Mel "Super Latino" Martinez – When the Republican Party wants to bolster its image with Hispanic voters and illegal aliens who does it turn to? Well it turns to Mel “Super Latino” Martinez. But just because the Republican Party has convinced its water-boy Mel Martinez that he magically speaks for all Hispanics, that doesn’t make it true. Neither our chairman nor his mother, the former Ramona Alderete deLeon from Delicias, Mexico who worked as a maid for the twenty-five years, allow their politics to be at the beck and call of Senator Martinez, so why are other Hispanics, especially working-class Hispanics, cheering Mel on? Is it just because he is Hispanic? Latin American countries, Norte Americanos should know, have a deeply entrenched class hierarchy. So what do we really know about Mel and his days in Cuba?

For example, another prominent Cuban “serving” the public in Florida is Florida Supreme Court Justice Raul Cantero. On the Florida Supreme Court website, Justice Cantero provides the following:

“Justice Cantero was born in 1960, in Madrid, Spain, to Cuban parents who had fled the communist regime in Cuba. He and his wife Ana Maria have three children. They now live in Tallahassee.”

According to the Latin American publication NotiCen, Cantero, in his application for the job of Florida Supreme Court Justice, introduced himself once again with much the same sentiment,

"As an American whose family escaped a totalitarian regime, I have learned to appreciate and defend democratic values and the rule of law."

But what he doesn’t tell you is that his grandfather was none other than the previous dictator of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista himself, who took millions and by some accounts upwards of $700 million when he left Cuba in the middle of the night as Castro’s army was advancing toward Havana. Maybe Cuba became communist because Justice Cantero’s grandfather and others in his entourage syphoned all the money out of the country forcing Castro to go to the Soviet Union for aid. In the 1930's when Communism was a great fear and contender of capitalism during the World Depression, Batista nevertheless cut a mutual deal with the Cuban Communists in his self-glorifying pursuit of becoming the uncontested ruler of Cuba which he soon thereafter accomplished. In lieu of this it is also laughable that there was a "communist regime" in Cuba when Cantero says his parents fled Cuba because Castro had just recently come out of the jungles at that time.

Also when his grandfather seized control of Cuba in a military coup during the 1952 elections, guess who was on the ballot abiding by the democratic political process … … … none other than Fidel Castro. Cuba never would have become Communist if Cantero’s grandfather wasn’t such a militaristic, brute-force thug who never held an honest election between the time he seized power and New Year’s Day 1959 when he fled the country. The Cuban exile community has been playing us Yankees for patsies long enough with their anti-Communist, ant-Castro spiel. We are naïve because we have been led to believe that Castro came to power the same way the East Bloc dictators came to power right after WWII ended when the Soviets rolled in and installed their puppets all along the Iron Curtain.

And of course just like Mel who touts being the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Cuban-American to serve in a presidential cabinet, Justice Cantero tries to fool us idiot Yankees into believe our country is progressing politically by remarking, “(Justice Cantero) is the first Justice of Hispanic descent to sit on the Court.”, but he never mentions that he had no experience as a judge when Jeb Bush, whose family has a very embarrassing pre-September 11 alliance with South Florida’s militant Cuban exiles/terrorists, appointed him in 1992. Isn’t progress wonderful!!!

One thing we can agree with about Justice Cantero on the Florida Supreme Court website, is that “Justice Cantero is also an accomplished fiction writer (emphasis added) …” because by omitting who his grandfather is, Justice Cantero’s portrayal of his family leaving communist Cuba as innocents is absolutely the artifice of a fiction writer.

Like Justice Cantero, Mel also likes to tell us how he hates communism but why then didn’t he sign up to fight the communists during the Vietnam War. He was born in 1946 and became a legal U.S. resident soon after his “Pedro Pan” plane landed in 1962, then a permanent resident when his parents joined him in 1966, then becoming a citizen in 1971. But even without being a citizen, his status as legal resident would have allowed him to enlist anytime from 1964 when he turned 18 until the draft ended in 1973.

Look at this video where Mel shows the world how defiant he is to Castro and how committed to liberty he is by wearing a “CAMBIO” plastic strip bracelet. Wow!!! Mel you are so inspiring, it’s mesmerizing, instead of picking up a rifle and going to Vietnam, Mel puts on a piece of plastic jewelry 40 years later. Mel is committed to keeping the Cuban people supplied with plastic bracelets and even pens and paper he goes on to say to help the Cubans secure their freedom. I bet the Castro regime is scared now!

Look and listen to this next video. Here Mel shows us how he has reconciled with himself that he avoided the draft during Vietnam. He has convinced himself that going to war is an opportunity to stare down the enemy, save the princess in distress or join the Knights of the Roundtable and have wonderful, heroic stories to tell your grandchildren. How else would a chicken-hawk rationalize that it would demean a soldier's service to lower his combat-time to rest-time ratio.





Also like Justice Cantero, Mel over the years has told us how horrible life became in Cuba once Castro took power and how wonderful life was pre-Castro. Well Mel’s scenario does not mention the massive public support Castro had prior to the Bay of Pigs nor does it mention that the Batista regime, which first came to power in a 1933 military coup 19 years before Batista staged a second military coup during the 1952 elections when he was running a distant third for the presidency, became so indiscriminately repressive –use of torture, murder, political imprisonment - that the U.S. government, who had a history of sponsoring military force in Cuba and Central America, abandoned it.


So Mel avoids the draft, goes to college, then after graduating law school, Mr. Butter-Belly enters, not the jungles of Cuba or Vietnam, but the air-conditioned, suit-and-tie, paper-pushing glitz of personal injury litigation. You are such an inspiration Mel!!! We love you Melquiades!!!

Mel even admits that when he was first hired out of law school, he was one of the few attorneys in Florida at the time who was fluent in Spanish so his ties to the Spanish community must have made him a rain maker in the personal injury field. The law firm that hired him right out of law school was run by soon-to-be Orlando Mayor Bill Frederick, thus Mel’s entry into the world of politics.

Since then Mel has been Orange County Chairman, HUD Secretary, Co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee and is currently a U.S. Senator, but let’s not forget that in each of these rolls Mel was merely a puppet who parroted whatever the powers that be dictated to him.

For example, when Mel was campaigning to become Orange County Chairman he told the public that he was against light-rail, but then once in office Mel voted for light-rail. When running for the U.S. Senate in 2004, Mel accused rival Bill McCollum of being a darling for the homosexual agenda during the primary. Also during this campaign he stated that he was opposed to amnesty - from his website in 2004 which has since been edited out, "Martinez will fight to secure our nation's borders and end the flow of illegal aliens to our country.", from 2004 Congressional National Political Awareness Test Oct 14, 2004, "Our immigration policy should first and foremost ensure the security of our great Nation and those individuals posing a terrorist threat should be prevented from entering our country. I strongly oppose amnesty for illegal aliens; our immigration laws should not reward lawlessness." and during a debate with Betty Castor, October 24, 2008, "Our immigration policy should first and foremost ensure the security of our nation and those individuals posing a terrorist threat should be prevented from entering our country. I strongly oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.", but once elected he became a champion of amnesty - Hagel-Martinez 2006 and McCain-Kennedy 2007. and defended himself in the Orlando Sentinel much to the anger of his constituents such as Cathy Malphurs and John Gilbert.

Then once again showing what a true leader he is, Mel's staff, not Mel of course, took the blame for a memo promoting a political agenda targeted at the Terry Schiavo case. According to Wikipedia, Mel and two other Senators, Republican Leader Bill Frist and Rick Santorum, hijacked the U.S. Senate by passing a bill with no other Senators present, i.e. a 3-0 vote. Upon investigation, both the U.S. Senate bill clerk’s office, (202) 224-3121, and the U.S. Senate parliamentary office, (202) 224-6128, report that for the Terry Schiavo deliberations there was no record kept stating if a quorum was present and because the bill passed by voice vote, no record of who voted for-or-against it remains. This bill became law in less than 3 days from its inception when President Bush flew in from Texas to sign it at 1:11 am March 21, 2005. If the 3-0 vote is true, Americans should be stunned that the other 97 Senators did not make this hijacking of the U.S. Senate a big public scandal. Actually, we Americans should be stunned by the fact that U.S. Senate rules do not require a recorded vote or require that a record be kept stating when a quorum is present.

Because of all of these worldly life experiences, Mel is certain that he’s got what it takes to lead his fellow Americans. For example, Mel and President Bush’s “compassionate conservative” policies at HUD were designed to provide home ownership to minorities and low-income families, but in the end all they really accomplished was to use our tax dollars to buy minority votes which launched us into the current sub-prime mortgage crisis. Read paragraph three from Mel’s Secretary of HUD biography .

Next read the last paragraph from this HUD web page when Mel was HUD Secretary, warning the housing/mortgage industry of its responsibilities and the consequences of not following federal law and the Bush administration’s HUD policies. Under these policies, mortgages, backed by the U.S. government, were being issued to minorities who had bad credit ratings and who could not afford a down payment. If a mortgage broker refused to issue a mortgage that fell under the revamped HUD guidelines, Mel and his agency were ready to pounce on the broker for minority discrimination, so these loans were issued en masse across the country and Mel was basking in the rise of minority homeownership under his leadership.

Look at this HUD web page where Mel had set the goals for minority homeownership which as HUD Secretary he pushed so hard that the housing and mortgage market soon collapsed and is now being bailed out by Congress with votes from now U.S. Senator Mel Martinez whom we Floridians foolishly elected into office.

But today U.S. Senator Mel Martinez is calling these same mortgage brokers "predatory lenders" belying the fact that as Secretary of HUD he was the one twisting their arms to make these minority loans. Our tax dollars were spent in 2001-2003 while Mel was at HUD to make him look good as a 2004 U.S. Senate candidate and now our tax dollars are being spent once again to bail out Mel’s ridiculous attempt at coercing the trillion dollar mortgage financial markets which will end up costing the U.S. taxpayer tens and perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars. It would be a bargain if we could just give Mel $40 million like Batista took from Cuba in 1959 and simply send this self-righteous imbecile away.


But Mel understands his grave responsibility as a leader and if his confidence fails what would happen to the rest of us. From his days at HUD, his immigration amnesty bill and his messianic posturing to Hispanics as RNC Chairman, Mel now really, really, really really has got it all figured out and wants to show us the "new" Mel as we follow his machinations to solve our country’s energy crisis. According to Mel, all that is required is for the Democrats to put their politics aside and work together with Republicans as a team and do everything that Mel says. But then in a speech on the Senate floor, Mel, after making cliched statements about ANWAR, off-shore oil drilling, etc … , himself plays politics and points fingers at the Democrats who he says took control of Congress with the price of gas at $2 per gallon and now it is $4 per gallon and still rising. But Mel, Super Idiot, doesn’t tell us what policy of the Democrats caused the price of gas to double. He speaks of the new demand for oil from China, the weak dollar and speculators who are driving up the price, but then turns full circle and concludes by blaming the Democrats.

In 2004, Mel won his seat in the U.S. Senate by a mere 1% point over Betty Castor, yet he

   1) betrayed his campaign promise about amnesty,

   2) he pushed and championed the pro-minority policies at HUD which we are now finding out will end up costing the American taxpayer tens and possibly hundreds of billions of dollars to bailout and

   3) he never served in the military, either here in the U.S. or in Cuba, but like so many others in the Bush administration he is now giving impassioned advice on military matters.

What message should we send Mel in the 2010 election? We Americans need to wake up and get involved in politics and we should not be ashamed to say that we trusted a candidate, he betrayed us and now we are throwing him out. If Mel gets more than 40 percent of the vote in 2010 we have only ourselves to blame. Melquíades Rafael Martinez who understands how bad it is to live under a tyrant (Batista and Castro) would like it no other way.