July 20, 2007
Here We Go Again?
Like me, your stomach probably starting doing summersaults when you heard. If you haven’t heard, I’m sorry to have to have to make your stomach churn and your heart ache, but that’s what I do best.
Miami is again the scene of a custody “battle” over a young Cuban child.
So far, although the media keeps trying to turn this into Elian the Sequel, it hasn’t happened. But not for lack of trying, The Miami Herald successfully sued to have the hearings on the 4 yr old Cuban girl’s custody dispute made public. And as you can see, from this Miami Herald Piece, the effort is already being made to romanticize the biological father’s plight for custody:
Her birth father, a fisherman and office worker from Guayos, traveled to Miami six weeks ago to press his case. He attended the hearing Wednesday in a crisply pressed crimson dress shirt and slacks, his dark hair cropped short.
Back in 2000, when Mohamed Atta and his merry band of terrorist had overextended their visas and were plotting to kill our families, Janet Reno’s INS’s first priority was to by-pass the legal system and deport Elian Gonzalez back to a totalitarian concentration camp to appease a hysterical-foaming at the mouth castro.
By making the Elian case a Federal case, the then AG, railroaded young Elian by violating his due process causing even Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz to declare that the Clinton administration had acted “lawlessly” when agents seized 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives, calling it "a dangerous day for all Americans."
Hopefully, the court proceedings will shed light on the Cuban regime and its treatment of its citizens and children in particular.
Would an American court give custody of a child to a father who belongs to a militaristic cult that preaches hatred? To a cult where children are property of the cult leader who brainwashes them? To a cult where children are forced to live on rationed food? To a cult that keeps its members imprisoned against their wills? To a cult where children are forced to work to enrich the cult leader? To a cult where child prostitution is used to lure foreign degenerate “sex tourists”?
Certainly not, children in this country are protected by laws and the welfare of the child comes before parental rights.
The Florida Department of Children and Families, which is the agency fighting to keep the 4 yr. old girl in a foster home, will have a better chance to win in court if is able to show the court that parents in Cuba have no say in the upbringing and education of their children, since the Communist party is constitutionally given the responsibility for the "integral formation of children and youth." But DCF’s attorneys seem to have gone the route of keeping politics out of it:
(Judge) Cohen agreed that DCF's petition to declare the father unfit was ''light'' on evidence that he was a poor father. ''You know it, and I know it,'' she added, looking squarely at the state's attorneys.
The 4 yr. old Cuban girl has a better chance at maintaining her freedom if DCF can show that in Cuba children “belong” to the state and that by granting her father custody, the court would just be awarding guardianship of the child to Cuba’s Communist Party.It would be that same as if it granted custody to a cult which a court would never do.
Posted by Gusano at July 20, 2007 12:55 PM
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Posted by: Ziva ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 20, 2007 01:52 PM
Excuse me fuzzy thinker, but after centuries of blood shed and suffering Cuba does not need to become part of the US.
Posted by: Ziva at July 20, 2007 02:09 PM
bunnyjihad,
Are you sure those fuzzies arent dinkleberries?
Posted by: Val Prieto at July 20, 2007 02:14 PM
I'm guessing fuzzy bunny got 86'd
Anyway, at least, no matter what the decision in this case is - whether she goes back to Cuba with ther father or she stays with the foster family, she will have the one thing Elian did not have. DUE PROCESS in a court of law.
True, Elian was a refugee with "wet" feet, and this girl has them dry, but the same should've followed for Elian.
Posted by: La Ventanita at July 20, 2007 04:52 PM
Once again, our pain will be laid bare for all to see. Once again, the slanders, the outirght lies, the calumnies against us will begin in earnest. And our sole goal, once more, will be to save a child from a tyrant. Despite all we may go through it, go through it we must if we have to do the right thing. I don't care what they call us. Right makes might.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at July 20, 2007 05:43 PM
oh boy, Ziva, doesn't sound good. castro inc. will probably start the festivities after the election, depending on who's elected and the herald will cheerlead and lead the marketing efforts and tell us what a nice young man the dad is.not to worry, plenty of fight left in us rabid little chihuahuas.
Posted by: Gusano at July 21, 2007 09:32 AM
Just another example of unbiased Herald criticism; a review of Patrick Symmes;
"The Boys of Dolores" by Enrique Fernandez, formerly of the Village Voice and other publications. That was the school Fidel and
the rest of his cohorts, went to before going on to Belen. It doesn't quite glorify Fidel, but it
does lump the group collectively as having Alzheimers, pointing out Dr. Luis Aguilar, former Georgetown Professor, and New Herald Editor by name. It 'puts into perspective' the fate of Cubans vis a vis their neighbors. It calls the regime corrupt, but backhandedly brings up the author's comments about exiles' being 'History's losers'Using the example of the favelas, as an example of 'freedom and chaos" over the other alternative; seen in Cuba, Venezuela, the Soviet Union? If I hadn't read the byline, one would swear Ana Menendez wrote it.
Posted by: narciso79 at July 21, 2007 03:12 PM
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