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Elian Gonzalez - Fifth Anniversary
La Shawn has an interesting perspective on the Elian saga.
I was a brand new conservative at that time, but I parted ways with other conservatives on this issue. They believed the child should remain in the United States and receive an asylum hearing. I believed the boy’s relatives had no right to make decisions for him and should return him to his father immediately. If a father wants to raise his child in Castro’s Cuba, neither the United States nor the child’s distant relatives had any say in the matter.
I was firmly behind the Clinton adminstration on this one.
I strongly support parental rights, and unless there’s evidence that a child is being abused or some other criminal act has occured, the parents’ rights trump concerns about communism.
In her comments section, she notes:
Do we want to start dictating to parents where to live and raised their kids? Juan Gonzalez’s decision to remain in Cuba and raise his sons as communists is HIS business, not ours. I certainly wouldn’t want to raise my kids there, which is why I won’t.
Of course, the one huge assumption that she makes is that Elian’s father “wants to raise his child in Castro’s Cuba” and that it was “his decision to remain in Cuba” as opposed to “was forced to be a pawn in this game by Castro’s Cuba” - and we’ll probably never know for sure.
http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2005/04/24/elian-gonzalez-fifth-anniversary/trackback/
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