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</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">(This letter was in the NG in November 2011, in the wake of the Bill Ayers "controversy." A correction is that Lumumba was killed under Eisenhhower's watch.)</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">This letter responds to recent controversies involving Bill
Ayers, Chris Kennedy (son of Robert), Fidel Castro, and the “Black Ops” video
game.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">The Kennedy brothers, John and Robert, had a lot of people murdered
during their time in power from 1961-63, from Latin America to Africa (Lumumba)
to Southeast Asia, all justified by “anti-Communism,” referring to any national
political program that was deemed a threat to American “interests.” </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Fidel Castro’s program for Cuba was clearly one of those. In
2001, journalist David Corn wrote (</font><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/old-man-and-cia-kennedy-plot-kill-castro"><font face="Calibri" size="3">http://www.thenation.com/article/old-man-and-cia-kennedy-plot-kill-castro</font></a><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">)
that in spite of the unwillingness of the Kennedy family to release thousands
of documents, at least one Pentagon memorandum shows that “</font><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3">Jack and Bobby discussed and sanctioned the
development of a possible assassination attempt against Fidel Castro during a (March)
1962 meeting in the Oval Office.” </font></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Ironically it was
the Kennedys who were assassinated, while Castro lives on. In spite of hostile
U.S. policies, life is far better for the average Cuban than it would have been
under America’s corporate thumb for the past 50 years. Meanwhile, none of our dire
economic and political problems can be plausibly attributed to Cuba’s behavior;
all can certainly be attributed to our own.</font></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Nevertheless, it
is with righteous seriousness that Ayers is denied emeritus status by UI
trustee Kennedy, and that columnist Leonard Pitts excoriates Castro for the
latter’s displeasure at a game that tests the skill of an American child to
virtually assassinate him. Castro, Pitts explains, doesn’t understand our “freedom,”
and is a “murderous thug.”</font></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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