SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (2926)4/26/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: jhild  Read Replies (2) of 9127
 
Neither you nor castro or his father should violate Elian's rights.

You and some of your cohorts really have hard ons over the idea of somehow "getting" Castro, Clinton and Reno.

You none of you get the fact that PARENTS rule a child. Since parents can be held liable for actions of negligence by their children, they have absolute dominion to control their upbringing. As with anything there are limits and society will not tolerate physical or sexual abuse. But freedom of choice? No way. That right belongs to the parent.

You would foment an undermining of such a fundamental right and risk in the process a cascade of future generations of self-indulgent, spoiled, selfish, bratty individuals that operated only on the consideration of what they and they alone ever got out of things.

I can only suppose that those of you who do not have children are free to think that this is a good thing. Likely because these future generations would be in tune with your own thinking.

Children have rights all right, but their parents are the guardians of those rights. Absent any evidence, and I mean any evidence in Elian's case, of any kind of abuse, Elian must remain with his Father. This isn't a Democracy/Communism issue. There is a far more established precedent for parental rights founded in common sense.

Screw with that and you are screwing with nature.
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News