The Writings of Don Havis

Terribly Wrong

A work of fiction

By Don Havis

This October, 2002 issue of our Newsletter, The TruthTeller, has been published by the North Florida Resistance Movement. As usual, we invite you to make as many copies as you can and to pass out among your friends. Obviously, do not risk using the U.S. mail.

Although the NFRM is on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, we have thus far been able to continue publication from various secret locations, despite the government's closure of the internet and heavy censorship of most "above-ground" publications. We do so in the continuing spirit of our original constitution that guaranteed "freedom of the press."

The primary purpose of this pamphlet is to get the truth of recent history out to as many U.S. citizens and citizens of the world as we possibly can. Many of our older citizens still retain accurate, or near-accurate, memories of events just prior to late October of 1962. This month's fortieth anniversary Special Issue will briefly review the events since that time, especially for our younger reading audience. We realize that the great bulk of the population--the '63 through '70 babyboomers--whose memory does not go back forty years, may have accepted our government's "official" version of events. This undoubtedly goes a long way towards explaining why there has not been more world-wide outrage at the horrifying events, especially of the last few years and month, in North-Florida. Even as many U.S. residents are completely unaware of the inhuman conditions under which perhaps as many as three million former South-Floridians endure in the North-Florida refugee camps. In this issue, therefore, we will again review the essential facts of history and of our ongoing struggle of the past 40 years.

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Everything changed after October 22, 1962. That was the day that President Kennedy announced to the nation and to the world that there was unmistakable evidence that the Soviet Union had established Medium Range Ballistic Missile sites in Cuba. Additionally, there was evidence that Soviet ships were at that time headed for Cuba with MRBMs which had a range of up to 2,200 miles. Kennedy declared a "quarantine" of all Cuban ports and demanded that all Soviet ships at sea be stopped and returned to Russia. It was further demanded that all missiles now in Cuba be removed and that all launch sites be dismantled. There followed 12 days of the most intensive and most crucial negotiations. In the end the U.S. refused to remove nuclear missiles we had just installed in Turkey. While negotiations were going on, Russia stopped some ships but defiantly steamed the Russian ships the Gagarin and the Komiles through our blockade, gambling that the U.S. would not be the first to strike, thus nearly guaranteeing a nuclear confrontation. MRBMs were off loaded and made ready for launch. Just as the U.S. was implementing "Operation Mongoose," the massive invasion of Cuba, the unthinkable, the unimaginable happened. We'll probably never know how, or where, or even if, secret negotiations and communications broke down. All we know for sure is something went terribly wrong.

While Congress was in emergency session, Cuba launched a preemptive strike. At 10:00 o'clock in the morning, on November 2nd, 1962, five nuclear-tipped MRBMs were launched in rapid succession from Cuba. They headed straight for Washington, D.C. The launch was, of course, spotted from our Guantanamo Base. Two of the missiles were blasted out of the skies. Apparently, the guidance system on one missile was not set precisely enough and it landed in the water just off the coast. Unfortunately, two of the missiles landed exactly on target, just a few miles from each other in the D.C. area. The resulting two nuclear blasts were absolutely devastating. Ironically, they were about the same size as the two nuclear bombs that the U.S. had dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just 17 years earlier.

Not only was the Congress and White House leveled, but also the Pentagon and all other government and military buildings and facilities were utterly destroyed. About 20,000 people--no one knows exactly--were killed instantly. Many others, perhaps not so lucky, suffered agonizing deaths in the days and months to come from burns and radiation poisoning.

Now, in 2002, who knows how the world might have been had this horror never occurred? All we now know is that the U.S. was rendered completely unable to strike back. Several Russian lead air strikes at strategic bases in the U.S. followed. Clearly, the realized that as soon as we were able to reconstitute some sort of government, we would attempt to retaliate. Taking advantage of the mass confusion and crippling effects of the attack, on November 7th, Cuban troops attacked Florida. Russian-made ships landed in Miami. Amazingly, there was little or no resistance. Immediately, hundreds of thousands of non-Cuban Florida citizens began fleeing North, most with only the clothes on their backs. Cuban troops and their Russian advisors quickly took over all of Florida up to and including parts of southern Georgia. At that point U.S. troops counter attacked. Bitter fighting ensued and the Cuban troops were finally driven back to about the 28th parallel.

Finally, after our ally Great Britain and some other mostly European countries got involved, the UN held extensive meetings on the international crisis. It came as a surprise and great relief to most Americans to see that the USSR apparently had no intention of "occupying" all of the United States. They certainly realized that despite our terribly weakened condition, such an occupation would be impossible in the long run. In the end, the UN gave the area up to the 28th parallel to the Cuban government. After lengthy negotiations, and over the pathetic objections of the U.S. government, the area was recognized as an independent state; that is a country--the country of South Florida. The Cubans and their Soviet backers squabbled and delayed the negotiations for over a year. All during that time, thousands of formerly Cuban-American residents of South Florida, together with huge numbers of Latin-American immigrants, primarily from South American countries as well as from Cuba itself, flocked to South Florida. These "Cubanos Liberales," as they were called, began moving into the much-weakened North Florida territory. They quickly established over one hundred "settlements." They stationed troops around the settlements, carved up areas where the terrified original residents of North Florida and the hundreds of thousands of refugees from South Florida were herded into squalid encampments, euphemistically called "resettlement areas." Roads, specifically designated as "Cuban Only," "Cubanos solamente," connected and still connect the various settlements.

The UN passed resolution after resolution demanding that the occupying Cuban troops return to the originally established borders, but the Russian/Cuban/Latin American Alliance was and is now so dominant and intimidating that they seem to be allowed to simply thumb their noses at these resolutions and all International Laws.

During UN negotiations during the first few years of occupation, the Cubans offered a series of absurd justifications. Amazingly some of them are still given some credence even today. For example they claimed only to be legitimately "striking back" after "acts of aggression" by the United States. Of course, they were about to be invaded, and they were being blockaded, but it was the Cuban/Soviet alliance that struck first.

The Cubans also claimed that they had an ancient "right" to South Florida since the indigenous Cubans, before they were racially mixed with the invading Spanish, were part of the Arawak people. The Arawaks, they claimed, were the "original" people of Florida and all of the Caribbean Islands before they were almost completely wiped out by Christopher Columbus and his followers. Therefore, they were simply re-occupying their native lands where they had lived five hundred years earlier. Have you heard of anything so ridiculous?

It was interesting to see how quickly, over the next decade, the USSR gained a position of world dominance, and how quickly after that that the greedy elements in the Soviet government abandoned all their rhetoric about equal distribution of wealth. After a perfunctory show of naval force in the South Atlantic, and the promise of "land reform," within only a few months, the entire South American continent abandoned their former allies, the U.S.A. and rushed to join hands with Mother Russia. There was indeed some "land reform," but the workers of the lands quickly learned that a huge percentage of the income from the newly created peasant collective farms went to pay back "loans," and to the wealthy elite of the USSR. Most industries met a similar fate. It turned out that "privatization," which sounded like a very capitalist idea, simply meant turning one's business over to the oligarchs who already ran most of the world's gigantic mega-corporations. During the past three decades the Russians have continued to bully and dominate weaker nations. Those that have not gone along were invaded or otherwise forced into submission. Now, the new Sino-Soviet-Latin American Alliance, known as the "Axis of Peace," has created the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Agreements of Trade and Tariffs, (the TPAT and the TAAP) and many other organizations and agreements that now exercise enormous control on the world economies. So much of the world is so intimidated by the extent of the Soviet hegemony over the world of commerce and banking that they are extremely reluctant to raise any objections to the year-by-year increasing Soviet drive for world domination. This intimidation, I am ashamed to say, even includes our own U.S. governmnet. Oh, we still pass weak resolutions politely reminding the Soviet government of its earlier promises to abandon their settlements in the state of North Florida, but nothing ever comes of them. They no longer even speak of returning South Florida to the U.S. since the UN recognized it as an independent nation.

The North Florida Resistance Movement bravely continues the struggle, but the Soviet enforced international embargo is so tight that they have not been able to obtain arms enough to mount any serious offensive. Continuous Cuban occupation since 1963 has enraged and dispirited so many of the North Floridians that many have taken to strapping homemade bombs to themselves and going into Cuban held areas, or even across the border into South Florida itself, and blowing themselves up, attempting to take a few "liberales" with them. Whenever they do this, there are new cries of "terrorism." There is an immediate counter-insurgence of heavily armed Cuban troops, backed up by Soviet-made Kalashnikov helicopters. The UN and the U.S. government quickly call for new peace negotiations. Russia promptly volunteers to act as an "honest broker," but of course no real change is ever forthcoming. The situation is rapidly becoming more and mroe desperate.

As you know, we Peace Activists, worldwide, are having a very difficult time communicating with one another. What passes for "news" in the United States is now so heavily controlled that the ordinary citizen is virtually unable to obtain accurate information from either North or South Florida. How many of you who are reading this communication know, for example, that there are now nearly daily incursions into the occupied territories during which most of the men and older boys of whatever settlement the Liberales go into are hauled away, many never to be seen again? Let me assure you, however, that all hope is not lost. Despite the fact that most governmnets and the mega-corporations--nearly identical now--are reluctant to go up against the powers that be, and despite the government-controlled media, we are continuing to organize. We will continue the struggle. We must continue to demand that all Cuban troops in North Florida return to the original boundaries as prescribed in UN Security Council Resolution 242 of 1964. Additionally, all Cubans must abandon all Cuban settlements in North Florida and return South of the 28th parallel. We also demand that an International UN Peace-keeping force be put in place along the 28th parallel for an indeterminate period of time, at least until it is clear that suicide bombings and counter invasions are stopped.

We realize, especially with the election of our new Conservative Party Minister of Homeland Security, that is is a risk simply putting out this appeal. I'm sure you realize that we can not reveal specific plans here. We realize that this communication will be read by the I.S.P. (Internal Security Police). However, we hope that you will be brave enough to do whatever you can to support our comrades in North Florida. Please contribute whatever you can to the North-Florida Resistance Movement. You can still contact us in most large U.S. cities on the "Greenweb" at www.NFRM.com

Thank you.
Don Havis, President North Florida Resistance Movement

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