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.

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

To: gao seng who wrote (4060)	5/3/2000 10:52:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

>what 6 year old wouldn't be happy being a celebrity?> Nevermind- you don't need to answer the question about kids. The above statement says it all. You have no clue what is healthy for a child. No clue about what makes a child really happy.

To: gao seng who wrote (4060)	5/3/2000 11:00:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9127

all I can say as evidence is that what 6 year old wouldn't be happy being a celebrity? What a terribly shallow way to judge "happiness".. ! My child might be "happy" if I let him eat Krispy Kreme Donuts and Cheetos for breakfast every day, but it would hardly contribute to his healthy development. And being a celebrity isn't exactly a great reason for remaining with these distant relatives.

To: gao seng who wrote (4060)	5/3/2000 11:21:00 AM
From: jhild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

I don't consider being taken from a happy home at gunpoint a victory. . . . Hahahaha. The media circus, the rings of para-military Cubanos, all those people pressed inside the house negotiating all night, the fainting Marisleysis, the round-the-clock crowds penned off by barriers - this is a happy home? No this was a vortex of highly charged political agendas clashing around a little boy being kept from his loving father. The INS action was akin to pulling children from raging flash flood currents. Indeed it was a victory. A victory for the protected development of Elian that should be the right of all children.

To: gao seng who wrote (4060)	5/3/2000 12:03:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

re: kids. what does that have to do with it? JUst that it would be interesting,(if maybe irrelevant in your mind), to see if those who believe so strongly that it is perfectly acceptable to remove a child from his only surviving parent at such an early age, are actually parents themselves. (After all, Elian still has five more years he will be in his father's home). Some of the statements about "the relative's happy home", or believing anyone could replace a mother and father in a few short weeks, or measuring happiness by money, Disneyworld, or attention, all sound like statements of people who haven't experienced parenting.