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To: Brian P. who wrote (16696)	4/8/2000 5:27:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Brian, I agree with you that parental rights should win out in the end if it is determined the father can provide a loving home for the boy. However, how do we really know what the father wants? Or what kind of a home he can provide? Your assumption that he has deep love for him could be right, or it could be wrong. The butcher from Cuba (Castro) could have orchestrated the fatherly crying images like he orchestrates the propaganda machines in Cuba. Yes, Castro most certainly could be holding his other children as bait. Or some other awful threat could have been made. We have absolutely no way of knowing. Do you believe threats of this type are never made by butchering thugs like Castro or something? Living in the nation of Cuba today, mired in poverty, stripped of the basic rights every human being yearns for, (FREEDOM) must be awful. Disregarding the horror of what Cuba is, and electing to look at the situation as a simple "fatherly rights" issue, misses the core question which should be asked. "What is best for the child"? You seem to be inferring the issue is between a loving father and a non caring Aunt. How do you know this is the case? Have you met the people involved? Have you spoken to them? It seems to me that American law should rule. Not Cuban lawlessness. Fact, the boy is on American soil. Fact, the mother died bringing him to our shores. Fact, she had custody of him. Fact, Cuba is a communist regime ruled by a butchering dictator. Fact, Cubans are treated as state property. Fact, child labor is the rule, rather than the exception in Cuba today. These are the facts. We also have other reports such as. The last words the mother spoke to a friend before she died were. "Please get my son to America to be raised". (or words to that effect) I agree with you that politics should be removed from the issue as much as possible. This should be treated as a child custody case in American court. A judge should adjudicate, with the father present. These kinds of decisions are made all the time in American courts. The relatives taking care of him have a case to be made. Obviously, the father does to. You act as if every child is automatically given to his father when a divorce happens in America. Most of the time that's true. However, there have been many cases of relatives arguing for custody against a father and winning. Currently, we know next to nothing about this father. What's wrong with allowing the father to stay with his aunts for a few weeks, while a judge is appointed to adjudicate the custody case? The relatives have every right to make their case in court if they desire. Why would you deny them this right, and hurry the child off to Castro and a potential life filled with pulling tobacco plants for Castro and his cronies? That's what we have a court system for. The task for the judge is to decide what is BEST for the child. Not best for America, for Clinton, or for Castro. Michael p.s. It's always interesting to debate with you Brian. By the way, where are the numbers related to the car transportation subsidies?