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To: greenspirit who wrote (17852)	4/30/2000 5:48:00 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769667

ONCE A RAPIST, ALWAYS A RAPIST By J. Peter Mulhern Few people will forget the picture of Elian Gonzalez confronted with lethal force. Even fewer are upset about it. If there was any shadow of a legal justification for the raid that reunited Elian with the Castro regime the Department of Justice has yet to articulate it. Clinton's legal lackeys got a warrant, but it was so obviously defective that the magistrate who signed it had to be either a fool or a knave. The warrant authorized arrest of Elian Gonzalez as an illegal alien. Everybody who hasn't been lost in a cave for the last four months knows that Elian is legally present in this country and that a court order prohibits his deportation. The same government that issues a daily lecture on the vital importance of the rule of law trashed the constitutional rights of the Gonzalez family without hesitation. Clinton has never been one to let his legal obligations interfere with the gratification of his urges. He tried to get a court order giving our government authority to turn Elian over to the representatives of Castro. The court wouldn't cooperate. Rather than deal with frustration, Clinton just took what he wanted. This pattern of behavior should be familiar to all of us. Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and others gave us an advanced course in the depravity of William Jefferson Clinton. The lessons continue and they get increasingly revolting. No doubt Clinton's staff now steers him clear of women who might talk, but he can still get his kicks by holding a small boy while Castro mind rapes him. That, of course, is exactly what is happening under U.S. government auspices on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Castro's people will do what ever it takes to make poor Elian revile his mother and renounce her terrible sacrifice. They will teach Elian that his mother died because she was criminally selfish and irresponsible. Elian probably watched his mother die. Now they will defile his memory of her. Anyone who doubts this description of events should read a newspaper. Elian was welcomed to his new temporary home on Maryland's Eastern Shore by at least 10 Cuban officials. Juan Miguel Gonzalez was present as window dressing, but the goons are clearly in charge. Cuban children are being imported to promote the reeducation process. When we finally send Elian's body back to Cuba it will be an anti-climax. His mind and soul will already be imprisoned. Anyone who still hopes for a happy ending is deluded. The courts, as usual, are proving useless. The 11th Circuit has already declined to enter any order than might impede the brain rapists. It's all over but the shouting, and even most of that is fading. The moral of the Elian Gonzalez story is that our government is in the hands of thugs who are armed and extremely dangerous. It is a pity that the Cuban-American community in Miami didn't understand this in advance. This country sheltered that community from tyranny. Cuban-Americans are reluctant to think ill of our government, which made them too slow to understand the true nature of the people who have decided that Castro should get his human property back. When dealing with thugs only force matters. Elian's Miami relatives went unarmed to a knife fight; the result was predictable. The battle was about custody of Elian. As long as they had him they had the whip hand. Without him they have nothing. He should have been in a secure location. Instead they dangled him out in front of the government, which did what predators always do with vulnerable prey. None of the information required to understand this tragedy has been hidden from the public. Americans are as nearly unanimous in supporting the mind rape of Elian Gonzalez as they are about anything. Those of us with the decency to be disgusted are rarer than people who floss daily and change their oil every 3000 miles. There is, it seems, no limit to what the people will accept from the powerful. For the first time I have started to wonder whether the American people might actually have sunk so low as to deserve the Clinton Administration. The response to l'affaire Elian is particularly disturbing because it is overtly racist, something very few commentators seem to have noticed. The Clinton PR strategy was to vilify the Miami Cuban- American community in general, and Elian's family in particular, so that people could be persuaded to blame all the unpleasantness arising from this affair on them. We were told, over and over, that the Miami Cuban-Americans have an irrational hatred of Castro. The message was clear - those hotheaded Latinos blow everything out of proportion. This message helped to mobilize the racists, many of whom viewed Elian as just another wetback who should go back where he came from. Such rabble rousing comes naturally to a Democrat administration headed up by the man from Hope, Arkansas. Despite all the blather about the New South, the hog hasn't strayed far from the old trough. Once again the Clinton gang has shown us how ripe we are for a demagogue. Clinton himself lacks the courage for serious demagoguery. He can bully a little boy, but he poses no threat to the constitutional order. He will soon disappear without leaving so much as a footprint. The next time we give power to a man with a talent for mendacious manipulation we may not be so lucky. We have grown accustomed to thinking of democracy as the natural end point of political evolution. But it isn't too late for the American Experiment to fail. This week, the odds don't seem any better than even. J. Peter Mulhern can be reached at jpmulh@aol.com Published in the May. 1, 2000 issue of The Washington Weekly Copyright 2000 The Washington Weekly. Now Free Access to All Stories at federal.com

To: greenspirit who wrote (17852)	4/30/2000 9:53:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769667

I saw an interesting program on TV tonight (dateline). The police had to rescue a 7 year old kidnap victim. The little girl was very helpful in calming the kidnapper, but ultimately the police snipers had to take him out. He was holding a gun inches from the little girl's head as they fired. TP