http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/eliangonzalez/ en-us Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:42:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198879/posts Is Hillary Clinton still feeling defensive about the decision her husband made, and she supported, to return Elian Gonzalez to Cuba? Why else would she make a grotesque analogy between that case and the situation of a boy being kept in Brazil against the wishes of his American father? The Today show highlighted the case this morning of Bruce Goldman and his biological son, Sean. The boy’s mother, then Goldman’s wife, took Sean to her native Brazil in 2004. She divorced Goldman, married another man, then died. The second husband refuses to return Sean to Goldman. Andrea Mitchell interviewed Clinton,... FinkelBlog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198879/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:42:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2135520/posts This arises out of the Elian Gonzalez mess back in the Clinton years when the boy was forcibly removed from his home at gunpoint by federal agents. Then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder flatly denied in an interview with Fox News that the child was taken at gunpoint. Judge Andrew Napolitano nails him. More . . . The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2135520/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:12:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2132903/posts I'm actually beginning to think had Hillary won there would be fewer Clinton retreads coming on-board. Where the change? The bold innovative thinking? Are former Clinton hacks the best you can do, Barry? Geez, at this rate I almost expect Lani Guinier to be nominated for something. It's almost as if they had some incriminating photos of the guy. No, instead of this mythical change, we get a guy who sent Elian Gonzalez back to hell. Craig, 63, is a partner at Williams & Connolly and a protégé of the late Edward Bennett Williams, the legendary Washington power lawyer. His... JammieWearingFool http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2132903/posts#comment Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:13:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2124359/posts ...More specifically, they protested some of Obama's top advisors: Gregory Craig...and Erich Holder...Both of these gentlemen had key roles in “legally” perfuming the shanghaiing of Elian Gonzalez. At the time, Craig served as lawyer for Elain's father, (i.e Fidel Castro), and Holder served as Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno... FReep this Digg!!! Digg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2124359/posts#comment Tue, 4 Nov 2008 04:23:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037999/posts US-Cuba Return of Boy, 8 Years Ago [Elian Gonzalez] Havana, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban child who was held illegally by distant relatives in the US for over seven months, was returned to the Island on June 28, 2000 after massive multilateral efforts. It all began when the minor was taken surreptiously from the Island by his mother on November 22, 1999 without his father's consent. Three days after his departure, Elian and another two people were rescued from the waters of the Florida Straits by fishermen as the only survivors of a boat-wreck in which... Prensa Latina (Cuba) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037999/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:52:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036103/posts Eight years after the furor over the repatriation of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba possibly cost Al Gore the state of Florida in his 537-vote loss to George W. Bush, the international custody saga has returned to haunt another Democratic presidential nominee: Barack Obama. Having two top advisers who played key roles in the episode — Greg Craig, who represented Gonzalez's father in Cuba, and Eric Holder, then a Clinton administration deputy attorney general when federal agents stormed the Miami home of Gonzalez’s relatives to remove the then-6-year-old and return him to Cuba — Obama now finds himself on the wrong... Politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036103/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:01:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034819/posts Family members of Elian Gonzalez, the refugee boy rescued from the ocean but returned to his Cuban father during the Clinton administration, called a press conference to protest Barack Obama's visit to Florida and the candidate's hiring of two staff members who were involved in sending the boy back eight years ago. The capture of Elian Gonzalez The family specifically points to Obama's foreign policy advisor, Greg Craig, who represented Elian's Cuban father during the custody battle, and Eric Holder, a member of Obama's vice-presidential search committee, who served as deputy attorney general during the much-publicized affair.Delfin Gonzalez, Elian's... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034819/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:19:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033972/posts Summoning a time of political upheaval in Miami, a great-uncle of Elián González plans Friday to publicly denounce two Barack Obama campaign advisors who helped send the boy back to his father in Cuba eight years ago. One day before the expected Democratic nominee addresses a conference of mayors in Miami, Delfín González will hold a 1 p.m. news conference outside the Little Havana home where Elián lived with relatives for several months in 2000. Earlier this week, CNN reported that Elián, now 14 years old, has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. Obama was an Illinois lawmaker during the 2000... The Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033972/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:53:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032050/posts Cuba: For a kid who once enjoyed Disney World, it's now the Union of Young Communists. That's the news from Elian Gonzalez and the propaganda he serves. Where are those who assured this wouldn't happen?Bill Clinton and Janet Reno assured the American public that the much-disputed Elian Gonzalez case was only a matter of a child who "belongs with his father," rather than a communist dictator's useful tool. The boy is now 14, and in his latest propaganda stunt, he's in a leading role for 18,000 young communists in the Union, a complete ward of the state. It didn't have... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032050/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:48:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031829/posts "Cuban young militant Elian Gonzalez, right, accompanied by a fellow militant, smiles as he attends an event marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Cuban National hero, Argentinean Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Havana, Saturday, June 14, 2008. Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago, has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde quotes Elian Gonzalez as saying he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, who succeeded Fidel earlier this year." Yahoo! News Photos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031829/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:46:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031602/posts HAVANA (CBS4) ― Eight years after a headline making international custody fight which ended with his return to his father in Cuba, Elian Gonzalez has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. In an article in Cuba's communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, the 14-year old Gonzalez said he would never let ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro down. He joined more than 18-thousand others who joined the group on Saturday. In 2000, Gonzalez' mother was killed when a boat carrying them to the U.S. capsized in the Florida Straits. Elian, who was 6 years old at the time..........." CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031602/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031496/posts HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. Elian Gonzalez said he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, according to the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde. Raul Castro succeeded Fidel as president earlier this year. Now 14, Elian was 6 when his relatives in Miami, Florida, lost their fight to keep him in the United States and he was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father. Elian had survived a boating accident off the Florida coast that... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031496/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:58:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007611/posts Early Elián Gonzalez raid was planned BY WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA Before the forced removal of Elián González from his relatives' home in Little Havana eight years ago, federal agents had another plan to return the child to his father in Cuba. But an order from Washington canceled it at the last minute. According to statements by James Goldman, then head of operations for the U.S. immigration agency in Miami, federal agents had been instructed to seize Elián during a meeting in Miami Beach with his grandmothers at the home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, then-president of Barry University, in January 2000.... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007611/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1905095/posts Background: I've previously covered the "Elian Gonzalez II" case in Miami--a battle over a 4-year-old Cuban immigrant girl which pits her Cuban father, Rafael Izquierdo (pictured), against wealthy Cuban-American foster parents Joe Cubas, a well-known sports agent, and his wife Maria. Just as Elian's father Juan Gonzalez faced numerous unfair hurdles to get his son back, Izquierdo has been manhandled by the child welfare system, in part because of the system's anti-father bias. In 2005, the girl's mother brought the girl to Miami from Cuba. The Florida Department of Children & Families removed the girl from her mother's custody in... GlennSacks.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1905095/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:15:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834176/posts LET'S BEGIN with the big lie—that Elian Gonzalez was separated from his father by his Cuban-American relatives living in Miami, and that father and son were reunited by Janet Reno's INS storm troopers. (What else can you call them, given their pre-dawn assault on a private home to snatch a child who was not a hostage, at gunpoint?) The entire premise of the Elian drama—that the Miami relatives have kept the boy from his father—is false. Elian was separated from his father not by Lazaro Gonzalez and company, but by Fidel Castro: the world's longest surviving and most sadistic dictator,... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834176/posts#comment Tue, 15 May 2007 23:49:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799110/posts In a recent poll, more than 250 college and university history professors placed former President Bill Clinton as the best president of the last quarter entury, Ronald Reagan as the second best, followed by Jimmy Carter and then the first President Bush. (The current president was excluded since his term of office had not yet ended.) The survey also asked the historians to rank the recent Secretaries of State and Supreme Court justices as well as the relative threat to constitutional liberties posed by presidential actions. Dr. Tim H. Blessing, Professor of History and Political Science at Alvernia College, Reading,... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799110/posts#comment Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:20:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617046/posts Speculation is mounting (except, of course, among the “professional” press), as to the identities of six of the eight individuals included in the Libby subpoena to The New York Times (see Clarice Feldman’s piece here). The Times deemed the identities of only two of the parties worthy of release, former CIA director George Tenet and former White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer. The names of the other six remain elusive The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617046/posts#comment Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1762220/posts That Oswald assassinated President Kennedy by himself and shot Kennedy and Governor Connally with one single, magic bullet. That President Clinton knew nothing about Janet Reno’s order that resulted in the massacre of 26 children at Waco, Texas. That Flight 800 was brought down by a spark in the fuel tank instead of by a missile that most of the witnesses saw. From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1762220/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:03:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688662/posts With stories and photos of Fidel Castro's "personal health" bombarding us 24/7, I have given some second serious thought into my own involvement in the infamous Elian Gonzalez case. Once you hear the name "Elian", how can you ever forget this six year old boy and the media rampage that started in late 1999, and came full circle more than six years ago? Looking back, I have come to realize that in my advocacy to advance the concept of fathers' rights, I forgot to understand that young Elian was the wrong boy and the wrong case to champion in the... Heritage Media / RealityCheck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688662/posts#comment Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:29:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678889/posts ELIAN Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who became the celebrated object of a 2000 US-Cuba tug-of-war wished Cuban leader Fidel Castro a speedy recovery from surgery. "We send you this letter so that you know that we are concerned about your health," Elian Gonzalez, now 13, said in a letter also signed by five other children in his family and published today in the official newspaper, Juventud Rebelde. A week ago, Mr Castro, 79, handed power "temporarily" to his younger brother, Defence Minister Raul Castro, while undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding. In November 1999, Elian, who was six at the time,... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678889/posts#comment Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:45:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1663559/posts Prior to our preemptive incursion into Iraq, I overheard my teenage grandchildren spouting multiculturalism nonsense they had been taught in school. I wrote them the following letter as part of an attempt to overcome this brainwashing. It provided the starting point to what has now developed into a weblog called "From Sea to Shining Sea" that I launched one year ago. I have decided to republish this piece each year in July. From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1663559/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:26:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659373/posts Sunday, July 2, 2006 ELIAN – Elian Gonzalez has never spoken before about the battle between the U.S. and Cuba that he was in the middle of five years ago when he was just 6. He does now in an interview with Bob Simon. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer. AL QAEDA’S TOWN – When terrorist insurgents led by Al Qaeda took over the Iraqi town of Tal Afar, the U.S. military had to devise a way of retaking it. Their methods have become a blueprint for the war on terror. Lara Logan reports. Josh Yager is the producer. FIRST... CBS News/"60 Minutes" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659373/posts#comment Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:40:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494840/posts Elian interview sparks Miami row Relatives in Florida of the shipwrecked Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez have criticised an interview with him to be shown on US television on Sunday. Cubans celebrated when Elian was returned to his father In excerpts from the CBS network's 60 Minutes show Elian, now 11, calls Cuban leader Fidel Castro his friend. He also accuses his family in Miami of trying to turn him against his father during a custody battle in 2000 which culminated in his return to Cuba. A spokesman for the Florida relatives said Elian had been brainwashed. Elian turned six soon... BBC News World Edition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494840/posts#comment Sat, 1 Oct 2005 17:26:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493614/posts Elian Gonzalez, now a seventh grader in Cuba who calls President Fidel Castro a friend and "father," would see his Miami relatives again, despite saying their treatment of him five years ago was wrong. Gonzalez is interviewed by Bob Simon for a 60 MINUTES report to be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 2 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Gonzalez, 11, is a hero in Cuba after what happened to him when he was just 6 years old: His mother died at sea and he was rescued two miles off Florida, after which he was repatriated following a months-long tug... Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493614/posts#comment Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:10:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492414/posts Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno wowed the crowd at the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association's conference in Montreal on Sept. 24 with an impassioned speech on universal healthcare, wrapping up the GLMA's annual conference with an inspired bang. Reno stressed the importance of gay healthcare professionals to come out and work as a community as the best means of standing up to an increasingly conservative, homophobic culture and government. “By utilizing the professional bonds and friendships built up through your work, I believe you can build a system of healthcare delivery that will make us all proud,” said Reno.... GayHealth.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492414/posts#comment Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:42:15 GMT