Posted on 06/22/2008 1:19:42 PM PDT by wagglebee
Actually, Nader cost Gore the election. Syphoning away 80,000 votes.
Are you an attorney with experience in child custody cases? Are you one of those people who just assumes that the courts always make the right ruling?
I suppose your interest in keeping the parent and the child apart supercede all that.
Aside from some photo-ops, it's unlikely that Elian and his father have been together since they got back to Cuba.
He lived at the school just like all the other children. Cuban children are taken away from their parents at a young age to be indoctrinated and to keep the parents from teaching the kids religion. You are quite obviously ignorant of this fact, which explains how you can hold such a self-contradictory position. The child should not have been returned to Cuba precisely because parents do not have any parental rights in Cuba. Cuba is a communist dictatorship where all children belong to the state. Every school in Cuba is a prison and communist indoctrination camp. All of the people of Cuba are slaves and the whole island is one big prison. If you try to escape they will kill you.
I didn’t separate him, honey. His mother did and died doing it. Because of Bubba, Jackboot Janet, and supporters like you she died in vain. At least it cost algore Florida. I wish you well in other endeavors, but in this case unlike Elian’s mother who was dead right, you are dead wrong.
I feel sorry for your ignorance about communism.
Based on your opinion of what's unlikely, I wouldn't even take the case.
Your opinion seems based upon hatred of Castro and Clinton and Reno. Get in line, but not to take a kid from his father.
For someone who's so adamant about this, your case is just so much vaporware.
If supporting parental rights and responsibilities is Clintonian then so be it. By not doing so, you are clearly on the wrong side. I didn't know Clinton had some conservative ideas. Surprising.
I feel sorry for your nad judgement. If parents in communist countries can’t have kids, you better get to work.
Is that what you got? Sad. Nothing in that would lead me to take a kid away from his parent. You can call people slaves all you want. A kid going thorugh a mandatory school ceremony is not slavery. Get a grip.
Here's your assignment: get organized and get to the airports with flights to Cuba and grab all the little slaves before they are sent back to the gulag.
Toodles.
One final thing. You are incredibly naive if you don’t believe Elian’s father was forced by the Castro regime to do what he did.
"Child care worker" is a VERY broad term, does this mean that you were a babysitter when you were a teenager?
I DO NOT claim to be an expert in child custody law; however, my wife is an attorney who handles child custody cases on a regular basis. She quite often talks about cases where the judge determines that NEITHER parent is the best custodian for the child.
Your opinion seems based upon hatred of Castro and Clinton and Reno. Get in line, but not to take a kid from his father.
Elian was being taken from his father regardless.
Are you saying that there are NO CIRCUMSTANCES under which you would remove a child from the custody of both of his or her parents?
I don't think any of those airports are in the U.S. How many people are actually trying to get BACK to Cuba?
No person, child or adult should live under communist tyranny ever.
LOL
You hit the nail on the head.
“This issue WILL push them back in the GOP column.”
And so 155,000 felons, give or take, now have their rights restored.
“Elian’s mother BROUGHT him to live in the United States.”
She died to do this. Died.
My 2 cents.
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