Posted on 06/22/2008 1:19:42 PM PDT by wagglebee
Family members of Elian Gonzalez, the refugee boy rescued from the ocean but returned to his Cuban father during the Clinton administration, called a press conference to protest Barack Obama's visit to Florida and the candidate's hiring of two staff members who were involved in sending the boy back eight years ago.
The capture of Elian Gonzalez |
The family specifically points to Obama's foreign policy advisor, Greg Craig, who represented Elian's Cuban father during the custody battle, and Eric Holder, a member of Obama's vice-presidential search committee, who served as deputy attorney general during the much-publicized affair.
Delfin Gonzalez, Elian's great-uncle, stood in the front yard of the home where immigration agents had seized the boy at gunpoint on April 22, 2000. "My fear is that those who collaborated with Cuba's communist government and made a great mistake with a defenseless child will make the same mistake again against this nation that is facing danger from terrorism," he said.
Gonzalez told the Miami Herald earlier, "Some wounds are so deep that they do not heal over time, such as taking a child and sealing his fate to a communist dictatorship."
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My mother’s family spent about two months in Cuba every winter from the early 1920s (except during WWII) until the year before Castro (they usually went just after New Year’s and he came to power on New Year’s Eve). They said that it was BY FAR the nicest island, from a vacation standpoint, in the Caribbean. And that is generally the only reason people go there now. There are some businesses there, some diplomats, but most of the people going to Cuba are vacationers.
With the exception of some very high ranking officials, Cubans generally ARE NOT allowed to leave. There are programs where Cuban doctors are occasionally allowed to travel to the US and Europe for medical training, but their families are basically held hostage to insure that they return.
And there is NO DOUBT in my mind that if he had the FREEDOM to tell the truth, Elian’s father would have wanted him to stay in the United States (in fact, he probably would have wanted to move here and bring the rest of his family).
Strong basis to take a kid from his father. Your expert testimony.
How so? Because Fidel takes control of children away from their parents? A child cannot be returned to a parent in a country where the government takes away control of people's children from their parents.
You are not defending parental rights because there are no parental rights in Cuba.
You are defending Communism. Period. You are a "useful idiot."
I really wonder if your emotional blasts allow you to see how foolish and truly naive you appear on this forum. By these emotion charged comments, you show a bewildering lack of concept of communism and just what happened. Please check out with more calm friends, and a mirror, to see how you have blinded yourself and perhaps you may preserve any other vestiges of conservative values you truly possess.
Alas, that is what emotional response can do, and creates a mess called liberals. The cure is truth. Please do not return to this thread sounding like a DU liberal. Cool down a bit, first.
Cut your losses, I urge. Otherwise people may think you are a leftie or sumpin...
What are you trying to say about the “concept of communism” and “(t)he cure is truth”?
I take umbrage about my comments, by the way. I think about people who escaped E. Berlin and N. Korea, and have no doubt in my mind that their children would not have been returned had the parents died to make them free.
Furthermore, I believe that by surrounding himself with people, e.g., Axelrod, who orchestrated taking Elian from his relatives, Obama has revealed his intentions. Witness his early childhood programs he now reveals.
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