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

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (1718)	4/22/2000 8:49:00 PM
From: The Barracuda™	Respond to of 9127

Saturday April 22, 2000 Legal Analysts Comment on Raid Andrew Napolitano, legal analyst for Fox News and a constitutional scholar had this exchange today on Fox with Eric Holder, Reno's second in command at Justice: Napolitano: Tell me, Mr. Holder, why did you not get a court order authorizing you to go in and get the boy? Holder: Because we didn't need a court order. INS can do this on its own. Napolitano: You know that a court order would have given you the cloak of respectability to have seized the boy. Holder: We didn't need an order. Napolitano: Then why did you ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for such an order if you didn't need one? Holder: [Silence] Napolitano: The fact is, for the first time in history you have taken a child from his residence at gunpoint to enforce your custody position, even though you did not have an order authorizing it.

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (1718)	4/22/2000 9:20:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

RE: PS - Put politics aside and think as a human being. I think it is wrong to put "politics" aside in a case like this. What you refer to as politics is not a question like "Should we have a tax cut.", or "how much should the Dept. of Education have in its budget this year?" It is a question about the child growing up in a free country or in a brutal communist dictatorship. That having been said there is still plenty of room left to argue that a child should be with his father and that this is more important than the political issue, just don't trivialize oppression as merely a matter of politics. Tim