Living in South Florida, I went to the Gonzales home while it was surounded and cordoned off by the police. I met Elian's uncle and prayed with him. His hands were calloused from his daily regimen of hard work in an auto repair shop. I am a protestant and he is Roman Catholic. We both had a common point of agreement that the Island Prison of atheistic communist Cuba is no place for a little boy to have to grow up.
Elian's mother died trying to bring her son to Miami to his uncles and to freedom, when the raft she was floating on fell apart. In the Island Prison, she was raising Elian without the help of the boy's father who never married her and had little involvement in the boy life. No written will could have stated any more clearly whom she intended to have custody of the boy in the event of her demise. She and the father had been in contact with the uncle's in Miami planning the escape to freedom.
To say that Elian was sent back to Cuba because of parental rights is a wretched joke perpetrated upon Elian, for in Cuba there are no parental rights. The communist State literaly owns all the children.
When Clinton, Reno and all their jack-booted thugs broke the door down without a proper warrant, pepper sprayed its peaceful, law abiding occupants and kidnapped little Elian Gonzales back to the Island Prison, they did America a great favor in an ironic way: it cost Al Gore the presidency and saved the USA.
God Bless little Elian who may never know freedom again. He was a brave little boy betrayed by vicious liberals who stole his freedom. He is a ward of the state, is not in the home of his father who now has little interaction with the son with whom he was never truly re-united.
We both had a common point of agreement that the Island Prison of atheistic communist Cuba is no place for a little boy to have to grow up.
Few would disagree with this, I suppose, but notice how adherence to this belief tends to skew opinions on other issues (below).
Elian's mother died trying to bring her son to Miami to his uncles and to freedom, when the raft she was floating on fell apart.
In other words, Elian's mother and the group she was with were attempting to enter the country illegally. Were they Mexicans who died of thirst in the middle of the desert or suffocated in the back of a truck, I suspect many Freepers would not describe their plight in such terms ("trying to attain freedom") and would be considerably less sympathetic.
In the Island Prison, she was raising Elian without the help of the boy's father who never married her and had little involvement in the boy life.
In other words, she was a single mother. In other threads on this forum I've seen women in this situation described as "sluts" and "whores."
No written will could have stated any more clearly whom she intended to have custody of the boy in the event of her demise. She and the father had been in contact with the uncle's in Miami planning the escape to freedom.
If the father had so little involvement in the boy's life, it's rather surprising that he was involved in the escape plan. My memory of the situation is that the boy was taken by the mother without the father's knowledge.
To say that Elian was sent back to Cuba because of parental rights is a wretched joke perpetrated upon Elian, for in Cuba there are no parental rights. The communist State literaly owns all the children.
I'd tend to say that most Americans were operating under an American conception of parental rights, not a Cuban one. On other threads on FR father's rights are considered sacrosanct. Why not in this situation?
its peaceful, law abiding occupants
Peaceful and law abiding? Didn't the family refuse to cooperate with the law at every turn? Didn't they lock the boy in the house so as to prevent him from being taken peacefully?
Just some observations.
" When Clinton, Reno and all their jack-booted thugs broke the door down without a proper warrant, pepper sprayed its peaceful, law abiding occupants and kidnapped little Elian Gonzales back to the Island Prison, they did America a great favor in an ironic way: it cost Al Gore the presidency and saved the USA. "
Notice how these three freaks, Clinton(jail bait predator), Reno(transgender) and Al Gore(dimbulb) never actually were hands on parents. I still think Janet Reno is a man in drag with meat and potatoes between her/his/its legs (barf).
Penelas was a local rising star when I was living there 10 years ago.
Why is he running as a Dem....?
district demographics?
It's a tightrope walk to get the conservative Cuban vote and please the Jews, Blacks, and now I hear many Brasilians there.
Who was the mayor before him who lived in the Grove and had a home invasion robbery at his house?
Do you know this for a provable fact? Last I heard, Elian and his father shared a home.
To say that Elian was sent back to Cuba because of parental rights is a wretched joke perpetrated upon Elian, for in Cuba there are no parental rights. The communist State literaly owns all the children.