ELIAN.off topic

Bill Ballard yardbird@sover.net
Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:10:31 -0400


Remember three things:

1.) The subject of this list is piano work.

2.) This is a nation of laws, not policy by local blowhard expatriate
communities. This boy is not a legal immigrant to this country (even by the
distended exceptions afforded to arriving Cubans), the legal custody for
him belongs to his father, and the legal manuevers by the boy's Miami
relatives have no standing which approaches anything near the INS's
jurisdiction and his father's entitlements. Much as the Miami ex-Cuban
community and its sympathizers would like to turn this into a
Moses-in-the-bullrushes miracle, it is nothing more or less than a simple
re-patriation, the fate which Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and
Haitians (all of them fleeing far worse tyrants than Castro) routinely
face.

3.) When discussing #2, ignore #1.

Bill Ballard, RPT
New Hampshire Chapter, PTG

".......true more in general than specifically"
    ...........Lenny Bruce, spoofing a radio discussion of the Hebrew roots
of Calypso music





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