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

To: Machaon who wrote (3636)	4/29/2000 8:26:00 PM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 9127

I wouldn't care to live in Cuba, but that's me. Others do care to live in Cuba. That's them. Some parents want their children to live in Cuba, that's also up to them, and not you, me, or the U.S. government or courts. Other than in recent years, there greatest period of immigration was the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Millions left almost medievel conditions in Europe to come to this land of opportunity. I don't have exact numbers, but very many went back--they just didn't like it here. Back to Poland, back to Greece, back to Poland, back to Russia. Remember Vladimir Pozner, the Russian news commentator who spoke perfect English and who once co-hosted a show with Phil Donahue? His perfect English came from being raised in the U.S.--his Russian parents didn't like it here and went back to Communist Russia. Again, I don't have exact figures, but I seem to recall that 25-40% of immigrants returned to Europe in the first half of this century, back to its wars, oppressive kings and dictators, poverty and lack of opportunity. Whatever they missed, the money and freedom here didn't outweigh the attractions of their homelands. Likewise, not everyone is unhappy in Cuba, or in Morocco, Iraq, China, etc. Many are unhappy, but that does not mean that children of those nations must be kept here in opposition to the wishes of their closest kin. Thanks for your comment on storm troopers. The Nazi atrocities were almost singular in their horror (they threw children into vats of sub-freezing water out of curiosity as to the "affect" it would have on them if they were fished out just short of death, and then they were thrown in again and fished out again; finally, they were subjected to slowly being burned to death, but not quite, until all "reactions" had been observed; just one example). We cheapen the Nazi establishment of hell on Earth, in my humble opinion, by comparing anything here in the U.S. with those unimaginable state-sanctioned atrocities.