Posted on 04/17/2005 7:38:18 PM PDT by CHARLITE
CáRDENAS, Cuba · Elián González says he wants to be a gymnast when he grows up. But his grandfather, Juan González Sr., knows Elián's future career choices are as variable as any normal preteen's and could change next month.
"I want him to be a good man, to do good deeds, not do anything he will regret. Everything else is all right," he said, sitting in his home in the coastal town of Cárdenas under a large photograph of a very young Elián.
At age 11, the boy whose bitter custody battle stands as a symbol of the Cold War conflict between Cuban-Americans and Cuba has been saddled with high expectations.
Five years ago this month, armed federal agents stormed into the home of Elián's Miami relatives and scooped him up in a lightning-fast, predawn raid that crushed the hopes of Cuban-American exiles. Within hours Elián was reunited with his father, Juan Miguel González. Two months later, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the boy's Miami relatives to keep him in the United States, Elián and his father boarded a chartered Learjet and returned to Cuba.
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Check my sign on date.
Now compare the others.
I was here.
There are so many posting under new names including myself, that dates mean very little.
LOL!
That's the claim.
Well, I'm not Cuban but I totally agree with your prayers. Methinks the Chinese are interested in taking the place of the Soviet military presence on Cuba, btw.
"Gore lost the 2000 Presidential race because of those thugs snatching Elian"
I agree if they'd won those florida cuban counties the election would have been theirs.. Do you know the irony though?
Gore was against taking Elian back to Cuba, one of the few areas he went against Clinton.
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The article gushes about Elian's quote "normal life" as if living in Cuba is no different than living here in the US. Gag! They describe Elian's life, but then mention the armed guards stationed at his house, and they mention the "psychiatrist" Elian saw to help him "cope" with what happened .
The lazy worthless "journalist" talks about the "rallies" and all the people who "rallied" like people in Cuba have a choice about attending the rallies. Here's a News Flash for the stupid- people who don't "attend" Castro's rallies are sent to prison.
It should be duly noted that a democrat former president of our nation, has stated that we should model our health care system after Cuba's and praises Fidel Castro. That should tell any American with three brain cells in his/her head all they need to know about the democrat party. It is NOT your daddy or granddad's party any more. It has morphed into something sinister.
I think until the Clinton administration, all Cubans were entitled to refugee status, but Clinton instituted the "wet foot/dry foot" distinction--those who made it to land on their own were entitled to stay, but those picked up at sea would be sent back to Cuba. Elian, of course, was rescued at sea.
Prove what and for what purpose?
Truly, I am not interested.
You made an observation that is not factual.
Tenure means very little to me.
Ditto for the almost universal claim by posters
that they were either here earlier under another name
or that they lurked for years or months. By those
type of statements, I conclude that tenure means something
to them. :)
I take issue only with sleeper accounts and new sign-on's who suddenly
appear filled with venom or a specific agenda. Recall that
DU threatened and promised to disrupt FR? I've seen
a lot of that by new sign-on's comitted to causing
grief on the Shiavo threads in particular. In Elian days,
we had competing sides, but not with the venom of late.
If you aren't interested then why do you reply? That's right, another sign of "tenure"; dismissing the younger poster as boring, irrelevant, or just plain unworthy and forever complaining about the "tone" of the thread.
It's also funny, but most of the banned posters were on the side of Michael's right to kill Terri. I'm sure they would have felt right at home in the WPPPFFFF self adulation thread.
Your observation was flat out wrong.
You're entitled to your own opinion,
but not your own set of facts, but rave on,
just cease posting to me, or it'll be obvious
you're stalking.
Then you cease posting to me. You started this by posting back to me or can't you read your own post. Buh Bye.
Ditto.
Both the president and Jeb had the executive authority to use the force of the executive branch to do GOOD, save the CONSTITUTIONALLY protected life of an innocent woman from an illegal and UNCONSTITUTIONAL order to be starved and dehydrated to death. If ever there was a reason to use such force, it was Terri's case.
Clinton used the power of executive force for an evil purpose, to illegally send a little boy back to Cuba.
You can include Jim Robinson on that list!
Thanks for asking the question (I wasn't here then either). Seems like it's affirmative.
Elian's mother and father were NOT married and Elian's father had begun a new family with someone else. Elian's mother who sacrificed her life to bring Elian to the United States, did so with the knowledge and permission of Elian's father who stated on several occasions he intended to get to the United States himself, in a tub, if he had to. Elain's father WANTED Elian here. After Castro stepped in, Elian's father was not free to speak the truth.
It is MOST disturbing that people like yourself are unable to distinguish between the above and normal situations.
Where did you get that figure? I'm not doubting you for an instant. It's believable, having gone on now for nearly a half century......but I'm just wondering where such a statistic comes from.
I lived in South Florida for 11 years, mostly in the Miami area which has a large Cuban population.
I just remember reading articles about how over a million Cubans have come to the US and it is estimated that at least 100,000 have drowned in the Florida Straits trying to get here.
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