NewsMax.com Inside Cover Wednesday May 17, 2000; 9:06 AM EDT Elian Dressed in Communist Uniform at Wye: Photos The latest photographs from Maryland's Wye River Plantation show six-year-old Elian Gonzalez dressed in the uniform of the Pioneers, Cuba's communist youth league, prompting concerns that the boy's political reprogramming has begun on American soil. A series of pictures that appeared Tuesday on the website of Cuba's state run news service Granma show Gonzalez in a white shirt emblazoned with the image of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, with the Pioneer trademark blue scarf around his neck. Several other children, clad in identical communist youth league garb, are visible in other pictures released by Granma. Greg Craig, the lawyer for Elian's father and source for most of the Elian photos released since the boy was taken to Wye, chose not make these pictures public. Reaction in Miami's Cuban-American community was swift. "They did not even wait until he got to Cuba to start reconditioning him," Gladys Chong told The Miami Herald. "It seems communism has penetrated the United States," added her husband Ramon. In Cuba, first graders are expected to join the Pioneers and wear the uniform to school. If they don't their parents are ostracized, labeled counterrevolutionaries and are denied promotions at work, according to Jaime Suchlicki, director of the Cuban-American studies program at the University of Miami. Pioneers are also trained to spy on their parents and report any comments they might overhear against the Castro government; a practice that might put Elian in an emotional bind since his own mother died trying to defect. Reacting to the stunning photos Kendall Coffey, a lawyer for Elian's Miami relatives, told the Herald, "He's being paraded as a trophy in the garb of the Communist Party. It's happening more rapidly than even our worst expectations." But INS spokeswoman Maria Cardona was unconcerned. "It's not the INS's business what Elian wears on a daily basis. Those issues are up to his father." Justice Department spokeswoman Carole Florman tried to distance the agency from Granma's shocking Elian pictorial, telling the Herald, "That's not something we're involved in. I don't think it's an area under our control." View Granma's photos of <A HREF="http://www.granma.cu/espanol/may3/fotos-e.html"><a href=http://www.granma.cu/espanol/may3/fotos-e.html</A>>Elian in his Pioneers Uniform</a>. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
