This woman is nuts! Perhaps she is off her meds?
I would be ashamed to have this person be my representative. First of all, it is against all laws of this country to assassinate a head of state, or any other foreign national by an American citizen. Secondly, it is against all the laws of the various gods in the pantheon, including Jesus, Mohammed, Allah, Jehova, et al. There are more civilized methods with which to deal with people with whom you disagree.

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What is it about Florida these days? I live in Lalaland, Southern California, and I have yet to hear anything like this from our elected representatives. We do some pretty off-the-wall stuff here, but I think this lady needs to be put back where she came from very gently. If she came here to get away from Cuba, I have questions about her family's business dealings there prior to the Revolution. We do it one way here, they do it their way there. But seriously, folks, take the mike away from her. Let her speak her vitriol in her own house.

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In this form over substance administration and governement, it doesn't matter if it's illegal, it matters how you spin it. She plays to the Cuban fighters and nothing else matters. if anyone were to raise the fact that it's illegal to assasinate, and that she could be a conspirator, the spin game would be on.

Let's face it, we don't do business with Cuba because they're communist. Doing business with Vietnam and China is merely good statecraft. We further our hypocrisy every chance we get. It's all in all our names....... I want a bath.

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... uhm, isn't inciting murder a criminal offense????

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The world's biggest school for terrorists, right there in the US, could train her to do the job. Someone send her an enrolment form, please.

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Not sursprising that Ms Ros-Lehtinen is nuts, considering her links to Scientology, to George W Bush, and her similarities to Pat Robertson.

See here.

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Ahhh the slippery slope.

The other day I saw an interview where the person was questioned about when it was appropriate to use nuclear weapons.

I was amazed to see the person hesitate.

Then, he said (approximately), "when it serves us to do so."

No wonder we don't want anybody else to have nuclear - they might follow our example.

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I'm flying to DC now (with a quick stop in London first).

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A news commentator on TV (not FOX) a while back pointed out that there is no law against advocating the assassination of Heads of State other than our own Dumbhead, George. He pointed it out, because Pat "Loonytunes" Robertson called for Hugo Chavez's assassination on the Christian Broadcasting Network (Jesus!), and the authorities never arrested or charged him with a crime. Does that mean we could issue a secular fatwa against every foreign Head of State we don't like? Sounds like a very dangerous precedent has been set by Robertson's words and the government's failure to charge him with a crime. This might be another issue for the Dems to address legislatively next year, before all Heads get targeted by fanatics.

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that she is happy to be representing people "on the island?" a US representative is representing people in another country??? where does that come from?

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Advocating the assassination of a leader of another country must be a crime. If so, will the DOJ prosecute?

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We have plenty of leaders oppressing people right here--she may well be on that list, come to think of it. Somehow I think we'd better find a better way to deal with people whose beliefs we don't share. Hey, I know--let's spread democracy!
And poor Fidel, assassins would have to battle their way into an intensive care hospital room to speed his demise by a few weeks or months.

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I call myself a Christian and I try to follow Christ's example. Christ rebuked the desciple that cut off the ear of the centurian when that centurian came to take Jesus to trial that would ultimatly lead to his crucifiction. We are called die for our beliefs not kill for our beliefs. That is the example of the cross. "Take up your cross and follow me." For the christian "right" not to condem (poor choice of words?) the Robertsons and Ros-Lehtinens baffles me.

If we really belive this stuff, what do we have to fear? Eternity in paradise? Simply by being willing to follow this example? Is this a simplistic faith? It is the example of Jesus and look what he started. Sure its become corrupted but it grew out of persecution. Christians did, at one time, die for thier beliefs rather than kill and then we got too compfortable and put more and more of our efforts into preserving our way of life rather than preserving the faith of Jesus.

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When Orlando Bosch arrived in Miami, he was celebrated. At that time a woman named Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was running for Congress. She would be the first Cuban American elected, which she was. Her campaign manager was a man named Jeb Bush; it was one of his first big political jobs. And one of the cornerstones of Ileana’s Congressional run was “Free Orlando Bosch.” - DemocracyNOW

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She used be my rep when I lived in Key West she's just rabid right wing Cuban that screwed up Southern Florida.

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Hey folks I live in FL, moved here almost 3 years ago and can't wait to make our exit back to NC or Canada in February. Florida is the most blighted, slum, getto state I have ever visited. It has pockets of extreme wealth that you'll see in brouchures, but the rest is a mess!! Recently, Rep. Tancredo from Colorado mentioned Miami was "Third World". Naturally, Jeb Buddy called him "nutts" and there have been at least three mentions of the exchange in the Palm Beach Post. Quotes from articles:"Anyone who believes Miami is not a Third World country is like Jeb, in denial. Just look at the crime, the filth, disharmony, the congestion - very disgusting.";...according to the Census Bureau, Miami's polyglot population represents what Ameirica willl look like in about 40 years. And if America really understood that, it would be worried."

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Once Castro is dead, what next? The Cuban exile community doesn't seem to realize that once their favorite bogeyman is gone, they're toast as well. As long as Florida has been a swing state with a huge bloc of electoral votes, politicians have been currying the exiles' favor by parroting their hard line against Castro. In a post-Castro Florida there will be no more of exiles saying "Jump!" and politicians asking "How high?" Rather than praying for Castro's death (or trying to hasten it), the exiles ought to be propping him up like the stiff in "Weekend at Bernie's."

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If this woman and her statement are not examined and investigated by the DOJ or CIA or some US agency with the authority to arrest her for breaking the law, we are failing to uphold the law. IMAGINE an official from another government exercising the same irresponsibility and calling for the assassination of BUSH? Isn't' it about time we again hold our government to the same standards we hold other governments?

Opps, forgot, that was then, this is now...and IF any other government had done to a country what we have done to Iraq...

Our government is a secretive bastion of liars and hypocrites, running a greed motivated operation and we fund this and pay their salaries, give them healthcare and generous pensions, by dutifully paying our taxes! What does that say about us?

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Ignoring the fact that "El Jefe" is on his last legs and will die soon, what do you think would happen to an ordinary citizen who used a public forum to advocate murder? Jail, right? So why is it different for an elected official? Are those people somehow better than the rest of us and above the law? One thing for certain is that this congresswoman knew damn well she'd get away with her rant before she opend her mouth, and that stinks to high heaven.

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Of course, it never occurs to her that SHE is among the oppressors...the American oppressors who followed the madness of Bush in the blind complicity that passed the Military Tribunals Act and shears away our Constitutional rights! Or Abu Ghraib, or CIA secret prisons? Hmmm, wonder if she knows anything about the some 800 barbed wire concentration camps that have sprouted up all over the U.S., and yet NO ONE will tell us what they are for! Or WHO they are for??

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This kind of crap from Ileana is not new. It's just part of the culture of resentment and hate in the right wing of Cuban Miami. Sad, but true, these are they most hypocritical of hypocrites. They speak in language that is much more hateful and radical than Castro's but according to them, THEY are the victims, and THEY want democracy. They actually oppress people in their own community who disagree with them, and in the 1970s and 1980s were very violent about it. After Castro dies, they will not be taking over, like they think.

And, there are people who have made millions of $$ on the anti-Castro industry, from government contracts to manipulative radio stations (Jorge Mas Canosa, btw, the deceased CANF pres, trained in propaganda at the School of the Americas, and was given free reign over tv and radio Marti). So, they just get off on their own rhetoric. Read anything by Anne Bardach, esp. Nov. issue of Atlantic Monthly (may be Oct) for more info on this.

Anyway, the good thing about this is that the more national publicity this kind of ranting gets, the more they discredit themselves, and the more space that opens up for reasonable dialogue.

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It looks like whole republican base about it,
somebody they do not like, asassinate him
kill Chaves, kill Castro, kill Saddam kill
600,000 innocent civilians in Irak, bomb Iran, Siria
anybody who is not licking their boots.
These sick bastards worse than any Ahmadinejad
Just turn on FOX, with endless line of retired colonels,
generals, Robertsons, Dershowits and so on.
The only words from them You can hear kill, kill, torture,
asassinate, nuke.
No number of terrorists in tousands years will
do so much damage to this country what Bush and his
gang with support of his BASE did.

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Yes, that's what Miami/Dade has become, an official Banana Republic. Those of us living outside that area knew it for sure after Janet Reno went up against them when their enclave held a child captive. Not only is it a 3rd world country, that's how Jeb wanted it, he had to have some way to guarantee Florida to his brother.

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When you hear people on the Right talk about patriotism, remember this:
As with this one, Cubans in Miami don't realize that they're here in the USA now. They think they can be spoiled brats and have it both ways, "representin' the island" instead of only a US Congressional district.
Example Two: why does this "American" administration have top-level members who can't decide which country they literally owe their allegiance to? Why do we have neo-cons with dual citizenship and passports both with the USA AND ISRAEL? I don't give a dam* about being Jewish, Muslim, Christian, etc... if you're going to have any role in our national government, give up your godd***d citizenship and loyalty to every other country!
And for that bastion of American patriotism, the South: name another part of the country that has actually revolted and tried to secede from the Union. Name another part of the country where people continue to celebrate separatism from the rest of the country, including flying the flag of that unsuccessful rebellion.
Cubans, Israelis, and Southern rebels: three bastions of the Republican party who continue to prove either their hatred or divided loyalty to America.

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"And for that bastion of American patriotism, the South: name another part of the country that has actually revolted and tried to secede from the Union. Name another part of the country where people continue to celebrate separatism from the rest of the country, including flying the flag of that unsuccessful rebellion"

Well, I suppose you could call the South a "bastion of American patriotism," after all, you elected George Bush, the finest of patriots.

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And what does this vicious stupid woman hope to gain from such a suggestion? It should receive the rousing condemnation from the entire House, based, as it keeps insisting it is, on 'christian values.' There are people who are oppressed right here in her own country, reminding us of the Bible advice to (and I am paraphrasing): Remove the blot in your own eye before looking to those in others. It is also worth remembering that Cubans have the advantage over us of free universal health care for all, free education through university, and one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Lady, take your hate and shove it!

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All of the rich Cubans who joined up with the US and CIA to suck away all of Cuba's resources and bring in prostitution and gambling, the same ones who had also taken the land away from the farmers and pauperizing the people, took their money and fled the island when Castro defeated the dictator and US puppet Batista and took it back. Ever since they've been conspiring to return and take back the riches they stole. They're not really interested in the US except to the extent that it will help them do that.

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I had moved away from Florida in 1960 until 1980. So I was at a loss to shake the feeling whenever I saw this person on the tube that I was looking Miami's version of Roseanna Roseanna Danna. A character created by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live. In the 20 or so years since I started to think maybe she had mellowed but after hearing her kill Castro comments she's right back in the Roseanna mode...without the brains and sense of humor of the original character. She gets re-elected which shows that many in that community are still psychotic when it comes to Castro. After he's dead from old age will the Cuban exile community call for digging him up? Come to an agreement with the Haitian community? Buy a Zombie spell to put on Fidel's dead body so they can kill him all over again? Vote Democrat?

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If/When Castro finally expires, let us assume that Raul decides to go legit, open a dialogue with the US, hold democratic elections and move into the 21st Century.

Will the hundreds of thousands of expat Cubans, plus all the subsequent US born Cubans choose to return to "The Land of their Fathers"?
I don't think so. The US conglomerates will move in with big hotels and casinos and recruit staff from Central America (SO cheap, you know, and SUCH good workers) and suddenly the mouthy Anti-Castro mob are left without a cause and without the need for US politicians (local and national) to support them - that will be an interesting time.

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