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To: Daniel W. Koehler who wrote (3539)	5/3/2000 7:42:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) of 13062

Wait a minute -- what rights did the Miami relatives have? They got temporary custody of Elian only because the INS gave it to them. What the INS gave, the INS can (and did) take away. Other than that, the Miami relatives had NO rights to speak for the child or ask for a day in court for him. Unless you believe that libertarian values include the right of cousins and great uncles to try to take a child away from his father if they don't like the political choices the father makes. Boy, would you step in a can of worms there! Do you really want relatives all over the world sueing to get children taken away from their parents? Fie on you. That's as un-libertarian a position as I can imagine. Our philosophy is live and let live. That gives Elian's father the right to live where and how he wants to. It's not a life style I would choose, but so what. In some ways it is healthier than the life style I, by choice, live. I like mine, but I'm not so arrogant at to believe it is the right life style for everybody. Let them choose for themselves and their children. That's the libertarian philsophy. On this thread, it should be respected.

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