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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (4924)5/12/2000 11:45:00 AM
From: jhild  Read Replies (2) of 9127
 
I don't think that there is any disagreement that there are times where society can step in on behalf of a child. Children are removed quite frequently from sexually and physically abusive parents. Or that medical attention can be demanded for children that would be neglected through adherence to a religious principle. This is fundamental to our humanity.

But freedom is another story. In the minds of those that would keep Elian in the US its concept seems indistinguishable from religious fervor. Let me observe that freedom in the life and well being of a child and his development is a foreign concept. For children are never free. They are subject to the dictatorship of their parents. Otherwise, they grow like the bad boys on Pinocchio's Pleasure Island, where all the boys grew into asses by their complete lack of limits and non-existent foundation of moral values. They were only fit to be beasts of burden.

The presumption that Elian will be harmed is a case that the Miami Relatives cannot make. Not only can we not see the future, but there is no evidence in his past that he was anything but loved and cared for. The only argument is a political one, that is being applied like a religious conviction. Strange isn't it that the state would demand medical attention to override a religious conviction of the parents, but would now in this case use religious-like conviction as the basis of removing a child from its parent.

Since there is and can be no proof that he was or will be harmed other than the subjective application of the religious-like conviction that he would be better growing under US freedom, how is it possible that the court can find its political beliefs superior to the rights of a parent to raise their child. Especially a parent who has demonstrated not a wit of abusiveness and shows nothing but a happy relationship with his son.
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