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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (111)	1/11/2000 7:41:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

But at least they're polit enough not to say 'Joder' on SI.

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (111)	1/12/2000 6:37:00 PM
From: The Barracuda™	Respond to of 9127

I found someone that agrees w/ me. Returning Elian Gonzalez to Cuba Is a Crime January 6, 2000 MARINA DEL REY, CA ? The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has ruled that 6-year old Elian Gonzalez be returned to Cuba. If this ruling is carried out, it will be a shameful episode in American history, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute. ?The fundamental issue is Elian?s right to his own life,? said Edwin A. Locke, who is also a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland. ?Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship. This means: total censorship, the absence of free elections, persecution for political ?crimes,? and state ownership of property. To live in a totalitarian society means to live in a permanent state of terror and of poverty. Communist dictatorships, like Cuba, destroy all rights and are inimical to human life. For that reason alone, Elian should be allowed to stay in America.? At issue in the Elian Gonzalez case has been the conflicting wishes of Elian?s mother, who died en route from Cuba to Florida when the boat carrying her, Elian and several others sank, and his father, who lives in Cuba and wants the boy returned. ?What Elian?s father wants is irrelevant, and should be ignored by the INS,? said Locke. ?If the father had any sense of decency, he would be ecstatic that his son has the opportunity to grow up in a free country. If he wants his son to grow up in a dictatorship, that alone makes him unfit to be the boy?s father. Can there be any more flagrant form of child abuse than condemning your own son to a life of slavery? Children are sovereign beings with the same fundamental rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as adults. Anyone who would deprive a child of these rights is committing a crime.? aynrand.org