[Rytwyng]

...the single biggest mistake the Cuban American community made was turning up at the protests with Cuban flags instead of American flags

True. But it wasn't their only mistake. I wish they'd had the sense to put Scripture on their picket signs:

Deuteronomy 23:15 You shall not return an escaped slave to his master.

This is the same verse by which the Abolitionists justified their resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law. Properly publicized, this single fact could have swayed the entire Religious Right and the entire Black Community into supporting Elian. No politician of either party would dare defy such a coalition. Yet not one well-known preacher (of any color or political stripe) thought to preach on this verse. Sad.

[SkyPilot]

Deuteronomy 23:15 You shall not return an escaped slave to his master.

God's laws are wonderful.

[Prodigal Daughter]

Great point! That was the verse that I mentioned long ago here at FR when the controversy started. I read an article from a Jewish publication with an interview of Spencer Eig and he also quoted that verse.