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

To: jhild who wrote (2343)	4/24/2000 8:47:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Can there be a happy ending to the allegory of Elian? I find my mind running to neo-Fellini scenarios, forms of hopeful surrealism, magic thinking. Let Elian return to Cuba with his father. But let father and son be escorted there by the U.S. fleet - Elian triumphant, like a sainted figurehead, in the bow of a battleship, followed by an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, five destroyers, and on board all, tens of thousands of Cuban Americans coming home, laden with suitcases full of American dollars. Elian wades ashore like MacArthur returning to the Philippines. The holds of the ships disgorge Chevrolets, Fords, Lincolns, Hondas, BMWs, Mercedes sedans, to replace the 1950s wrecks on Cuba's roads. A cornucopia of American products (computers, cell phones, video cameras, gorgeous refrigerators, lustrous shampoos, deodorant soaps, headache remedies, mouthwashes, improved antacids, disposable diapers) flows off the docks, a reverse Mariel of materialism, a bright irresistible tide that will wash Castroite Stalinist socialist poverty into the historical dustbin where it belongs. Let Elian lead a parade of returned exiles through the streets of Havana, showering the astonished populace with greenbacks, with gifts, until the great circus arrives at Castro's place, where a SWAT team will bash in the doors and pin the old fraud down in a barber's chair while a barber gives him a clean shave, after which he will be divested of his ridiculous fatigues and dressed, by force if necessary, in a Ralph Lauren shirt with a polo player on the breast, and a pair of Gap khakis and tassel loafers without socks. Let chastened Fidel emerge to address the jubilantly reunited Cuban people. Let him announce he means to abdicate in favor of the Dauphin, little Elian. Thus will religion and materialism achieve joyful Cuban synthesis - the heaven on earth that Communism botched. Well, I can dream. It's not much crazier than some of the ideas the CIA came up with in the '60s. - LANCE MORROW time.com

To: jhild who wrote (2343)	4/24/2000 9:02:00 PM
From: Michelino	Respond to of 9127

Jhild, Very nice! Yours is a wonderful summation of why human rights take precedence over political motives. Michael

To: jhild who wrote (2343)	4/24/2000 9:11:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9127

Quite right the facts are very much in dispute. That is why his case is being adjudicated in US Courts. Not in dispute is that Elian has applied for asylum in the US and the 11th court of appeals stated in no uncertain terms HE HAS THAT RIGHT. Clinton has now deprived him of legal representation so his rights are severely imperiled. The arrangement, by which he came to our shores was in a small boat, swamped by a Cuban military ship. Most of the occupants, including Elian's mother were thus murdered by Castro. By a miracle, Elian escaped Castro's clutches. You would have him handed back. Shame on you. The Great Uncle claims the father asked him to take care of Elian. He believes it is his duty to do so. He believes the father is being coerced and so do I. By all means let's strip away the anti-Cuban (both anti and pro communist) rhetoric. This is less an issue of the immoral dictatorship in Cuba and more an issue of a renegade administration defying the courts in the name of the rule of law.