allies really are.
Not satisfied with murdering these Cuban innocents the CIA and its lackeys
in Miami,
those fanatics as Cameron and Stevie scornfully call them, accused Fidel of
carrying
out the massacre. Well I ask you? Not only that, they even accused him of
denying the
grieving parents the right to bury their own children! No wonder poor Fidel
was
beside himself and felt the need to phone his auntie (the dear boy always
calls me
auntie) and relate his fear of the capitalist press repeating this calumny.
Fortunately I was able to put his mind at rest. I assured him that
Australia's
progressive journalists would never allow this vile lie to be repeated in
the media.
And it's true. A few phone calls to some of my former students was enough to
thwart
the CIA's dastardly plot. Not a single Australian newspaper TV station
reported it.
If you doubt me, just ask dear Cameron or the equally dear Stevie Romei, The
Australian's New York correspondent, and they'll confirm what I've said.
Even so, there are some reactionary commentators, though not in Australia,
who are
regurgitating this vicious lie. Why only recently the Wall Street Journal
allowed
Carlos Alberto Montaner, a so-called Cuban novelist living in Madrid, the
use of its
opinion page to repeat this CIA slander. But our journalists were not
deceived by
Montaner, a paid CIA agent. They rightly ignored the story. You won't find
Cameron or
Stevie parroting this disgraceful propaganda or taking notice of the likes
of
Montaner. These are journalists of real integrity and moral standing. Isn't
that
right, boys?
The honourable
Cameron Forbes
As if to show his ideological contempt for reactionary scum like Montaner,
Cameron
travelled to Cuba and spoke to that very nice Manuel Cuesta Morua,
general-secretary
of the Democratic Socialist Movement. In fact I know Manuel very well, and
it's a
filthy capitalist lie that he is a mouthpiece for Fidel, and is only there
to give
left-wing journalists an excuse to claim that free speech and total
political
opposition is not suppressed in Cuba. I mean, let's be serious, how could
anyone
honestly think that a man likeCameron Forbes could be deceived by such a
cheap trick?
Or that he would even participate in a charade designed to deceive readers.
Cameron
is far too honourable to tolerate that kind of behaviour.
I've known dear Cameron for many years now, and I can assure readers that if
he
thought for one moment that dear little Elian and his emotionally tortured
father
were denied their civil rights in Cuba, that Elian would be nothing but the
property
of the state, meaning Fidel, he would immediately demand that Elian be kept
by his US
relatives. That's the kind of high-minded man Cameron is. Isn't that so,
Cameron?
*********
*Trendy is a free lance journalist whose work frequently appears, under
other names,
in The Melbourne Age and Rupert Murdoch's Australian. She is also a regular
contributor to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ghostwriting many of
its
current affairs programs and documentaries. She lectures on socialist
realism for
journalists at The People's University of Fitzroy. She proudly and rightly
boasts of
the number of journalists she has taught who now work for our metropolitan
newspapers. Even a casual reading of these papers will easily confirm that
hers is
not an idle boast.
Her books Capitalist Exploitation in Austalia and Why Freedom of the Press
in the
West is a Capitalist Lie are a best sellers in Cuba, North Korea and
Vietnam. The
last book earned her the distinguished Naom Chomsky Award for Honest
Reporting on the
Media. But her fame in Australia rests largely on her pamphlet How to
Capture the
Media. It is a classic of socialist subversion and a standard text for ABC
journalists.
Despite her heavy workload she is also president of the Fidel Castro
Society, meeting
with the Great Man several times a year, chairperson of the North
Korean-Australian
Friendship Society, and is a frequent adviser to the Hanoi Government's
Human Rights
Rights Committee. Incredible as it seems, this astonishing woman still
manages the
Lesbian Mothers' Toorak Collective.
Trendy would like to take this opportunity to thank those wealthy
progressive Toorak
residents who have given so much in moral and financial support.
Editor: Toorak is Melbourne's wealthiest suburb.
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