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A Letter From David’s Mother
First let us take this opportunity to personally thank you for your commitment to justice. We hope to find individuals who are willing to help in our struggle through this horrible ordeal. We have always have had faith and trust in this country and try every day to find the justice that will help us keep that faith. We arrived in America in 1960. Since that time we have worked non-stop so that we would not have to depend on any organization for support or be a parasite to this country. We have worked hard - and at numerous jobs - in order to pull ourselves up into a middle class society, here in the United States. The hardest thing about coming here was that we had to leave all of our family behind. We had to do this not only to save our son from Communism but ourselves as well. We were very well-off in Cuba, but left all things behind when we fled to America. We knew that coming to this country would mean severing all ties with our family forever. That is what hurt us the most about coming to America at that time. But we had to run away from Castro's Communist regime, for our lives were at stake and we did not want for our son to be taken from us and raised as a communist. We left Cuba with nothing except the clothes we were wearing. All of our properties such as the homes, jewelry, cars, clothes, furniture, and other personal items were all left behind forever. While Batista was president of the Republic of Cuba, we worked for him as members of the Special Police Force which was the equivalent of the Secret Service here is the United States. Therefore, when Castro came into power, we had to flee the Island for our safety. In order to protect our family, and as it is the dream of many immigrants, we immigrated to America. We then believe that this was the country where a person could live free without fear from the government. It was our intent to give our son, David, the best education possible and for him to grow as a free person were political unrest and political terrorism was not heard of. But all of our sacrifice went to no avail. Our son and all his sacrifice, all the sleepless nights that he spent studying to become somebody, all was used against him at the trial instead of helping him. The trial was a dirty one, where everyone there was a paid government informant working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At times, when we look back at all the injustice committed against our son, we wonder if we should have left him behind to be raised a communist. We never have felt that way until the day of his sentencing, after he was convicted by the use of paid informants, prosecutorial persecution, lies, and trickery in which a, Reagan-appointed Federal Judge condemned our son to a cruel and unjust sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. Our son, an educated person of Cuban descent, refused to cooperate with the government which wanted him to set up innocent people in order to gain a plea bargain. My son is a person who the United States had given so much, only to then make an example of him and thrown in jail for the rest of his life, for a crime that only carried a few year sentence. We don't agree with that judge. We don't agree with such prejudice and such a dirty trial where there was no justice but only lies, smoke screens put there by the prosecutor and governmental trickery. Everything that he is, all of his achievements, all those things he had done by himself through hard work, sleepless nights, and numerous sacrifices. No one has ever given him or us a thing that we did not earned of worked hard for. All we have ever done since the arrival into this country has been hard work and pay taxes! We have lost all of our faith in the system. There is no more justice in America, only hidden tyranny and oppression. This is the land that at one time we looked upon as our savior but now we see it as our second Holocaust. Our feelings changed the moment that it destroyed our only son's life. We pray that things change for the better some day and hope that our faith in this country can one day be restored, when our David finally gets justice and come home. May God bless you keep you in his grace. Sincerely yours,
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David with his Father |