A mighty woman with a torch

In PJ O'Rourke's Eat The Rich chapter on Cuba he points out how the only area in Havana, which is not crawling with tired, poor and huddled masses, is the area where they have the BMWs, beautiful mansions and royal palms. This also happens to be where the government officials live. The lessons from the previous century should have taught us that dictatorships - communist or otherwise - have strewn human carnage wherever they have been instituted.

Because of our riches people with debilitating and fatal diseases are cured at increasing rates. Growing numbers of people can obtain a higher education. More people are able to contribute money to 401(k) plans and IRAs ensuring themselves a brighter future when they reach retirement. And as for our political freedom we can rant and rave on the Internet, TV, radio and newspapers about our dislike of government and never fear a "knock on our door at night." Try that one in Cuba.

According to a recent Gallup Poll, 2/3 of those polled think Elian should be sent back to Cuba and 50% think the Clinton administration "...is making the decision based on what it feels is in the best interest of U.S. relations with Cuba." It's in our best interest to make nice to a scum sucking communist dictator who imprisons and kills people who disagree with his philosophy of totalitarianism? When did that happen?

This great nation once welcomed those, who in an effort to escape tyranny and oppression, washed up on its shores "yearning to breathe free." How many of the 66% of you who think he should be sent back, have considered where you'd be today if the U.S. government had taken that same position with your grandparents and your great-grandparents?

Dr. Marta Molina, a Cuban-born psychologist, told the Associated Press that if returned "...the boy would be taken into seclusion in order to be reindoctrinated in communist ideology. He would be pressured to erase any positive memories of his stay in the United States...he also will be told that his mother was a traitor... because she left Cuba illegally."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson

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