Posted on 01/04/2007 5:03:41 AM PST by PurpleMountains
IE7 loaded it straight away for me.
It finally loaded, about 10 minutes after I started, it suddenly popped up. Probably a network glitch somewhere.
His blog is on my favorites list, so it's not like I've had problems before.
I just like to tweak people sometimes because we rant about newspapers who force us to extract so we have to go to their pages to read stuff.
I'm torn on the issue. They were not kidnappers, they were relatives. The mother was the "kidnapper", if there was such a thing, but from all accounts she had "sole custody" of the child when she left Cuba. Although that would be a fact that could be adjudicated.
What I didn't like most was that the custody battle was not adjudicated, the executive branch summarily determined who should have custody and awarded it. They were not "implementing a child services order" or anything, they simply went to court to get permission to avoid the custody courts.
No court ordered Elian back to his father. One court ordered he be kept with his relatives pending a custody case, while a federal court rules that Janet Reno could do whatever she wanted.
If the father had come to the custody court and successfully won the case, I'd have no problem with the police enforcing the court order.
Janet's middle-of-the-night snatch-and-grab was a blatant abuse of government power.
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