Asunto: MCI SPOKESMAN SUPPORTS CASTRO: TERRORIST MURDERER WHO SYSTEMATICALLY VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS

De: "Judicial Watch" info@judicialwatch.org Fecha: Jue, 8 de Mayo de 2003, 8:54 am Para: "Judicial Watch Infonet" infonet@lyris.corysecure.com

MCI SPOKESMAN SUPPORTS CASTRO: TERRORIST MURDERER WHO SYSTEMATICALLY VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS

MCI Should Fire Glover

Actor Danny Glover Signs Document Supporting Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro, Who Recently Executed Three Innocent Freedom Seekers And Has Sentenced 75 Intellectual Dissidents To Lengthy Prison Terms

(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, is calling for a boycott of telecommunications giant MCI after its spokesman, actor Danny Glover, signed an offensive document titled, "To the Conscience of the World" which supports Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro and asks the United States to respect the island's sovereignty.

Glover's support for the dictator comes only weeks after Castro summarily executed--by firing squad--three men who unsuccessfully tried to flee the island prison on a ferry as well as the jailing of 75 passive dissidents, many of them independent journalists, simply for opposing the communist regime. Most of them are serving sentences in deplorable conditions that include dark, dirt cells infested with rats, no food and scarce water.

Castro has come under harsh international criticism, even from his traditional leftist supporters, for this latest wave of crimes against humanity yet Glover, often seen in prime-time MCI television commercials, continues to publicly support him. MCI's code of ethics handbook includes a hard-hitting message from Chairman and Executive Officer, Michael Capellas, which stresses "pride in company ethics" and a commitment to "do the right thing." Mr. Capellas also writes that, "our reputation is a critical asset." Glover's actions clearly contradict this.

"MCI must fire Glover. Any more than it should have a spokesman supporting Osama bin Laden, it can't have a spokesman supporting terrorist Castro," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. " Perhaps"

Mr. Glover should speak to Judicial Watch client Yordanis Montoya Isaac whose brother was summarily executed in front of a firing squad for trying to leave Cuba without giving his mother a chance to say goodbye. Or, he should chat with Judicial Watch client Isabel Roque whose frail 55-year-old sister is dying in a dark, rodent-infested cell because Fidel Castro won't allow her to receive medicine for her ailments.