From: "Tanj" 

Spare us the night of long knives crap.  The Miami group were holding a
hostage (what law do you find allows a child to be taken from its parent
because you think you might be able to give it more toys?), and it had to
end.  They were hardly behaving pleasantly or showing signs of bargaining
in good faith.  It was clear they had no intent to give up the child short
of use of force, which bluff was called.

"Raymond Chuang"  wrote in message
news:390250d0{at}w3.nls.net...> "Bill Mattox"
 wrote in message
> news:39023847$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > But... being above the law, of course, IS the Clinton way.
> >
> > (BTW, you do understand that the armed raid was conducted without a
> warrant,
> > don't you?)
>
> What I saw today is perhaps the reason why I HATE such acts of tyranny. If
> you have read any decent history book, what happened this morning is
> literally right out of the Gestapo or the Stalinist NKVD handbook, to say
> the least. You do remember heavily armed secret police knocking down
> residences and grabbing people in a violent fashion, right? The pictures
> from the scene was literally right out of the infamous "Night of Long
> Knives" in 1934, when Hitler ordered the brutal surpression of the SA
> faction of the Nazi Party.
>
> My guess is that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals may on Monday morning
> immediately issue a contempt of court citation against Janet Reno and
could
> even have her indicted on contempt of court charges--in this case a
Federal
> felony. They may order Elian to be turned over to an impartial third party
> immediately, too.
>
> --
> Raymond Chuang
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
>

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