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: Yogizuna who wrote (6076)	5/23/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

You';re ignoring the other part of Steven's sentences which is- "If you refuse to comply with the law, that's the way it works" and that unfortunately was the choice The Relatives made. Not to mention that silly Donato, who really did NOT save the boy's life, but decided that somehow just BEING there meant he had a claim of some sort. For HIM to be grabbing Elian and hiding with him is pretty presumptuous. Heck, I once saved a little girl's life in Hawaii when she got caught in a bad undertow. Went in and dragged her out while her mother screamed helplessly. By the interpretations being tossed around here, the mother, by not leaping in, was in absentia. Obviously she should have had her parental rights terminated, and I should have been given the child. And when the mother reached for her, I should have negotiated before turning her over. And everyone cheered when I brought her out. I could have sued for invasion of privacy.

To: Yogizuna who wrote (6076)	5/23/2000 6:36:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

I thought we were beyond such "gestapo-like tactics" in modern times You haven't been paying attention. It happens all the time, and is generally applauded by the citizenry. Saving a child's life does not entitle the one who does the saving to keep the child. And I do not think it illegitimate for government to intervene to return a child to a parent, especially when the child is being used as a political pawn and a publicity tool. And the Miami family had made it very clear that they would not return the child to his parent unless compelled to do so. I admit that it must be reassuring and pleasant to see the world as such a simple place. I would not stand between you and that pleasure, and I suppose you must delude yourself into thinking that your simple vision is in some way related to reality.

To: Yogizuna who wrote (6076)	5/23/2000 7:34:00 PM
From: Master (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

After an initial squabble with you when we first met, I had a little compassion for the difficulties you experienced in your life. However, I getting to know you a little better I have come to the conclusion that you truly are an Idiot and you deserve all that life has in store for you. Your friend (Not) Vince PS - Only a maroon would compare the rescue of the child to Gestapo tactics. My friend, you deserve your testicles be ripped off and stretched into lamp shades. Maybe then you'll know what the Gestapo was really like.