From: "Bill Mattox" 

If this was a kidnapping, then the family should have been arrested and
charged with a crime.

They weren't.

Richard Hong  wrote in message
news:3903b73d{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> If the Justice Department felt that Elian was being held illegally,
then
> the reasonable cause necessary to obtain a warrant to enter the house and
> take him certainly existed.
>
> John,
>
> But a court order was already in place.  The raid was to stop what amounts
> to a crime in progress.
>
> If you kidnap a child and the police know the child is in your house, they
> don't need a warrant to enter and retrieve the child.
>
> Rich
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