Oh my God! Clinton have "red" written all over his face! (plus lier and cigar smoker, although I doubt the way he smokes his cigar is appropriate, if you catch my drift.)
------------------ Okey, okey, here's my question:
If you are an immortal, do you "rot" simply because of the nuclear decay of the Carbon-14 particles inside your body?
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What a psycho that president is! I hope when my son is kidnapped that the police stay as far away from the situation as possible.
------------------ "Oh, it's an anti-anti-WTO song. It's essentially a pro-Starbucks song. I saw this picture of a guy sticking his foot through a plate-glass window in a Starbucks in Seattle, and he was wearing a Nike. Man, couldn't you just change your shoes?" -- M. Doughty
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I haven't been following this story very closely. I have a few questions:
Would the family have refused to hand the child over if a federal marshall had shown up at the front door with a court order for the child to be turned over?
Was it a significant possibility that the family would use weapons to ensure that the child remained on their premises?
What reasoning did the federal government use to justify drug-raid tactics to secure a small child for deportation (or whatever they're calling it)?
Federal marshalls don't do that sort of raid without being ordered to do exactly thus. The action would have to have been approved by Janet Reno, who would have, in turn, have had to inform the President of her intentions.
Politely, but firmly asking for what it wants does not seem to be a part of the Justice Department's repertoir of late. This worries me (though not endlessly -- I've had more pressing issues on my agenda of late).
--Baloo
------------------ "A plain, good-hearted woman who loves you is infinitely more beautiful than any "gorgeous" woman who values your possessioins more than you." -- Me http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/
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Baloo: The government has been trying to arrange something peaceful for a couple of weeks, but the family has backed away from everything. There has been as many as 1000 people out side the house, most of the time, protesting aginst sending the kid back. About the only way to remove the boy from the house was a raid like this one. They went in at 5am, while the crowd was at it's smallest. They went in armed, reportedly, because they were afraid that the uncle may be armed. A Female Marshal (It was the US Marshals office), who spoke Spanish, carried Elian out the door, explaining to him that they were taking him to his father. Since I have lost all faith in the press, the whole thing boils down,for me, to the fact that the father has the right to claim his son.
------------------ Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!! Gandalf
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Well, since he never had rights to his son in his life, why would he now? The kid was born years after they were divorved, and the mother was the primary caretaker. All children are wards of the Cuban state anyway. We're not talking about a custody battle between two relatives. The father will not have custody as long as he lives in Castro's Cuba. This is a battle between Castro and the Miami relatives, with Clinton on Castro's side.
And just out of curiosity, exactly why does the attorney general, the equivalent of a district attourney, have the authority to remove a child from its home without any court authorization? Why does she have that authority under any circumstances? It's simply not in the job discription.
------------------ You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend far too much time reading this sort of trash.
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Omega, you don't happen to have any relatives in, oh, say Iraq, that would be willing to take you in, do you?
------------------ "Oh, it's an anti-anti-WTO song. It's essentially a pro-Starbucks song. I saw this picture of a guy sticking his foot through a plate-glass window in a Starbucks in Seattle, and he was wearing a Nike. Man, couldn't you just change your shoes?" -- M. Doughty
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