[JohnHuang2]

Friday, April 19, 2002

Quote of the Day by kattracks 4/19/02

[JohnHuang2]

[McGavin999]

I still believe that the single biggest mistake the Cuban American community made was turning up at the protests with Cuban flags instead of American flags. I know that sounds silly, but in my heart I believe the whole thing would have turned out different if they would have paid attention to that little detail. It would have appealed to the patriotic sense of the American public.

Castro is going to be dead soon John. It's going to be exciting to watch what happens to that country. God willing, it'll be free.

[Lancey Howard]

Bump.
By the way, what ever happened to that disgusting scumbag lawyer Greg Craig? He seems to have slithered back under a rock somewhere, along with that goofy church-cult that was also helping Castro and the Cuban government.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Another member of the Miami Cuban-American community believes that Cubans are sometimes caricatured as being overly emotional and overreacting to political issues. "There's some truth to that," he said. "We don't always pick our battles well. As a result, sometimes when we cry wolf nobody listens."

Since they've been vilified for so long, I think they feel they need to react just to be heard. However, the media just uses it against them and as an opportunitiy to again caricaturize them. They had every right to be mad at Clinton-Reno, who proved themselves to be no better than Castro! Hell, a lot of people were mad, but you'd never have known it.

The boy, Elian, had a right to a family court hearing on his immigration status and he was denied. It was ruled he could stay with his relatives pending the outcome and he was denied and taken in an armed raid to be given to the lawyer in opposition to his being free. He was placed in the care of Cuban agents brought from the island.

It is an outrage what was done by the Clinton administration. A similar situation would have been handled differently. But Castro is the media's idol and the Left's favorite thorn in our side, so Elian had to go and the community in Miami was standing in their way. What a gallant fight they made. What a memorable example of doing the right thing in the face of overwhelming opposition. My hat is off to them.

[JCG]

There has been only one day that I can remember in my nearly sixty-two years of life that I honestly felt ashamed to call myself an American. That was the day Elian Gonzales was returned to the devil's island known as Cuba.

The light from the Lady's torch was snuffed and the inscription:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...

was rubbish.

Thanks Bill, Hill and Janet.

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)

[Judith Anne]

When liberals obsess over the continuing hatred for all the Clintons and their regime and how it continues, and why it's so intense, I hope they remember a little Cuban boy. That child was taken at gunpoint on Easter Saturday from the people and community that loved him and wanted only to save him from Castro. That child was used as a pawn, that child's family, Cuban and Miami, was paraded and exploited and reviled.

We know how corrupt the INS is, we knew it then. We knew the financial reasons that caused Fidel to pressure Clinton. We knew it all.

And the vast majority of Americans sat back and made fun of the Cubans. I can recall all the ugly things that were said about Marisleysis, and the Uncle, and the family.

I hope and pray that the Clintons don't sleep well. I hope that they look in the mirror every morning and see their aging faces and reflect on what awaits them: the end of their lives, the judgement of God. I hope that ever-present in the backs of their corrupt minds is the image of a child hiding in a closet, facing a thug with a machine gun. And I hope they live in fear, ignored, laughed at, reviled, and hated until they depart this earth. ELIAN, I WILL NOT FORGET YOU!

[RickyJ]

Judicial Watch chairman and general counsel Larry Klayman believes Castro may have had some knowledge of a Clinton/Gore-China connection that would have proved embarrassing were it revealed.

Castro didn't care a thing about Elian until he was told he was the "Christ child". He was told that if Elian remained in the USA he would be overthrown. He believed this crap, because he his very superstitious.

I don't believe Clinton was blackmailed to turn Elian over, he was probably more than willing to please Castro since he loves communism and the dictatorial powers that come with it.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I believed. I still believe. I still remember little Elian in my prayers and hope that he can survive this ordeal without scars.

[doug from upland]

Come on, Klayman, don't drop the ball on this.