Gonzalez Says He Would Never Let Down Fidel Castro
HAVANA (CBS4) ― Eight years after a headline making international custody fight which ended with his return to his father in Cuba, Elian Gonzalez has joined Cuba’s Young Communist Union.
In an article in Cuba’s communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, the 14-year old Gonzalez said he would never let ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro down. He joined more than 18-thousand others who joined the group on Saturday.
In 2000, Gonzalez’ mother was killed when a boat carrying them to the U.S. capsized in the Florida Straits. Elian, who was 6 years old at the time, and two other refugees were found clinging to an inner tube for survival. After his rescue the boy stayed with relatives in South Florida until a long tug of war over custody end with armed federal agents seizing him from his great uncle’s Miami home. Elian then returned to Cuba with his father.
He probably feels safer there.
We can only guess at the unspeakable horrors that have turned this cute little Cuban boy into a full-grown godless communist.
I bet he has a beard now, and curses Jesus.
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#2. Actually, it was Clinton, and Janet Reno, but I get the joke.
I have to say, that incident gave me the stereotype that Cuban immigrants are nuts.
Probably unfair… but I don’t go to Florida, so I don’t have an occasion to dispel the stereotype.
Actually you are correct, it was Janet Reno.
http://www.filedropper.com/janetelian
#5
Was that visual atrocity really necessary? Almost hurled on my new keyboard.
Why are you surprised? This was why liberals wanted him returned to Cuba in the first place.
Yeah I can see why he think his home country is better off with him as an advocate. Yet perhaps he wears rose colored glasses as to the actual real overall outlook of his future endeavors!
Shouldn’t that pic in #2 be in the “Bush want bin laden caught” thread?
(Bush does Rambo!)
About Elian. So what?
“Why are you surprised? This was why liberals wanted him returned to Cuba in the first place.”
well we “liberals” saw it as the only way to protect him from the hypocritical conservatives who wanted to molest him while preaching about god and war.
It would be shocking if anything else happened?
Its called human psychology and sociology. All we kiddies get indoctrinated to think what we have is the best there is.
Kiddies starving to death in Darfur think that place is great, with maybe a passing thought that they are hungry.
Its how religion survives. Politics. National Unity. All a mirage of social indoctrination. Easy to see in others, impossible in ourselves.
The kid was napped by the mother and then family in Miami. They refused to give him to authorities so that he could be returned to his real father. The kids “extended” family in Miami were the wackos, enlisting the community, the media, and everyone they could to continue to keep the kid as if he was a dog. Even dogs have rights. I am sorry, I have no sympathy. When kids are abducted, this country protects the child. We cannot allow kidnappers to prevail. After months of negotiations and demands for them to return the child were thrown in our governments face, the authorities went in to protect the most basic of human rights, for a father to raise his child, they were left with no other options, they had to use force. Scary gun, swat uniforms, goggles, big deal. Movies are scary. Communism is scary. Bush is scary. Democrats are a horror. Get on with it.
#11, pedro,
#10 wow! such display of rational thought has left me speechless.
If only that were true. Maybe in your case, numb fingers would work better.
#5 Well, there goes my breakfast damn it!
He wasn’t kidnapped, and there was no law that said he had to be returned. This was pure service to Castro.
Well, Elian’s being returned to Cuba gave us 8 years of George Bush instead of Al Gore.
#17
“there was no law that said he had to be returned.”
Really? So if a kid’s parent dies in the US, his great grandparents and some 19-year-old cousin with nine-inch nails are free to keep him even if the other parent is alive?!! I don’t think so.
The US courts seemed to think the law was on the the father’s side.
Would you have felt this way if the kid had been Italian? Or Canadian?
Lets face it. We’ve all been brainwashed about Cuba, and we have a completely failed (almost 50 years now) foreign policy that hurts only the Cuban people, not their leader.
Cuba is Communist. So what? So is China, and China now owns us from buying up our debt for the Iraq war. While everyone fretted about Castro, who controlled a tiny island nation, China was busy becomming the next world economic power. And she never fired a shot!
Wake up America.
Chris
Gregallen said,
“…gave me the stereotype that Cuban immigrants are nuts. Probably unfair… but I don’t go to Florida, so I don’t have an occasion to dispel the stereotype.”
I do. People are more alike than not. The human race has aberrations from Jeffrey Dahmer to Jesus Christ, but the vast majority (other than minor differences in customs and language) are similar. Cuban immigrants… or Irish or Italian or German or English, etc. – whether arriving in America or anywhere else – are still human beings. Look in the mirror. If you see black or white, rich or poor, ignorant or educated, look closer to see we’re all the same.
#20–BH==you overly trivialize sometimes important differences, because you assume familiarity. Take a Borneo Tribesman who will kill you dead if you touch him first. Take a Philippino Tribesman who will kill you dead if you place a lower body part above one of his higher body parts. Take an Arab Tribesman who will ban you to the desert without water if you touch him with your left hand.
Gee, those tribesmen are tough.
Take a fundie of any religion. If they are in a position to do so, they will visit upon you terrible things as demanded by their code.
Take any American High School sports fan and wear the wrong shirt in the wrong place.
Now, maybe you mean we are all the same in that we absorb and display our culture, but I say culture makes people different and when culture is in play, you should be careful until you are informed.
There are only two rules in protecting yourself with everyone:
1. Recognize another person is basically like you, or basically not like you.
2. Learn to tell the difference.
bobbo
The inquiry was about Florida and Cuban immigrants and whether they are inherently nuts. I grant you some Floridians are odd ducks and Cuban immigrants are colorful but gregallen need not be overly concerned should he visit Miami. I also will acknowledge that taking the long view of human behavior may obscure the immediate danger of an individual. Surely we all recognize Gloria Estefan is not famous for the words “Say hello to my little friend”.
#22–BH==always GREAT to reach agreement and demonstrate the danger/inaccuracy of overly broad generalizations.
Devil is in the details, the middle transition point, the null extension.