Fidel castro releasing political prisoners

[Castout]

I'm actually very surprised no one here has brought the subject up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/lat...a/10547660.stm


Aside whether he's a tyrannical despot or not I give Fidel Castro a thumb up for willing to give these political prisoners their freedom exile or not.

I could only hope he would show more mercy towards those who are still imprisoned due to their political beliefs. And I hope God's grace would be shown to him when he departs this world and before that a peaceful happy life. I just want to say THANK YOU Mr Castro!

[Raptor1]

Raul Castro is the president of Cuba now...

[Platapus]

So the Castro brothers were working on their budgets and decided it would save money by kick some losers out of prison so they don't have to feed them?

Or is my cynical side showing this morning.

[SteamWake]

LOL the Castros do this on a regular basis... they have been doing it since the 60's... overcrowding in the jails... no problem send them to america !!!

What a guy.

[geetrue]

Rare public apperance for Castro just today. It was his first time in four years ... at a think tank no less.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/artic...c%20Appearance

[SteamWake]

He must be feeling better. I posted a 'sighting' of Fidel on shortwave radio just last week.

I figured he was dead.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Platapus

So the Castro brothers were working on their budgets and decided it would save money by kick some losers out of prison so they don't have to feed them?

You got to pinch pennies when you run the largest military in the Caribbean! Those three MiG-29s they got are not cheap to operate. And it took a lot of money to put a pair of SS-N-2 missiles launchers and a 57mm gun on a fishing trawler!


Oooops they just became the 2nd most powerful military in the Caribbean... one of our Coast Guard Cutters just arrived.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

You got to pinch pennies when you run the largest military in the Caribbean! Those three MiG-29s they got are not cheap to operate. And it took a lot of money to put a pair of SS-N-2 missiles launchers and a 57mm gun on a fishing trawler!


Oooops they just became the 2nd most powerful military in the Caribbean... one of our Coast Guard Cutters just arrived.

LOL

Originally Posted by SteamWake

LOL the Castros do this on a regular basis... they have been doing it since the 60's... overcrowding in the jails... no problem send them to america !!!

What a guy.

Ah, I remember working for the BOP when the Cubans were rioting in our prison system. The DOJ finally agreed to deport them out of the country and send them back to Cuba where they came from. They had us escort them onto planes chartered by the USMS and back to Cuba they went.

As we landed the Cuban Army boarded the plane with their ARs and demanded we unlock the prisoners legs from the floor of the plane. Once we did that they grabbed the Cuban prisoners by their hair and dragged them off the plane, pissing and screaming all the way down the stairs and onto the tarmac.

The Cuban Army lined them all up nicely in a row on their knees, hands still cuffed behind their backs, facing away from the plane and then mowed them down in front of us with machine gun fire. Castro was a man of his word!

You see, Castro had told those prisoners not to come back to Cuba no matter what or they were dead men. That's why they were rioting in the US prison system here in the US. They didn't want to go back to Cuba because they knew they were dead men. And they were apparently right!

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Raul Castro is the president of Cuba now...

Umm yea though Fidel Castro probably played a part to give his consent as well.

Originally Posted by SteamWake

LOL the Castros do this on a regular basis... they have been doing it since the 60's... overcrowding in the jails... no problem send them to america !!!

What a guy.

Umm actually it's Spain and as far as the media is reporting US offered no sanctuary to these released political prisoners.

Their last mass release of political prisoners was back in the 1998 or about that year so it would be more accurate that they don't do this on regular basis unless you're telling me a decade is regular