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ELIAN WHO?
Links courtesy of townhall.com
Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:02:10 -0400
Unless you've been asleep since last week, you seen the amazing video and
photographs of armed INS agents, protests in Miami, relatives at Andrews Air
Force Base, and dozens of elected officials trying to get a word in
edge-wise.
I've taken a few minutes to pull together some of the best commentary on the
web since the INS raid early Saturday morning.
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Elian Gonzalez and the Fugitive Slave Law
by Mackubin Thomas Owens
While the Holy Saturday raid may not have been another Waco, it is
reminiscent of another shameful episode in American history -- the federal
enforcement of fugitive slave laws in the 1850s.
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Elian's Future in a Totalitarian State
To people who have never known tyranny, it makes sense to "send the child
back to his father." Few realize that the traditional American view of
what's "best for the child" doesn't apply in Elián Gonzalez' native land. In
totalitarian countries such as Cuba, parents and children have only one
right: to follow the government plan. They must learn Communist ideology,
obey oppressive rules, and serve "the state" -- an impersonal and heartless
system that enforces absolute compliance.
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A Loving Father?
by Kate O'Beirne for NationalReview.com
As long as Elian's Miami relatives were determined that the child's rights
be protected, there was nothing they could have done to prevent Janet's Reno
armed assault on their home. Once the federal appellate court held that
Elian should not be denied the opportunity to make an asylum claim, the
Clinton Administration had to move quickly to deny him that opportunity.
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Dan Rather, Stenographer to Power
by the Media Research Center
A long time ago in another Washington, reporters sought to scrutinize the
executive branch. Today they seek to justify it. Just hours after the
Saturday raid to seize Elian Gonzalez, at 9:03 a.m., CBS reporter Jim
Stewart mourned Janet Reno would be remembered for the Waco raid and this
raid: "It is appalling from her perspective because of the true compassion
she has for children. If you've ever seen her around children, you know how
much she truly cares for them, and this has got to be tearing at her."
Throughout the morning, Dan Rather felt compassion for Reno, Fidel Castro,
among others:
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Elian, Elian, go away
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Attorney General Janet Reno has the authority to send in tanks, with air
cover, to remove Elian Gonzalez from his grand-uncle and move him to his
father, where Elian would live in diplomatic shelter until the highest
court, or perhaps a Constitutional Convention, decides whether to keep him
in the United States or let him go back to Cuba.
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Castro's boy
by Mona Charen
Two weeks ago, several television pundits, when asked about the Elian
Gonzalez case, shook their heads sadly and pronounced: "There are no winners
here. No winners." Of course there's a winner -- Fidel Castro.
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How they really care about Elian
by Debra Saunders
The photograph of Elian with his father, stepmother and little brother shows
the boy is happy to be with his dad, and to that extent, the Saturday
morning federal raid on the Miami Gonzalez home did some good. Figure no
matter where Elian ends up, he will be OK. If he goes to Cuba, Fidel Castro
will want him to appear happy and free. If he stays here, he will have true
freedom. Wherever he goes, the boy will be loved.
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Justifying the INS raid
by Linda Bowles
We have it on good authority that the pre-dawn, paramilitary raid to rescue
little Elian Gonzales was necessary to "uphold the rule of law." We've heard
that said over and over again by Attorney General Janet Reno and President
Bill Clinton.
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Elian: A certified Clinton event
by William Murchison
Janet Reno's storm-trooper assault on a six-year-old boy's bedroom is what
we are entitled to call a Certified Clinton Event. So this is how a, ah,
morally flexible administration operates. It does things in just this way.
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Add Elian to Clinton's list of lies
by Linda Chavez
"When all efforts failed, there was no alternative but to enforce the
decisions of the INS and the federal court, that Juan Miguel Gonzalez should
have custody of his son. The law has been upheld, and that was the right
thing to do."
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Elian's future -- and ours
by Thomas Sowell
After the seizure of Elian Gonzalez by heavily armed marshals in the early
hours of the morning, the spin from the Clinton administration -- echoed by
CNN and CBS -- was that Elian was now reunited with his father. But, even
before this raid was launched, the Cuban government itself revealed that
Elian is destined to go to a special place being prepared for him in
Havana -- not in Cardenas, where his father lives.
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Brainwashing Elian
by Bob Novak
WASHINGTON -- When U.S. marshals forcibly removed Elian Gonzalez from public
view and placed him behind locked doors at Andrews Air Force Base, he drew
closer to the grasp of the Castro dictatorship's psychiatric wing.
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