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To: lee kramer who wrote (94454)	4/23/2000 8:50:00 PM
From: miklosh	Respond to of 120523

Hi Lee. Did the options quotes page finally load properly? Message 13483311

To: lee kramer who wrote (94454)	4/24/2000 9:44:00 AM
From: Lane Hall-Witt	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 120523

Lee -- OT (Elian): A pox on the government? What happened was totally the fault of the Miami relatives. Don't forget that it was only a week and a half ago that Lazaro Gonzalez said the federal government would have to get the boy by force, and many of the Cuban-American demonstrators pledged in recent days to resist any attempt to extract the boy and to turn Miami into another Waco. The Federal government would have been derelict in its duty if it had sent in unarmed plainclothes agents. The Miami family's story that it was right on the verge of a deal is complete bullshit; they had several long weeks to strike a deal, and they blew it. Janet Reno and her INS deputies went to absurd lengths to show patience in working to strike a deal. We taxpayers should demand that the Miami family repay us for all of the federal resources wasted on this case. As if Janet Reno herself didn't have anything better to do than go down to Miami to negotiate personally with a band of criminals who had kidnapped the boy--. I'm no fan of "enforcement actions" and genuinely wish they never had to happen, especially where children are involved; but in this case there were clear violations of the law, there were clear indications that those violating the law were harming a six-year-old boy and would have continued harming the boy without outside intervention, and there were compelling reasons to assume that any attempt to enforce the law would involve the risk of physical danger to the boy and to the federal agents. In this context, an "enforcement action" that included a display of force was warranted. The reunion and Easter photographs of Elian with his father, brother, and stepmother were more than enough to tell us that the action to free Elian was the right thing to do.