While I have been tempted to criticize this practice as an example of conflict of interest and that the person may be tempted to win in order to get a cash award, there have been instances in which it has helped sports and schools. For example, WCIV News 4 reported about the Palmetto Gold Award and Silver Award for schools that excels. There have been reports about The University of Exeter in the United Kingdom offering Sports Scholarships for Golf, Rugby, Sailing, Tennis, and Cricket.

What the Government of the Republic of Kenya is doing is giving the tools in order for the youth of that country who want to major in sports can excel. In a continent dominated by war, politics, and poverty; sports is a way out of this endless spiral and a way to help the country. Imagine a country where there are potential sports people without an outlet. Imagine what Kenya is doing to promote future Sports Personalities. The possibilities are endless. People in Kenya who want to major in a sport can receive that opportunity from their government. Many of those who major in sports receive their gold, silver, or bronze medal and the possibility of advancing in life. The people who benefit from such a programme can inspire future generations to excel in sports as well. For those who are tempted to criticize the notion of Kenya paying its athletes to win Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals; my response is that when Nancy Kerrigan won in the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway in 1994, she received endorsements from major corporations. She was also honoured by a Walt Disney World Parade in Orlando, Florida. Who cannot forget how Oxana Baiul from the Ukraine received endorsements after winning in the same Winter Olympics of 1994? It is with these comments that I endorse Kenya’s Government paying their athletes to win Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals.

REFERENCE:
CRI English; Xinhua: “Kenya Announces Cash Rewards for Medalists in Beijing Olympics”
http://english.cri.cn/6066/2008/07/28/65s386600.htm

WCIV News 4: “Charleston County School District Receives 26 Cash Awards”
http://www.wciv.com/news/stories/0108/486564.html

The only way to show your disgust at the injustices that the League and the FA have visited on us, is to show that you/we will not be beaten and that we will do all we can to ensure Luton stay in the league and thrive thereafter. A major part of this is attending games and helping to create an intimidating atmosphere at the Kenny to make it a fortress that visiting teams will dread coming to.

By way of cancelling out the 30 points in my mind, there are (at least) 10 good reasons (3 points each!!) why we have a lot to be positive about and why you should attend games and support the club like any normal season, despite our unjust handicap:

1. The Investors - Godfrey Ingram, Steve Foster, Bob Curson, Mick Pattinson and the others. They have showed their support for the club in a massive way. Let's thank them for ensuring we still have a football club to support by packing out Kenilworth Road.

2. Nick Owen - a superb figurehead

3. The operational team - Gary Sweet, Stephen Browne and Antony Brown. These individuals have been working incredibly hard, having inherited a club that was in a total mess thanks to previous incumbents. Without their contribution and intervention, I dread to think where we would be now. Oh, and these are genuine lifelong fans unlike some people who were previously involved at the club

4. Mick Harford - especially the way he's been talking recently - like the true leader and legend he is. He believes we can survive - so should we (I certainly do)

5. The players - for wanting to play for the club despite our handicap, they deserve our respect and support.

6. This could be one of the most memorable seasons in any team's history. You will not forgive yourself if you miss it.

7. Showing defiance to the FA and League that we will not go away and our collective spirit will not be broken

8. Show to the football world that we have the one of the most resilient, loyal fan bases in the country, especially as we may well be a lot of football fans' 2nd team this season

9. You will help make the Kenny a fortress by helping to create an intimidating atmosphere.

10. To ensure we can continue to attract decent players by showing what great support we have.

I believe we can get out of this and continue our long and proud history in the league but we, as fans, must be that 12th man both home and away and inspire the players to a glorious season. If we all pull together as a group, this campaign can be one of the great chapters in our history.

Your support will be rewarded in the longer term as 2020's business model means that we have a secure future - a future that I'm extremely confident will bring plenty of success on and off the pitch.

Up the Hatters

Xinhua News Agency and the CRI English Website announced that there was more to the interview of the North Korean Sports Participants in the Olympics with the interview of Hong Un Jong [Gymnast for North Korea or its official name the Democratic People's Republic of Korea] and Cha Kwang Su [Wrestler for North Korea].

While the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [North Korea] have two gymnasts participating in the Beijing Olympics for 2008, Hong Un Jong hopes to repeat the success that she had in the 3rd Asian Gymnastic Championships [2006] when she won the Gold Medal. She stated: “I want to compete with the master players of the world. If I could give full play to my talent, I would get a good result”.

There are three wrestlers from North Korea [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] competing in the Beijing Olympics 2008 with Cha Kwang Su saying that he knows what the people expect, and that he will create a new period for North Korean Wrestling. He further declared that he received his inspiration from the wrestlers of North Korea [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] in the 1980’s.

Again, I do not want to make any predictions. The only thing that I will do is extend an invitation to the people to watch the Beijing Olympics of 2008 on CCTV or CRI English. If you have a shortwave radio, please listen to CRI English for the latest news from the Olympics.

REFERENCE:

CRI English; Xinhua: “DPRK Gymnast Vows to Win Medal”

http://english.cri.cn/6066/2008/07/28/65s386589.htm

CRI English; Xinhua: “DPRK Wrestler Vows to Create a Prosperous Period”

http://english.cri.cn/6066/2008/07/28/65s386576.htm

Press TV: When you began your campaign soon after the Iraq war and of course, after your son's death, you didn't really have the support of the American people, how do you think the American people's point of view about Iraq has been changed since you launched your campaign.

Sheehan: Since my son died, of course when Casey died, an overwhelming amount of Americans still approved of the war and still approved of George Bush and the time I have been doing my activism since he died and especially since august of 2005 when I was sitting in a ditch in Crawford Texas.

The shift in American opinion has shifted dramatically to being overwhelmingly now against the occupation of Iraq and against George Bush, he has a very low approval rating.

Congress's approval rating is even lower is only 9 percent and today like you said they had the hearing on executive abuse of power without being able to say George Bush's name, without being able to accuse him of any crimes or any lies.

They had this very weak hearing and of course we believe and I believe the American people are ready for some accountability, George Bush and Dick Cheney should be held accountable for the hundreds of thousands of deaths and the pain that they have caused in the world.

Press TV: Because of course you kind of bowed out last year, saying that you were exhausted and then you were running against Nancy Pelosi after the scooter Libby case? What role are you playing in all of this now?

Sheehan: Well, I really believe that even though the hearings were imperfect and they were very weak, I believe that my campaign which is picking up momentum and excitement in San Francisco was one of the reasons that Nancy Pelosi took the small baby step forward and said that the hearings and the House Judiciary Committee may happen.

There has been so many people working for impeachment, they have been lobbing John Coniers, they have been lobbying member of the House Judiciary Committee, they have been really working with Nancy Pelosi encouraging her to do this, but in the last few weeks or so my campaign, we're getting money pouring in and we're getting signatures pouring in to get me on the ballot and I think that happened because people in America are really disappointed with the lack of leadership in Congress to really take this country in a different direction.

In the past few weeks, congress has approved $163 billion more dollars for George Bush's occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. They have given George Bush the permission to spy on Americans without getting a warrant and they have given the telecom companies immunity from breaking those FAISA laws that have been in place since 1978, and even more importantly, people like Karl Rove and Harriet Mayors and Josh Bolton are able to resist congress and not show up for petition.

I mean when they have been subpoenaed they do not show up, the congress won't hold them in contempt, they won't use their powers to have them physically brought in….

Press TV: Why would the Congress do that? There was so much hope wasn't there? because people widely saw that the Democratic victory in Congress as being an anti-war vote, and yet the congress does not seem to be doing any thing about that, they voted for the surge and as you said they are not even doing anything about people failing to turn up after being subpoenaed.

Sheehan: Well, we do have some great testimony from people who are in Congress right now; I don't blame the entire Democratic Party for the weakness of the leaders, and for the actual complicity of the leaders.

We found out last December that Nancy Pelosi was briefed on George Bush's torture methods and what our country was doing to innocent human beings; waterboarding, the stress positions, the torture prisons, Nancy Pelosi and Jay Rockefeller in the senate and both of them have come out strongly against impeachment and we believe it is because congress is complicit in many of the crimes, especially the leadership in Congress.

They're briefed on what the president is going to do, they don't make a public stand against torture, they don't make a stand against warrantless wire-tapping or holding people, detaining people without their basic human rights of due process of a fair and speedy trial and to not be tortured.

So many times I believe that the two party system and the system is so correct that people who are in high leadership positions they can't do anything to resist the system because they are a part of it.

Press TV: And if it's so systemic, you were mentioning the wiretap program and people who have been saying that the Democratic convention is sponsored by AT&T, the company and a few other of those companies. We have been covering Obama's trip to Europe. He is of course very much in favor of the war in Afghanistan. Do you really see any difference can be made given the two party system?

Sheehan: Like the grassroots level, the Democrats here in America are very progressive. They want the same things that I think are important to this country.

They want the troops to come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, they want universal single pair healthcare, they want their environment clean, they want the United States to eliminate its addiction to fossil fuels so we can have peace and so we can have a clean environment and sustainable future.

The grassroots Democrats want that, but now if they say Barack Obama is their candidate they have to demand this from him. I don't think there is any difference between killing innocent people in Iraq and killing innocent people in Afghanistan.

The people of Afghanistan and indeed the government of Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 and they were willing to give up Osama bin Laden to an international tribunal if the Unites States gave them the proper evidence, the proper warrants and the US refused to do that.

Now, two countries are destroyed. Thousands of American families have been devastated and over a million Iraqis and Afghans have been killed and or are refugees and their country is destroyed and I think somebody needs to be held accountable for that.

Press TV: Yes in deed, there was a wedding party of course and the ISAF massacre just days ago but Obama isn't for that. Isn't there a problem about being part of a grassroots movement…well I remember this Ralph Nader, the green party candidates, of course they don't really stand a chance of power in the United States, do they?

Sheehan: Well, the way the electoral system is set up right now is very hard and the way our media is, its very hard. Like Dennis Kucinich was a very strong anti-war, pro-peace, pro-impeachment candidate and he gets shut out of the debates. Ralph Nader gets shut out of the debates, Cynthia McKinney the green party candidate is a very strong candidate for peace and accountability and she gets shut out of media coverage.

So it's hard to get people to vote for you if they don't even know that you exist and in America unless you're on CNN or on the mainstream debates the people don't hear your position and that's very unfortunate.

Press TV: And finally Cindy Sheehan, Iran…Obama was again making comments about Iran. I think he has made them in every city that he visited on this tour. We have had so many comments coming from the White House leaks, press reports, pressure in the IAEA, leaks from Vienna, do you think the US people would be able to have a stomach for war on Iran?

Sheehan: Well I think that of course the corporate media and the administration they are pushing for an invasion of Iran and I want to trust Mohamed ElBaradei from the IAEA commission who said there were no weapon of mass destruction in Iraq and he turned out to be correct and he has said that Iran is not enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb program that theirs is a peaceful program for energy, and Iran is a sovereign country, if they want to - I don't agree with nuclear power as a form of energy but if the government of Iran, if the people of Iran want that - they should be able to with the proper restraints and with the proper oversight. And the IAEA is the perfect group to do that and to make sure that Iran's nuclear program stays for energy purposes.

But then nobody talks about the fact that Israel has nuclear bombs, nobody talks about the fact that the United States has an overwhelming nuclear arsenal and we have to start talking about that, disarming all nuclear weapons, using alternative forms of energy, solar energy and wind energy and clean fuel for our power needs, and not to use nuclear power which are the very dirty and dangerous form of energy.

REFERENCE:
Davies, David; BBC Sports: “My Olympic Flame is Burning” 28th July 2008 at 12:58PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/my_olympic_flame_is_burning.html#dnaacs

Estimado David Davies: Lei el articulo escrito por usted en la BBC. Considero que los edificios Olimpicos en Beijing y Qingdao superiores y compatibles con los deportistas incluyendo los de natacaion. Mis mejores deseos desde Miami Florida.

Estamos en veremos tomando en cuenta las victorias de Alemania, Brasil, y los Estados Unidos. EEUU esta en Primer Lugar con Alemania en Segundo. Los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica logro victorias en el Futbol Femenino en el 2008 con la Copa Algarve y la Copa de La Paz. Incluso, los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica en el futbol femenino derroco a Brasil en un partido amistoso. Desgraciadamente, Abby Wambach [uno de los pilares del equipo femenino estadounidense] sufrio una fractura de su pierna durante el juego. No me atrevo pronosticar en que parara las cosas en el futbol femenino. Lo unico que puedo hacer es extender una invitacion a mis lectores par ver los Juegos Olimpicos el 8 de Agosto de 2008 a las 8 de la noche. Los Juegos Olimpicos se puede ver mediante la television o puedes escuchar a Radio Internacional de China mediante el receptor de onda corta y/o ordenador.

REFERENCIA:

Xingua, CRI English: “DPRK Vows to Win Women’s Football Gold”
http://english.cri.cn/6066/2008/07/28/65s386540.htm

http://www.ussoccer.com/common/stContent.jsp_26-2007AlgarveCup.html

While Ri Kum Suk has talked about a victory using “great willpower, unbreakable fighting spirit and special technique”, it remains to be seen how North Korea will fare against the German, Brazilian, and United States Team. While North Korea won the Asian Cup for Women and has won all of their qualification games, USA is in first place with Germany being in second place. The United States Women Football [Soccer] Team won the Algarve Cup and the Peace Cup for 2008. In fact, the United States was heading towards victory until Abby Wambach broke her leg during a friendly game against Brazil in which the United States of America won another victory.

What remains to be seen is how the Women Football [Soccer] games will play themselves out in the Olympics and if North Korea [the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] will win the Gold Medal. I will not make any predictions until the news and information is further examined. In the meantime, the people who are reading this article should watch the opening of the Beijing Olympics 2008 on the 8th of August 2008 at 8:00PM and see the entire games to see history unfold.

REFERENCE:

Xingua, CRI English: “DPRK Vows to Win Women’s Football Gold”
http://english.cri.cn/6066/2008/07/28/65s386540.htm

http://www.ussoccer.com/common/stContent.jsp_26-2007AlgarveCup.html

Monday, July 28, 2008

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org

Greens warn that antiwar Americans will waste their votes if they vote for Obama, citing his positions on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East

• Votes for Green nominees McKinney and Clemente will build a permanent alternative to the bipartisan war agenda, say Green Party leaders

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders said today that antiwar voters will not get an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by voting for presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama on Election Day.

Green leaders urged Americans who oppose the wars started by the Bush Administration with bipartisan support in Congress to vote instead for Green nominee Cynthia McKinney, running mate Rosa Clemente, and Green congressional candidates.

"Millions of voters plan to vote for Barack Obama in the hope that he'll bring peace to Iraq and other nations in the region," said Omar N. López, Green candidate for the US House in Illinois (4th District) (http://www.omarlopez2008.org). "But his positions are really 'McCain-Lite' -- he'll continue many of the same belligerent foreign policies as the Bush-Cheney Administration that John McCain would. Mr. Obama supports a larger military in terms of both spending and personnel. We want to stop the US from being the world's bully, and instead fund a peace dividend to deal with the economic, energy, and global warming crises."

"We appeal to voters to take a look at the Green Party's 'Peace Slate' of candidates, with Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente on the Green presidential ticket. A vote for a candidate who doesn't represent your own ideals is a vote wasted," said Mr. López.

Green Party leaders compared the Green antiwar agenda to Barack Obama's positions:

IRAQ

• Despite the popular impression that Sen. Obama intends to end the Iraq War, he plans only to reduce troops over a 16-month period. He would maintain an 'under the radar' occupation to protect US interests, which is code for the US and British corporate demand for control over Iraqi oil. (No-bid contracts have already been anounced for ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and Total.) Sen. Obama promises to shift troops around the region, placing US forces in countries surrounding Iraq.

• The Green Party and Green candidates support an immediate and full withdrawal of US troops and military contractors from Iraq, and control over Iraqi oil resources returned to the Iraqi people.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=37
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=18

AFGHANISTAN

• Sen. Obama intends to expand the disastrous US war on Afghanistan, which has already left the country in ruins and continues to destabilize the region.

• Greens support full US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and an internationally cooperative investigation and prosecution of those behind the 9/11 attacks.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=37
http://gp.org/press/pr_2006_09_11.shtml

ISRAEL-PALESTINE

• Sen. Obama has repeatedly promised unqualified and uncritical support for Israel, despite the Israeli government's illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and massive abuses of human rights, including Israel's recent violation of a pledge to the US not to construct new homes in a West Bank settlement (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/24/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast).

• Greens have called for the withholding of all US assistance, especially billions of dollars in military aid, until Israel reverses its current policies and adheres to international law, human rights protections, and UN directives, including withdrawal from occupied lands and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=61

IRAN

• Despite promises of diplomacy, Sen. Obama has signed on to the Bush Administration's threat of a US or US-backed Israeli assault on Iran, even though intelligence confirms that the Iranian government is not using its nuclear power to build weapons.

• Greens have warned that an attack on Iran would bring untold consequences, including a greater regional or global conflict, and that the threat itself is an incentive for Iran and other nations to seek a nuclear arsenal. Greens call for an end to such threats, for diplomacy and friendship with Iran, and for an aggressive effort towards regional and global nuclear disarmament, noting the menace posed by Israel's and Pakistan's possession of nuclear weapons.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=67
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2007_10_08.shtml

The Green Party has also urged impeachment and criminal investigation of the Bush-Cheney Administration's numerous abuses of power in launching the Iraq invasion as well as other actions. Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership have rejected all attempts to hold the latter accountable for its crimes.

As US Representative from Georgia in 2006, Cynthia McKinney was the first member of Congress to introduce motions for impeachment.

"Many Obama supporters don't realize that the differences between Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain on foreign policy are actually quite narrow and based on the same assumptions. Both believe that the US has a right to occupy other countries, place political demands on their leaders, and take control of their resources. But other voices are getting frozen out of the debate, including the Green nominees for the White House and Congress, whose campaigns are building America's permanent peace party alternative," said Carol Brouillet, Green candidate for Congress in California's District 14 and founder of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance (http://www.communitycurrency.org).

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
• Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
• Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
• Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
• Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections

Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the White House http://www.runcynthiarun.org

Rogue Nation
by Charley Reese

DIGG THIS
One gets the impression that there are some people in Washington who believe that Israel or the U.S. can bomb Iran's nuclear reactors, fly home, and it will be mission complete.

It makes you wonder if perhaps there is a virus going around that is gradually making people stupid. If we or Israel attack Iran, we will have a new war on our hands. The Iranians are not going to shrug off an attack and say, "You naughty boys, you."

Consider how much trouble Iraq has given us. Some 4,000 dead and 29,000 wounded, a half a trillion dollars in cost and still climbing, and five years later, we cannot say that the country is pacified.

Iraq is a small country compared with Iran. Iran has about 70 million people. Its western mountains border the Persian Gulf. In other words, its missiles and guns look down on the U.S. ships below it. And it has lots of missiles, from short-range to intermediate-range (around 2,200 kilometers).

More to the point, it has been equipped by Russia with the fastest anti-ship missile on the planet. The SS-N-22 Sunburn can travel at Mach 3 at high altitude and at Mach 2.2 at low altitude. That is faster than anything in our arsenal.

Iran's conventional forces include an army of 540,000 men and 300,000 reserves, including 120,000 Iranian Guards especially trained in unconventional warfare. It has more than 1,600 main battle tanks and 21,000 other armored combat vehicles. It has 3,200 artillery pieces, three submarines, 59 surface warships and 10 amphibious ships.

It's been receiving help in arming itself from China, North Korea and Russia. Unlike Iraq, Iran's forces have not been worn down with bombing, wars and sanctions. It also has a new anti-aircraft defense system from Russia that I've heard is pretty snazzy.

So, if you think we or Israel can attack Iran and not expect retaliation, I'd have to say with regret that you are a moron. If you think we could easily handle Iran in an all-out war, I'd have to promote you to idiot.

Attacking Iran would be folly, but we seem to be living in the Age of Folly. Morons and idiots took us into an unjustified war against Iraq before we had finished the job in Afghanistan. Now we have troops tied down in both countries.

China has a tremendous investment and interest in Iran and would likely see an attack as a threat to its national interests. China could strike a large blow against the U.S. just by dumping the financial paper we have foolishly allowed the Chinese to pile up, thanks to the trade deficit.

For some years now, I've worried that we seem to be more and more like Colonial England – arrogant, racist, overestimating our own capacity and underestimating that of our enemies. As the fate of the British Empire demonstrates, that is a fatal flaw.

The British never dreamed that the "little yellow people" could come ashore by land and take Singapore from the rear or that they would sink the pride of the British fleet, but they did both.

I suppose no one in Washington can imagine the Iranians sinking one of our carriers in the Persian Gulf. How'd you like to be the president who has to tell the American people that we've lost a carrier for the first time since World War II?

Exactly how the Iranians will respond to an attack, I don't know, but they will respond. In keeping with our present policy, our attack on Iran would be illegal, since under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

Who would have thought that we would become the rogue nation committing acts of aggression around the globe?

June 30, 2008

Carta Abierta al pueblo de Cuba del Comandante Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz (Ex-Jefe de la FAR)

En este espacio del Diario Las Américas, le doy cabida a la carta que el 21 de octubre de 1959 lanzara sobre Cuba el que fuera jefe de la Fuerza Aérea Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz, donde denunciaba los propósitos del hoy moribundo comunista Fidel Castro. Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz acaba de fallecer arrancándose la vida de un disparo sobre su angustiado corazón. Su denuncia no fue suficiente para despertar la conciencia nacional sobre lo que iba a pasar con la naciente Revolución que bajó de la Sierra Maestra.
Armando Pérez Roura

Cada día que pasa aparece una nueva mentira para calumniar y vejar a quien por amor a la Patria y a la libertad, más que a su propia vida, una vez mas renunció a todo. No creo que el pueblo de Cuba pueda jamás olvidar quiénes fueron Martí, Maceo, Máximo Gómez y todos aquellos gloriosos mambises, especialmente José Martí, ese cubano grande y generoso que predicó siempre amor y benevolencia para con el prójimo, quien ni para sus propios enemigos albergaba en su corazón odios ni rencores, luchando con¬tra éstos en forma que lo enaltecía, con la frente enhiesta, con la verdad en los labios que brotaba de su corazón.

Pueblo de Cuba, este humilde cubano que jamás ha hecho otra cosa que defenderte, que luchar sin descanso, velando celosamente por tu libertad, solo quiere hacer llegar a tí unas cuantas verdades que pueden ser puestas en la balanza de tu propio juicio y frente a las mentiras y calumnias de quien tanto esperas y tanto esperaba yo.

Debo puntualizarte primero que jamás he atacado a nadie en particular sino que he señalado y repudiado la infiltración y presencia de comunistas en el gobierno. Sólo por éste hecho se me ha llamado traidor, desertor, cobarde, nepotista y se ha llegado al increíble cinismo de hacerme responsable de los últimos y lamentables accidentes de aviación acontecidos en Cuba. Se me ha tildado de incapacitado, sin embargo, el propio Fidel, el día que me acusó públicamente, reconoció que el 70% de las armas que se llevaron a ambos frentes las llevé yo… y hay ciertas personas que se atreven a publi¬car que yo renuncié a la jefatura de la FAR porque quería más dinero y porque no tenía meritos revolucionarios. ¿Entonces a quien debemos creer, a Fidel o a esa persona que lo desmiente?

Este humilde servidor del pueblo de Cuba, comenzó a trabajar dando pico y pala a la edad de 14 años mientras se costeaba sus estudios de mecánica de aviación; a los 18 años ya era mecánico y piloto y a los 20 años era piloto de una línea aérea. Raúl Castro me ha llamado “pepillito” y yo me pregunto cuándo ese señor se ha ganado el pan con el sudor de su frente! ¿Cuándo ha tenido “callos” en las manos de trabajar? En todo caso él era el “pepillito” que jamás ha mojado la tierra con su sudor.

Debo aclararte, pueblo de Cuba, que esas armas que llevé al Segundo Frente Frank País y a la Sierra Maestra, no lo hice por Raúl ni por Fidel. Definitivamente NO! Lo hi¬ce por Cuba, lo hice por devolver a mi Patria las libertades perdidas, NO PARA PERPE¬TUAR EL CAUDILLISMO. NO MAS JEFES INDIOS! Hace falta conciencia ciudadana! CADA HOMBRE UN VOTO! Con una Constitución que garantice y restablezca las libertades y los derechos humanos.

Pueblo de Cuba, yo no puedo ni podré jamás traicionarte. Yo me honro en ser descen¬diente directo de un hombre que todo lo dio por tí durante toda su vida, hasta el último segundo: JOSE MARTI. El tiempo te demostrará que yo soy un cubano bien nacido, que mi madre es una SANTA y mi padre, a quien también han calumniado llamándolo macha¬dista, siendo él uno de los primeros oficiales de honor que se rebelaron contra el dic¬tador Machado y quien en el año 1930 fuera condenado a dos años de prisión que cumplió, quien luchó siempre sin claudicar contra Batista, quien fue honrado y lo demuestra el hecho de que nada tiene hoy en día, excepto una conciencia muy limpia ante los ojos de Dios y una moral muy alta que los batistianos de antes y los seudorevolucionarios de última hora pretenden mancillar con viles calumnias, es un hombre digno y decente.

Muchos se habrán preguntado qué me llevó a tomar la determinación de renunciar a mi cargo. Pues bien Uds. conocen y escuchan sobre las ideas y pensamientos izquierdis¬tas de Fidel, Raúl, Guevara, etc., a través de la Radio y la Televisión. Uds. no han podido, como pude yo, escuchar de los propios labios de Fidel sus intenciones de in¬troducir un sistema como el que existe en Rusia. En mi presencia en un vuelo de re¬greso de la Sierra Maestra escuché como Fidel conversaba con Núñez Jiménez, Alfredo Guevara y la Srta. Celia Sánchez, diciéndoles que el mantendría engañado al pueblo de Cuba y lo mantendría a su favor mientras ganaba tiempo con el objeto de organizarse militarmente para que cuando el pueblo comprendiera el engaño, poder dominarlo por la fuerza y que entonces mataría, si fuere necesario, no a un grupito sino a mas de cuarenta mil personas para lograr sus propósitos. -Yo juro ante Dios que esto es cierto y el tiempo se encargará de demostrarlo. Fidel se ha convertido en el nuevo dictador de Cuba. Un dictador que hace creer al pueblo que es éste el que manda. Sin embargo, que alguien se atreva a discrepar con su modo de pensar y entonces será tildado de contrarrevolucionario y hasta de batistiano y trujillista.

Pueblo de Cuba, ¿quieres comprobar si eres tú quien manda realmente en Cuba? Pídele a Fidel que elimine a todos los comunistas que ocupan cargos importantes en el Gobierno y en las Fuerzas Armadas y que convoque a elecciones. ¿Por que no hacerlo si él puede ganar a través del VOTO casi todas las posiciones en el Gobierno? ¿Sabes por qué Fidel no te aconseja esto? Sencillamente porque él quiere introducir en Cuba un nuevo sistema politico-social que se llama COMUNISMO. ¿Sabes por qué Fidel está destruyendo la Economía Nacional sin importarle un bledo el hambre y la miseria que el pueblo de Cuba pueda pasar? Porque pretende que todo pertenezca al Estado. En otras palabras, quiere implantar el sistema COMUNISTA en Cuba.

FIDEL MIENTE! sí, miente vilmente y a mí me consta. Muchas veces lo oí en privado decir todo lo contrario de lo que decía al pueblo. Ejemplo: “ARMAS PARA QUE”. A espaldas del pueblo mientras pregonaba: “ARMAS PARA QUE” compraba en Bélgica mas de 50,000 fusiles, 22,000 Garands que llegaron de Italia, barcos de guerra en Alemania y aviones Hawker Hunters que está comprando en Inglaterra, todo lo cual importa más de TREINTA MILLONES DE DOLARES. Hay en Cuba actualmente mas de 100,000 fusiles-ametralladoras, los tanques, barcos y cañones que tenía Batista y todavía se está comprando más. “ARMAS PARA QUE”, Fidel? Esos TREINTA MILLONES DE DOLARES que son DIVISAS también, extraídos del Tesoro de un país lleno de niños hambrientos, bien pudieron invertirse en mejorar la Economía Nacional, abrir nuevas industrias, colegios, etc.

Quizás diga para justificarse que esas armas son para defender la Revolución “verde olivo” y negará que con sólo un puñado de armas y hombres nosotros conquistamos la victoria. No le bastaba a Fidel las armas que tenía Batista para mantener su dictadura? Miente Fidel al decir que no hay comunistas en el Gobierno. Esto no lo puede admitir aún pues las milicias juveniles no han sido debidamente adoctrinadas y entrenadas… Fidel no ataca de frente. Ataca como sólo los comunistas saben hacerlo. Como “buen camarada” utiliza el conocido sistema de destruir mediante difamaciones la reputación de quienes se le oponen, aunque para ello tenga que descender a utilizar la vil mentira y la calumnia, pues según los comunistas: El fin justifica los medios.

Para concluir, sólo quiero decirle al pueblo de Cuba que le pida a Dios que Fidel rectifique y que reconozca a tiempo todo lo daño que le está haciendo a Cuba. Que dé un paso definitivo hacia adelante, subsanando sus errores y cambiando su política. A tí Fidel, sólo te digo que recapacites. TIENES AUN LA OPORTUNIDAD de hacerlo y de ser lo que en realidad nuestro pueblo cree ahora que eres. Pon en práctica nuestra Constitución democrática, no te ciegues ni te endioses. No dejes que la adulonería y el servilismo de quienes te rodean te impida ver la verdad. Renuncia a ser un dictador más en Cuba y una nueva decepción en las paginas de nuestra historia. No crees más odios entre los cubanos, respeta la sangre de nuestros mambises y la de nuestros compañeros que te dieron el poder y que no la derramaron para que ahora introduzcas el COMUNISMO en Cuba, conjuntamente con Raúl, el Che, Núñez Jiménez, etc.

Con toda la gravedad y responsabilidad del caso te digo que si no te retractas y eliminas el comunismo, comenzaré a combatirte como combatí a Batista, Pedraza, Masferrer y demás camarilla enemigos de Cuba, porque tú, Fidel Castro Ruz, al igual que ellos, te has virado contra los altos destinos de nuestra Patria y has demostrado, con tu actuación indigna e hipócrita, ser el verdadero TRAIDOR A LA LEGITIMA REVOLUCION.

Los Angeles, Jul 8, 2008 / 05:38 am (CNA).- A police sergeant who has served as an officer for nearly sixteen years has filed suit against the Los Angeles Police Department, alleging he was illegally demoted and repeatedly denied promotions for his off-duty remarks citing Scripture verses critical of homosexual acts.

The lawsuit alleges that the LAPD has “historically discriminated against LAPD officers that engage in protected activity and continues to discriminate against officers that cite from the Holy Bible.”

Sgt. Eric Holyfield, who when off-duty is also a senior pastor at the Gospel Word of Life Apostolic Church, made the remarks on September 29, 2006 during his delivery of a eulogy at the funeral of Officer Nathaniel Warthon Jr. at a private chapel in Whittier, the California Catholic Daily reports. As he eulogized his fellow officer, Holyfield identified himself as a sergeant and Wharton’s supervisor, according to the suit, but was clad in black clergy attire rather than his uniform.

The officer’s family had requested Holyfield, who was on vacation and off-duty at the time, deliver the eulogy.

In the eulogy Holyfield quoted various Scripture passages, including First Corinthians Chapter 6 which reads in the King James Version, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminates, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God.”

Holyfield’s lawsuit, which was filed on June 19 in Los Angeles Superior Court, described the incident, saying “Holyfield quoted those chapters and verses, as well as others as he explained the following general statements, i.e., men should not lie with men; women should not lie with women; to do so was an abomination or sinful; one must repent or be condemned to hell…”

The funeral was not sponsored by the LAPD, but several high-ranking officers attended, including Deputy Chief Charles Beck. The lawsuit alleges that Beck said Holyfield “made disparaging remarks about homosexuals, lesbians and adulterers during his sermon,” which is against LAPD policy. The suit claims Deputy Chief Beck “acted on his religious biases and initiated a formal complaint against Holyfield.”

In early October, 2006, Holyfield received a phone call from his immediate supervisor, Capt. James Craig, while at home on vacation. Craig told Holyfield he had received “a number of complaints concerning you in regard to the funeral. Police officers, community members, clergy people, and as a result, I’m going to have to move you.”
Holyfield was removed from his duties as Officer in Charge of Community Relations, which the lawsuit describes as a “coveted assignment.”
According to Holyfield, he tried to argue that departmental policy did not apply because the statements were in a church outside the city, he was wearing civilian clothes and he was on vacation. He argued that the funeral was not “an extension of the workplace.”
Craig told Holyfield he would be returned to the detective division, allegedly saying, “you need to revert back to detectives or I’ll have to put you in patrol.”

Holyfield claims he has been denied promotions at least nine times because of his religious beliefs.

According to the California Catholic Daily, the suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, lost wages, attorney’s fees, and a permanent injunction against the LAPD prohibiting similar actions against its officers in the future.

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