From: "Richard Hong" 

>> I am still at a loss to understand why he has done so.

Bill,

Because this isn't even "morally debatable"; the only moral
position is to return Elian to his father, and every passing minute was
going to only make it harder.  On some moral issues I can grant that there
might be moral validity to the other POV; for example I am pro-choice but I
understand where the other side is coming from.  But in this case, I
ascribe no moral underpinning to a view which holds that the politics of
the government in which a child might be raised should usurp the
parent-child relationship.

Your statement about Elian not being in imminent danger, etc. etc. ignores
a basic fact: Elian's father has had legal custody of Elian from the moment
the mother died.  You are using a "possession" argument which is
entirely invalid.  Elian should have been sent back to Cuba immediately. 
We had no right to make the father come here.

Rich

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