The Elian Gonzalez forgotten "rescue"

ATF Little Havana raid to 'rescue' Elian Gonzalez in Miami, Florida on April 22, 2000.

Photo (Courtesy) http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2014/12/17/relaciones-eeuu-cuba_n_6342830.html

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Elian remembered

Elian's rescue in Miami, and eventual return to Cuba in April 2000.



Elian today at 16 years old, a young member of the partido comunista.

Bill Clinton and Janet Reno helped this young man return to his homeland. Elian would have never reached the heights that he has if he had been allowed to remain in the U.S.A.

It takes a village!

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Clinton/Reno's Final Mistake

Clinton/Reno's Final Mistake
By Bill Utterback - edited for publication by SierraTimes.com

Clinton and Reno just made their final mistake. They think they have gotten away clean from the murders of men, women, and children at Waco with lethal CS gas, bullets from the back of the building, and fire. Clinton thinks he has gotten away clean from impeachment and from selling our military secrets to China. But what Clinton and Reno have done now is so blatant that it can not escape the notice of the American people and therefore can not escape the notice of our vote-hungry politicians.
Elian Gonzalez was abducted at gunpoint by a Border Patrol swat team and INS agent Mary A Rodriguez without a court order, arrest warrant, or any lawful authority for the abduction. Using Gestapo tactics, the feds blatantly and unlawfully took what they wanted.
On Saturday, April 22, Eric Holder, second in command under Reno, had the following to say:
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Saturday April 22, 2000
Legal Analysts Comment on Raid
NEWSMAX.COM - Andrew Napolitano, legal analyst for Fox News and a constitutional scholar had this exchange today on Fox with Eric Holder, Reno's second in command at Justice:
Napolitano: Tell me, Mr. Holder, why did you not get a court order authorizing you to go in and get the boy?
Holder: Because we didn't need a court order. INS can do this on its own.
Napolitano: You know that a court order would have given you the cloak of respectability to have seized the boy.
Holder: We didn't need an order.
Napolitano: Then why did you ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for such an order if you didn't need one?
Holder: [Silence]
Napolitano: The fact is, for the first time in history you have taken a child from his residence at gunpoint to enforce your custody position, even though you did not have an order authorizing it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, as of the day of the abduction, the second in command under Reno publicly stated that they needed no court order because INS had the authority to make the abduction "on its own." Then somebody (Clinton? Reno?) realized that there was in fact no lawful authority for the abduction and quickly had Judge Robert L. Dube backdate a search warrant. The text of the warrant is copied below:

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ELIAN GONZALEZ,...JOINS CUBA'S COMMUNIST YOUTH GROUP

(AP Photo/AIN, Marisol Ruiz Zoto)

Elian Gonzalez, Ex-Refugee, Joins Cuba's Communist Youth Group

By Demian McLean

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy whose two-nation custody battle sparked debate about parental rights versus political freedom and ended with a raid by gun-toting U.S. agents, has joined his homeland's Young Communist Union.

Gonzalez, 14, was among 18,000 people who joined the communist youth group two days ago, said the state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde. The teenager is quoted as pledging fealty to ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother and successor, Raul Castro.

``Fidel and Raul can count on us,'' Gonzalez said, according to the newspaper. ``We won't let them down.''

In 2000, at age 6, Gonzalez survived a boat accident off Florida that killed his mother, who was seeking refuge in the U.S. Cuban dissidents in Miami, including family members, embraced Gonzalez and sought permanent custody.

Gonzalez's father, still in Cuba, demanded the boy be returned, as did Castro's government.

As a legal battle ensued, the issue consumed TV and radio talk shows and newscasts. Anti-Castro protesters took to the streets of Miami.

A federal court eventually sided with Elian's father. When Elian's Miami relatives refused to hand the boy over, President Bill Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno, ordered a predawn raid of the home where he was staying.

Armed immigration agents found the boy in hiding in a closet. A photojournalist's picture of the frightened child, crying as an agent pointed a rifle, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

To contact the reporter on this story: Demian McLean in Washington at dmclean8@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: June 16, 2008 11:21 EDT

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=avSr1VJRaLpA&refer=latin_america

ELIAN'S 'RESCUE' ANNIVERSARY

APRIL 22, 2000