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

To: hoyasaxa who wrote (8352)7/11/2000 4:40:13 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
So she blew it by dying, silly her.
If my mother had wheels she'd be a car. What's your point? That if someone does something with their kid and dies in the process we need to make it precedent in international law that such an act should be respected- no matter what, or only in custody cases, or only in this case? So are we going to respect ALL parents who abduct their children from their home countries and die in the process of abducting them, or only dead parents from countries with dictatorships, or only dead parents from countries with communist dictatorships, or only Cuba?



To: hoyasaxa who wrote (8352)7/11/2000 7:41:50 PM
From: Dayuhan  Respond to of 9127
 
Well, if you want to play "if", there are all kinds of scenarios...

If they'd been Haitians they'd have been sent back at once, whether the mother lived or died.

If the CANF people hadn't seen potential for political gain in the situation, none of us would ever have heard of Elian.

And so on.

"If" goes on forever, but we don't decide these cases on the basis of "if". In this particular case, I think both law and common sense were reasonably well served.


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