Cuban Five Had Support

Remember the Cuban Five? They were originally convicted a few years back of spying on the U.S., only to have the conviction overturned last summer by an U.S. appellate court.

The Cuban-American community in Miami was targeted in the decision by the U.S. court, the judges thought that it exerted too much "pressure" on jurors to make an unbiased decision despite the fact that there were exactly ZERO Cuban-Americans in the jury.

Well, now it appears that the U.S. Court of Appeals was influenced by a group far more powerful and far more evil than the Miami Mafia.

castro? Well, at least one of his fans.

From today's Miami Herald:

A retired Florida International University psychology professor's admiration for (f)idel (c)astro could have compromised the findings of a study he conducted that helped overturn the conviction of five Cubans accused of spying for the communist government, legal analysts told The Miami Herald.

The study, by FIU Professor Emeritus Gary P. Moran, concluded that Miami was so saturated with hate for Castro that the five defendants could not have received a fair trial. None of the jury members was Cuban American or of Cuban descent.

''Castro is a complicated world figure,'' Moran said in a phone interview Thursday night. ``I think he is a very sincere man. I admire greatly how he has managed to survive with this great Satan [the United States] as his enemy. The U.S. government, which I don't have any respect for, has obviously been doing everything in its power to crush this man, but they haven't been able to do so.''

Amazing, just amazing. One more for FIU.

I urge everyone to check out the entire story here.