Posted on 04/29/2011 9:41:04 AM PDT by jazusamo
I think that Elian belonged with his father.
By the Cuban Constitution that was Castro. You are such a commie.
#2) Holder and his ilk will never comply with a constitution which in it's main purpose is to restrict the rights of the government over the liberties of the people.
Napolitano: “We have a photograph showing he was taken at the point of a gun.”
Monty Python did this with Dinsdale 40 years ago.
"I hear he nailed your head to the floor?"
"No! Never! Dinsy never did that!"
"The police have film of Dinsdale nailing your head to the floor."
"Oh. Yeah. He did that. I mean, he had to, didn't he?"
The DEMS — Helping COMMUNISTS since 1960s...
Did you read the article? Humberto Fontova doesn’t lie.
Dems have welcome signs for illegals crossing from Mexico - 'let 'em in, make em' citizens', but when it came to one child from Cuba - a child who's mother died getting him here - dems go ballistic... And the press with them...
Humberto is great, but I believe that Elian belonged with his father.
Absolutely correct. Holder and his ilk with a Marxist like Obama in charge is the very worst possible thing for the country.
Me too.
Well said. The whole thing was a travesty.
He most certainly did not belong with his father.
...if Castro had issued permission for his father to leave Cuba, then everyone wanted Elian to be with his father.
Still disgusted by the whole deal. Reno and Holder can go to hell.
Surprisingly (to me), that is what the majority of Freepers thought, at the time, at least the ones who posted. I found it strange that they did not understand that the father was nothing more than a pawn used by Castro to force the U.S. to say "uncle" in front of the world. Clinton pretended to offer for the father to move to the U.S., but it was rejected and, of course, not pursued (because Clinton didn't really want to).
What is it with liberals and their inability to play world chess?
Elian’s father agreed and encouraged Elian’s mother to take him to the States. She drowned on the way over.
He was having a very happy childhood with his relatives in the U.S. The adults (uncle, aunts, etc.) couldn’t get enough of him. They loved him very much. He was the king of the house. They even got him a puppy.
Under what rock have you been living under?
The problem is, on one extreme, there is a body of thought that believes the biological parent has absolute custodial authority of a child.
This is often a “counterbalance” to various DHS, DYS or DFS bureaucracies that take children from parents inappropriately. It even goes as far as either tacitly or openly advocating custody with parents who have been repeatedly abusive or neglectful. (Not saying that is the case here)
On the other extreme are the people who hate the institutions of family and parenting, and think “parents are bad for children” (which, as we all know, is occasionally true)
As for this boy, he fell on that gray scale between the two extremes. In my opinion, I don’t think they should have sent him back, his father sounded to me like a lazy deadbeat no-load, who didn’t really care, but only got vocal after the Cuban state became involved.
The young boy unwittingly became a pawn in a nasty situation. Unfortunate for him.
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