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...saturated. The partisan noise over Elian Gonzalez and the Reno raid has driven us almost to the edge of mental illness (and maybe bankruptcy - who is paying for all of this opulent security, by the way, and the plantation hideaway, and the little playmates being shipped up from Cuba, and the endless pizza eaten by the highest officials of the land?) That is enough. Let not the politicians (to use Dylan Thomas' words) "blaspheme down the stations of the breath/with any further elegy on innocence and youth." Let's keep children out of the shamingly self-serving and stupid libretto...
...year-old can apply for asylum against the wishes of his father. "It seems questionable that a court will uphold that principle," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "It's very difficult for the Miami family to win legally, because they're arguing that the political situation in Cuba makes it wrong to send Elian back even if that is his father's wish, but the family perspective tends to trump the political perspective in U.S. courts. The case is certainly uncharted territory, and could well end up in the Supreme Court for a groundbreaking decision...
...guest of the U.S. government at Andrews Air Force Base and, perhaps later, at the Wye River Plantation, it's not inconceivable that he may tire of the legal process and petition the court to allow him to take Elian and the rest of his family home to Cuba. Elian is currently bound by an injunction imposed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to remain in the country until the judges rule, in mid-May, on the application for asylum filed on his behalf by his Miami relatives. Even if the court turns down the appeal, it could extend...
...limit the power of courts to act within their own territorial jurisdictions. Suddenly those of us who study these issues are seeing an explosion of requests to state and federal courts in the U.S. to enjoin linking and distribution throughout the Web. So may a court in Iraq or Cuba tell U.S. citizens in the U.S. what they can and cannot read? Of course not. But a U.S. court can censor citizens of Canada and Sweden, or enjoin "mirror sites" located all over the world. That's not the rule of law, just corporate imperialism...
Papa, I do not Want to go to Cuba. If You want to, stay here. --Elian Gonzalez...