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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: DMaA who wrote (2313)4/24/2000 8:42:00 PM
From: jhild  Read Replies (3) of 9127
 
With all due respect you have no way of knowing except via hearsay often repeated now by right wing publications just what Elian's situation WILL be when he returns.

Might he live in luxury? I seriously doubt it. But also do I doubt the dire claims of his being accorded concentration camp status. This is right wing propaganda.

Regardless of whatever arrangement he came to be brought to the US, the incontrovertible fact is that his mother died in that process and his father remains - willing to take him into his home. Is his father a puppet of Castro? Who knows? But whatever his loyalties I think it is clear that his rights did not expire by Elian's leaving Cuba. Indeed they were even strengthened at the moment Elian's mother died at sea.

The Miami Relatives by all that is right and decent, by all that has come to us through natural law and common law, must accede to the rights of the father. And lest I forget, by the rule of law of these great United States. (You can salute the flag now.) We have just seen the enforcement of that law in fact.

Let's strip away the anti-Cuban rhetoric and the scrambling for news and book deals and get on with letting this little boy become accustomed to dealing with the loss of his mother. To get him out of that insane circus, late night rallies and around the clock negotiating and let him get on with the business of being a little boy. Even if he is to be a little boy in Castro's Cuba, we are not the ones to judge whether it is better for him to be alienated, estranged and separated from his Father so that he might go to DisneyWorld with those Relatives in Miami or play Nintendo to his heart's content.
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