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

To: gao seng who wrote (4218)	5/3/2000 9:00:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 9127

Interesting dissertation on parental rights. Interesting also that there has never been any iota of evidence presented that Elian is in any danger whatsoever of being being abused by his father. That any of his father's prerogatives as a father - his rights to make decisions on Elian's behalf - should be abrogated. Save of course the general presumption that living in Cuba is living in hell and if his father would return him to Cuba then that would be abuse. But alas that is a duck that will not quack in our courts. Besides so what that he is returned to Cuba? That is the life Elian has known. That is a life that likely he would have grown up in absent the disastrous trip in the boat capsized at sea. Returning him to live with his father, is returning him to his natural state. We cannot turn back the clock and make things right with his mother. But we can turn back the clock and see him growing in the shadow of his father. Growing in the shade where he was that day before he was taken in that boat. Growing in the shade with the love and closeness of his only living parent, rather than being raised in captivity in a glass cage in Little Havana treated as some semi-religious icon of some ideological modern day Crusade against Castro. If the Cuban exiles are reduced to the impotence of fighting Castro through the ruination of a young life and his relationship with his only living/loving parent, then they have lost so thoroughly to Castro and have been reduced to such ineffectiveness that they will never be of any account in the future of Cuba.