The below demonstrates why I felt justified in posting all the Elian stuff, i.e., the REAL underlying importance of the raid and how that IS part of the topics that are allowable and germane to the above listed mail groups. Moderators, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. --MS] From: http://orlandosentinel.com/opinion/043000_reese30.htm Raid's real message -- estrangement of government from people By Charley Reese Columnist Published in The Orlando Sentinel on April 30, 2000. I had thought there was nothing Bill Clinton could do that would make me think less of him than I already do. That was a mistake on my part. The comic-book raid on Elian Gonzalez's Miami family is a new low, even for the federal government. Pointing machine guns and screaming obscenities seems to be standard operating procedure for federal law-enforcement officers -- even when the only people to scream at and point guns at are unarmed Christian men and women and small children. The truth is that two unarmed female officers could have gone to that home during any normal hour and removed Elian Gonzalez without any danger to the child, to themselves or to bystanders. That Miami family has never once said it would resist. It has always tried to follow the law, which, I should point out, is not the same as Attorney General Janet Reno's whim. Instead, the feds chose to act as if they were raiding the hideout of Colombian drug dealers. The U.S. action was disgraceful. You don't transfer children at gunpoint. And I, for one American, am getting tired of federal cops screaming profanity, pointing guns and shoving around people who have not been convicted of any crime. That is not how a free society operates. It's how dictatorships and authoritarian governments act. The real message of this raid is how estranged the federal government is from the American people. The government apparently fears the people, and people who are feared are soon hated. The federal government has increasingly acted as if it has merely to speak and all of us must lock heels and shout "Sig Heil." Horse manure. Sovereignty in this country resides with the people. The government is our servant, not our master. The American people had better pull their heads out of that place where they can't see and re-assert their sovereignty before it's too late. There aren't any trends in Washington moving toward respect for the law and liberty. The trends are moving toward arbitrary and authoritarian government. Reno's poor decision-making notwithstanding, the issue of custody is not as clear-cut as she makes out. One of the points to be settled by the appeals court is can someone else speak for a child when the child's interest and that of the parent is in conflict? The heel-clickers are now pointing to pictures of Elian with his father as if that proves their point. It doesn't. Nobody in Miami has tried to estrange Elian from his father. The concern all along has been to keep Elian from being forcibly returned to Cuba without having his day in court, which Reno tried to deny him. It's the boy's father who has refused to go to Miami, refused to meet with the boy and the family in any neutral site. Whether that's his decision, or his instructions from the Cuban or American or both governments, I don't know. But I do know that nobody in Miami ever suggested that Elian wouldn't be happy to see his father. They had talked several times on the telephone while Elian was in Miami. Once more the Clinton administration has shown its contempt for the law and contempt for the American people -- especially conservative Americans. It has from day one taken exactly the same position as the communist dictator Fidel Castro. Those who think that Castro really cares about Elian should ask the old graybeard why he ordered his goons to drown more than a dozen children and their parents when they tried to escape Cuba in 1994. This administration has slapped in the face and insulted one of the finest groups of Americans within the United States, the Cuban exile community. I expect that a lot of Florida Democrats will regret that in November. [Posted 04/29/2000 3:29 PM EST] ##### P.S. 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