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

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (695)	4/11/2000 9:49:00 PM
From: The Barracuda™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Let Elian Stay It Would Be Immoral to Send 6-Year-Old Back to Cuba March 31, 2000 MARINA DEL REY, CA Is communism physically harmful to human life? That should be the fundamental question in the Elian Gonzalez case, said the chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute. "A parent has no right to inflict physical harm upon his child," said Peter Schwartz. "A parent in prison has no right to demand that his child live with him in his cell. That would be a violation of the child's individual rights. But a totalitarian nation like Cuba is simply one huge jail, where every aspect of the citizen?s life is under the physical control of the state." Sending Elian to Cuba, said Schwartz, is just as immoral as returning a black child of 1850 to the Southern plantation from which he fled or shipping a Jewish child back to his father in 1940's Nazi Germany. "The standard for deciding Elian's fate should be the principle of individual rights," Schwartz maintained. "And that principle prohibits anyone from consigning a six-year-old to a life of slavery." Ayn Rand Institute chairman of the board Peter Schwartz is available for interviews. aynrand.org

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (695)	4/11/2000 9:59:00 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

<< Robert, it looks like you me and Yogi are the only ones that Elian has defending him on this thread. >> I was happy to read your's and Yogi's inputs. It's good to know that there are some principled and freedom loving individuals left, although just a few. I am astonished by the polls. Something like 2/3's of Americans want to send Elian back to captivity in Cuba. Freedom aside, it could be very damaging psychologically to Elian, on an ongoing basis. To me, it would be similar to a death sentence. It would be the death of his soul.