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


To: White Bear who wrote (1687)4/22/2000 6:55:00 PM
From: lawdog  Respond to of 9127
 
This was an enforcement action. All the police need is the court approved right to enter and an identification of themselves as INS agents. Would you have the govt. unable to enforce its laws in the interests of good manners?



To: White Bear who wrote (1687)4/22/2000 8:41:00 PM
From: hoffy  Respond to of 9127
 
>>>I want answers
and I am not alone. If you have some jump in.<<<<

Me too. I am utterly outraged at their actions. Busting into the house like that and only taking the boy away to be back with his father. Why didn't they arrest the people in the house for kidnapping the kid and refusing to return him to his rightful parent.
The people who are protesting this case are not fighting for the kid but they are fighting against Castro and using this poor kid. If any one of those people had their kid taken away by their spouse to another country and then couldn't see their own child, they would fight to incredible legths to get their son or daughter back.
If they think the US is looking terrible in this whole mess, they should think again. They are looking at complete idiots to anyway who has a kid and knows what it would be like to lose them.
Also, what the hell was the fisherman doing in the house with the kid. Yeah, it's better to have a complete stranger raising and protecting the kid rather than his father. Gimme a break.
This case is a no brainer once it goes to court. It'll be over in a matter of days with the courts handing the kid back to his father, and everyone knows that. That's what they never wanted to give him up. They knoew they would never ever get him back.



To: White Bear who wrote (1687)4/23/2000 9:35:00 PM
From: art slott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
A daytime raid would have greatly increased the chances of bloodshed. And it would not have been the agents blood most likely. Consider the approach as the lesser of the evils.
It may have saved Cuban American lives and property.

Remenber Lazzaro said of late that they would not give up the child voluntarily.