Posted on 11/25/2014 8:41:08 PM PST by EveningStar
Havana -- Fifteen years ago today two fishermen plucked an exhausted, frightened five-year-old tied to an inner tube out of the waters off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale.
Elian Gonzalez, less than two weeks short of his 6th birthday, was the young Cuban boy whose rescue set off an international custody battle and reverberated in the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign.
Now nearly 21 and out of the public eye, Gonzalez is studying industrial engineering at the university in his home province of Matanzas in Cuba.
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Clinton was evil.
He sold a small child to a Communist dictatorship on the pretense of respecting parental rights.
For that alone, he deserves to roast in hell.
Ah yes, I refer to this sad incident as the last latino that democrats wanted deported.
Never mind the communist doctrine of “abolition of the family”. Thanks, GOP-e, for failing to impeach and convict.
The child’s freedom and human rights didn’t matter to the President and his Attorney General.
So they abducted him at gunpoint and shipped him off to Cuba.
I felt ashamed of being an American. One of the few times in my life I felt disgust for my country.
They call that a rescue? It looked more like a government kidnapping.
Reno said the Father had the right to his child and in a way I agree. All he had to do is come to Florida and be with him.
It WASN’T a rescue, it was a kidnappings.
Fidel 88; Raul 83
Come on actuarial tables - do your stuff!
Looks like they made the boy into a one man Potemkin village. Castro himself would come on his birthdays.
That was another path off the cliff, almost designed to make Clinton look like he was the defender of traditional families, another GOP suicide mission.
Grandma used to say ‘Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face’
Translation “Don’t demand that we (all) shoot ourselves in the head while claiming that is the way to beat them”
Good for him. I'm not sure how well his education will be put to use in Cuba, but perhaps he will design, manage and oversee efficiencies elsewhere.
We can only hope.
Holder was there when Elian Gonzales was handed over during Janet Reno stint as Attorney General.
When communism collapses in Cuba, what help can they expect from the lethargic, one-party-ruled, socialist basket-case known as Amerexico?
“I felt ashamed of being an American. One of the few times in my life I felt disgust for my country.”
I think back on that time and what you said pretty much sums up the way I felt at the time too.
Heartbreaking
I know exactly what you mean. But let's put it in proper perspective. The shame was misplaced, as it belonged to the feckless illegitimate political leaders who allowed that travesty of justice to occur. Knowing of your years of contributing to the discussions on FR I know that you are a true patriot of America, your country. The disgust you felt at that time was for the misuse of the tool of government for diabolical purposes.
He needs to be rescued again.
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