From: "Bill Mattox" 

The latest spin is that they DID have a warrant.

We'll see.

"Raymond Chuang"  wrote in message
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> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> > 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. If
> the INS did get a search warrant, then there would have been a lot less
> opposition to the whole raid. Heck, from what I've read about the "Night
of
> Long Knives" in 1934, even the Gestapo did actually write up actual search
> and seizure warrants when they went after the SA faction (mind you, most
of
> the charges were of course trumped up, but the Gestapo and SS/SD spent a
> couple of days creating the warrants to give the surpression
"legitimacy").
>
> During the 1930's, the NKVD under Stalin wrote up warrant after warrant on
> trumped-up charges so they could go after "enemies of the
state" during
the
> Great Purge.
>
> --
> Raymond Chuang
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>

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