Posted on 09/27/2014 5:01:59 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Don’t let that pre-Attorney General debacle go down the memory hole.
As we count down Eric Holder’s greatest hits, the first image that comes to the mind of many Americans isn’t that of Brian Terry, or of Black Panthers outside polling places, but of a screaming child staring down the barrel of a rifle.
On April 22, 2000, just before dawn, U.S federal agents executed a full-blown raid on the home of five year old Elian Gonzalez, seizing the child and setting in motion procedures to send Elian and his father back to Cuba.
I was only a freshman in high school when this happened, but I remember seeing news stories about what it meant to be a refugee from Cuba, and wondering why in the world the government would ignore everything that this kid had been through. Why were they taking him away from his family? Why was there so much yelling? Why were they pointing a gun at a kid who was younger than my baby cousin?
Why? This is Eric Holder’s legacy.
The Elian Gonzalez case predates Holder’s tenure as Attorney General, but even before his appointment to the DoJ, Holder displayed a stunning lack of accountability and a tone deaf attitude toward those who dared to question the decisions of the Department of Justice:
In the period before armed agents seized the child, the Justice Department had been leaking its intention to avoid any sort of armed intervention. It would all be done quietly, they suggested. When top Department officials were asked about it, they said nothing to change that impression. About two weeks before the raid, Tim Russert asked Holder, “You wouldn’t send a SWAT team in the dark of night to kidnap the child, in effect?” Holder answered, “No, we don’t expect anything like that to happen.” Then the Department did precisely that. The day after the seizure, Holder appeared again with Russert, who asked, “Why such a dramatic change in position?” “I’m not sure I’d call it a dramatic change,” Holder answered. “We waited ’til five in the morning, just before dawn.”
The dramatic nature of the DoJ’s raid aside, what’s important to remember about what happened in the Elian Gonzalez case is Holder’s failure to enforce immigration law, and to recognize Gonzalez’s status as a refugee, and instead choosing to focus on the parental rights of Elian Gonzalez’s father.
This shift in focus tore a family apart, and set events in motion that have led to Elian (now 20 years old) being used as a tool of the Castro regime:
"Gonzalez said he blamed the US for the death of his mother, who drowned along with nine other people en route to Florida 14 years ago. “Just like her, many others have died attempting to go to the United States,” Gonzalez said. “But it’s the US government’s fault. Their unjust embargo provokes an internal and critical economic situation in Cuba.”The hostile relationship between the U.S. and Cuba has long been the cause of broken families, and when Holder ignored the law and allowed Elian to be taken back to Cuba, he allowed Castro to score a political point on behalf of a dangerous, oppressive regime.
Gonzalez is in Ecuador for the World Festival of Youths and Students, which he’s been asked to speak at. “The main reason we’re here is because we want a revolutionary progressive movement that leads to socialism,” he says. And no, he’s not upset the US sent him back; he describes Cuban life as “magnificent,” and says being dragged from his relatives’ home at gunpoint left no mental scars.
This is the man who spent six years as Barack Obama’s confidant and #1 law enforcement officer. Holder has resigned, but nothing can change what happened to Elian and his family, and the events he set in motion by allowing the law (and the best interests of a small child) to be set aside.
And Waco.
And now Gonzales is a New Socialist Man.
Weep for America, people, it’s already in the schools. As Stalin said, “we have your children...”
Karma is a bitch
Holder gots to pay
The Tank that the ATF and Holder used at Waco is sitting less than a mile North of my clinic in front of our American Legion building. I’m reminded of this SOB daily.
That poor, poor child. Turned from a happy little boy surrounded by relatives into a resentful bitter mouthpiece for Castro’s communism.
I wonder how Elian’s father has coped, after being used so blatantly to deliver a political pawn to Castro in the form of his son?
Yeah, there should be a special wing at a federal prison for all the vermin involved in the Waco massacre...
That event was my Waterloo...
Government forever changed in my eyes from that moment on....
Went from a benign, sometimes crazy stupid entity to a monster bent on control...
Before the government attack on the women and children at Waco, Hillary Clinton came to Texas to meet with Ann Richards, the governor. There is blood on Hillary’s hands, both old and new. Fuzzy photos of her as Grandma Clinton cannot erase that. “Out! Out! Damn spot!”
Nice writing skills. Not.
I have not forgotten.
He was neck deep in Waco, also.
Holder had nothing to do with Waco.
Also Holder was the one who spearheaded the pardoning of Marc Rich, who was the largest tax cheat in US History. He defrauded the US Taxpayers out of $42 Million. All he had to do was donate $400,000 to the Clinton Library to get his record expunged. Clinton and Holder should have been in jail for bribery on this.
To be specific, the Waco cover-up
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/usag-holder-man-who-covered-up-waco.html
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2014/08/27/eric-holder-waco-coverup/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/sept99/waco15.htm
Regarding OKC, scroll down here for pictures referenced in the 1st link (now dead)
to ‘MURDERED BY OKLAHOMA’ (Warning: Graphic images), and here
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/OKC_Trentadue.htm
And, when referencing the DOJ Fast & Furious operation, OKC and discussing Eric Holder, we can’t forget PATCON
In a prior post http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3208160/posts?page=11#11 ,
I wrote “I object to ‘goodbye’ Holder.”; I meant that.
HUH? He sure did. That's where he cut his teeth.
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