Elian Gonzalez wishes Castro well

Herald Sun ^ | 7 August 2006

[FairOpinion]

Janet just did what BIll told her.

Bill Clinton is the real culprit in this one, not that Janet is innocent, but she would never have done it, without specifically being instructed to do it by Clinton.

[FairOpinion]

"They didn't reach the shore. The mother died, and the boy was found floating on a crummy raft in the middle of the ocean. Therefore, he had what they call "wet feet". Dry feet, stay in US, wet feet, back to the Workers Paradise you go."

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You have the general policy correct, but you are mistaken about Elian -- only if the Coast Gueard had found him, would he have "qualified" to be sent back. Private people found him and saved him, so by the time the Coast GUard found out about him, he was on dry land, therefore legally entitled to stay and get residency.

[Schwaeky]

you have to ask for assylum... it dates back to Johnson's presidency...

[over3Owithabrain]

the dad gets the kid.

Except in Cuba, the dad doesn't "get" the kid. Fidel does. He gets everything. Parental rights no not trump everything, FREEDOM does.

[scan58]

If a kid's great-uncle and his father are in a custody dispute, the dad gets the kid. Parental rights trump everybody's politics.

IIRC, his mother and father were divorced and his father hadn't been part of his life up till he got to Florida. The father was just castro's tool.

[The Great RJ]

What was Elian supposed to say? Cuba is a police state and anyone not wishing Fidel well will be whisked off to a tropical gulag. Elian especially is old enough to know that his life is pampered by Cuban standards and saying anything contrary to the wishes of the Communist party would mean a swift end to all the perks he and his father have been enjoying.

[AHerald]

An innocent boy turned into a trophy for communism and a sock puppet for a brutal dictator courtesy of President Clinton and, sadly, the majority of our fellow Americans who sincerely believed that they were acting in the best interests of a "kidnapped son" being returned to his loving father. But then the road to Hell is paved ...

[muawiyah]

Anybody track this guy down so that "W" can arrange to terminate his career as a government employee?

[diverteach]

"Anybody track this guy down so that "W" can arrange to terminate his career as a government employee?" Well, are you ready for this. Sit down! PERSECUTOR OF ELIAN GONZALEZ PROMOTED BY BUSH AND ASHCROFT According to a news advisory released April 11 in Miami, "Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, took the sworn testimony of Robert Wallis today, wherein the former Miami INS director revealed that he was selected for promotion to Regional INS Director and transferred to Texas in April 2001, under the Bush Administration and Attorney General John Ashcroft." ROBERT WALLIS SHOULD BE FIRED, NOT REWARDED "Wallis admitted, under examination by Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman, that the ‘proudest moment of his life’ was captured in an Associated Press photograph of INS Supervisory Special Agent Gwenn Reed holding a shotgun to the head of a prone and ‘spread-eagle’ protestor – Mario Miranda – during the illegal INS raid to return young Elian Gonzalez to Communist Cuba. Mr. Miranda is a retired Miami police officer and was responsible for safety and security around the Gonzalez home. Wallis’ testimony came during a Merit Systems Protection Board hearing for INS whistleblower and Judicial Watch client Rick Ramirez. Mr. Ramirez ‘blew the whistle’ on anti-Cuban and anti-Hispanic bigotry in the Miami INS office, as well as INS supervisors’ orders to destroy all documents and computer records concerning the Elian Gonzalez saga. Earlier testimony from INS attorney Diana Alvarez confirmed that the orders to destroy documents and records came from INS Commissioner Doris Meissner. … " ‘It is shocking that rather than take steps to clean out the Miami office of anti-Cuban and Hispanic prejudice, that instead Ashcroft and his Bush administration rewarded, with a promotion, the district director responsible for the prejudice. This shows insensitivity to the rights of Hispanics,’ stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman." http://www.conservativeusa.org/elian.htm

[dangus]

Don't you just love the way the media presents anything said positive by anyone anywhere in the world about President Bush or the USA as if it must be coerced, but unquestioningly accepts the sincerity of a child forcibly repatriated into a police state? It's awfully hard to blink in a pattern while writing a letter with a gun pointed at your temple, metaphorically or physically.

[dangus]

What the reprint does not say:

This article was written by journalists loving in Cuba and writing for the French press.

[dangus]

Wow. Did you get "Useful Idiot" tattooed on your forehead, or is that an uncanny birthmark?

When a mother dies trying to rescue a kid from a life of Hell, the courts usually take into account the fact that the kid was in a life of Hell.

Your understanding of custody law is 100% wrong. Courts are obliged to consider the welfare of the child, with the normal presumption that, in the absence of other evidence, a father is a better relationship than an uncle.

Now, if you think that child is NOT being made a symbol by Cuba, why are his alleged letters being read to the public? Or, more to the point, what special qualifications did his father have to serve in a national legislature? He is being rewarded for his loyalty to his godfather, crime syndicate boss Fidel Castro.

[dangus]

Oh, and welcome to Free Republic.

I do hope you'll enjoy your brief stay.... Troll.

[Tench_Coxe]

Nice to provide a photo of one of Fidel's troops picking up Elian's signature.

[RichInOC]

And the Cuban postal service intercepted a separate letter to Bill Clinton that read, "Damn you, old man! Damn you to hell!"

That reminds me of the beautiful thing that we and Cuba have in common. In the States, you can go right up to Dubya and say "You're an idiot!" and not get arrested. In Cuba, you can go right up to Fidel or Raul and say "Dubya's an idiot!" and not get arrested.

Seriously...do you think Bubba ever has second thoughts about how that raid worked out? More to the point, does Al Gore? I'm guessing they threw away a lot more than five hundred or a thousand votes that weekend.

[MaineVoter2002]

Doesn't say much for the Clinton regime under which he lived a few weeks.

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