Imagine a Canada Free Press contributor thanking Timothy Mc Veigh in the acknowledgements to his books. Imagine a Tea Party speaker doing same. Imagine a Heritage Foundation Senior fellow proudly acknowledging how Timothy Mc Veigh "championed" his research and writings.
Might the MSM notice? Might they react? Might their reaction consist of more than a few polite coughs behind the hand?
Well, here's New York Times
contributor and Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow
Julia Sweig in the acknowledgements to her book,
Inside the Cuban Revolution: "In Cuba many people spent long hours with me, helped open doors I could not have pushed through myself, and offered friendship and warmth to myself during research trips to the island...Elsa Montero and Jose Gomez Abad
championed this project."
"Fine, Humberto," you say. "But just who are these folks who championed Ms Sweig's book? And how on earth can you equate them with Timothy Mc Veigh?"
Well, I admit the equation is somewhat imprecise. The folks to whom media darling
Ms Sweig seems so grateful are Castroite officials who were expelled from the U.S. in 1962 for coming within a hair of pulling off some terrorism that would have probably dwarfed even the horrible 9/11 death toll. So my "imprecision" refers to how the murder toll these Castroite's (Che Guevara was head of Cuba's "Foreign Liberation Department" at the time, so he undoubtedly signed off on this) planned for U.S. holiday shoppers would have dwarfed the 168 people murdered by Mc Veigh.
A little background: On Nov. 17, 1962, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI
cracked a plot by Cuban agents that targeted Macy's, Gimbel's, Bloomingdale's and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The massive attack was set for the following week, the day after Thanksgiving. Macy's get's 50,000 shoppers that one day.
Castro and Che planned their Manhattan terrorism short weeks after Nikita Khrushchev foiled their plans for an even bigger one. "Say hello to my little friends!" Castro had dreamed of yelling at the hated Yankees in October of 1962, right before he imagined mushroom clouds appearing. But for the prudence of the Butcher of Budapest, Castro might have pulled it off. "If the missiles had remained," Fidel's sidekick Che Guevara confided to The London Daily Worker in November 1962 regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, "We would have used them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York."
In his diaries, Nikita Khrushchev hints that Fidel and Che's mass murder fantasy (these maniacs might get their fingers near the buttons!) was a bigger factor in his decision to yank the missiles from Cuba than JFK's so-called blockade.
At any rate, in the nick of time on Nov. 19th 1962, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI foiled Castro's TNT bomb plot, arrested the conspirators and prevented the probable slaughter of thousands of New York holiday shoppers. A little perspective: for the March 2004 Madrid subway blasts, all 10 of them that killed and maimed almost 2,000 people, Muslim terrorists used a grand total of 100 kilos of TNT. Castro and Che's agents planned to set off five times that explosive power in the some of the biggest department stores on earth, stores that would have been packed to suffocation and pulsing with holiday cheer on the year's biggest shopping day.
The chief plotters were Roberto Santiesteban,
Elsa Montero and Jose Gomez Abad, all employed by Cuba's diplomatic mission at the U.N. The rest of the plotters belonged to The Fair Play for Cuba Committee, an outfit that a year later
really racked up some headlines.
Castro's Stalinist regime often plays host to Ms Julia Sweig. Given the Obama State Department's promotion of cultural and
educational exchanges to Cuba we can only imagine that her visits to Castro's fiefdom will become much more frequent. And given this "opening" to Cuba by the Obama team, we also expect Castroite officials who "champion" Ms Sweig's "projects" to reciprocate with more visits to the U.S.
