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 man upstairs is waiting for billy boy and mr. janet to answer for what they let happen to that boy
Exactly what are your thoughts on illegal immigration?
At the time it was said that at least one network news cameraman was knocked to the ground. And his bosses never complained or ran any story about it.
Clinton didn't fool around. Reporters who bothered him were fired. News outfits that didn't toe the line had regulatory problems. Our brave media are absolute scum for having put up with this, or for assenting to the murder of their hospitable colleagues at the Belgrade TV station.
After all these years, we still don't even know the name of the INS agent who yanked Elian out of the closet at gunpoint. So much for investigive reporting.
Prayers for their victory are needed!
"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."
As well as the bogging down (in the courts) of Minnesota's new concealed-carry law.
More baggage for Hiliary to weigh her down in 2008. Keep it coming.
The b**** is still breathing.
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"Yeah, OK, Fidel, buddy. I'll tell you what, I know how you like to fondle little boys..he he....
what's that? No, no, Fidel, take it easy amigo, for goodness sake. I said "I know how you're fond of little boys!"
So I'll tell ya what. You get me a nice box of those great see-gars you had, you know, the one's like we smoked at that whorehouse the last time I was down there visitin' you? You get me a box of those on my desk by Friday morning, and I'll get the boy sent back to you by the following Monday. Deal?
OK, amigo. Nice doin' business with you, as always, Fidel-ole-buddy."
Hottest-places-in-hell alert.
If we had continued in the Clinton style of things, the picture you post would have been a glimpse into the future of the U.S.
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