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Well, the fact of the matter is, America is not Nazi Germany. Or, at least, it's not supposed to be. We already know what Janet Reno and her government storm troopers are capable of. You do not serve warrants on men, women and children with tanks! You do not save the children from alleged child abuse by burning them to death! And you do not send storm troopers with machine guns to terrorize a six year old child! Sheesh! Janet Reno should be in rotting in prison (or hell) for either of these horrific abuses. This was not exactly a shining example of American justice.

Neither was it a shinging example of family harmony. Elian was and is a Cuban citizen. His detention on US soil becomes an issue between the United States and Cuba, and one of the powers the Fed SHOULD retain is attending to our foreign relations. Try this - reverse the situation. A mother takes her child and heads for Cuba, dying along the way. The child's extended family in Cuba then refuses to let the child's father in America have him back. What would you think then? That the evil communists have abducted an American citizen? Or try this? Since we arent supposed to go busting in with machine guns to terrify citizens, what of the young university student about whom there was a thread last night? The one who got a visit from the Fed because of a poster in her dorm room - If I whisper to the authorities that so and so is against the government, does that give the Fed the right to stage a raid under the theory of a "plausible threat against the president?" Or is this different because the student in question happened to be a Liberal? If you sanction the right for Elian's Miami based relatives to take custody of him because they feel he is better off being "free" in America, then, my friend, you sanction some authority to seperate YOU from YOUR child under should they propose the same premise .... I wouldnt suppose that you think that "democracy" means that 51 a majority vote can decide what is to become of you or your child? F-R-E-E-D-O-M --- it isnt simple, it isnt easy, it is a guarantee of nothing save itself, and it entails tremendous personal responsibility