PPD sinks...

[El_Jibaro]

Originally posted by El_Jíbaro:
Independentista Leaders Foresee a Massive Desertion of PPD Members Crossing Over to the PIP

Monday, September 25, 2000
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By Magdalys Rodríguez

El Nuevo Día – A Puerto Rican Newspaper

Several pro-independence leaders forecasted at the town of Lares that in the coming November elections, the Popular Democratic Party (PPD is the Spanish acronym) will suffer a massive desertion of its voter towards the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP is the Spanish acronym).

“One must learn from personal experience. The truth is that the Popular Democratic Party has been the great builder of the pro-statehood ideology in Puerto Rico, even though it has not been their intention. Their preaching of PERMANENT UNION and of tightly-close-relationship to the United States has resulted in confusing the electorate and has had the historical result of creating the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, and strengthening thereof. It is time for the pro-independence voter to vote for their own candidates and for their own ideology”, so stated the pro-independence attorney, Noel Colón Martínez.

According to the consensus of most of the pro-independence leaders interviewed, the issues that will strengthen the PIP vote are: the urgency of solving the Vieques problem with through the removal of the US Navy, the extreme improbability that the United States will turn Puerto Rico into a state any time soon, and the message of reunification among the pro-independence political parties.

“I BELIEVE that the process will be different now. With the many PPD voters who will vote for the PIP and the increase in electoral presence by the PIP will result in a fundamental decrease for the Popular Democratic Party”, Mr. Colón Martínez also stated.

The PIP vicepresident, Fernando Martín stated his opinion that there are no Puerto Ricans who believe that an electoral victory for the pro-statehood PNP will translate into the imminent arrival of statehood. “Statehood today is in every case farthest from becoming a reality than when the PNP took over power ever since the elections eight years ago. I do not see the pro-statehood ideal having any prevailing strength”, he affirmed.

He pointed that the great value of having of pro-independence parties and groups converging together relies in that the pro-independence ideal will not reduce its efforts even with party divisions.

Contrary to the past, the PIP keeps increasing its electoral presence in several polls only a few days from elections, said the Marxist leader, Juan Mari Brás. “Polls point to the PIP going over 7% to 8% of those for the PPD and the PNP”, said Mr. Mari Brás. "The tendency was that the PIP used to lose voter as soon as elections were nearing”, he added.

“The WATERMELON VOTE is when pro-independence voters used to vote for the least bad candidate among bad candidates in the winning political parties. Now the new vision is that the important thing is to strengthen the pro-independence political party, so the “watermelon vote” becomes history”, declared Mr. Mari Brás .

“WE THE PRO-INDEPENDENCE SUPPORTERS must get out of our heads the false notion that by the pro-independence supporters voting for anti-independence candidates we were the deciding vote in an election. The reality is that the immense majority of the registered voters not affiliated with any party were from the anti-independence parties, or no party at all. Therefore we have to strengthen our own political view and not waste our votes”, Julio Muriente stated, who is the New pro-Independence Movement political party president.

The nationalist leader Lolita Lebrón affirmed that the PIP vote is essential to give the United States a clear message of Puerto Rican assertiveness. “It would give the United States a hard blow having a giant pro-independence voting block in the elections", stated Lolita Lebrón.

“We the pro-independence proponents must never, under any circumstance, give our votes to any of those (majority) political parties. That would betray the cause we represent”, Lebrón added.

The pro-independence candidate running for San Juan mayor, Vance Thomas, pointed to the fact that the PPD has never helped in furthering the cause for self-determination, an pro-independence voters have clearly become aware of this.

“Pro-independence voters have finally realized on how the Popular Democratic Party, apart of the calls it has made and the support it has garnered from some or other pro-independence leader, has never met the desires of pro-independence voters and has never given credit to the historical demands that the pro-independence ideal has made to set Puerto Rico on the road towards self-determination, fight for peace and represent the real interests of us who believe in sovereignty and social justice", Thomas said.

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Commentary by El_Jíbaro

Well, by the looks of it, if the pro-independence movement doesn’t gain electoral percentages in the next elections, their leader Rubén Berríos Martínez might blow his brains off . Why? Even though the pro-independence organizations have monopolized the “Vieques Tragedy” and have reunited all its different factions and parties [PIP, PSP and MPI], the Puerto Rican People WILL NOT BUY INTO THE GIMMICK covering up the true agenda of these RADICAL political groups. Since Rubén Berríos Martínez has done an immense effort to make his political ideal, pro-independence, not fall into obscurity, the possibility that next elections will not gain ground for his cause may destroy the ego of this old Quixotean idealist .

Those who assume that the PIP fetches 3.8% of the overall Puerto Rican electorate ONLY BECAUSE the Puerto Rican Socialist Party [PSP being the acronym for this Puerto Rican Marxist Party] doesn’t vote and because many official PIP members vote for the PPD are swallowing are DROWNING VICTIMS GRASPING AT STRAWS . The official PSP members may be very MARXIST , with an INTENSE HATRED for the Puerto Rican democratic electoral process and towards the USA, but I have yet to see one of these GOONS who has not voted for the PIP in Puerto Rican elections during the last 20 years: after all the PSP never appears on the ballots, but the PIP does. Moreover the “watermelon vote” is the PIP segment that least agrees with the MARXIST segment of the pro-independence movement, so nobody should be surprised that this elusive and ephemeral PIP element gets spooked with the recent reunification of pro-independence parties [that is OK by me ].

Thus, it should be no surprise that after so much effort, the pro-independence voting block does not achieve any net gains in the Puerto Rican electorate. And this would be TRAGIC for this segment of the Puerto Rican political spectrum . Even worse, if Rubén Berríos Martínez does not gain electoral ground it is even possible that the most violent elements of the pro-independence movement [the MARXISTS and the Macheteros] might lynch their own pro-independence leader for having “failed” the PRO-INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT (which is exactly what happened to Pol-Pot, when his Khmer-Rouge lost political ground after 30 years of MARXIST genocidal endeavor [“raise crows and they will peck your own eyes out ”]). I venture to speculate that if this occurs, these pro-independence extremists will blame it on “far-right terrorism” as always, but “what else is new " .

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Manuel Alonso

[El_Jibaro]

OUR ISLAND IN MOURNING

Thursday, November 9, 2000
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4:30AM

By Antonio Izquierdo

El Viejo Día

Puerto Rico begins mourning the passing away of the "illustrious " Rubén Berríos Martínez , after having died as a Martyr of his independentista cause at the hands of other independentista extremists .

Having been a MODERATE all his life , the radical elements within the independentista movement blamed him for the MASSIVE LOSSES at the polls last Tuesday. His body was found early this morning [2:00AM] impaled Shaka-Zulu Style on a flag pole near the Old San Juan Headquarters of the PIP [Spanish acronym for Puerto Rican Independence Party] . The Macheteros claimed responsibility for the mercyless deed. A sign was nailed to the pole on which the independentista leader was skewered: "SELF-SERVING TRAITOR AND OPPORTUNIST, LET THIS BE A LESSON TO ALL OUR COMRADES" .

The FBI stated that they will investigate this murder as a Civil Rights violation to the independentista leader.

We will inform our readers of all new developments in this case, as well as do a full report on the emeritous work done by the revered independentista leader.

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Manuel Alonso

[Nacionalista]

NO DES TU TIERRA AL EXTRAÑO
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VIRGILIO DAVILA

No des tu Tierra al Extraño

Dios, el mundo concluído,
tiróle un beso al azar;
el beso cayo en el mar,
y es la tierra en que has nacido.
En ella formas tu nido,
de amor rendido al amaño;
ella un año y otro año
te brinda con su tesoro;
ella vale más que el oro.
¡No des tu tierra al extraño!

Mira sus campos. Arriba
es ornato de la loma
la breve y fragante poma
del café, púrpura viva.
Fruto que la mente aviva
y es del criollo sostén
al par que orgullo. Si hay quien,
extraño, quiera tu suelo,
que n se colme su anhelo
por más que te pague bien.

De sus llanos la grandeza
admira la gente extraña.
En ellos canta la caña
la canción de la riqueza.
Como una enorme turquesa
allá el tabacal se extiende.
¡La imaginación se enciende
ante ese cuadro admirable!
¡Qué bajo y qué miserable
el que su terruño vende!

En la playa el cocotero,
con su penacho elegante,
es asombro al navegante
y tentación al logrero.
No des por ningún dinero
tu pedazo de vergel,
que eres tú patriota fiel
y de legítimo cuño,
y el que vende su terruño
vende la patria con él.



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From the Confederate Capital, Richmond, Virginia

[El_Jibaro]

FALN MEMBERS DISAPPEAR
Friday, November 10, 2000
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9:00AM

By Antonio Izquierdo

El Viejo Día

Edwin Cortes and Ricardo Jimenez mysteriously disappeared yesterday. The Puerto Rico State Police gave an all-precinct-bulletin concerning the whereabouts of these two members of the FALN [Spanish acronym of the National Liberation Armed Forces] yesterday afternoon, after an FBI inquiry yesterday linking them to the murder of the Independentista Leader Rubén Berríos Martínez. Local FBI agents had gome to the residences of Edwin Cortes and Ricardo Jimenez to inquire about any knowledge by them or any other FALN member of this horrendous crime, but found their residences deserted and meticuluously stripped. Their cars were found burned a couple of hours earlier in a desolate road near Lajas, but that had not been determined until the all-precinct-bulletin was emitted. Currently they are considered the chief suspects of the inhuman crime.

In the mean time Juan Mari-Bras, the former head of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party was unanimously nominated by the PIP [Spanish acronym for the Puerto Rican Independence Party] to be the head of that political party. He vowed to return the PIP to its former roots of Socialism and Independence. Associated to this, the Cuban President Fidel Castro sent a telegram to congratulate Mari-Bras as the new head of the PIP and for his heroic effort in leading the Puerto Rican People to independece from American Tyranny.

Finally, this morning a car bomb exploded early at 4:00AM in front of the Federal Building in Hato Rey but no one was hurt at that early hour in the morning. No one has claimed credit yet for this action which seems politically motivated.

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Manuel Alonso

[EL_BORICUA]

Aqui vemos que la LOCA que tambien dice
que es una pentecostal que va al templo
con toda pulcritud aqui la tenemos deseando
la muerte de don Ruben Berrios.
Con razon los vendepatrias son corruptos
si los cristianos entre ellos tienen esta
clase de moralidad.

[El_Jibaro]

barrilito bomberil:

Yo no le he deseado la muerte a tu ídolo, ni se la deseo; ¡ojalá llegue a 100 años de edad para ver con sus propios ojos Puerto Rico llegar a ser un ESTADO !

Lo que estoy haciendo aquí es una parodia de lo que SI puede pasar si ustedes no suben mas de 4%. Tu sabes mejor que yo cuan violentos son algunos elementos marxistas de tu movimiento favorito político. De modo que es muy posible y PROBABLE que ustedes mismos eliminen a Rubén Berríos Martínez si no pasan del 4% de los votos en noviembre .

Pídele a Dios que ustedes los independentistas no actúen a la altura de la violencia política que los inspira por dentro y que por ello no le vayan a echar la culpa a Rubén.

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Manuel Alonso

[Nacionalista]

Originally posted by El_Jíbaro:
barrilito bomberil:

Yo no le he deseado la muerte a tu ídolo, ni se la deseo; ¡ojalá llegue a 100 años de edad para ver con sus propios ojos Puerto Rico llegar a ser un ESTADO !

Lo que estoy haciendo aquí es una parodia de lo que SI puede pasar si ustedes no suben mas de 4%. Tu sabes mejor que yo cuan violentos son algunos elementos marxistas de tu movimiento favorito político. De modo que es muy posible y PROBABLE que ustedes mismos eliminen a Rubén Berríos Martínez si no pasan del 4% de los votos en noviembre .

Pídele a Dios que ustedes los independentistas no actúen a la altura de la violencia política que los inspira por dentro y que por ello no le vayan a echar la culpa a Rubén.

Don Manuel, su argumento es muy interesante. Y no estoy hablando de la paliza de el compatriota Berrios. Es, si verdaderamente ser anexorista es lo mejor para Puerto Rico. Si los independentistas sacan menos de 4%, yo puedo vivir con eso. Y como usted dice, espero que no haya violencia. No solo los independentistas, sino gente de otros partidos. Yo he visto con mi propios ojos seguidores PNP y PPD comenzar violencia a nombre de los independentistas. Es mas, no se sorprenda si los PPD o PNP le caen a paliza a los independentistas por haber sacado menos de 4%. En la isla, los partidos opuesto a la independencia no quieren la independencia, pero en lo contrario quieren ver un partido por la independencia. En los 70's, yo participe en la inscripcion (corrijeme en esa palabra) del PIP. Un 75% de las firmas que recogi eran PPD o PNP. Y yo creo que lo mismo pasa cada tiempo de elecciones. Por otro lado, me gustaria ver un grupito de la ONU hacer un estudio sobre las tres resoluciones, anexorista, autonomista o independentista, y traer en conclusion cual sera la mejor. Sin tener bajo consideracion lo que ha pasado el siglo pasado, solo teniendo como criteria lo que somos ahora y seremos en un promedio de diez años. Si le pregunto a cualquiera en nuestra patria no voy a tener una respuesta real, debido a que estamos fanatizados con cualquier partido y lo protegemos como un equipo de pelota. Pero alquien de afuera, podria traer luz verdaderamente a muchas preguntas. Yo quiero lo mejor para Puerto Rico como usted, sea independencia, autonomia, o estadidad. Pero tambien quiero que lo que escojamos, podamos tener uso de ello 100%. Lo que quiero decir es que los puertorriqueños tienen un potencial increible y debido a eso podemos hacer mas que cualquier otro pais, y mas si somos independientes. De que se puede, se puede. Que tiene de malo eso?