Sudborough Letter

Now that President George W. Bush has declared a “war on terrorism,”
I know of some terrorists that he won’t be pursuing and who are a lot easier
to catch than Osama bin Laden.

What about Emannuel Constant, the leader of the Haitian death squad known as FRAPH,
who is now living in New York City and would be very easy to apprehend? Then,
there are right-wing Cuban exiles, Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, who
bombed a Cubana airlines plane in 1976, killing all 73 people, including all of
the Cuban fencing team.

How about Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban exile and CIA agent, who operated the Ilopango
airbase in El Salvador, where arms were smuggled to the Contras and drugs back
to the United States?

If the United States didn’t have a double standard on terrorists, why couldn’t
the Chilean intelligence agents and Cuban exiles who assassinated Orlando Letelier
and Ronni Moffitt in Washington, D.C., be captured with little trouble?

It’s obvious there are two kinds of terrorists — “ours” and
“theirs.” Those evil people called leftists, who want things like unions,
better wages, universal health care, and land reform, can be killed in extremely
large numbers with no retribution from the United States — the people who
murder them will not even be called terrorists. However, anyone who attacks U.S.
military or economic interests will be pursued to the ends of the Earth.