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Essays
Required
reading on the Elián Gonzalez Case.
Remembering Elian
Gonzalez by Scott Holleran
(April 22, 2003)
I met Elian Gonzalez during a visit to the Miami house which had
become the flashpoint for a profound philosophical conflict--days
before his pre-dawn seizure on Saturday, April 22, 2000.
Fidel's Fig
Leaf for A "Useful Idiot" by Jeff
Jacoby (May 18, 2002)
A favorite conceit of dictators: the notion that releasing an
unjustly convicted prisoner or two makes a nice gift with which to
welcome a visiting dignitary -- like a fruit basket, only cheaper.
Torture in
Castro's Cuba by Armando Valladares
(July 30, 2000)
Surprise! Surprise! Wolves are once again slaughtering ranchers'
cattle, but this time it's the overtaxed Canadian who is forced to
compensate the rancher (albeit at 80% of the value).
Elián: Supreme
Court Upholds Slavery Over Freedom
by Chris Wolski (July 1, 2000)
Wednesday's decision by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy,
refusing to hear an appeal that would have kept Elián Gonzalez in
the United States, should have every American hanging their head
in shame.
For Five Months
Elián Was Free Part 2 of 2 by Gary
Hull (June 8, 2000)
It is obscene to argue, as the INS and Reno do, that in the name
of a "father's rights", Elián should be shipped back to Cuba.
There are no rights under Communism -- there is only a slow,
spirit destroying death...
For Five Months
Elián Was Free Part 1 of 2 by Gary
Hull (June 7, 2000)
Early on a November morning, some five months ago, Elizabet Broton
took her son Elián on a rickety 17 foot boat to escape the slave
pen of Castro's Cuba...
"Life" in Cuba
for Elián by José Manuel Alvariño
(June 3, 2000)
I'd like to share some thoughts regarding life in Communist Cuba,
important to know and understand prior to formulating an opinion
on the Elián Gonzalez case, or life in the Island.
Elián: Clinton
Administration Is Sanctioning Child Abuse
by Chris Wolski (May 25, 2000)
The treatment of Elián Gonzalez by the U.S. Department of Justice
is nothing more than state-sponsored child abuse.
Husband-Wife
Team Fighting for Elián's Freedom by
Chris Wolski (May 21, 2000)
Husband-and-wife team Leonard and Amy Peikoff have been working to
save Elián Gonzalez from being deported to Communist Cuba.
Elián: The
Individual vs. The Collective by
Chris Wolski (May 17, 2000)
The plight of Elian Gonzalez is an American issue not just a
Cuban-American one.
A Firsthand
Account Of Child Abuse, Castro Style
by Armando Valladares (May 16, 2000)
I was in solitary confinement in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag --
where I spent 22 years for refusing to pledge allegiance to the
Communist regime -- when I heard a child's voice whimpering. "Get
me out of here! Get me out of here! I want to see my mommy!" I
thought my senses were failing me. I could not believe that they
had imprisoned a child in those dungeons.
Speech on Elián
Gonzalez in Washington, D.C., Part 3
by Edwin A. Locke (May 10, 2000)
Let us address a deeper question: why do Clinton and Reno want
Elián back in Cuba?
Speech on Elián
Gonzalez in Washington, D.C., Part 2
by Edwin A. Locke (May 8, 2000)
The difference between Cuba and America is not just a matter of
lifestyle, as some have claimed. It is not a difference like that
between Republicans and Democrats.
Speech on Elián
Gonzalez in Washington, D.C., Part 1
by Edwin A. Locke (May 5, 2000)
On July 4, 1776 America's Founding Fathers identified the
fundamental moral principle on which our country was based. This
principle was that every individual possessed the inalienable
right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Founding
Fathers also identified the proper role of government; it was to
protect individual rights -- specifically, to protect individuals
from the initiation of force by other people, including the
government itself.
Elián Gonzalez
Has a Right Not to Live in Slavery
by Paul Blair (May 4, 2000)
Who could abridge a right so obvious, violate a relationship so
sacred, as to separate a boy from his father?
The Real (and
Sinister) Meaning of the Elián Raid
by Edwin A. Locke (April 30, 2000)
To Undermine His Chances for Political Asylum and Thus Betray the
Principles America Stands For
Ayn Rand Heir
Asserts Elián's Right to Remain in U.S.
by Chris Wolski (April 4, 2000)
"The motivation of Clinton in this issue, besides his liberalism,
is his unreal desire to leave behind a 'legacy' of alleged peace,
peace with a Caribbean dictator pursued by stomping a six-year-old
boy. Clinton is a traitor to the moral values of America, as the
Republicans always insist, but his treason is not fornication or
perjury, but this vile assault against Elián, and the worldwide
appeasement of dictators from which it comes. If only the
Republicans had the guts -- and the ideas -- required to offer an
alternative."
Castro Should
Free Elián's Father from Cuban Totalitarianism
by Chris Wolski (February 1, 2000)
Since even parents have no rights to physically imprison their
children, Elián Gonzalez's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, has no
right to have his son be returned to live in a totalitarian police
state, said the chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute.
Interview: What
Castro Has In Store For Elián. by
Prodos Marinakis (January 26, 2000)
Well, the basic issue is to make American citizens aware of the
actual facts and issues. Most of the press has just avoided
mentioning a lot of these things like our Cuban friends in Miami
are mentioning.
Elián Gonzalez,
Communist Cuba, and "Father's Rights": An Interview with
Psychologist Edwin Locke by Prodos
Marinakis (January 20, 2000)
The fundamental principles is that the rights of the individual
always come first. That's recognized in other cases - like if a
child is sexually abused by a parent - he is taken away from the
parent - and justifiably so. But they don't seem to grasp that
sending somebody to a dictatorship is morally worse than sexual
abuse because it's condemning him to a lifetime of slavery.
A Sin to
Deport Elián by Leonard Peikoff,
Ph.D. (January 20, 2000)
In the name not of Cuban nationalism, but of Americanism in its
original and deepest philosophical meaning, Elián Gonzalez must be
allowed to remain here. Let this poor boy have a chance to live a
human life. If "compassion" is one of our politicians' chief
values, as they keep telling us, can't they show him any of it?
Who should have
legal custody of Elián Gonzales? by
Mark Da Cunha (January 18, 2000)
To force Elián to live in an oppressive dictatorship is a
violation of Elián's right to life. This is the claim Elián's
father is making. It is a claim that labels the father unfit to
have custody of his child.
Keep Elián Free
by Robert W. Tracinski (January 17, 2000)
The debate over Elián Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban boy whose
mother died trying to bring him to America, hinges on one
essential question: Is freedom a necessity of human life? For our
own sakes, we must answer this question with a resounding
"Yes"—and keep Elián in the United States.
The Rights of
Elián Gonzales by Peter Schwartz
(January 14, 2000)
Is communism physically harmful to human life? That should be the
fundamental question in the Elián Gonzalez case.
The Life of Six
Year Old Elián Gonzales is in Bill Clinton's hands
by Mark Da Cunha (January 13, 2000)
The fundamental issue is not about "Florida's large and
politically powerful anti-Castro Cuban community" versus the "bond
between parent and child" as one commentator insinuated (USA Today
7 Jan 2000). There is something far more important than the
"parental bond" between Elián's father and "the dignity of the
Cuban people" as Elián's father referred to his son in a Castro
sponsored rally (observe that even Elián's father admits that his
son is first and foremost a political tool). That something is
Elián's inalienable right to his own life -- in Cuba that
inalienable right does not legally exist.
More Essays
Why
Elián should stay in the U.S.
Growing up as "state
property" in the Soviet Union convinced me that freedom is as
crucial as a father's love.
A
Child's Right to Life
by Andrew Lewis
Fidel's human football
Put yourself in Gonzalez's shoes (WSJ).
Keep Elián Free (newsMax)
Janet Reno is the same person who sent in tanks at Waco citing
alleged mistreatment of children. Now she wants little Elián
Gonzalez to be returned to Castro, citing parental rights...What
rights? There are no rights in Cuba, let alone parental ones.
Cuba's Repressive Machinery: Human Rights Forty Years After The
Revolution
From the Human Rights Watch report, October, 1999
The
deadly voyage: How it happened Miami
Herald
Even Fidel's Friends Are Saying "Enough"
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