Posted on 08/08/2006 6:53:58 AM PDT by presidio9
A little Cuban boy named Elian, who in 1999 was scooped up by a federal SWAT team in Miami and shipped back to Cuba, is in the news again for the get well card he and his family sent to communist dictator Fidel Castro. The youngster addressed the 79-year-old as my "Dear Grandfather" and wished Castro a happy 80th birthday.
For those not familiar with this child's story or for those who've forgotten, Elian Gonzalez was the center of one of the biggest news stories during the Clinton Administration. Not as big as Monica, but close.
While escaping the communist paradise with his mother, Elian was shipwrecked and then rescued off the Florida coast in 1999, but his mother wasn't as lucky. Relatives of the 5-year old wanted him to stay with them in Miami. However, the boy's father, a loyalist to Castro wanted him back and suddenly Elian was the in the midst of a heated tug-of-war.
The Clinton Administration decided that Elian would be better off with his alleged biological father in Castro's Proletariat kingdom. The only problem was Elian's Miami relatives, who had escaped from the de facto Cuban prison themselves, wanted Elian to grow up in the United States and enjoy the benefits of living in a free, capitalist nation.
Bill Clinton and the rest of his liberal cronies wanted the boy turned over to the federal authorities and shipped back to Cuba. When Elian's relatives refused to comply, that paragon of justice, Attorney General Janet Reno, sent a squad of officers dressed for combat -- helmets, body armor, black BDUs -- carrying fully automatic weapons to grab the child away from his unarmed kin.
The sight of this on television should have outraged every American, not just conservatives. Had only the Clinton Administration been so zealous with the millions of illegal aliens within the US.
One Cuban-American police officer from New Jersey said to me, as we watched this ridiculous display of Reno's abuse of power unfold on television, "Ronald Reagan would never do this. Ronald Reagan wouldn't allow this."
All I could reply was, "Clinton is no Ronald Reagan. Clinton is simpatico with Marxist dictators." Over the top, you say? Wasn't that an old photo I saw of Clinton protesting the Vietnam War under a Viet Cong flag?
Thanks to the popular President Bill Clinton, the biggest flimflam man ever to sit in the oval office, Elian Gunsels, now 12, has probably been indoctrinated by the Stalinist system in Cuba.
And Janet Reno? Well, she's is still popular among liberals in the US, despite the Elian incident; and despite Waco, another crowning moment for the Clinton Administration, in which Reno sent stormtroopers to kill men, women and children because her and her boss didn't particularly like their religion or their ideas about gun ownership.
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And remember that it was The United States Goobermint that pointed an HK MP-5 at Elian's head and shipped him off to Cuba. Maybe his "Grandfather" treated him better?
About the same : )
notice how your utilities have skyrocketed? how much is your gasoline credit card bill? how much are your toll-tags to go to and from work on a road you already have paid for?
Anybody play Texas Hold'm or Five Card Draw have a strong hunch?
There's no surprise that there hasn't been any Waco or Ruby Ridge type incidents during the Bush administration. BJ, OTOH, ran this country like a dictator, and reno's DoJ was his gestapo.
Well not so popular as to ever have more than half of the voters select him. Without the help of my number two selection on the "Most Despicable Texans" list, Ross Perot, surpassed only by Ramsey Clark, he would have never been elected.
And for his treachery, Mr. Perot was awarded a $1 billion a year contract from the Social Security Administration to jump start his then fledgling company, Perot Systems.
Even this article sounds one-sided like all the other MSM reports. There is always more behind the scenes that we never know because the media doesn't want us to know.
BTW, I for one agreed that Elian should have been returned to his father who was the rightful guardian of the child. I do not believe that the relatives had any right to keep the child from his father. Now, had the mother lived and she was there to take care of the child according to her wishes, then so be it. But when she passed, the responsibility returned to the father. It is unfortunate that he is required to live in a communist country, but that is none of our business.
And, I believe, because the relatives interferred by withholding the child who was ordered to return, they caused the unfortunate situation we saw on the news.
Ironically, the Elian fiasco reversed the inroads the Clinton/Gore team had made into the Cuban community who overwhelmingly vote GOP...thereby giving Dubya Florida...thereby giving us Dubya instead of Gore in the white House on 9/11.
When Castro came to power in Cuba, my husband (an only child) had to make a fast decision to stay or leave Cuba. He was 18 years old. He did not want to leave his parents, but then his father said to him "Go - at least you will be in a free country - America". So he left. He did try to get his parents out of Cuba, but then the iron curtain fell and he never saw them again.
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Boy, what a hard decision they both had to make. Glad they were in agreement.
Would you send a child to live with his father in a maximum security prison in the US, should the boy's mother die?
A parent has certain rights. The US government (and many of its citizens...even though they think they do) does not have the right to at all times decide that a parent doesn't have any rights to the child.
How would you like it if you were a immigrant living in the U.S and had dual citizenship and the ruler of the other country said that your children could NOT live in the U.S and to return them to their country immediately? Would you like someone dictating to you what is best for your children?
Not a parallel. There is no parent in Cuba; only the State.
I asked a very simple question, yet you seem unable to answer it.
Ya think?
The Clinton Administration decided that Elian would be better off with his alleged biological father in Castro's Proletariat kingdom. The only problem was Elian's Miami relatives, who had escaped from the de facto Cuban prison themselves, wanted Elian to grow up in the United States and enjoy the benefits of living in a free, capitalist nation.
Definitley one-sided.
There is always more behind the scenes that we never know because the media doesn't want us to know.
Hit the nail right on the head.
Good Friday, 2000, wasn't it?
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