Saturday June 24, 2000; 10:40 AM EDT
Elian's Last Chance for Freedom
NewsMax.com's Jack Thompson has been at ground zero of the Elian Gonzalez case since the Clinton administration's gunpoint abduction of the boy on April 22.
Now, as the final curtain is about to drop on this sad chapter of American history, he reports that Elian has one last chance for freedom:
"Friday, the day that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said to Elian 'no mas,' I had the pleasure of sitting next to Judicial Watch's Larry Klayman at a dinner honoring his client and my friend, Donato Dalrymple. It was a night of many tears in a room full of broken hearts.
"Larry handed me the Atlanta court's short opinion along with his assessment of it: 'The court doesn't even mention the INS documents that show collaboration between Clinton and Castro to subvert rather than implement asylum law. What we intend to do, what we must do, is persuade Kendall Coffey [the head of Elian's legal team] to go back to the trial court in Miami and inform Judge Moore that we have discovered new evidence that shows the government is lying.'
"Klayman went on to say that Elian has next to no shot in the Supreme Court and that a new evidentiary hearing is the only chess move, and a valid one at that, left to the boy.
"Other than Donato, Larry Klayman was the most popular man in the room Friday night. Everyone there knew what NewsMax readers know: If Judicial Watch had represented Elian rather than Team Coffey, this little boy would have had a real shot at some semblance of due process, which Justice Brandeis called 'the hallmark of freedom.'"
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