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


To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (3823)5/1/2000 10:19:00 AM
From: jhild  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
I see that Orin Hatch has his finger in the air and has "deferred" a decision to hold Senate hearings until after review of the documentation with regard to the INS rescue of young Elian.

I sense a Senator getting out of the way of an avalanche of adverse public opinion. I doubt Henry Hyde however has the faculties to get out of the way of oncoming traffic. Just as well. The nation deserves a Tom DeLay Day of exposing the soft underbelly of right wing fanaticism.



To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (3823)5/1/2000 12:32:00 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9127
 
The a priori Kantian poop-heads say that Elian must be with his father simply because duty demands....

newadvent.org

The Aristotelians say that he must stay because to relinquish the boy would say the Cuban value system is superior to ours.

The Kantians retort to the Aristotelians, accusations they are Randians and part of a closed loop i.e. closed mind philisophical system, and then go on to quote a woman ravaged by mental illness and say "her (Emily Dickinson) mysterious statements are so incomprehensible, they defy interpretation."

I am no Randian but I would choose a knowable value system
that can be interpreted and defined ahead of this flibbertigibbet....
iupjournals.org