By all accounts, Elians mother ran off with someone else and stole her son from the father. Conservative Americas attempt to prevent a young child from reuniting with his father was despicable
Child protective agencies regularly take children from a parent when the situation would endanger the wellbeing of the child.
1. The Castro government colluded with the Clinton-Janet Reno administration in allowing Elians grandmothers to come to the United States- stewarded by NCC guards. But they made a mistake in having them meet with Elian at the home of Reno-friend Sister Jeanne OLaughlin, who recognized what was going on, and promptly announced her change of heart to the press: During the meeting, Sister O'Laughlin said in a sworn affidavit submitted to federal district court, she became convinced that the grandmothers "were not free to respond or act as they would towards their family, and that the situation was controlled by the Cuban officials." Until then, Sister O'Laughlin has said, she believed the boy should be with his father. Now she sees it differently
WORLD Magazine | Sister Jeanne | Mindy Belz | Apr 22, 00
2.
Rather than allow a judge to decide, the Clinton administration ordered a predawn armed raid. The Gonzalez family had committed no crime, was in violation of no court order
but was subjected to
frightening image of a Border Patrol agent pointing his machine gun at Elian
"We got Maced, we got kicked, we got roughed up", Cuban-born NBC camera man Tony Zumbado told MSNBC. He said that as the incursion began, federal agents kicked him in the stomach and yelled, "Don't move or we'll shoot." Zumbado added on NBC's" Dateline: "My sound man got hit with a shotgun butt on the head, dragged outside.
[CTRL] JACKBOOT JANET STOMPS NBC NEWS CREW WHILE MAJOR MEDIA
3. Both Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Tribe
denounced the raid as illegal and unconstitutional. But the press was satisfied.
4. The Democrats got cover from the St. Petersberg Times, whose editorial placed the blame
guess where:
manipulated and brainwashed by his Miami relatives,
http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/20001cari/St.Petersburg_Times:_Elian's_Ordeal
5. For Fidel,
fleeing Cuba was noting short of an unpardonable crime. And for
American liberals, an opportunity to demonstrate absolute feasance to the wishes of this Communist dictator. And the Clinton administration proved abundantly willing to permit Castro to control events in America.
a. Cuba's dictator, Fidel Castro, never lets anyone get off his island if he can find a way
to kill them. His gunboats are not used to defend the island from attack. Their machine guns are used to kill people trying to escape his island Hell.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/elian.htm
b. It is little known that years earlier,
Fidel Castros own divorced wife had left for the United States with their six year old son. He asked that their son be allowed to visit him, and his former wife, accepting his promise "as a gentleman," as he put it, to return the boy in two weeks' time. But when the two weeks elapsed, the boy was not sent home.
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