At 05:04 AM 22/04/00 -0400, Petro wrote:
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>>Michelle, you idiot, what makes you think his father has any rights? His
>>father is a Cuban subject who has not requested asylum. Elian _has_
>>requested asylum. Once joined with his father, do you think the Just Us
>>Dept. will lift a finger to prevent the father from returning to his
>>despicable totalitarian regime of a country? Haven't you heard that the
>>father will return to his abode 60 miles from Havana, while Elian will
>>undergo special treatments in Havana itself, deprogramming if you will?
>>Wanna send your kid there to be deprogrammed? Go yourself? Go on.
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> The state should have no say in the guardianship of a minor
>with one remaining parent, absent a serious felony conviction of that
>parent, and maybe not even then.
In Cuba, the father has no say in the guardianship of the offspring of his
own loins. So Fuck Off.