My heart still breaks when I think of how he was kidnapped by US government thugs and returned to prison Cuba, when his Mother died to rescue him from that life.
Dear AM -- this may not technically be Frontpage news, but considering the huge story it was at the time, I think many people will be interested and that may make it of sufficient interest to put it in that category.
Probably not the most heinous or shameful act of the Clinton and his henchpersons — but certainly in the top ten.
His mother died in vain.
“”Fidel Castro for me is like a father,””
What happened to his real father, the one NAZI Reno used storm troopers facilitate his return?
Poor kid. So close to having a chance at a real life. The chance his mother died for.
This must break his US family’s heart. What a shame.
Poor kid, his brain is now swiss cheese
They all used to talk like that in Russia too. It doesn’t mean anything.
They certainly know what it's about.
Communism at it's finest - the state is God. It's what liberals want.
Check out the comments after the link and see the liberals there bashing America and democratic governments and praising socialism. One guy in particular is praising the free healthcare Cuba provides. That's CNN's readership I suppose.
1984.
Wouldn’t it be ‘funny’ if the boy defected AGAIN, and this time ended up at the Equadorean Embassy one cushioned chair away from Assange? He couldn’t (openly) go to Russia and Pal-Around with Eric Snowden eating black caviar, drinking vodka, since Cuba is sort of a Mini-Me version of Old Russia anyway. If Elian dared to skip away today, Castro and the gang would be capital F furious, and hellbent on making this troublemaker disappear forever.
Then-Cuban leader Fidel Castro led massive protests on the island demanding Gonzalez's return. The case of the telegenic boy became a flashpoint between supporters and opponents of Castro's revolution.
I visited Cuba, talked to many people around town, learned that Cubans hate Castro, but have to show up at rallies to shout Down with America and all that junk. They are not stupid, they know they are powerless puppets of that incredibly evil regime. All of them know that Castro would not have lasted five years if the people were armed. But of course, guns were confiscated the minute Castro set foot in the presidential palace.
I went with three liberal friends who all changed their minds about owning guns, since Cuba was such a disaster.
Yep, Gonzales = poster child for gun ownership
He would be brainwashed either way even if he was schooled in America.
So. Why was #2 deleted?
Thanks for the post. I’m always interested in the sad saga of Elian Gonzalez.
I’m proud of all the Freepers on this thread. Not one crying the lame “Fathers’ Rights” - he belongs with his father song.
The capture of Elian Gonzalez was the first time I saw pure EVIL in the U.S. government run by the likes of Clinton, Reno, and Holder.
I took my handle aelian nation in remembrance of Elian and in defiance of a country that would sell him to a life under communism.
Coming to a school near you, soon - “Obama is like a father to me”.
Elian Gonzalez, the focus of a bitter international custody dispute after he was rescued at sea as a child, left Cuba on Friday for the first time since 2000, when the U.S. government returned him to the island.
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Ow! The construction of that sentence makes my brain hurt.