Last one folks...This one shows the hypocrisy of the people in favor of keeping Elian away from his daddy for his "benefit"
The Arizona Republic
April 13, 2000
Time is running out, and so far we've heard nothing from the
protesters, the politicians or even the family about saving the other
little Cuban boy.
Nothing about keeping him in this country and away from the evils
of Communist Cuba. Nothing about wresting him from the clutches
of his Castro-controlled father. Nothing about making sure his civil
rights are protected, his mental well-being preserved, his precious
freedom procured.
All we hear about is Elian, Elian,
Elian.
What about Hianny?
Elian's baby brother.
He was brought to this country
recently by Elian's father, Juan
Miguel Gonzalez, and
stepmother, Nercy. He's here
now. In America. Just like Elian.
It's true Hianny got to this country on an airplane and not on a
sinking boat or inner tube. But he's here.
Are the anti-Castro groups we've been hearing from lately simply
going to let him go back to Cuba?
Are they going to let Hianny's brainwashed parents keep him?
All this week, thousands of people in Miami's Little Havana have
marched to the house of Lazaro Gonzalez, Elian's great-uncle. It's
where Elian's been living since November. The crowds carry
Cuban flags and sing the Cuban national anthem and pray for Elian.
Why don't they also pray for Hianny?
Why don't they also demand that Hianny remain in this country?
Better yet, why don't they abduct him? Why don't they snatch him
from his mother's arms and take him to a good American home,
then fight with the Justice Department about what's best for him?
How can they not?
If America is right for Elian, then it must also be right for Hianny. If
it's right to keep Elian from his father, then it must also be right to
keep Hianny.
So, why haven't they acted?
Why aren't they demanding that Janet Reno send FBI agents to the
house in Bethesda, Md., where Juan Miguel and his wife and baby
are staying, and have them abduct the boy.
Why aren't Hianny's Miami relatives demanding this?
Particularly if they believe the brief their lawyers filed in a family
court earlier this week.
They asked for a hearing to bar Elian's return to Cuba, claiming his
father "has engaged in abusive conduct" and saying Elian would be
subject to "imminent indoctrination" if he returned to Cuba.
Juan Miguel's lawyers have dismissed the claim. But, if it's true,
wouldn't this same terrible fate also be in store for Hianny?
And, by the way, once we have the infant squirreled away in the
home of a good American family, we can start calling him Henry or
Hank, which you might call our own little form of "imminent
indoctrination."
Sure, we'd have to expect Hianny's father to claim that he has a
right to raise his own son and that he loves him and wants him to
live with him, just like he's done with Elian.
But, if we're going to ignore the father's wishes with one son, must
we not also ignore him over the other?
After all, it's the child's welfare that the protesters and the politicians
are concerned about, isn't it?
It's the child's well-being Rush Limbaugh and the loudmouths in
Congress care about, right? It's not some petty political agenda or
cheap publicity.
That's what they've been saying all along. And they might have
gotten one or two people to believe them, too, if only they'd noticed
that in this particular Cuban family, there's more than one child.
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