From: "Bill Mattox" 

If there was a legitimate warrant, that is another matter (we'll see). What
concerns me was the tendency among "useful idiots" on the left to
defend this raid NO MATTER WHAT. IOW, those of you on the left were
absolutely prepared to justify an early morning armed raid in absence of a
legitimate warrant to do so. Indeed, this excuse making was already being
done, not only in this forum, but also among Clinton apologists on the
Cable networks.

I reiterate, the tendency of those on the left to justify any kind of
insanity or trampling upon Constitutional protections so long as it serves
the interests of the left is scary. (With the interest of the left,
strangely enough, being increasingly defined as whatever serves the
personal interests and ambitions of the Clinton's (or do I mean Castro?))

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.136d612ffcd336df9897c6{at}news.barkto.com...
39039624$1{at}w3.nls.net>, rchuang{at}slip.net says...
jcuccia{at}bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> > news:ta26gscba71udvqvor1fvnjsfjq5mj21j4{at}4ax.com...
> >
> > > All the court said was that the child couldn't be removed from the
country
> > > pending a hearing on his appeal.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the INS did one thing that is definitely illegal: they
forgot
> > to get a proper search warrant from ANY court. The INS (or any Federal
> > authority) have no legal ground to grab Elian without a search warrant.
>
> From the AP wires:
>
> INS Commissioner Doris Meissner agreed. "His father speaks for him. He is
with
> his father," she said.
>
> Meissner said the raid was completely legal and that the INS agents who
seized
> the boy had a warrant to enter the house duly issued the night before.
>
> "We had a search warrant, which we got from a federal judge around 6
o'clock
> that evening. It was a perfectly legal, properly carried out operation,"
she
> told CBS.
>
>
> Even if they had not been served the search warrant, a court had earlier
served
> the family with papers ordering them to turn the child over to the INS.
>

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