Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (79140)	4/28/2000 2:05:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Respond to of 108807

Elizabeth's efforts as well as Elian's efforts to get to America will have been in vain. The politics of smear are indeed Fugly- I think Dick Cheney would make a perfect VP for GWB. We will need a strong hand to deal with el maxima as he begins to see the US as one of his colonies.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (79140)	4/28/2000 4:54:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Lazaro is unemployed and has two DWIs, which are facts regardless of national origin. Marisleysis has been hospitalized numerous times for emotional exhaustion, which is a fact regardless of national origin. Donato isn't hispanic, he's Irish (Dalrymple). They are repulsive people regardless of national origin. JMHO. Anti-Hispanic? Juan Miguel is Hispanic, I like him a lot.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (79140)	4/29/2000 1:48:00 AM
From: MSB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

What is manifesting itself now is pretty ugly. We're hearing people say it's OK to point a machine gun at a six year old, just another days work for law enforcement. How desensitized are we going to get? The photo I saw, and I'm assuming you're referring to, showed a guy in what looked like urban combat gear pointing a gun at a guy holding Elian. Elian is clearing distraught, but the gun doesn't look to be pointed at the boy. It seems to me, when the INS told the family taking care of Elian to be prepared to hand over the child if or when they came for him, that there was some very public suggestion by the Cuban community there was going to be trouble should the time come for the INS to do so. Had there not been such a ruckus made by the Cuban community supporting the family taking care of Elian, I highly doubt there would have ever been officers dressed to be prepared for lethal violence. IMO, the situation warranted the now known outcome to take the child. And even though it looked like over-kill, no one that I'm aware of was harmed.