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To: jlallen who wrote (16719)	4/10/2000 10:00:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

That's the problem with you radical left wingers. You don't listen! :-) I never said he shouldn't go back and be with his father. I just don't think there's a big hurry, and a court should decide based on what is best for the boy, not what is politically palatable. Michael

To: jlallen who wrote (16719)	4/10/2000 10:03:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Interesting to watch who lines up on what side of this. The dividing line is following no known political fault lines. That's why I don't think it's accurate to call it a political football, at least on the American side of it. My take is, let the father come to the Uncle's house alone, take the boy by the hand and leave. If he can't or won't do that then he is not a father, he's Fidel's puppet. The disgusting participants in this mess is (as usual ) big media who are shamelessly using the tragedy to hype the glories of Cuba. eg. *Media Research Center CyberAlert* Monday April 10, 2000 (Vol. Five; No. 62) > 2) NBC's Jim Avila didn't blame the split in Elian's family on Fidel Castro for maintaining a prison-like island country people are not allowed to leave by safe transport and so must resort to dangerous boats if they wish to escape to freedom. Instead, he placed the blame for the family's troubles on his mother for not appreciating the Cuban "good life" and her "prestigious job" as a hotel maid where she could earn "dollar tips." Indeed, he concluded an April 8 NBC Nightly News story by declaring: "An extended family destroyed by a mother's decision to start a new life in a new country." Going back won't be so bad, Avila contended, as Elian's life in Cuba was "relatively easy by Cuban standards." Avila's Saturday piece aired just four days after his April 4 story from Havana, cited above in the item on Jeff Jacoby's column, promising that if Elian returns to Cuba he and his family will become part of the "Cuban good life," with five gallons of gas a month, a monthly bag full of beans and deodorant, plus tickets to discos. (See the April 5 CyberAlert for details.) For his April 8 piece from Havana, Avila relayed concerns from those working with Juan Miguel Gonzalez's lawyer that Elian may now be alienated from his father so the Gonzalez team wants the grandfather and Elian's Cardenes classmates to be present at the turnover. Avila added that the Miguel Gonzalez team thinks Elian will have to be removed by force from the Miami home. Avila used that as a cue to review what brought Elian to his present situation: "A frightening ending predicted for the journey that began here on Cuban soil [video of beach] in the dark of night. A 30-year-old mother, Elizabeth Groton [sp?, picture of her holding Elian], who after seven miscarriages carried her only son, Elian, to a boat off the rocky shores ten miles from her lifelong home. Why did she do it? What was she escaping? By all accounts this quiet, serious young woman, who loved to dance the Salsa, was living the good life, as good as it gets for a citizen in Cuba." Lizbeth Garcia "I didn't know that Elisa [that's what she called her] was leaving." Avila elaborated: "Lizbeth Garcia, maid at the Hotel Paradiso [sp?], in Cuba's specially built foreign tourist haven, Baradaro [sp?], where Elian's mother worked with her side-by-side. In today's Cuba a maid, where dollar tips are to be had, is a prestigious job. Elian's life relatively easy by Cuban standards, living with mom and maternal grandparents half of the week [video of older man and woman pointing to a picture on top of a TV], in dad's well-furnished home the rest of the time. Both mom and dad friendly to each other and caring towards their only child [home video of mom and dad with Elian]." Lizbeth: "As a mother she was exceptional. Her life was Elian, she didn't have anything else in mind but her son. She was a wonderful person." Avila, over home video of a clown walking with Elian in front of a group of children, concluded: "An extended family destroyed by a mother's decision to start a new life in a new country, a decision that now leaves a little boy estranged from his father [home video on mom and dad walking with Elian] and forever separated from her." Maybe she hoped to give her son a better life where being a maid isn't considered a "prestigious" top job but a step on an upward ladder to a better life where you don't have to live in fear. As you can see from my above transcript, I'm challenged by how to spell Spanish words and names. But in watching FNC's Fox News Watch over the weekend I realized that it's not always easy to know how to pronounce the names of reporters cited in CyberAlert. Jeff Cohen of the far-left Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting corrected conservative panelist Jim Pinkerton's pronunciation of "Avila." As a public service, so no more conservatives must be corrected by a liberal, and since I bet I'll be quoting Avila quite a bit more, here's how you pronounce his name: "Av," as in the first syllable of avenue; "i" as in ih, then "la." Put it all together and you have Av-ih-la, Avila.