Al Gore was already richly punished for this injustice in 2000.
Posted on 01/22/2005 1:32:08 PM PST by rightalien
MIAMI (AP) _ A federal judge has set a Monday trial date for the claims of a dozen people who said they were wrongly assaulted by federal officers during the raid that removed Elian Gonzalez from his family's home.
The plaintiffs say they were innocent bystanders who were gassed and beaten outside the home during the early morning raid on April 22, 2000. U.S. District Judge Michael Moore set the trial date Friday.
"I think the public's going to be surprised that elderly people were gassed while praying the rosary," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which represents 11 of the plaintiffs.
The federal government's attorney did not return a message seeking comment Friday.
Elian was one of three survivors of a November 1999 shipwreck that killed his mother and others fleeing Cuba. He was turned over to his Miami relatives while his custody situation was resolved.
The raid took place after government officials said the family refused to return the boy so he could be taken back to his father in Cuba.
The Clinton machinery is really threatening - this epizode and Wacko. And they're laughing at the world's face, collecting countless millions.
I will never forget the fact that after these thugs (Clinton/Reno) took the boy, they paraded him like a prize of war in front of their fatcat donors in DC.
Disgusting ghouls, every one of them.
I'm glad they will have their day in court.
Verdict: Bush lied, people died.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Some of the survivors of those killed in Waco had their day in court.
Look what good it id them.
Huh?!?
The judge is Michael Moore, everybody's favorite movie man.
Justice is a difficult thing these days....due to our unjust judges.
10-4.... got it
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Al Gore was already richly punished for this injustice in 2000.
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Thanks for the picture. Some one has more?
One of the many problems is that it is just saying they used too much force without addressing the issue of whether the raid was legal to begin with. The real issue is whether the American President should use force to force a refugee back to a dictator to curry favor with such dictator?. Should the American President use force to intervene in a child custody case on behalf of a Communist scumbag dictator? That is all going to be lost in a case of whether these particular stormtroopers used too much force or could have done it with a bit less. Are the families whose home was torn up even part of the suit? I believe Janet Reno was dropped from the suit.
Reno was also already richly punished in 2002.
How was Reno punished?
The National Council of Churches was in on this atrocity too. The United Methodist Church, which I left as a result of this travesty, was in it up to their elbows as well. They lobbied long and hard to return the boy to his father....
She didn't even get the Democrat Party nod to run against Governor Bush. She was too toxic.
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