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Four years after return to Cuba, Elian a normal schoolboy
Kansas City .com ^ | 7/31/04 | MAKI BECKER

Posted on 08/01/2004 2:57:57 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: Mister Blond

Years? He was barely "Years" old. He seemed pretty content with his father to me. No, he doesn't realize what Cuba's all about yet, but I just can't condone keeping a young child from his only living parent for political reasons.

It was an ugly situation but I have to side with "Family" here.

People just don't understand, there is no "family" under totalitarianism. There is only the state. They build statues to kids who rat out their parents, for pete's sake.

41 posted on 08/01/2004 3:24:40 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: Libloather
No matter how "good" life may be for Elian in Cuba, it would have been infinitely better in the United States.

What a load of pro-Communist drek this article is. Sheesh.

42 posted on 08/01/2004 3:24:53 PM PDT by Prime Choice (When Clinton lies, he insults our integrity. When Kerry lies, he insults our intelligence.)
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To: rodguy911
In case you didn't notice, this probably explains his response.

VoteBush04

Since Jul 31, 2004

43 posted on 08/01/2004 3:25:01 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
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To: Mister Blond

Elian's Mother was never married to Elian's Father, he was paying no child support and hardly ever saw the kid. He was NOT acting as a Father, when the kid was nearby.

He only developed an interest in the kid, after Castro ordered him to, when Elian was here.


44 posted on 08/01/2004 3:26:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: FairOpinion

Note the expression on his face. So many photos of him in the US with a smile on his face (before his kidnapping by Reno and company)...and now back in Cuba...not a smile since.


45 posted on 08/01/2004 3:27:01 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: sinkspur
There were two young Miami guys in their late 20's who were fishing in a 23 foot outboard boat. They noticed what they thought was debris. They were dolphin fishing looking for magic debris that holds fish . Closer inspection showed porpoises protecting a kid in what was left of a makeshift raft. They took him in and as the story goes the rest was history. the Clintonistas got to one of the guys the other remains a cult hero here in Miami and is known as the "fisherman."
46 posted on 08/01/2004 3:28:29 PM PDT by rodguy911 ( President Reagan---all the rest.)
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To: FairOpinion

And he was never proved to be the father, which should/would have happened if he was legally granted custody, according to the law, instead of being torn from the arms of friends at gunpoint.


47 posted on 08/01/2004 3:28:31 PM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: Mister Blond

Elian lives with his father in prison. Elian lives with his father at Castro's pleasure. There are no parental rights in Cuba.

I remember all the bleeding hearts scatting about Elian and his Daddy's rights. They have no rights. They live in Cuba. Castro decides who lives and dies.

Sending that boy back to Cuba was the USA's saddest day. It gave validation to Castro and Cuba's "government". Only the mentally ill and the hard socialist in this country could see "good" in sending Elian back to that communist hellhole.

I hope Reno and Clinton get an extra squirt of charcoal starter as they pass through the trap-door to hell.



48 posted on 08/01/2004 3:28:32 PM PDT by whereasandsoforth (A house divided is a duplex)
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To: lowbridge

"now back in Cuba...not a smile since."

Exactly.

Elian remembers...


49 posted on 08/01/2004 3:29:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: rodguy911

"By now it's all a distant memory to a ten year old."

I'm not sure, the kid almost died at sea and had a gun stuck in his face. I think that stuff probably stays with you, he was old enough to remember it.

I'm sure his dad loves him, that I will say. And I know that that commie *ss-kisser Clinton (wow, excuse me! but I won't take it back) totally screwed this up. What did he think was Castro going to invade the USA over this little boy?


50 posted on 08/01/2004 3:29:34 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Guillermo
no way the father made a phone call to Miami checking out whether elian had made it safely to Miami or not, that is documented.
51 posted on 08/01/2004 3:30:43 PM PDT by rodguy911 ( President Reagan---all the rest.)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Didnt Reno suffer from parkinsons during her days as AG? Isn't it incredible.....the press tries to go back and say Reagan was suffering from AZ, that's why he made those crazy decisions. No one except for the freepers are questioning HER judgement. Mainstream "Journalists" today really are the most incompetent fools I've ever seen in any profession...and that's not by coincidence.

It was truly most passing strange how the press would go on about Reno's parkinsons and how cruel it was to beat up on a sick old lady while she was in office, but when she was running for governor of FL and in the years since, she has been verily the picture of vim and vigor.

52 posted on 08/01/2004 3:32:01 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: rodguy911

The "father" simply did not care. He had nothing to do with his sons life after his birth.

IF he WAS a good father, he would have wanted the boy to stay in "la yuma." (The USA).


53 posted on 08/01/2004 3:33:12 PM PDT by Guillermo (Nobody ever sells a good horse)
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Elian's "Father" delivering Elian to their slave master: Castro.

Just look at the poor kid's face.

54 posted on 08/01/2004 3:33:23 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Bubba and his wench "were the court system" they would not allow it, Janet Reno herself was negotiating with the Miami family on the telephone when the jack booted thugs with auto weapons came and stole him away, typical bubba style.
55 posted on 08/01/2004 3:33:28 PM PDT by rodguy911 ( President Reagan---all the rest.)
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57 posted on 08/01/2004 3:34:11 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Only the mother drowned, her last wishes and the father Juan were for Elian to have a life with relatives in Miami.
58 posted on 08/01/2004 3:36:04 PM PDT by rodguy911 ( President Reagan---all the rest.)
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To: whereasandsoforth; All
They have no rights. They live in Cuba.

Reality reminder.

59 posted on 08/01/2004 3:36:24 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: jocon307

"I'm sure his dad loves him, that I will say. "

==

Oh, please....

If he loved him, he would have wanted Elian to have a better life and stay in the US.

The guy is a coward, sold out the welbeing and soul of his son, to Castro.

It's like to old story from the Bible, of two women claiming a child. Solomon (?) said, then he'll cut the child in two -- one said that's OK, the other said, she would rather give up any claim to the child, just to make sure the child wasn't harmed. That was the real Mother, who really loved the child.


Elian's Father was nothing but Castro's puppet.


60 posted on 08/01/2004 3:37:28 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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