U.S. Frees International Terrorist
A terrorist lives in Miami. He is not in hiding, or part of some sleeper cell. He’s an escaped convict, wanted internationally for blowing up a jetliner. His name is Luis Posada Carriles. As the nation was focused on the Virginia Tech shooting, the Bush administration quietly allowed Posada’s release from a federal immigration detention center.
It was Oct. 6, 1976, a clear day in the Caribbean. Cubana Airlines Flight 455 departed from Barbados, bound for Cuba. Posada then ran a private investigative firm in Venezuela. Two of his employees left C-4 plastic explosive on board, disguised as a tube of toothpaste. Shortly after takeoff, the bomb exploded and the plane went down. All 73 people on board were killed.
Among them were six young Guyanese students on their way to Cuba to study medicine. Now an American citizen, Roseanne Nenninger, sister of Raymond Persaud, one of those students, was 11 years old when her brother was killed: “We had a huge farewell party for our brother and everyone came, the family members, everyone from the local community, all his friends, school friends, so it was a great day for all of us. And the next day, we all went to the airport. He was dressed in his brown suit that was made by a tailor especially for him getting on a plane. It was his first time on an airplane. We watched him walk on the tarmac and head onto the airplane. And it was a great moment for all of us.”
Within hours, he was dead. He was just one of the victims, one of 73. There was also the entire Cuban Olympic fencing team, young athletes. Each with a name, each with a story. The Cubana Airlines bombing remains to this day the only midair bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere. Posada was tried and convicted in Venezuela of organizing the bombing. He was imprisoned, then escaped in 1985.
Posada, who will be 80 next year, is a Cuban-born Venezuelan national. He has been a violent opponent of Fidel Castro since the early 1960s. Declassified CIA and FBI documents reveal the extent of Posada’s violent career. Through the decades he hopscotched around Latin America, smuggling arms, running drugs, plotting coups, working with Augusto Pinochet’s dreaded secret police, assisting with Oliver North’s illegal Contra war against Nicaragua—the list goes on. He was a paid CIA “asset,” and also served in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of second lieutenant, at Fort Benning, Ga. He has been implicated in the bombing of hotels in Havana. He was caught and convicted of attempting to assassinate Castro in Panama.
Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists’ Government Secrecy Project and the private, nonprofit National Security Archive at George Washington University, the public can read for itself the declassified documents. These documents show what it means for U.S. intelligence agencies to work with “unsavory” characters. Endeavors like the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba of 1961 and the failed Iran-Contra program need operatives, and so the U.S. government hires violent criminals and overlooks their conduct, as long as the policy objectives are being pursued.
And so it is ironic that on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, following the mass slaughter on the Virginia Tech campus, the U.S. government quietly released this convicted terrorist and mass murderer.
We learn the names of the Virginia Tech victims, their accomplishments and their aspirations. Naming the victims, hearing their stories, dignifies their lives, helps us comprehend the magnitude of the loss. So too should we learn about the 73 innocent civilians killed on Cubana Airlines Flight 455.
Venezuela wants Posada extradited. The U.S. has refused. Washington, D.C.-based attorney Jose Pertierra is representing Venezuela in this case. He says international law is clear: “The law says you extradite or prosecute, but you don’t free him into the streets of Miami.”
The Bush administration, and disgraced Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, should designate Luis Posada Carriles the terrorist that he is. Justice, and the memory of his many victims, demands it.
Denis Moynihan assisted in the research for this article. Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on 500 stations in North America.
© 2007 Amy Goodman; distributed by King Features Syndicate
The release of Posada Carilles and the continued imprisonment of Cuban 5 for tracking terrorists in Miami exposes the utter hypocrisy of the neocon War of Terror. We have become an outlaw nation and should be sactioned and isolated peninding regime change.
Bush releases 80 year old man. Yep pretty dang awful. He should remain in jail until he dies.
But I recall other pardons:
* Carlos A. Vignali had his sentence for cocaine trafficking commuted, after serving 6 of 15 years in federal prison.
* Almon Glenn Braswell was pardoned of his mail fraud and perjury convictions, even while a federal investigation was underway regarding additional money laundering and tax evasion charges.Braswell and Carlos Vignali each paid approximately $200,000 to Hillary Clinton’s brother, Hugh Rodham, to represent their respective cases for clemency. Hugh Rodham returned the payments after they were disclosed to the public. Braswell would later invoke the Fifth Amendment at a Senate Committee hearing in 2001, when questioned about allegations of his having systematically defrauded senior citizens of millions of dollars.
* Marc Rich, a fugitive, was pardoned of tax evasion, after clemency pleas from Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, among many other international luminaries.
* Denise Rich, Marc’s former wife, was a close friend of the Clintons and had made substantial donations to both Clinton’s library and Hillary’s Senate campaign. Several months after her last donation, emails reveal Republican attorney “Scooter” Libby asked her to approach Clinton about pardoning Marc Rich. Clinton agreed to a pardon that required Marc Rich to pay a $100,000,000 fine before he could return to the United States. According to Paul Volcker’s independent investigation of Iraqi Oil-for-Food kickback schemes, Marc Rich was a middleman for several suspect Iraqi oil deals involving over 4 million barrels of oil.
* Susan McDougal, who had already completed her sentence, was pardoned for her role in the Whitewater scandal; McDougal had served 18 months on contempt charges for refusing to testify about Clinton’s role.
* Roger Clinton, the president’s half-brother, on drug charges. Roger Clinton would be charged with drunk driving and disorderly conduct in an unrelated incident within a year of the pardon.He was also briefly alleged to have been utilized in lobbying for the Braswell pardon, among others.
Any protests about these pardons??
PDFee, they weren’t mass-murderering international terrorists. There is a big difference between bourgoise tax evaders and people who blow up airliners and attempt asassinations but obviously you are os blinded by repug-loyalty that you can’t discern the obvious.
Bush said that those who harbor terrorists and who aid and abet terrorists are “against us” and are subject to being bombed by the USA. So when is Bush going to order that air strike on the White House? We are waiting.
“Venezuela wants Posada extradited. The U.S. has refused. Washington, D.C.-based attorney Jose Pertierra is representing Venezuela in this case. He says international law is clear: “The law says you extradite or prosecute, but you don’t free him into the streets of Miami.”
Caught in another hypocritical lie–so much for any legitimacy to “the war on terror”.
Prole ~ And I don’t agree with this parole either, that’s my point. I’m just pointing out that letting criminals go on about their lives when they’ve harmed, impoverished or killed others is wrong. It’s not a Left/Right thing, it’s a Right/Wrong thing.
On the other hand, there may be some consideration made to someone who’s in their twilight years. I’m not so cold-hearted as to see some humanitarian value in letting an old man go home to die. It would have to be a case-by-case basis as to doing this. Perhaps this is the case here.
He should be sent home to die — in Venezueala.
And the reason we won’t send Posada to Cuba or Venezuela? We don’t extradite to countries that torture. Yep, that’s what the US is claiming.
Is this bald faced lying hypocrisy deliberate, just to show the world we don’t give a rat’s ass about international law as well as our own right to torture, or does Der Bushenfuehrer really think people buy these outrageous lies?
PDFee, you asked if there were “Any protests about these pardons?”
You bet there were, many protests and complaints in all the press at the time, and often since. Did you miss them?
Jaded ~
No, I’m not blinded. Just balanced.
On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States mostly in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations.
Clinton offered clemency, on condition that the prisoners renounce violence, at the appeal of 10 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, President Jimmy Carter, the cardinal of New York, and the archbishop of Puerto Rico.
The commutation was opposed by U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons and criticized by many including former victims of FALN terrorist activities, the Fraternal Order of Police, members of Congress, and Hillary Clinton in her campaign for Senator.
Congress condemned the action, with a vote of 95-2 in the Senate and 311-41 in the House. The U.S. House Committee on Government Reform held an investigation on the matter, but the Justice Department prevented FBI officials from testifying. President Clinton cited executive privilege for his refusal to turn over some documents to Congress related to his decision to offer clemency to members of the FALN terrorist group.
I’m NOT saying it’s right, I’m saying that this isn’t a singular or uncommon decision of presidents.
PDFee, Clinton was a criminal who did much damage to our country and to the Democrats but the comparison is still weak in the Posada Carilles case. Clinton’s crimes pale in comparison to the present junta.
He was probably released because he wasn’t really a terrorist, the plane was flying to Cuba, probably no white people on board, terrorist only kill white people, everyone else is just ‘collateral damage’.
And before everyone gets on my back for being racist, think about how the outrage in ending the IRAQ war is to ‘bring our troops home’ over 3000 dead from this war, hardly a mention of the over half a million Iraqis butchered, no, they are ‘collateral damage’.
PDFee, the people he killed on that plane didn’t have the option to go home and die with dignity in their old age and, as a result, neither should he. Regarding Clinton, I think he was much better than Bush as president but so would the average fifth grader. Clinton did pass, and lobby on behalf of, NAFTA and the Telecommunications Act. There isn’t much difference between the two parties, but there is a little. Clinton was a good moderate Republican president and I’m glad the Rush cultists didn’t realize it at the time, he could have done even more damage.
Clinton was the best Republican president since Abe Lincoln.
Never loved Clinton. And he did pardon a few criminals. I didn’t like that. But, unlike those other criminals, Luis Posada Carriles, is a murderer. In fact, his actions fit the classic definition of terrorism. He should escape punishment? When we catch old Nazis, we put them in prison. Why should this be any different? It appears this a very selective “War on Terror”.
Nauseating! If anyone needed further proof of the hypocracy of the Bushites, Posada is it. Now it is clear that Bush is against some terrorists, just so long as they are not our terrorists.
Sweet Jesus, can we please dispense with the “but, but, but Clinton!” defense? Clinton packed up his penis and left DC 6 years ago. The topic of discussion is Bush and this is unpardonable. The rule of law and common decency demand that this person be punished for his crimes. No matter how bad Miami is, it isn’t real punishment.
We should never forget that Bush’s entire life has been spent as a joker, a comic, engaging in pranks and humiliating those under him in order to entertain and please what he thinks is the “cool crowd.” And to him the “cool crowd” is the set of billionaires and corporate CEOs of giant corporations, particularly oil corporations.
The man loves engaging in obvious hypocrisy and getting away with it, as with his phony “War on Terrorism,” always with a wink at his crowd. He gets a rush from humiliating the common people, telling them obvious lies and knowing the corporate media, with a boost from the right-wing crazies, will convince most of them to believe it (well, most of the hoi polloi used to believe it). He gets a cheap thrill from robbing from the poor and middle class to give to his crowd, or to treat the constitution and federal laws like worthless scraps of paper, especially while he claims with a straight face that it is the fair and just thing to do, and it will work out for everyone over time.
His biggest thrill, however, clearly comes from ordering the murder, maiming, and impoverishment of hundreds of thousands of foreigners, particularly non-white foreigners (such pleasure it must give him to put non-whites in his cabinet as he cynically guards against charges of racism). Though, it surely must be a close second to order the torture of powerless innocents. I know he must feel he has the approval of his crowd for that one, not so much because they enjoy the thought of torture as much as he does, but that they appreciate the extent to which he can completely humiliate people who can be thought of as representing the masses of the world.
We have had no reason to be surprised by anything Bush has done over the last six years. This frat boy son of privilege is not that difficult to understand.
The USA has had an extradition treaty with Venezuela for many years now. Our government – both Democrat and Republican alike – have continued to refuse to extradite this man. It’s just another example of the hypocrisy of our nation.
The people of Chile tried for years and years to bring a head of state to justice and thanks to a Spanish Judge, Pinochet was finally nabbed. However, the British got involved and held him in their country for a long time. But in the end justice was served. Pinochet was quite old by the time he was brought to trail but age can be no excuse for murder. Would you let an 80 year old man go free if he took a baseball bat and managed to hit and kill one of a group of youngsters playing ball next to his home because they were making too much noise? I wouldn’t. And I don’t think the mother or father would say “just let the old man go.”
PDFee, I too have a part of me that feels compassion for others, no matter what they have done. As in my improbable example of the old man with the baseball bat, a part of me wants to say, “the man so old already, we could put him on house arrest” and he wouldn’t have to deal with the rough conditions behind bars – but he would get free medical care! And just as in the case of this now old man Luis Posada Carriles. The one thing that makes compassion hard for me is that this man had a long history of involvement in terrorist and criminal activities, just like AugustoPinochet. And he had government protection all these years and we also share the blame here. I think the right thing to do is put the man on trail for his crimes. But of course the US doesn’t want that to happen because then he would begin to “name names.” So he is quietly freed and sent to live in Florida.
The last thing that bothers me is that George Bush would be the president when this terrorist was freed. It only proves again that he isn’t interested in terrorism. In fact, he’s using terrorism to keep the people in constant fear. All he’s interested in is Iraq’s oil and an unstable Middle East to keep oil prices higher than they would be without conflict.
fligloot April 25th, 2007 1:39 pm
“PDFee, you asked if there were “Any protests about these pardons?”
You bet there were, many protests and complaints in all the press at the time, and often since. Did you miss them?”
No, he didn’t miss them, he just wouldn’t dare mention “complaints” from the Mass Media while a Democrat was in the White House giving pardons. We would then have to ask why the Mass Media isn’t complaining about the Posada (terrorist) pardon by a Republican president after they were so verbally abusive about Clinton’s pardons.
“The Cubana Airlines bombing remains to this day the only midair bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere. ”
What about the Air India flight that crashed in the Atlantic near the coast of Ireland in June 1985? A bomb
exploded on board, but the accused Sikh nationalists were
not convicted after a lengthy trial.
This is really really shocking and sad. I do not understand how it is possible to have a terrorist responsible for so much bloodshed treated like a guest. A genuine disgrace !
tbird88 - the Air India tragedy occurred off the coast of Ireland and hence was in the Eastern Hemisphere.
PDFee:
Are you employed to post on this forum?
Why is the US a haven for selected terrorists? Amy, thanks for keeping this story alive. Old man now, tough shit, send the murderer back.
exeflyer ~
If you can put me in touch with those that would pay me to freely and openly type my thoughts, I would greatly appreciate it! I am but a mild mannered engineer, who toils through his days bifurcating wire bundles and semi-conducting circuits. Would that it be I could solve the world’s ills with my words; I would jump at the chance!
But your question does perplex me, why is it you feel the need to question my unsubsidized commentary, as if to say that I’m a fake, a fraud, a charlitan? I’m just a guy with a brain, a life’s experience, and an onramp onto the web who wishes to watch, learn, listen as well as show, teach and speak.
Fair enough answer?
PDFee:
To inject a discussion of the Clintons onto this page does absolutely nothing to advance the dialogue in a meaningful direction. Nowhere in the article did it state that equally egregious pardons had not occurred under different administrations. In fact the article specifically mentions the Bay of Pigs.
Interested,
The constant, monotonous drumbeat of holding out G.W.B. as not only Satan, but The Great Satan if you scan these posts, demanded that the reality of past presidents be considered. If you wish to condemm the action, you must consider the actions of all who have done similar, agree?
Frankly, I’m no great G.W.B. fan myself, so don’t expect a flag-waving tirade from me. I actually voted mostly Democratic all my life, up until the end of the first W.J.C. term. I took some upper division finance classes, along with some philosophy classes, and it made me examine my belief systems. Turns out I’m pretty dang conservative when it comes down to it.
I don’t want the “gubberment” doing nothing for me, other than protecting our shores and borders. I’m not looking for a handout from anybody, and don’t think anyone else is owed a living either. If you’re looking for a helping hand, you should look at the end of your own arm. I think we’re almost exclusively victims or benefactors of our own life-choices.
With regard to this article; while Goodman makes some good historical observations, her rhetoric is so laced with anti-Bush insinuations that her messages becomes blurred.
I’m further distracted by knowing that she is also one of the proponents of the 9/11 conspiracy and has just made a fool of herself by jumping on that bandwagon. It is difficult to take serious any commentary by someone who is convinced our own government was either complicit or directive in the horrific attacks of that day. I cannot fathom the depth of ignorance that would be required to accept this as fact.
I am new here and I am going to try a formatting experiment involving BB codes.. if it doesn’t work please forgive my attempt..
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The constant, monotonous drumbeat of holding out G.W.B. as not only Satan, but The Great Satan if you scan these posts[/quote]
It is hard to establish that there was a [b]drumbeat[/b] when yours was the second post on this thread.
But I take your meaning. Yes this is a forum frequented by those who do not like the direction this present administration is taking.
[quote]If you wish to condemm the action, you must consider the actions of all who have done similar, agree?[/quote]
As a point of argument ? I am not sure .
It seems to me that this case is just dandy standing on its own without needing to make partisan comparisons. For the record I am I am only a “Bush basher” in that his is the worst of the administrations I have seen to date. I find most of the Dems (past and present)pretty damn awful too. It would not surprise me in the least if (had there been a Democratic government in power) the same pardon would have occurred.Let’s face it, they either need to kill him or protect him from prosecution to keep his secrets safe.
oh well. at least the smilie worked.,,.
;-):-P
Gee, do you suppose our government is reluctant to extradite its paid CIA terrorists because they might just tell the truth at their trials about who was funding/backing/masterminding their acts of terrorism? Seems to me there was a bit of that concern at Saddam’s trial (so they tried him on the only thing he did that the US probably didn’t provide the weapons/gas for), and we don’t dare catch Bin Laden…
Makes me wonder if they are just trying to bait Chavez into taking some sort of action so they have a rationale to go bomb the sh** out of Venezuela.
One more thing — remember not all Dem bashers are repugs — a lot of them are freaky libertarians! It is really weird how we are sort of on the same side, and yet SO NOT!
Your comment points out the beauty of reading, learning & sharing thoughts with all sides of the political spectrum. I seldom, if ever, learn anything from those which I completely agree. As I go through life, I have found I will learn FAR more from those that I have ideological differences. Not that I always absorb their viewpoint, mind you ~ but that I can examine my own belief systems and see if I really believe what I do, and moreover, WHY I believe what I do.
funeocons,
I doubt this is any attempt to “bait” Chavez. Chavez is clearly not a blithering idiot (he did not achieve power by being the son of a past president or by promising to act as a corporate lapdog).
Your other guess sounds much more correct. Though one should never forget that the Cuban-American community in Florida is critical to winning elections in that state and surely their wishes and expectations with regard to the matter were considered.
PDFee,
Virtually all presidents, including Clinton and Bush’s father, have pardoned quite unsavory characters, but certainly in the last few decades no one who was a terrorist with so much blood on his hands as Luis Posada Carriles.
And no one here really wants to defend Clinton. This is a progressive website, not a DLC one. Most of the people who visit this website consider Clinton to be a Republican, a sort of wolf in sheep’s clothing, and also consider most other past Democratic presidents to have been quite abominable, though not nearly as abominable as most Republican Presidents, and certainly not as horrific as the current resident.
The story is interesting because it highlights once again Bush’s naked hypocrisy. It is no secret to anyone who pays attention that his War on Terror is a total fraud, but progressives keep waiting for the mainstream press and the mass of apolitical Americans to recognize it. And we cannot believe how long it is taking.
PDFee. You took some philosophy classes. Then you must surely know the stances on just a few philosophers and what a government’s role should be in promoting the commonwealth. Here are a few examples:
Kant: namely, the inclination to and vocation for free thinking, and it finally even influences the principles of government, which finds that it can profit by treating men, who are now more than machines, in accord with their dignity.
John Stuart Mill:. A government is to be judged by its action upon men, and by its action upon things; by what it makes of the citizens, and what it does with them; its tendency to improve or deteriorate the people themselves, and the goodness or badness of the work it performs for them, and by means of them.
William James: Multiply the thinkers into a pluralism, and we find realized for us in the ethical sphere something like that world which the antique skeptics conceived of -in which individual minds are the measures of all things, and in which no “objective” truth, but only a multitude of subjective” opinions can be found.
John Herbert Spencer: On good government. They were abolitions of grievances suffered by the people, or by portions of them: this was the common trait they had which most impressed itself on men’s minds. They were mitigations of evils which had directly or indirectly been felt by large classes of citizens, as causes of misery or as hindrances to happiness. And since, in the minds of most, a rectified evil is equivalent to an achieved
good, these measures came to be thought of as so many positive benefits; and the welfare of the many came to be conceived alike by Liberal statesmen and Liberal voters as the aim of Liberalism.
David Hume: The ideas of a perfect commonwealth are attempts at some improvement for the public good. David Hume, who was a friend of Adam Smith didn’t believe in the idea of an “invisible hand” which would guide economic policy toward the good of the many.
Hume: accepts as fact the moral claim that each individual has a right to the common stock.
Locke: Locke advocated government limited by the rights of individuals as the only means to realize “the peace, safety, and public good of the people.” Far from privileging the right over the good, Locke argued that “[t]he public good is the rule and measure of lawmaking” and that the state’s power “can never be supposed to extend farther, than the common good.”
Smith: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations presents a sustained attack on government for actions that promote particular interests at the expense of the general well-being of society.
And so a comment you made, and I paraphrase here, “what jobs has a person living hand to mouth” ever produced?” could be an unnecessary question if goverments concerned themselves with the welfare of all. And I’m not saying for the governemnt to give a poor person a fish to eat, I’m saying the government should teach that person how to fish.
a disgrace, demonstrating how rediculous this government has become.
“I’m further distracted by knowing that she is also one of the proponents of the 9/11 conspiracy”
As a long time listener and proponent of Democracy Now!, I can assure you that Amy Goodman is absolutely not a proponent of any of the “9-11″ conspiracy theories.
Interesting since we are dragging up past pardons and past presidents that no one brings up the president who pardoned the highest number of criminals on his way out of office. Hint: It wasn’t Clinton.
Excellent post! It was good to see the history of pardons. It begs the question; Why do we do this? Perhaps there is a precident to do away with the entire concept!
Oh boy….
First of all, read the article again if you need to. It was not a pardon !
He was released on bail.
It is interesting to note that it very specifically was NOT a pardon. The whole affair has been handled with the greatest of efforts to keep it under wraps. A pardon would have given it more exposure.
This is a story about someone who should be serving time for killing people.
Hijacking threads with non-sequiturs about Clinton malfeasance is just silly but now that we seem to be here; it was Roosevelt I believe who pardoned the most criminals.
And when his term is finished it is likely that Bush will have pardoned the fewest during his years in office.
Just to put some perspective on the release of Posadas:
Posadas had a partner-in-crime in regard to the 1976 Cuban airliner bombing. His name was–and still is–Ofrlando Bosch.
Orlando Bosch is another Cuban who became disenchanted with the Revolution, and like Posadas he turned his hand to any terrorist gigs offered to him by the US government.
He was convicted of firing shots at a POlish vessel in Miami in 1968. He was goven 10 years in a US prison–from which he was partoled in 1972.
Bosch went to South America where he engaged in various dirty tricks for the CIA, and although he was held in prison in Venezuela for 11 years for his part in the 1976 bombing, he was acquitted and went to the US illegally.
He was arrested in the US for illegal entry in 1987, applied for asylum, and was turned down.
In 1989 the US Justice Department declared Bosch to be resolute and unwavering in his advocacy of terrorist violence.
The same year, Cuba petitioned for Bosch’s return to Cuba. Both Connie Mack (the Florida Republican who keeps hounding Robert Kennedy Jr. for promoting Chavez’ Citgo heating oil program for low income US residents) and Jeb Bush lobbied for Bosch.
And in 1990, Bosch was pardoned by George Bush Senior.
Bosch had convictrions for his terrorist acts and got a pardon. What one should expect in regard to Posadas seems pretty obvious.
Miami has how many anti-Cuba terrorist groups?
It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that we have a known terrorist in our midst and Bush turned him loose! Not only is Bush’s war on terror a joke! He has never on any occasion made a serious attempt at curbing terrorism! There is a reason Osama bin laden has never been captured! I think if they really wanted him as badly as they say they do he would be history!
It would not surprise me at all if the reason Bin Laden has not been captured is because he is still on the CIA payroll.
The difference between a terrorist and freedom fighter is which side you are on. Right here in Amerika a terorist attacked an international peacekeeping force and, in this a Christian Nation, did it on Christmas Day.
Maybe we could swap him for Vasco or that Nappy headed cop killer living the highlife in ol Habana.