[Demidog]

Elian had a father. The US, by disrespecting parental rights and conforming to Cuban law rather than US law and the constitution would be no better than Cuba. As it stood the US thugs in the federal police force still made themselves out to be Cubans but the legal issue of who is entitled to make decisions about their family was properly decided. The parents decide.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Elian had a father.

He has an owner, his name is Castro. He owns Elian's father too. He doesn't own Elian's mother anymore.

[Polybius]

Elian had a father.....The parents decide.

That's correct and I am in favor of father's rights.

However, Elian's father "decided" what he decided with his parents, his wife's parents and his wife's older child held as de facto hostages back in Cuba. Even then, Elian's father was kept under de facto house arrest by the Clinton Administration while he was here in the U.S.

When the grandmothers came over, their husbands were held as hostages back in Cuba.

If the entire Gonzalez family: father, stepmother, BOTH siblings and grandparents had been allowed to come to the U.S. and if the father had been allowed to travel where he pleased and talk to whomever he pleased and not just Clintonista fat cats, I would believe that the father made his decision of his own free will.

Imagine forcing your wife to decide between you and a stepson and her own flesh and blood son from a previous marriage. Which one would she decide never to see again as the price for staying in the USA?