Will Secret Police Get Elian Too?
John LeBoutillier. NewsMax.com. Thursday, June 1, 2000.
Today may be the day when Elian’s fate is decided by the Appeals Court in Atlanta. Last night Miami’s Channel 7 reported that the decision would be announced this morning.
Lost in the debate over the fate of little Elian Gonzalez has been the real nature of the Castro regime.
Apologists for Castro, such as the National Council of Churches and the Methodist Church and lawyer Greg Craig (how much money has he made so far off the suffering of this boy and the Gonzalez family?) have carefully sidestepped what the future holds for Elian should he be forced against his
will to go back to Cuba.
Yes, we know that a "special compound" has been prepared for him and his family and schoolmates. But what will go on inside that compound?
And what will happen to all members of Elian’s family back in Cardenas? What are those family members going through right this minute?
Conspicuously absent, of course, in the mainstream media has been any skeptical or cynical reporting on the vicious and brutal nature of Castro’s rule.
Cuba’s system of state security was originally modeled on the East German security services, the dreaded Stasi. Fidel Castro, no fool he, from the outset of his regime placed his own brother, Raoul, in charge of the Cuban State Security Services. Their goal: prevent and wipe out any dissent
before a challenge to their rule rose to prominence.
The Castro brothers followed the standard Stasi handbook for controlling a population. All sorts of horrific techniques were – and still are – employed. Spying, torture, death squads and drug/psychological manipulation have all been standard fare.
Even Fidel’s own daughter, who years ago defected and now lives in Madrid, is still afraid to speak freely. Her own mother – Fidel’s onetime lover (he didn’t bother to marry the mothers of his children) – is still in Cuba. His daughter predicts that if Elian and his
father do go back to Havana, after a year or two of prominence they will "disappear." Why? Because Fidel and his regime cannot afford for father or son to ever escape Havana’s clutches, Castro will have to make that potential problem go away.
Castro’s apologists here repeatedly claim that there are no more "executions" in Cuba. I always ask these "useful idiots" one simple question: "How could any of us possibly know what goes on inside a closed-border police state?"
How do they know what is happening in the basement of some brutal torture-ridden prison? Or maybe it is true that there are no executions today because over the past 41 years the Castro boys have "pruned out" every dissenter. In other words, they have already killed everyone who would
dare even think badly of the regime!
The naivete of America’s left would be laughable if it were not also so dangerous.
Last week Erich Mielke died in Germany. This brutal, evil bastard was the head of the East German Stasi from 1957 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here are but a few excerpts from last week’s Associated Press obituary. Just these few incidents and quotations demonstrate not only what
happened in East Germany but also what is still happening today in Cuba:
"Erich Mielke, who as head of East Germany's dreaded secret police and spy agency compiled vast information on its citizenry, has died. He was 92.
"He was East Germany's most hated man, heading the Ministry of State Security, known as Stasi, that was the key to the Stalinist regime's power until a peaceful democratic revolution toppled it in 1989. Stasi snooped on dissidents and ordinary citizens, placed thousands of agents to spy on
top Western officials and sheltered leftist Red Army Faction terrorists from then-West Germany. Under Soviet orders, Mielke's agents even kept tabs on East German communist leaders.
"The all-pervasive domestic network included 85,000 full-time spies and 170,000 voluntary informers. Stasi headquarters, housed in a forbidding high-rise complex in East Berlin, ran files on several million people that are still providing revelations to journalists and academics today.
"Mielke, who relished appearing in public in a medal-laden white uniform, also commanded a nearly 10,000-strong paramilitary force.
"Officials say that some 900 people were killed trying to flee over Communist-constructed barriers to the West from August 1961, when construction on the Berlin Wall started, until February 1989, when the last shooting death was reported. The wall fell nine months later.
"Born in Berlin on Dec. 28, 1907, Mielke joined a German communist youth group in 1921 after World War I. He joined the party in 1925 and worked as a reporter for its newspaper.
"He became a member of the party's paramilitary force and escaped to Belgium after the police killings in Berlin. Moving to Moscow, he attended the elite International Lenin School in the mid-1930s. He fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, then returned to the Soviet Union.
"At the end of World War II, he helped organize police in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany and rose through the security apparatus after East Germany was founded in 1950, becoming Stasi chief in 1957.
"Two days after the Wall opened, he tried to justify himself in a rambling speech to the East German legislature. Delegates laughed as he insisted, 'I love everyone, all people.'
"But his true side was revealed years earlier when he addressed his Stasi subordinates: "All this talk about ‘no executions’ is just twaddle. Of course there are – there must be – executions.' "
This is the same mentality that today runs Cuba. And it is to this island prison camp that America may send this little boy? What a disgrace!
Elian: Wye the Move?
John LeBoutillier. Wednesday, May 31, 2000
When it comes to the case of little Elian Gonzalez, nothing is normal.
Last week the family moved from the Wye River Plantation to Washington, D.C. No one has satisfactorily explained why – or Wye – the move.
In the days immediately preceding the move I received e-mails detailing an "argument" not reported in the mainstream national news media. (I am so surprised!)
I then asked various people to keep me and NewsMax in the loop. Here, then, is a short chronology of the strange events surrounding the Elian move to Washington, followed by my short analysis of the real reason for the move. (The following is exactly as I received it – caps and all):
1) Received several days before the move:
"** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** UPDATE ** DURING MY LUNCH BREAK ON THE RADIO 610 WIOD AM (NEWS STATION), THEY STATED THAT THE PRESS WERE WITNESS TO ABUSE FROM JUAN MIGUEL. WHILE AWAITING A PRESS CONFERENCE, REPORTERS HEARD
ARGUING IN A CLOSED DOOR ROOM WHERE JUAN MIGUEL AND HIS FAMILY WERE. PER THE REPORTERS, JUAN MIGUEL WAS HEARD DISPUTING W/ ELIAN BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT PUT ON HIS "YOUNG PIONEER" COMMUNIST UNIFORM. DURING THE ARGUMENT, JUAN MIGUELS WIFE (ELIANS STEPMOM) WAS HEARD TRYING TO GET IN THE MIDDLE
IN DEFENSE OF ELIAN. SHE NOW SPORTS A BRUISE ACROSS HER FACE."
2) Received simultaneously as the move was announced:
"You have been sent this message from WIZZ219@AOL.COM as a courtesy of the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com).
THEY DON'T SAY WHY THEY WANT TO MOVE. THE NEIGHBORS ARE COMPLAINING OF TOO MUCH FIGHTING GOING ON (JUAN MIGUEL & WIFE)
To view the entire article, go to http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58093-2000May23.html
Next Stop for Elian: D.C.
Elian Gonzalez, his father and a Cuban entourage of about a dozen relatives and friends are expected to leave the bucolic Eastern Shore of Maryland and move into the heart of the District, possibly by the end of this week.
The 6-year-old shipwreck survivor and subject of a highly publicized court battle over whether he should live in Miami with distant relatives or return to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel, is moving to the Rosedale estate in the Cleveland Park section of Northwest Washington.
At its request, the entourage is expected to move to the estate owned by Youth For Understanding International Exchange in spite of preferences by the State Department and the U.S. Marshals Service that it remain on the more isolated Eastern Shore.
"If they decide they're going, the marshals are going with them," one government official said.
Nonetheless, that doesn't mean the marshals can tell the Gonzalez family and the other Cubans where to go or what to do, said Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade.
"They are not in custody," Wade said. "They are free to move about."
3) Received later in the week:
"<< ..DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION I CAN PASS ON TO HIM ... LIKE NAMES AND DATES AND TIMES AND POLICE REPORTS ... ANY LITTLE THING WOULD HELP ... THANKS ... JOAN >>
Hi! I interviewed a man that lived in Cardenas and was very close to J Miguel and his family. He confirmed that J Miguel hates the system and wanted badly to leave the island. When I questioned him about the abuse he stated he did not know about the abuse. I can assure you that he was lying.
You have to understand that Cubans that have lived under a communist system are not like u or I. They live in constant fear and think twice before they speak. One thing is true my dear Joan. Fidel's hands are long, very long. If the man that I interviewed states that the abuse is true even in
the US his life could be in danger. Scary, no? Let me tell you kiddo, things are bad, very bad and I don't speak of Elian or Cuba, I speak of the US. So sad that so many have fallen to keep us free and then come sons of bitches like Clinton, wife, Reno and the rest of the clan. I am sorry I can't
help you, I don't know much more."
Conclusion: There is much more to this move than we know. Something went on at Wye that caused the Castro regime to move the boy closer to their control in Washington.
How can there be these reports of some sort of "argument" and then suddenly the whole little Cuban enclave is packed up and moved to within a mile of the Cuban Interest Section in D.C.?
Obviously there is something to this. Obviously Juan Miguel is an unhappy man and has taken it out on those closest to him. Until and unless he can ever speak freely we will never know the truth.
But one thing is certain: neither the Clinton administration nor the Castro regime nor the lawyer they share, Greg Craig, will ever tell us the truth.
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