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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: hoyasaxa who wrote (8401)7/12/2000 4:02:15 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 9127
 
According to all the reports I read- he went to his former wife's apartment and found it vacated and then found out that her lover's relatives had sold all their stuff and left. So (according to the reports) he assumed she had gone to America and called the relatives immediately (BEFORE Juan was found) and asked them to be on the lookout for the wife and his son. At the time he could not have expected the wife would die and the son would reach America alone- he probably assumed he had lost his son forever. I assume he wouldn't have had much luck getting the son back if the wife had lived- look how great she is dead- alive she would have been the virgin Mary (well, maybe not virgin) and I am sure Juan would have been out of the picture forever- to the delight and approval of all those conservatives who normally tell us how important a papa is for a young lad.

Me, I think papa is important whether he is American or Cuban or WHATEVER. And one parent should not take a child physically away from another parent without agreement- barring physical abuse, or other factors that would rise to the level of grounds for terminating parental rights.

As for your argument that tyranny be equated with abuse- it's a very subjective and quaint idea that we Americans get to judge everyone else to see if their countries are tyrannical. I hope you are aware that the Europeans would label us that for our stand on the death penalty- and I am sure they would happily dispose of American children using your argument (and they have so disposed of AMerican children- keeping them from their Stateside parents). Would you/do you like that outcome? I certainly don't and wouldn't.
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