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

To: Lane3 who wrote (7780)	6/24/2000 11:04:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

From NewsMax: We wuz robbed. newsmax.com Elian Lost ? We Told You So Jack Thompson Saturday, June 24, 2000 NewsMax.com unfortunately got it right again. As we predicted, Team Coffey lost yet another round today in Atlanta in its lukewarm fight to secure Elian Gonzalez some semblance of due process. It is a matter of too little too late. As noted here days ago, Team Coffey made minimal use in its appeal of the blockbuster Justice Department/INS documents secured by Judicial Watch through its dogged use of the Freedom of Information Act. These documents showed collaboration between Clinton and Castro to return the boy to the Caribbean Alcatraz. These documents void as a sham all of the INS's asylum regulations. This argument was effectively abandoned in the main brief filed by Team Coffey and thus was only fully used by Judicial Watch in its amicus curiae brief. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had earlier and repeatedly declared itself hostile to amicus briefs in this case, so this crucial argument never got the attention by the court that it deserved. Add to this hamstringing of Elian the fact that the man who filed the brief that Judicial Watch's Larry Klayman called "very disappointing" was Brett Kavanaugh, a man disqualified from being in this case for two reasons: His law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, has donated big bucks to Hillary Clinton, and he personally helped try to discredit Judicial Watch's bang-on criticism of Ken Starr. The bottom line is that by having this appeal handled by Kavanaugh and Kirkland & Ellis, Team Coffey added more Washington-insider types to go through the motions. The only bare knuckles displayed in this fight have been, from day one, on the father's and the government's side. Team Coffey has consistently worn 16-ounce gloves to deaden its blows while in the ring with the brawling Greg Craig and Janet Reno's Justice Department kick boxers. What is next? The injunction keeping Elian in this country expires Wednesday. Team Coffey must get either Justice Kennedy or four of the nine other justices to grant a review, as well as a new injunction to keep him here during that hoped-for review. Without a new injunction in place, any review after Wednesday will be moot; the little boy, protected by the dolphins and some say by angels, will be gone. There is only one thing that can save him now: A political party and the leader of that party with the testicular fortitude to ask Congress to subpoena Elian to keep him in the country. It would have worked before. It can work again. He can be subpoenaed over and over again until Jan. 20, 2001. But the Republicans, collectively, have registered zero on the testosterone scale to date. As for George Dubya Bush, he can kill murderers, but he can't muster the courage to save one little boy by asking the Republican Congress to do what it can to keep him here, despite the fact that his father was pulled out of the sea in his fight for freedom in WWII. Elian needs a miracle. Those who love this country should pray for one. Right now.