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There are thousands, if not millions, of "Elian"s in Cuba.
Many of the strongest and brightest escaped and made their
home in southern Florida a few hours by boat from the place 
most would describe as their Cuban prison.  Many came 
illegally, as did Elian, and were allowed to stay.  We are 
not discussing the issue of whether Elian or any other Cuban 
refugee should have been allowed to stay.  We are examining 
why this has happened.

How could the economically dependant Cuba become an island 
jail for millions a few miles from Florida?  The  US embargo 
"sanctions" that contains and surrounds Cuba, did not 
free the Cubans from Communism.  No!  It was not done by our 
government to punish Fidel Castro as we were told.  In fact,
it perpetuated a pocket of  Communism in a world that has 
rejected it elsewhere.  Yet sanctions remained our government's 
answer for forty plus years.

The media hype has largely overlooked the story of a captive 
Cuba: financially destitute and politically suppressed, a fifty 
year old, militarist dictatorship. One of the most revealing scenes 
of the entire Elian Story was the short clip of the aging 
Fidel Castro, delivering an hours-long harangue to a standing 
throng of "supporters of Elian."  The expression in the eyes 
and faces of men briefly scanned by the camera was of somber 
nothingness. Each appeared to wear a drab brown uniform, 
standing in obvious boredom and indifference.  Their faces 
told us what the newscast did not; that they were compelled to 
listen to the dictator preach of the glories of Cuba.

Conditions in Cuba are no longer a secret.  Many of the Miami 
refugees will gladly tell anyone who will listen about life 
there from first hand experience or from the words of relatives 
still in Cuba. One can hardly exaggerate the deprivation there. 
It explains, but in no way excuses the acts of thousands of Cubans, 
themselves once refugees, who militantly rallied to prevent Elian 
from being returned, even to his own father.

The very fact that these Cuban immigrants have organized and 
gained political control over Miami, once a stronghold of Jewish 
patriots, is a testimony to their determination and organization. 
We are not condoning their actions, nor are we judging the 
immigration policy that brought the boat people to Florida 
decades ago.  Our purpose is instead to provide a glimpse of why 
the Cuban tragedy exists.  We wish to set aside all the rhetoric 
about Castro, Reno, Clintoneze, and the successive layers of
Democrat and Republican administrations who have lied to us.

The American government made Cuba a jail by its sanctions.  
The iron clad evidence is found by the records of a dozen other 
"Cuba's" hidden from our view by our own government with the 
complicity of the national press.

The United States Government assured Elian's fate as a captive 
of his own government the day it placed the embargo(known as 
sanctions) on Cuba some fifty years ago. In the same way the 
"Warmakers" condemned the helpless children of Iraq to death in 
1991 when the Bush Administration, posing as the United Nations, 
embargoed the survivors of Desert Storm.  For an understanding 
of how sanctions work in real life, let us resort to a barnyard 
analogy, borrowing slightly from Orwell:

A farmer, who owned a little spread at the edge of town,
was known to beat his wife, who is the mother of his many 
neglected children. The sheriff proclaimed righteously the 
need to correct and contain the source of this evil, a pox 
on the whole community that might spread.  He arrived at 
a clever plan to correct the farmer without confronting him. 
He got the townspeople to finance and construct a wall around 
the farmer,  sufficient to cut off his travel, water, fuel, 
food, and communications. "That will teach him," the Sheriff 
pronounced.

A year or two later, the local banker approached the Sheriff
in a lather. He explained that no payment had been made on
the farm, and that it was now necessary to foreclose on the
mortgage, but he could not get over the wall to serve the
papers. In addition, the banker had heard reports of dirge-
like laments and noxious odors near the wall.

A fact finding committee was sent out to spy upon the
errant farmer. They discovered that his wife had gone insane
and was chained to the bed. The smaller children were
unattended and in rags; the older ones were missing and
there was evidence they may have escaped by digging under
the wall. The stench was from the carcasses of dairy herd
that died from lack of veterinary care and neglect.
The farmer had taken up drinking alcohol manufactured from
the corn he was not allowed to sell, and was in a permanent
stupor.

The sheriff scratched his head and announced, "Maybe we need to
reconsider sanctions, they just don't seem to be working".

In the ideal world, where the Sheriff must obey the law, he
might have to stand trial for aiding in the murder of the
farmer's family. In the Hollywood version of this story, the
Sheriff might finally confess and incriminate the banker who, 
it might be discovered, put the Sheriff up to building the fence
in order to acquire the farmer's choice land for an industrial
park.

In our parable, the Farmer can be any Fidel Castro or Sadam 
Hussein, Milosevic or or many others; the wife and children are 
the victims of sanctions world wide.  Your writer leaves to your 
imagination who the Sheriff, the banker, and the townspeople are

Our government currently has starvation embargoed no less
than six countries.  Among the more recent victims are Iraq, 
where 500,000 little "Elians" have died of malnutrition and 
disease resulting directly from the embargo.  Other past 
"sanction" victims of the "Sheriff and the Banker" include: 
Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), South Africa, Libya, Bosnia, 
Iran, Iraq, and most recently, Sudan.

A sanction (embargo) is a acts of war against a weak 
people by the strong one.   Sanctions often aid the incumbent 
dictator cement power over the people, as it did in 
Cuba. There will be more millions of victims elsewhere unless 
Christian Americans awaken to the systematic destruction of
Innocent people in places like Kosovo, Iraq and Sudan.
Christians allowed the problem, we must solve it.

See also : "Heads Up!" Why Gasoline is Two Dollars a Gallon", 
The Iraq story,  to understand the "Warmakers'" agenda.

"Heads Up!" Copyright 2000, may be reproduced in full for 
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