[pcx99]

Baloney, but not a surprise from someone who draws a moral equivalency between the American system and Castro's dictatorial hell hole.

Immorallity is to disregard familly. Immorallity (and communism) is to break the familly apart over a political issue. Just because you don't like castro or cuba doesn't mean it wasn't the right to return the boy to his father. That same decision keeps people from taking YOUR children because they don't like your politics (and I'm finding I rather disagree with your familly last politics).

[MitchellC]

There was no "disregarding" of the family. Elian had his family in Florida, who clearly wanted him. What was not clear, and could not possibly have been clear due to the nature of Castro's rule, was that Elian's family in Cuba truly thought the boy ought to be returned there. To believe what the father and aunts did and said while their family was being held hostage back in Cuba is the height of naivete.

[crude77]

Do you recognise Fidel as Elian's parent?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Elián was conceived years after his mother and father divorced, he is an illegitimate child.

Do you believe that undocumented fathers of illegitimate children should be given full parental rights over the surviving child of a deceased mother without first having to prove paternity in Court?