Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Young Communist Union

[Miss Mia]

Amerigo Vespucci  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:23 PM
Original message
Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Young Communist Union ("I will never let Castro down")

Elian 'joins Cuba's communists'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7455748.stm


Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the centre of an international custody battle eight years ago, has reportedly joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.

He was quoted by Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde as saying he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul.

Elian, now 14, was six when relatives in Miami lost their battle to keep him in the US.

He was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father.

Juventud Rebelde said in its Sunday edition the boy was among 18,000 people who joined the Young Communist Union on Saturday.

skooooo  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:26 PM
Response to Original message
1. I bet he'd take an iPod if you offered it to him tho. (nt)

CatWoman (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:27 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. and a trip to Disneyland
   

skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:28 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. lol..
   

Radical Activist  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:31 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. Yep. Rampant commercialism as a dominant value makes me proud to be an American.

skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 05:45 PM
Response to Reply #4
16. oh you're soooo noble!

Radical Activist (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 05:48 PM
Response to Reply #16
17. Thanks.
   
Why not lift the embargo so someone CAN offer him an ipod? Its not like Castro is the primary reason he can't have one.

bluestateguy  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:31 PM
Response to Original message
5. History might have been very different if the Clinton Adm. had kept the boy here
   
Yes, one boy would have been separated from his father. One boy.

But...

Then Gore gets enough Cuban votes (while still losing the overall Cuban vote) to win Florida by enough of a margin that it's not close enough for Bush to steal. Gore is president.

That means no war in Iraq, no tax cuts for the rich, no Katrina ****up, Osama bin Laden would have been caught at Tora Bora, no No Child Left Behind, no bankruptcy bill, no giveaway drug bill to the drug companies and maybe the August 6th memo is taken seriously enough that 9/11 does not happen.

I think keeping Elian here away from his father would have been a price worth paying to make all of those things happen.

Karenina  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:35 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. How VERY white of you!

LeftyMom  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:38 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. Kidnapping apologist.
   

* Miss Mia marks that off the "now I've seen everything" list

[/me]

kskiska  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:45 PM
Response to Reply #5
12. Elian would have been a gangbanger by now
   
following in the footsteps of his American cousins whose main occupation was robbing tourists.

[TheSarge]

Its not like Castro is the primary reason he can't have one.

Someone obviously hasn't studied one SECOND of world history now have they?

[Lord Undies]

Radical Activist (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 05:48 PM
Response to Reply #16
17. Thanks.
  
Why not lift the embargo so someone CAN offer him an ipod? Its not like Castro is the primary reason he can't have one.

I'm afraid you are dreaming again, oh DUmbass.  Japan is awash in Ipods.  Cuba can import all they want.  The problem is the average Cuban cannot spend three month's salary on one Ipod.  DUmbass.

[TheSarge]

kskiska  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:45 PM
Response to Reply #5
12. Elian would have been a gangbanger by now
  
following in the footsteps of his American cousins whose main occupation was robbing tourists.

Wow.  Racist much DUmmie?

[Carl]

bluestateguy  (1000+ posts)
Sun Jun-15-08 03:31 PM
Response to Original message
5. History might have been very different if the Clinton Adm. had kept the boy here
   
Yes, one boy would have been separated from his father. One boy.

But...

Then Gore gets enough Cuban votes (while still losing the overall Cuban vote) to win Florida by enough of a margin that it's not close enough for Bush to steal. Gore is president.

That means no war in Iraq, no tax cuts for the rich, no Katrina ****up, Osama bin Laden would have been caught at Tora Bora, no No Child Left Behind, no bankruptcy bill, no giveaway drug bill to the drug companies and maybe the August 6th memo is taken seriously enough that 9/11 does not happen.

I think keeping Elian here away from his father would have been a price worth paying to make all of those things happen.

Yeah,after he accomplished so much and took such a strong stand on those things in the 8 years he was VP.

Delusional effing idiots.

[Chris_]

Poor brainwashed kid. Dis****ingusting.

[dandi]

Tierra_y_Libertad  (1000+ posts)       Sun Jun-15-08 04:40 PM
Response to Original message
9. How unAmerican of him. He could'a enjoyed the Murkin Dream if he'd stayed. 
 And, enjoyed the pleasures of being another rat in the rat-race.

Right, at least now he has Michael Moore rowing down to his island to tell him how good he has it.

Bucky  (1000+ posts)       Sun Jun-15-08 07:17 PM
Response to Original message
22. Dear Republicans: thanks for making this poor kid into a propaganda pawn
 Nice to see the results of your "family values" on display.



Dear Cuba,

Quit using this kid!



Dear God,

Can we please start having historical events once again where there's one party that is discernibly the "good guys"?

Umm, the story's from the BBC.

And since when has anyone, especially America, ever been the "good guys" in DU's world? I thought it was just "the rich" and "victims".
 
 

[ReardenSteel]

I can't say this land that I love is perfect. I can't even say that the Elián González fiasco ranks among the top 50 blunders in my lifetime.

Still, and I'm utterly unable to explain my perhaps irrational bloodlust here, nothing... nothing brings me to a boil faster than the mention of Elián and what our country did to that poor child. It was a crime. It was a violation of everything that makes this country great. I have never felt more ashamed to be an American in my life and suspect I never will again.

[DixieBelle]

Idjits. Fracking Idjits.

[Tantal]

Just think, if it'd only happened a few months later the DUmmies could've listed it as one of Bush's Articles of Impeachment. But alas, it was their prophet Slick Willie that oversaw that particular goat****.

[Chris_]

Just think, if it'd only happened a few months later the DUmmies could've listed it as one of Bush's Articles of Impeachment. But alas, it was their prophet Slick Willie that oversaw that particular goat****.

They've managed to pin Enron on him even though that entire debacle happened under Clinton's watch.

[Zeus]

I can't say this land that I love is perfect. I can't even say that the Elián González fiasco ranks among the top 50 blunders in my lifetime.

Still, and I'm utterly unable to explain my perhaps irrational bloodlust here, nothing... nothing brings me to a boil faster than the mention of Elián and what our country did to that poor child. It was a crime. It was a violation of everything that makes this country great. I have never felt more ashamed to be an American in my life and suspect I never will again.

I still believe Elián González belonged with his one remaining parent. Does not matter if that parent lived on the moon.  His drunk uncles pretty much forced the hand of the authorities. when they refused to hand Elian over it in effect became a hostage situation.

He will be back in the states in a few yrs. Question is will he be playing for the Yankees or the Rangers or the rays.

[Lord Undies]

I can't say this land that I love is perfect. I can't even say that the Elián González fiasco ranks among the top 50 blunders in my lifetime.

Still, and I'm utterly unable to explain my perhaps irrational bloodlust here, nothing... nothing brings me to a boil faster than the mention of Elián and what our country did to that poor child. It was a crime. It was a violation of everything that makes this country great. I have never felt more ashamed to be an American in my life and suspect I never will again.

I still believe Elián González belonged with his one remaining parent. Does not matter if that parent lived on the moon.  His drunk uncles pretty much forced the hand of the authorities. when they refused to hand Elian over it in effect became a hostage situation.

He will be back in the states in a few yrs. Question is will he be playing for the Yankees or the Rangers or the rays.

There are no parental rights in Cuba.  Elian was returned to be a ward of the state.  It appears from the strange press releases over the last eight years that Elian has spent most of his time away from his father and in state schools.

Returning Elian to Cuba as an embarrassment for the USA and a score for a tyrannical dictator.  Of course, that was Clinton's goal.  A real president would have insisted Elian's father be given a chance to join his son here in the USA. 

A public invitation to the father would have been an embarrassment for Fidel Castro and a score for the USA.  The father, of course, would not have been allowed to speak openly and honestly after such an invitation.  The point would have been if it was so important to reunite the father and son, why should it be the son who had to sacrifice his freedom?  Why couldn't the father sacrifice his socialist paradise? 

[rich_t]

I can't say this land that I love is perfect. I can't even say that the Elián González fiasco ranks among the top 50 blunders in my lifetime.

Still, and I'm utterly unable to explain my perhaps irrational bloodlust here, nothing... nothing brings me to a boil faster than the mention of Elián and what our country did to that poor child. It was a crime. It was a violation of everything that makes this country great. I have never felt more ashamed to be an American in my life and suspect I never will again.

I still believe Elián González belonged with his one remaining parent. Does not matter if that parent lived on the moon.  His drunk uncles pretty much forced the hand of the authorities. when they refused to hand Elian over it in effect became a hostage situation.

He will be back in the states in a few yrs. Question is will he be playing for the Yankees or the Rangers or the rays.

There are no parental rights in Cuba.  Elian was returned to be a ward of the state.  It appears from the strange press releases over the last eight years that Elian has spent most of his time away from his father and in state schools.

Returning Elian to Cuba as an embarrassment for the USA and a score for a tyrannical dictator.  Of course, that was Clinton's goal.  A real president would have insisted Elian's father be given a chance to join his son here in the USA. 

A public invitation to the father would have been an embarrassment for Fidel Castro and a score for the USA.  The father, of course, would not have been allowed to speak openly and honestly after such an invitation.  The point would have been if it was so important to reunite the father and son, why should it be the son who had to sacrifice his freedom?  Why couldn't the father sacrifice his socialist paradise? 

SCORE!!!!

[JohnnyReb]

Wonder what reward he got for joining the communist party.....'57 Desoto maybe? ....and 3 gallons of cane juice to run it on.

[Zeus]

I can't say this land that I love is perfect. I can't even say that the Elián González fiasco ranks among the top 50 blunders in my lifetime.

Still, and I'm utterly unable to explain my perhaps irrational bloodlust here, nothing... nothing brings me to a boil faster than the mention of Elián and what our country did to that poor child. It was a crime. It was a violation of everything that makes this country great. I have never felt more ashamed to be an American in my life and suspect I never will again.

I still believe Elián González belonged with his one remaining parent. Does not matter if that parent lived on the moon.  His drunk uncles pretty much forced the hand of the authorities. when they refused to hand Elian over it in effect became a hostage situation.

He will be back in the states in a few yrs. Question is will he be playing for the Yankees or the Rangers or the rays.

There are no parental rights in Cuba.  Elian was returned to be a ward of the state.  It appears from the strange press releases over the last eight years that Elian has spent most of his time away from his father and in state schools.

Returning Elian to Cuba as an embarrassment for the USA and a score for a tyrannical dictator.  Of course, that was Clinton's goal.  A real president would have insisted Elian's father be given a chance to join his son here in the USA. 

A public invitation to the father would have been an embarrassment for Fidel Castro and a score for the USA.  The father, of course, would not have been allowed to speak openly and honestly after such an invitation.  The point would have been if it was so important to reunite the father and son, why should it be the son who had to sacrifice his freedom?  Why couldn't the father sacrifice his socialist paradise? 

His father was offered the op pertunity to stay. he didn't want to. Also The father isn't part of the party his mother was. That's the strange part the party person was the one to leave the non party stayed.

[Lord Undies]

I can't say this land that I love is perfect. I can't even say that the Elián González fiasco ranks among the top 50 blunders in my lifetime.

Still, and I'm utterly unable to explain my perhaps irrational bloodlust here, nothing... nothing brings me to a boil faster than the mention of Elián and what our country did to that poor child. It was a crime. It was a violation of everything that makes this country great. I have never felt more ashamed to be an American in my life and suspect I never will again.

I still believe Elián González belonged with his one remaining parent. Does not matter if that parent lived on the moon.  His drunk uncles pretty much forced the hand of the authorities. when they refused to hand Elian over it in effect became a hostage situation.

He will be back in the states in a few yrs. Question is will he be playing for the Yankees or the Rangers or the rays.

There are no parental rights in Cuba.  Elian was returned to be a ward of the state.  It appears from the strange press releases over the last eight years that Elian has spent most of his time away from his father and in state schools.

Returning Elian to Cuba as an embarrassment for the USA and a score for a tyrannical dictator.  Of course, that was Clinton's goal.  A real president would have insisted Elian's father be given a chance to join his son here in the USA. 

A public invitation to the father would have been an embarrassment for Fidel Castro and a score for the USA.  The father, of course, would not have been allowed to speak openly and honestly after such an invitation.  The point would have been if it was so important to reunite the father and son, why should it be the son who had to sacrifice his freedom?  Why couldn't the father sacrifice his socialist paradise? 

His father was offered the op pertunity to stay. he didn't want to. Also The father isn't part of the party his mother was. That's the strange part the party person was the one to leave the non party stayed.

The father didn't want to stay because the rest of his family was being held under threat back in Cuba.  That was pretty obvious. 

Regardless, the father had (has) no rights.  The father was not in control of the situation.  The boy was sent out of freedom and into a communist hellhole.  There is no justification for that.  Not one.

The stated goal at the time was to "reunited" a family.  That didn't happen and it never was going to happen and everyone involved knew it.  It was a shame.  The real goal was to represent Cuba as just another country with a culture equal to the USA. 

It was all about a boy and his dictator.  It was a sad ugly day for the USA, courtesy of a sad ugly socialist loving man named Bill Clinton and his sad ugly socialist loving man of an attorney general named Janet Reno.

[DixieBelle]

Undies! BWAHAHAHA!!!! Am I the only one that caught your Reno comment??

Elian is a tool (of Castro). Has been. Always will be.