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

To: Machaon who wrote (1428)4/21/2000 12:22:00 PM
From: lawdog  Respond to of 9127
 
Juan might snap and fight back, even if Juan's family is being held hostage back in Cuba.

Juan will "snap and fight back" if he doesn't get his son ASAP. This guy is ready to go and I don't blame him.



To: Machaon who wrote (1428)4/21/2000 12:28:00 PM
From: lawdog  Respond to of 9127
 
WRONG AGAIN! ZZZZZZzzzzzoltan et al

But nothing cast Penelas' leadership into question more than his March 29 remarks widely interpreted as a license to riot. Flanked by mayors of several south Florida burgs, Penelas said local police would not aid any attempt to wrest Elian from the Miami relatives' home and accused the Justice Department of 'provoking' Cuban Americans by trying to send the boy home.

``If their continued provocation in the form of unjustified threats to revoke the boy's parole leads to civil unrest and violence, we are holding the government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the President of the United States for anything that may occur,' he said.

Penelas promptly found himself likened to Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus, who called out the National Guard to defy a federal order to admit black students to Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Time magazine said Penelas ``all but tossed a match into the city's powder keg.' The mayor won a spot on The Washington Post's ``Fools for Elian' list for what the newspaper called 'a ringing declaration of nonprinciple.'

``He was an up and coming star -- and I use the past tense -- in the state Democratic Party,' University of Florida political scientist Richard Scher said. ``I think he's tarnished his (star) considerably with his ill-considered remarks.'

dailynews.yahoo.com



To: Machaon who wrote (1428)4/21/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: The Barracuda™  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
The US Gov't has sent people back to Nazi Germany

In the late 1930's a ship of Jewish refugees chartered a ship and sailed to the US. Roosevelt ordered the US Coast Guard to keep the vessel away. The ship was forced to return to Europe. Nothing is known about the fate of that ship's passengers.

Elian is different because we can witness the repatriation.
Our witnessing it, somehow, seems to make us a party to the repatriation.


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