Posted on 04/29/2011 9:41:04 AM PDT by jazusamo
P.S.
“Under what rock have you been living under?”
Sorry for the sentence structure.
I should have said: *##$%^$#Q@!!!
Do you remember the flaming those of us who expressed that his father had the right to raise his child here on FR? I still have burn marks!
Yeah, well that “father” turned out to be Fidel Castro.
Does Elian live with his natural father today?
No - Elian,16yrs old, lives with his paternal grandmother in Cardenas, Cuba.
Elian’s father lives a nice life having been appointed a member of the Cuban parliament.
“Donato Dalrymple: The fisherman who found the boy at sea now has a daughter of his own. He lives in Fort Lauderdale and keeps an oil painting of Elian surrounded by dolphins on his wall, according to The Miami Herald.”
More info on all the players in the reprehensible Gonzalez saga is well-stated here:
Some great current pictures of Elian here as well as of his present condition - having to salute his Communist captors on his birthday.
http://www.therealcuba.com/elian_gonzalez.htm
My Freeper screen name ‘A’elian Nation’ is my tribute to Elian as well as my scorn for one of the most sordid days in American history. I still am revulsed and ashamed of how this nation deprived him of freedom.
I also came to American when I was a boy of 6 - all by myself. I have been blessed by this country as Elian never was.
I believe you stated it well.
The case did fall in the gray zone for me. What made the difference for me were two things, the communist political factor with Castro and the family here that desperately wanted to raise him in a free country.
Yeah, in America.
Good, because you’re still wrong.
This one event caused me to stop watching or listening to all news for several years. I have never gone back to watching any news, and before this I watched several hours a day. I am still filled with anger and disgust over it.
Thank you for your added information.
Creg Craig is a mango tree lawyer.
Creg Craig = Greg Craig.
I’m sorry for the typo. I am just too upset reliving this again.
“I also came to American when I was a boy of 6 - all by myself. I have been blessed by this country as Elian never was.”
You have to be a wonderful, wonderful person.
In August 2009 I was in an elevator in a hotel in Chicago. The ABA (semi?)annual meeting was in the same hotel with Eric Holder as the keynote speaker. As the elevator traveled downward, it stopped on one of the intermediate floors. Holder stepped on with a couple of security suits. I excused myself, got off early, and mumbled “How is Elian doing Mr. Holder?” His jaw dropped and he started to say something as the doors closed.
Holder is a real piece of work. In the words of a federal judge I know about unsavory lawyers: “If there is a place in Hell that is hotter than the rest, I wish it were within my power to condemn you to that place!”
I knew a woman who came over in the early sixties from Cuba, but was a bit older, around 10. She cannot hear the name “Castro” without nearly spitting in anger.
I could not countenance sending him back there, myself.
Thank you for sharing.
Elian’s father wanted him, and that’s where he belonged.
No one knew whether he’d always live with his real father in Cuba forever, but his father wanted him.
“He was not taken at the point of a gun.”
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for [hand wave]
In wonder, had he seen the picture at this point, and as such talking out of his a**, or was he just plain lying?
“As for this boy, he fell on that gray scale between the two extremes”
You’re using the wrong scale. Try applying the totalitarian communist dictatorship test for the land to which we were sending him back. No gray area there.
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