L.S.
Terroristische ((af))-godsdienst) waan- (nadruk op wààn) in wàànzinnigen, zoals diegenen die de aanslag op New York dd 11 sept. deden, dient men met ALLE middelen aan te pakken: ik heb derhalve niet zoveel moeite met vergissingen of fouten van deze of gene instantie (lees geheime diensten van dit of dat land, ja ook de CIA, mits deze diensten maar onder democratische controle staan (en onder een vrije pers etc.)
Des te betreurenswaardig vind ik dat Cubaanse terroristenbestrijders in de USA zware gevangenistraffen kregen.zij waren opzoek naar bom-aanslagplegers in een passagiersvliegtuig, ((76 doden))
Vandaar even het volgende uit Granma:
MIAMI.—A new international effort aimed at collecting the funds needed to run an ongoing publicity campaign to influence public opinion in favor of the release of the five Cubans Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René has been decided after careful analysis by the U.S. Free the Five National Committee.
The campaign has become necessary given the decision on October 31 by the plenary session of the Atlanta Appeals Court (composed of 12 judges) to accept the attorney general’s petition to reconsider the unanimous decision of three judges from the same court announced on August 9, which annulled the trial and sentences handed down to the Five.
It is extremely unusual that the plenary of a Federal Appeals Court should decide to reconsider an unanimous decision of a court on its own circuit, and particularly one like this based on an exhaustive analysis of the specific facts of the case. That unanimous decision argued by the court in 93 pages, illustrates, without any room for doubt, how it was impossible in Miami to guarantee the Five an impartial jury and thus an impartial trial, the constitutional requisite guaranteed to everyone by the 6th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. By violating the Five’s right in August the three-judge Appeals Court determined that the trial was invalid due to having taken place outside the legal parameters established by the Constitution.
Why the Court Plenary decided to review that decision is a question that, given the information available, leads us into a speculative terrain. Although it cannot be discounted that political motives may have played a part in the new decision, what the situation requires is the formulation of a response on the part of those of us who are committed to winning the release of the Five, to finally see that justice is done.
A fundamental part of that response is precisely the decision to take forward this ambitious, although essential, publicity campaign, which centrally includes gaining access to the main media and prompting its interest, given the many violations of basic legal rights – discussed and sustained by the Appeals Court decision that annulled the trial – in the essential aspects of the case.
In order to guarantee to success of this campaign we need to raise a total of $250,000 over the next six months, $100,000 of this amount in three months.
The different organizations and coalitions of organizations that make up the movement for the Five in the United States and other countries have committed themselves in this mega-shared effort that ratifies their full understanding of this cause and solidarity with it.
It is not a matter of minor importance. Totally the opposite. While the international effort that succeeded in raising the $60,000 to publish an advert explaining the case of the Five in March 2004 in The New York Times was exceptional, this is much greater. And, in their vast majority, those who make up this movement for the Five at national and international level are workers and students without too much cash and need what they do have in order to survive. We are all aware of the sacrifices that will be part of this effort.
However, on this occasion for finally achieving justice in the case of the Five, the unanimous Appeals Court decision of last August that overturned the trial and the sentences is in favor of this noble cause. It is a praiseworthy decision that assures legal legitimacy to the new effort within this long campaign, in additional to the moral legitimacy that has always been an integral part of it, and to add to it new sectors of opinion.
On November 15, the Court plenary announced the calendar for this appeals process, as well as the two questions involved in it: the right of the Federal District Court in Miami, to deny the motion for a change of venue, and the procedure during the trial for selecting an impartial jury. The Appeals Court plenary established that all the written arguments of both parties – the defense and the prosecution – must be handed in by January 27, 2006. And it has fixed the date for the hearing in the city of Atlanta, where the court is based, for February 13.
According to this calendar, the appeals process will be much faster than the former one. Thus, those of us committed to achieving – by making justice – the freedom of the Five, have a lot to do in a very short time.
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Einde citaat uit Granma dd 4 dec.2005
Mijn conclusie:
Boycot Bush c.s.
Correctie/aanvulling:
met cum suis bedoel ik Blair,Berlusconi, Balkenende
Sowieso verkeerde conclusie getrokken aan je reactie te zien. Mi scusi!!!