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January 2000

Name:
Seth Christopher Noel O'Donnell
E-mail address:
Seth OD1985@aol.com
Comments: I can't believe this country. There were others who were deporting people, The NAZI's, Janet Reno would be the last I would expect to be no better than the Nazi's who deported her Jewish ancestors, what ever happened to give us your cold huddled masses. Sec of State, fled Nazi's as a little girl, and she now is silent. It is said in the Bible that a child will lead them, I hope so, Freedom For Elian, Freedom For Cuba, REVOLUTION!

Friday January 7th 2000 06:06:00

Name:
Jonathan Griner
E-mail address:
Mind975@aol.com
Comments: This boy's fate will be the measure by which this country's values are based. If he is sent back, then the ideals fought for with blood and tears by the Founders will have been in vain. If this nation turns its back on the innocent, then our great experiment will be over. Democracy will not have truly won in America. Instead, pandering to communist dictators will no longer be considered immoral..in fact, it might become the rule. The boy should be considered an American and should be given American citizenship. If I were in control, I would hide the boy until he was old enough to obtain asylum on his own accord. God Bless Elian...and God Bless America if he stays..and God Curse America if he goes back to a nation of atheistic oppression and tyrannical dictatorship.

Friday January 7th 2000 04:45:30

Friday January 7th 2000 06:41:35
Name:
Carlos Melich
E-mail address:
ONS Carlos@AOL.COM
Comments: When people say that he should go back to be with his father, I agree. Although in this case we're talking about the childs future, His mother didn't die on the way over here just for wanting to die, she risked her life to bring her child to have a life free from depression and oppression. Why send a kid back to a place with limitations on his future, When here he can do basically anything he dreams of. Any reasonable parent would understand that, To have a child is to create someone and make sure they have a good life ahead of themselves. This world is all about chances not about taking away possiblities. If this child is sent back. God know what could happen to him in the future. He can live like other in cuba and be told what to do and have no opinion or appeal towards it. Or live here where there are no boundaries on what he can be when he grows up. Put yourselves in the same position. If you had a child and know that the child has a possibility on having a future. or Sending a child to a place where that child will live a life comunism. you make the choice. Also add this to question. if the childs father was a fit and loving father with a good job and home, Why did the child stay with the mother and not the father to begin with. makes you wonder doesn't it. Makes you wonder doesn't it. And people don't be selfish and say for him to go back with the father cuz family comes first. if someone offered you a job in another state with excelent pay. what would you do ? Think of your future, pass an opportunity of a life time and stay with your family. Always wondering " WHAT IF ?".

Friday January 7th 2000 10:33:00

Name:
Keith Valenza
E-mail address:
KValenza@aol.com
Homepage URL:
http://keithvalenzaliving.8k.com
Comments: I wanted to comment about "J's" suggestion that Elian would be better off in Cuba. J was obviously too cowardly to even list his email address or his first name. I could have removed his post, but because I believe in freedom of speech (unlike Fidel Castro) I decided to leave his opinion, albeit unwelcome and unknowledgeable, on the board here. This is what he said: "let the hostage ( elian ) go to his homeland, his father, his four grandparents, and one great grandparent. don't break up a family!!! they will give him something the US can never give him--love " First of all, if he is a "hostage," he is the first hostage who appears to be overjoyed at being a "prisoner" here in the United States! Wouldn't it be nice if all hostages could have it this good? Secondly, how could any parent who truly loves his children, NOT want something better for his child? Life in Cuba is a living hell. The food rationing is so bad that parents sometimes go hungry just so their children can eat. And the nutrition is horrible there. How can children in Cuba grow to be healthy adults on the what little they have? Would a parent who loves his children want that for a child? I know that I wouldn't. Plus, we forget one thing. Elian's mother died trying to give him a better life. Some have criticized her for putting him at risk. I think it took courage. She is a heroine in my book, and her wishes should be honored. I offer one suggestion to J. Why don't YOU go to Cuba and spend a year there under the same repression that the other Cubans are feeling...then suggest that Elian go back.

Saturday January 8th 2000 04:31:40

Name:
Devin Wolfe
E-mail address:
deadly3369@aol.com
Comments: Despite the farce that Castro presents himself as, Cuba is still a Communist Dictatorship, and this can not be, nor is it a nurturing society for anyone to live in let alone a helpless six year old child. No, it may not be the hell hole it once was, but compared to what we can provide this boy with, well you get the idea. I laud Congress for decideing to hold a hearing thereby allowing Elian to enjoy at least another month in the magical place on earth, USA

Saturday January 8th 2000 04:44:06

Name:
JDONALD CROSS
E-mail address:
ADLIBSAIL2@AOL.COM
Homepage URL:
http://none
Comments: God bless you Elian, you will understand someday why your Mother tried to get both of you to this free country, though she died trying to get you here. I hope you do stay, you should stay, and I'd hope that Castro, in a show of compassion (which I doubt), would release your Father to come to the US to be with you and stay!

Sunday January 9th 2000 07:31:53

Name:
Shaddow
E-mail address:
ShaddowkatMkII@aol.com
Homepage URL:
http://members.aol.com/shaddowkatmkii/gonzalez.html
Comments: Several Comments: First, Elian was rescued at sea, and as our nation's agreement with Cuba states, he should go back to Cuba by law. Secondly, he is a 6 year old child who should be with his real father. Politics and poklitical backgrounds should NOT play a consideration in this matter. and Third... if we make an exception for little Elian... where will the exceptions end? If he stays, by all rights, the 406 Haitians, Chinese, and Dominicans sent back while Elian's case is being resolved should have been allowed to stay. Why should Cubans get preferential treatment because of less than our living standards? Give Elian a chance to grow up with his father, and with any luck, by the time he's grown up, he'll see and be living in a new Cuba, with a new governemt, hopefully much better than whats there now. Castro won't live forever... Support REAL freedom for Elian: the freedom to be with his father, freedom to live away from constant media attention, freedom from being a pawn in the political arena that our government loves to play in

Name: Tomas Rubalcava
E-mail address: psy5tom@hotmail.com
Comments: Am I missing something here? The known facts of the case are these: a woman takes her son without his father's permission on an ill-conceived trip which puts his life in jeopardy. The mother dies, leaving the young boy alone and stranded in a foreign country. The father wants his son back. How dare anybody presume to say that this government should not return this boy to his father? Political games do not justify violating the most basic of human bonds. This is not a referendum on Cuba; nor is it a dialogue on comparitive politics-----this is about a boy who should be allowed to grow up by his father's side. If this child should remain here because his mother risked their lives to give them a better life, then the same benefit should be extended to other children. Every year people die at the US-Mexico border, people from all over the world risk their lives to enter this country illegally enter this country in order to provide a better life for their families. Are they all going to be allowed to remain? If this boy was 16, and not so photogenic, would there be such an outcry? This youngster has been turned into little more than a political expedient. In the name of all that is decent Elian Gonzalez should be allowed to return to his father. Anyone who attempts to perpetuate this wrong should be truly ashamed of themselves.

Monday January 17th 2000 07:45:37

Name: Keith Valenza
E-mail address: KValenza@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://keithvalenzaliving.8k.com
Comments: RE: The previous post: Yes, you ARE missing something. And you need to look at all of the facts. First of all, his mother died trying to RESCUE him from Castro's oppression. Any loving mother would have done the same. This was not a foolish act. It was an act of love, that only a mother could understand. No one is saying the boy should be deprived of his father. That is one element that has been missing from this whole debate. What we are concerned with is this: Is the father FREELY speaking his mind, or is he under duress from the Cuban government? And if he is NOT under duress, why has the Cuban government not allowed him to come to this country to get his child? The answer is obvious. He might defect, and then be re-united with his son here! You and so many others are assuming that Elian's father is speaking his true feelings. But since when do we believe ANY lies coming from Castro's Cuba? Where else in the world does a government sponsor "Send Elian to Cuba" rallies and force its people to participate...then punish them if they don't? If you had Castro and his goons with their assault guns surrounding you...as Elian's father experienced when he first appeared on TV...and you were in Elian's father's shoes...wouldn't you say what they told you to say? Here is the issue: Let Elian's father and the grandparents all come to this country to testify FREELY in an American court of law, where they can speak exactly how they feel without fear of reprisals from the Cuban government. If they truly want Elian back in Cuba, let them say it where the have the FREEDOM to speak the truth. That will never happen...and if only one relative comes to speak in court, that, too, is suspect because the rest of the family might be punished if this relative speaks the truth. What if, back in the 19th century, a slave woman and her young son had escaped from their master into a free state, but the mother had gotten killed in the process? Then, let's say the master ordered the slave woman's husband to demand the return of her son back to the slave state. Would the Union government have returned the boy back into slavery so he could live with his father? I strongly urge you to go to this website: http://www.cadp-nyc.org Read it in its entirety with an open mind. Then, if you still feel the child should return to slavery and oppression, then I would urge you to spend a year in Cuba and see for yourself the kind of hell they are living in. Then tell me that Elian should return to hell.

Tuesday January 18th 2000 12:46:42

Name: Andrew T Wilshere
E-mail address: editor@snookerweb.fsnet.co.uk
Homepage URL: http://www.snookerweb.fsnet.co.uk
Comments: Elian's story has been hailed as a miracle... the way he survived for nights with barely a mark on him, and his total calmness when rescued. He has been hailed as "The Cuban Messiah". But why should he stay in the USA? He is of Cuban origin. There is no legal reason for him not to be returned to his father in Cuba, but it is understandable why America don't want him to. I think his father is taking this far too seriously for a start; Elian has become the rope in a tug of war between the USA and Cuba, and his father and Miami relatives. The USA and his relatives on both sides of the sea all have his best interests at heart, but it is fair to say the Castro doesn't. There is a law in America (I am informed, correct me if I am wrong) that if someone sets foot on American soil that they should not be extradited... an anomaly in the law it would seem. Regardless, I think Elian could be the first domino to fall in the runup to the end of Castro's regime. If his relatives in Miami and he himself can manage to stay in America, there is little Castro can do. Good luck, little Elian.

Tuesday January 18th 2000 10:42:07

Name: Edenio Gonzalez
E-mail address: Edenio@aol.com
Comments: Creo que se debe respetar el deseo de la mama de Elian que era que su hijo creciera en un mundo de justicia y libertad.

Saturday January 22nd 2000 04:24:18

Name: john keal
E-mail address: terencejohn@easymail.telstra.com.au
Comments: Congratulations on your efforts. This case supports all of the negative opinion that we in Australia have about the US, Primary amongst our fears is that the nationalism and growing (purported) Christian morality will slop its insideous suffocating influence over the rest of the Western world. And in the meantime, Elian is caught in an ugly story from which he deserves to be freed. Good luck - we're wishing foor him.

Tuesday January 25th 2000 02:17:17

Name: Keith Valenza
E-mail address: KValenza@aol.com
Comments: Re: the previous post.... And your point is.....?
Tuesday January 25th 2000 04:11:50

Name: Mrs. Joan M Knorr
E-mail address: nknorr2@mail.ncats.net

Tuesday January 25th 2000 03:37:20

Name: Keith Valenza
E-mail address: KValenza@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://keithvalenzaliving.8k.com
Comments: Re: the previous posts. You should feel proud to live in a country where you can express differing viewpoints, including those that differ from my own. I choose not to censor what you have written (even though I normally remove any post with profanity) because I believe in free speech. Castro clearly does not...and if you disagree with him, you are imprisoned. Worse, your neighbors spy on you. You have no clue who you can trust in that country. It is even illegal in Cuba to own a fax machine. Gee, I wonder why? Citizens of Cuba have their food rationed, and the children there are malnourished. Regarding your comparison of Cuba to Mexico...I would urge you to read some history and study the differences between the two countries. You are comparing apples to oranges. The only similarity is their language. Does Mexico have a dictator who stifles freedom of speech and freedom of the press? Are citizens of Mexico placed in prison for disagreeing with their government's policies? Are the citizens of Mexico persecuted for their religious beliefs? Does Mexico have political prisoners and murder them in cold blood? As for kidnapping...that is what CASTRO is saying. The child is not being held against his will. Do you believe that Castro ever tells the truth? The boy's mother DIED trying to bring her child to this country. What greater love could any woman have for her child? Kidnapping? Give me a break! If anyone is being kidnapped, it is the Cuban political prisoners! And if anyone is making it a political issue, it is Castro. Elian's relatives in Miami love that child (since when does a kidnapper love a child, give him three good meals, lots of rest, and place him in a Christian school)? It is obvious that those who have written those previous posts with their profane language do not appreciate how much freedom we do have in this country. Maybe they should spend a year in Cuba, then, if they can get out, they should return here and see if they think Elian's family has kidnapped him. How many Americans have died trying to escape this country to live in Cuba? And how many Cubans have died trying to escape their country to come here? I think you see my point. And...finally, since I AM the owner of this board, any future posts with profane language...no matter WHAT their point of view...will be deleted, and I will ask the author to resubmit them without the profanities. How about it, Elian supporters? I need some backing up, here!

Wednesday January 26th 2000 01:53:04

Name: Mauricio Rivera
E-mail address: mxriver@pacbell.net
Comments: Sorry about the previous two posts, but i cant believe that people actually want him to stay here. Elian Gonzales is a boy who knows nothing of his future. 1. He doesnt have the knowledge or wisdom to decide where he should stay. 2. It is illegal for him to be here. The protocol for any living person found in international waters is to have them depoted to their country. 3. His father niether wants him to stay here, no has he been declared an unfit guardian, there INS decides that he must leave. 4. Congress has no right to decide whether he should be an American Citizen or not. People wait in America for twenty plus years for citizenship, and because if they allow him to stay they increase their public approval rating, they go for it. 5. He is with his great uncle, someone who had no ties to him prior to the incident, someone who had no hand in his raising, and should continue to have no relation, these people are far off relatives. His grandmothers, who actually had consistent contact with him, even decide he should go to cuba. 6. People claim his father is a puppet, and the boy is being played as a political football, but the people, nor the judges, nor congress has the right to make this decision. 7. Rosa Rodriguez, the judge for the case in Miami, said he would stay in Miami with distant relatives becuase [direct quote]"I said so". Janet Reno herself said what she did was illegal and she had no right to this simply because it was politically popular. 8. There are hundreds of cases like this every year, just because elian gonzales has a "story", Americans all of the sudden start giving a shit. 9. Whos place is it to decide that America is better than Cuba? I welcome any email.

Wednesday January 26th 2000 03:29:08

Name: alisha
E-mail address: prudencegurtrude@aol.com
Homepage URL: ?
Comments: keep elian in the usa if his mom gave her life for him to be in a better place then let it be what is best for the child ? THE USA thanks

Wednesday January 26th 2000 11:28:22

Name: Oliver G.
E-mail address: ViperDude565@aol.com
Comments: Elian should stay in America where we have freedom and the right to choose what job we want and we have freedom of the press, free speech. Bring the father to America to experience what America has to offer. I oppose communism and especially Fidel Castro. He should lightened up. Please keep Elian in the United states.

Name: Alex Korine
E-mail address: AlexC@rpi-inc.com
Comments: STOP USING ELIAN GONZALES IN YOU IMMORAL POLITICAL GAMES. SON BELONGS TO HIS FATHER OR U.S. IS NOW TO DECIDE WHO BELONGS TO WHOM AROUND THE GLOBE? "What right do you have to want him back?" Dear Mr. John Doe, Your ex-wife recently drowned in Cherry Creek Reservoir. Your son floated to shore on an inner tube and we took him in to our home. He has his own room with 45-inch TV and computer games. Five different kinds of ice cream in the refrigerator. We take him to Elitch's three times a week and all the ball games at Pepsi Center. He loves us, and we love him. What right do you have to want him back? You are merely his father. It's beside the point that both sets of grandparents live in your neighborhood. We are rich and you are poor. We are smart and know what's best. We live in the richest part of Denver. You live in the worst part of Denver with crooked politicians, poor schools, poverty. You are a mere blue- collar day laborer, poorly educated. We are highly educated, wealthy and undoubtedly much smarter than you are. How dare you ask for the return of your son? Our local county politicians have wrapped themselves in the flag and stated that he should stay here. After all, he chose to come to Cherry Creek to swim with his mother. She and her husband/live-in boyfriend sacrificed to take him to Cherry Creek. If you think you can get your son back, think again. Our county politicians will tie you up in court until the next millennium. Just because you are a law-abiding citizen is immaterial. "JERRY SCHULTZ" Lakewood

Thursday January 27th 2000 12:28:48

Name: Clemente
E-mail address: OoCLeMoO@aol.com
Comments: What ever happened to the Inalieable Rights that this country was founded on? Where are Elian's rights to "Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness"?

Thursday January 27th 2000 05:45:38

Name: Keith Valenza
E-mail address: kvalenza@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://keithvalenzaliving.8k.com
Comments: I welcome honest debate on this topic...unlike in Cuba, where only one opinion is acceptable. But I had to remove a post because of profanity. And of course, the author was clearly a coward because he did not give a name or an email address. This is unacceptable. Everyone should have a voice in this topic, because that is how we learn, by talking and listening to each other. But I have no patience with hatred and bigotry accompanied by profanity. That will not be tolerated. I have a couple of comments on previous posts that have been placed here. First of all, there are two parties who have made Elian a political issue. Castro has made this a political issue, because he has made conditions in Cuba so intolerable that people are dying wanting to escape the island and come to America. (Apparently, even the bigotry displayed by so many Americans against them is far more tolerable than the conditions in Cuba.) I know of no one who is trying to escape from Florida to migrate to Cuba. The other party is Bill Clinton and his justice department. (I voted for him, I am sorry to say.) The best way to get politics out of this issue is to let the courts decide...and to make Elian a citizen. Another comment. God saved his life so he could be free. Should we return him to hell? And finally, the nun who hosted the grandmothers now feels it is in Elian's best interests to remain in this country. She is highly respected and has worked extensively with refugee children. And, most importantly, until she met the grandmothers, she had felt that Elian should be returned to Cuba. She has since changed her mind. Maybe those of you who are against keeping him here should get to know some Cuban refugees first hand. Talk to them. I have done just that. Ask them what it is like in Cuba. Ask them about Castro's atrocities. Ask them about the climate of fear that pervades the country. It is so bad that neighbors cannot trust their neighbors, and there are many political prisoners there. What kind of loving father would want his son to live under those conditions? And...why do you think Castro refuses to let his father come to this country? Maybe he would defect! Castro is wicked, but not stupid.

Friday January 28th 2000 01:44:05

Name: Patty Fernandez
E-mail address: Patfer643@aol.com
Comments: FREEDOM!

Friday January 28th 2000 06:33:10

Name: Jean
E-mail address: tinkerbellsstar5@aol.com
Comments: I am doing my own campaigning to help keep Elian Gonzales in the United States. Please post this on your web site and join in prayer. "On Wednesday, February 2, 2000, please say a Rosary to the Blessed Virgin Mother, asking for her intercession in keeping Elian Gonzales in the United States, where he can be free from Communism. Please use the Glorious Mysteries as your meditation, as this is the rosary to be said on Wednesdays. Spread the word. We are hoping that this day of praying the rosary will be nationwide. Thank you." Thank you in advance for posting this to your page. I am emailing all the major newsstations and asking for their help in announcing this to the public. Jean

Friday January 28th 2000 03:21:35

Name: Monique
E-mail address: MoniqueKennedy
Comments: If Cuba were a normal country this woudn't be going on. But Cuba is a Jail and if Elian comes back he is going to be in Jail !! I can't believe this country is supporting Fidel, are they getting paid for it?

Friday January 28th 2000 10:29:32

Name: Keith Valenza
E-mail address: KValenza@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://keithvalenzaliving.8k.com.
Comments: Monique--Thank you so much for your post in my guestbook. It looks like lots of people are visiting the site, even though it appears that a majority are against us. The reasons so many people disagree with us is because of a lack of knowledge of what is really going on in Cuba. How can they know? All they see are five second sound bites on TV and crying grandmothers. How can they possibly know how much control Castro has on his people, including the grandmothers? How many of them have talked to Cuban refugees first-hand to learn about how horrible it really is in Cuba? The media never portrays Castro and Cuba in the same light it portrayed Saddam Hussein or Ayatollah Khomeini....To those who want Elian back in Cuba, it is just a political game, akin to a difference of opinion between the Republicans and Democrats....not a difference in freedom versus brutal slavery. So how can we expect these people to look at it any differently? I make no bones about this Castro is a political cousin to Adolph Hitler. Would any of us want to send a six year old child back to Nazi Germany if his mother had escaped the country, then died on the way? I doubt it. But...if Hitler were as adept at influencing our media as well as Castro has done..who knows if we ever would have fought the Nazis? We, as supporters of Elian need to educate the masses as to what is really going on. And the public needs to realize that Castro is not just a political figure that we disagree with...but an evil, tyranical dictator, a murderer of his own people who cares nothing about Elian or the grandmothers he is manipulating...but only about himself and his power....and that Cuba is a living hell, not just a poor country. Until that happens, the masses will not be convinced. And finally, we have one thing that communist sympathizers do not have. We have the power of prayer. I have vowed to put this whole matter in God's hands. We have to believe that he has everything under control. After all, God saved Elian from death...would God send him to hell? By the way, have you noticed that Elian's father has not come back to retrieve his child? Obviously Castro won't let him! Any parent who truly loved his child would go to the ends of the earth to rescue their son from a "kidnapping," (which this is not) no matter what the risk. Parents who are reading this, you know exactly what I am talking about. Senor Gonzalez claims he is "afraid" of being mobbed by the Cuban-Americans...(something that Castro carefully scripted)...but Elian's mother risked her life...and DIED so that her son would be free. What greater love can a parent have?

Saturday January 29th 2000 03:44:40

Name: Darlene
E-mail address: Muzigal@Aol.com
Comments: I think Elian should stay with his Miami relatives. the child has been through alot in his young life. watching his mom die. she died trying to bring him here, she gave him the last of the water they had to make sure he lived and told the other survivors she wanted him to make it to the United States if she drowned, that was her wishes. we should respect her dicision. she was not being selfish with that decision. She wanted a better life for her son . remember in the Bible when they wanted to separate the child and the real mother was gonna sacrifice her own desires to save her son. Respect Elians mothers wishes, Keep Elian here! If his Father really cared about Elian he would agree Elian would have a better life here. He is not with strangers, these people are blood relatives who are talking good care of him. Elain has bonded with them after the tragic death of is mother and if he was sent back to cuba all he would have is memories of his mother and sadness.I feel he should stay here!

Sunday January 30th 2000 07:11:02

Name: C. Quintero & family
E-mail address: demeros@prodigy.net
Comments: Rezamos y nos mantenemos al tanto de la situacion de Elian y su familia "americana" aqui en Estados Unidos. Apoyamos en todo escribiendo a nuestros congresistas, senadores, y hasta al Presidente Americano, que hasta ahora no ha dado senales de estar en nuestro favor pero que Dios va a tocarle el corazon para que entienda, asi como a la Srta. Janet Reno y a muchos mas. Inclusive hemos enviado emails a figuras como Cristina Saralegui, Don Francisco que representa los ninos de UNICEF, y que aun no se ha manifestado en favor de Elian, para no tener compromisos, Willie Chirino, Los Estefan y muchas otras personales a traves del Canal de Univision, y a la vez hemos dado las gracias a Impacto por su programacion el dia de la reunion en casa de Sister Jeanne. Es lo mejor que hemos visto desde estas frias tierras de New Jersey. Dios en su inmensa misericordia bendice a Elian y le guardara para su bien en tierras de Libertad, aqui en Estados Unidos, lejos de la tirania y del comunismo. Que Dios te bendiga Elian! Te queremos mucho!

Sunday January 30th 2000 04:06:06

Name: Nilda Cruz
E-mail address: Bobnildas@cs.com
Comments: God bless you Elian. We are praying for you. I hope his help you to stay en US. Elian, to me is a miracle boy, you are the year 2000 Moises, Freedom for Elian.

Sunday January 30th 2000 05:55:06

Name: Winifred & William Medin
E-mail address: wmedin@metro.net
Comments: We agree that it is too late to send Elian back to Cuba and that he is now bonded, safe, and appears to be making some sort of decent adjustment with people who love him. His chances of having a successful life would be deminished if he were to suffer the physical and mental anquish of a return to Cuba. When he is an adult and wants to go back to Cuba then he can decide that but for now let's keep him safe and let him live. Winifred and William Medin

Sunday January 30th 2000 06:21:44

Name: Jim Borkholder
E-mail address: gca@webcombo.net
Homepage URL: http://www.gca.cc
Comments: I support the freedom of Elian. The freedom for him to go back to his TRUE family that love him dearly. This is outright kidnapping, and ILLEGAL!!!!!! If Congress makes him a US citizen, that will be unconstitutional, as only his father (since his mother is dead) can agree to it. The distant relatives in Miami, do not give a damn about Elian, they are using him to get back at Castro. Elian would be better off with his family. By the way, Batista was no saint. He was worse than Castro when it came to people publicly opposing him. Batista only cared about those that had money, he didn't care about the majority of Cubans that were poor. As a Christian, I am outraged that our country has not sent Elian back to his father. Kidnapping is a felony. Free Elian, send him back to his true family. NOW!!!

Sunday January 30th 2000 08:25:3

Name: Michelle Gonzalez
E-mail address: thecubanmissile@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://www.petitiononline.com/elian103/petition.html
Comments: Cuba is a horrible place to live. Don't make this little boy go back to a country full of communism and negative feelings. He will eventually be taken from his un-loving father anyway because he'll have to go to a work camp. The media has built Cuba up as a beautiful place with lots of parties and happy people. Sure, the tourists are happy, and some of the country is still beautiful. But those are the tourist areas... the REAL Cuba is old and rundown. The schools are small and teach the children only about their politics and to love Castro & communism. The country is poor. He will not have the luxuries of nice toys, clean playgrounds, or even a TV. Here, in America, he has toys, a nice school, video games... all the things he can enjoy in his childhood. Most of all... he has freedom!

Sunday January 30th 2000 08:38:07

Name: C.Quintero
E-mail address: demeros@prodigy.net
Comments: HOW UNFAIR HUMANS COULD BECOME. This is just a phrase. But how truthful. People that decided in their hearts and minds that ELIAN SHOULD GO BACK TO CUBA should re-think and if they let God touch their hearts, with this boy's smile only, they will find out that definitely ELIAN SHOULD STAY IN THIS COUNTRY - THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- WITH LIBERTY AND FREEDOM FOR ALL. Why can we enjoy liberty and freedom, and would want this kid not to have it? Ask yourselves and let your hearts work it out? Everyone has seen in the grandmother's attitude that they are spokeswomen for Fidel Castro. Check it out when they speak in public, as they are being told what to say.It is either "Campbell" or whoever it is that directs them to say what they have been instructed to say. Even the father in Cuba, in Spanish, has people in his back, and we hear the voices, telling him what to say. This is all a big "lie" in the part of Castro and his allies. But what is very sad, is the fact that here in this free country, there are so many people that really support a communist government in this hemisphere. I was surprised to see hordes of people in Cuba wearing t-shirts with the face of Elian. I would ask myself, how could they have spent all this money, when they have nothing? They survive mainly on the things that exiles send to relatives in Cuba. And those in government well with the dollars from tourists from countries in Europe and Canada as well as Latin America- Also the dollars that he originally hated so much, that then he wanted for survival, and is provided to him thru the dollars send to families and relatives in Cuba from exiles in this country. Well, it was easy. The "famous church organization" that Campbell directs or heads or whatever, provides the money for Cuba, as much as they provided the plane which took these women twice to Florida and several times to Washington to lobby for Castro, with the help of Congressmen and government officials backed by Janet Reno and many others. This is definitely a disgrace. Money from taxpayers in the U.S. is being used by this people in this country to cover-up Castro and his demented ideas. A so-called church- tax-free spends millions in this propaganda in favor of communism. But it seems that the INS provided, with american taxpayers money the helicopter that took the grandmothers from the airport to the reunion with Sister Jeanne. What a shame!!! And they american people is worried that this boy should be sent back to Cuba. This is ridiculous! What a waste!!!. To make things worse there is an Organization under the U.N.-UNICEF, that has not said anything whatsoever regarding this child. Is it that they discrimate against children depending on where they come from? Have they made objections about the children in Cuba? What is going on in this world of politicians and politics here? We better keep an eye on all these things and leave Elian free to obtain his will: STAY IN THE UNITED STATES, where his mother was aiming to get him the freedom and liberty he was lacking in Cuba. May God bless those that fight for ELIAN. May God grant the Judges/Lawyers & all those with work to do in this case - sufficient knowledge to see thru the legalities and FREE ELIAN........... May God keep Elian and his "american" family in the U.S. in the best of health and free from any more worries. May God help these grandmothers get safely back to Cuba, to enjoy the scary life that awaits them there. May God grant the one that would want to stay here the opportunity to ask for political assylum and stay with the family. God is the winner!!!!

Sunday January 30th 2000 09:49:26

Name: Keith Valenza
E-mail address: KValenza@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://keithvalenzaliving.8k.com
Comments: Re: The previous poster. You have expressed very well the anguish that so many Cubans have felt, and you have expressed it well. Those who want to send Elian back to Cuba have no idea how bad it is over there. So let me ask them this question...would you send a child back to Nazi Germany? Then why send him back to Cuba?

Monday January 31st 2000 02:58:42

Name: Osvaldo Hernandez
E-mail address: Ozzie9844@worldnet.att.net
Comments: Elian does not belong to anybody. Elian is a free soul, who belongs in a free country, no matter what the deals the President of the United States has made regarding his freedom, or the opinions of those who have sold their souls to an old fart, who has had this continent hostage for 41 years, and counting. God bless Elian, & hope we can yank him away from the Clintons and the Renos, so his mother's death will not be in vain. Osvaldo Hernandez Miami, FL

Monday January 31st 2000 03:02:39

Name: Keith Valenza
E-mail address: Kvalenza@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://keithvalenzaliving.8k.com
Comments: Here is food for thought: If the grandmothers were so angry about not being able to see Elian, why didn't they spend the entire week at their Miami relatives' house, bonding with the child...instead of doing Castro's work by lobbying Congress? Hmm....they don't even vote here.

Monday January 31st 2000 03:09:33

Name: Josefina Lirio
E-mail address: dereklirio@msn.com
Comments: Quiero darles mi apoyo para que sigan luchando por Elian es es un simbolo de esos ninos que estan en Cuba que no pueden hablar,Elian va ha permanecer entre nosotros por su madresita que esta al lado de dios asi lo dispuso y contra el amor de una madre y la voluntad de dios nuestro senor no ha hombre alguno qur pueda, que dios los acompane le de la luz que necesitan,serenidad para transmitirsela al nino,amor y fe esa mueve montanas. ADELANTE,ADELANTE.

Monday January 31st 2000 07:24:31
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Name: BONNIE BENTLEY
E-mail address: BONNIE1291@AOL.COM
Comments: ELIAN SHOULD STAY IN THIS COUNTRY, HIS MOTHER DIED GETTING HIM OUT OF THAT COUNTRY, SAHE WAS DOING THE BEST FOR HIM AND SHE DIED DOING IT, LETS RESPECK HER WISHES AND LET HIM STAY WITH THE FAMILY HE HAS HERE, WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE REST OF THE CHILDREN GET OUT OF THAT COUNTRY AND AWAY FROM OLD CASTRO. GOD WAS WITH THIS LITTLE BOY IN THOSE WATTERS HE PROTECTED HIM AND BROUGH HIM TO THE USA SAFT, THIS WAS GODS WILL, HE DOESNT NEED TO GO BACK TO THAT TERRIBLE COUNTRY, SO WHAT IF HE HAS A FATHER OVER THERE, IF THE FATHER CARES FOR HIM HE WOULD WANT HIM TO STAY IN THIS COUNTRY, GOD BLESS THE LITTLE CUBA BOY,

Monday January 31st 2000 02:06:19

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