Oh I don't consider it that clear cut at all!!!
(I am laughing! If you knew me better, you would know that I am the Queen of Grey. I can't even make up my mind what to order in restaurants or what t-shirt to wear in the morning)
OK-- I am just going to ramble here, ok? So no one get mad at me... (Neo dots!!--- I use---- when I'm writing conversationally)
I have very strong FEELINGS about parental rights-- I think the government has increasingly and wrongly trod on these rights. And so my emotions get in the way along with a real aversion to what I see as manipulation of the situation for political gain in the Cuban community, and the strange preoccupation with one child by people like this fisherman who claims his spiritual assignment or something is to "protect" this child--none of these things do I consider "the best interest of the child".
I am very open to new facts, to more stories, to legal opinions, and to everyone else's views as I have nothing invested in the opinion, such as it is, I currently hold, which I guess does favor the father.
Doesn't it seem like one of those situations that just has gone beyond a solution that is going to have both sides feeling good? Well, unless the father asks for asylum, moves in next door to Marylesis and Elian grows up to be President. And then invades Cuba and frees everyone.
There is so much being said about the horror of sending this one child back to Cuba, but this child has a family there, who loves him- and I keep thinking of the expense, the effort, we are spending on this, while right here we have so many children just as enslaved by their own circumstances as we are hearing that Elian would be back in Cuba. (Sorry about that sentence)Do we really think the kids in the projects born to crack mothers and nonexistent fathers have real opportunity?
Something feels---- out of whack to me. But then, maybe I don;t understand the principle of it all.
Americans of course love A CAUSE.
Do you remember Baby Jessica?
Maybe our own children of the ghetto just don't have clear enough faces for us.
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