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...Before government agents seized Elian Gonzalez last Saturday, Miami attorney Aaron Podhurst, who was negotiating with the family, asked Attorney General Janet Reno for six more minutes. Instead, Reno gave...
Despite all the hysteria and controversy surrounding Elian Gonzalez, most Americans are inclined to believe that it all boils down to a simple right of custody, that his best interests lie with his father--not his great uncle, Lazaro, or his cousin and proclaimed surrogate mother Marisleysis. This argument might be pertinent, if the boy were staying in the United States. But what exactly does it mean for Elian to go home with his father to Cuba...
According to Castro, the first order of business will be to put Elian in a "reorientation" camp to purge him of the capitalist and democratic elements he was exposed to in the U.S. He will be taught to view his mother as a traitor for trying to abduct him to the United States. He will be paraded around as a Communist icon, as Castro has already made him into the largest existing piece of anti-American propaganda in the country. As an adolescent, Elian will be forced to leave his family to provide labor for the Communist State...
...Government presume that it knows what is in the best interests of Elian? Has Janet Reno ever lived under the yoke of a communist dictatorship? Let's ask ourselves this: who knows more about what life is really like in Cuba--Janet Reno or the Cuban-Americans who fled Castro's regime to look for a better life in America...
...long barren waste of months stretches before us between now and November. I am not sure the American people can endure it. We are 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...