I must wonder if the decision to "shake a leg" on this one had anything to do with yesterday's news report that the taxpayers are now up to $1.2 million in funds spent for protection, etc. since Elian has been in the U.S.

Can't win 'em all

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), June 01, 2000

Answers

Elian's Miami relatives have never had a legal leg to stand on. The law in this country is that parents have custody of their children unless they are shown to be unfit.

This case is like a lot of other child custody cases. They always end with the biological parent getting custody of the child, even where the parent is signficantly less fit or involved in his child's life than Elian's father. The only result is that a lot of money gets spent, and the inevitable gets postponed a few years at most.

The only good part of this whole mess is that the rest of the country gets to see what low life's the Miami Cubans are. Perhaps this will build a political consensus for lifting the Cuban embargo.

-- kermit (colourmegreen@hotmail.com), June 01, 2000.

I agree with you that it will be good if this leads to a lifting of the embargo, but I take issue with the "low-life" statement. It is a bit more complex than that...

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), June 01, 2000.