To: Luis Gonzalez
What amazed, horrified, and facsinated me and Hub at the time was the way the leftists invoked family values in such a cynical way, to justify returning this refugee child to the inhuman Cuban hellhole.
I remember at the time that ADM, an international corporation, was interested in some sugar contracts which Castro held up, on condition of Elian's return. Elian's miraculous survival at sea was a rebuke to Castro, and he wanted the US to return the kid to him or no contracts.
It's my conjecture -- and only conjecture -- that ADM exerted influence on Clinton for Elian's return. A whole bunch of lefties, including the Methodist female head of the American Council of Churches (can't recall her name), got on public television and harped about family values to paint the whole thing over with some sort of justification.
The number of people in this country who were absolutely horrified at the pre-dawn raid and the photos of the genuine jack-booted thug, the reporter who was literally thrown out of the way, and the screaming child thrown into the white van by Commando Betty--these people are countless.
They've not forgotten. They vote. And I'm one of them.
This is one of the very worst of the scandals of the Clinton administration. The defenders of the return of Elian to Cuba are, in my opinion, without defense, themselves.
Father's rights is a rationalization coldly and heartlessly used to cover the coercion of Elian's father in this charade.
After Waco, we should not have been shocked, but it is a very black mark on Clinton's soul, and it left a permanent bruise on my heart.
84 posted on
12/07/2003 9:05:57 PM PST by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: Judith Anne
"I remember at the time that ADM, an international corporation, was interested in some sugar contracts."
Go to post #73 on this thread.
106 posted on
12/08/2003 8:33:19 PM PST by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Gift Is To See The Trout.)
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