Monday, January 24, 2005
Los Cobardes and the Elian Madness
They're at it again.
MIAMI (AP) -- A federal judge has set a Monday trial for the claims of a dozen people who said they were wrongly assaulted by federal officers during the raid that removed Elian Gonzalez from his family's home. The plaintiffs say they were innocent bystanders who were gassed and beaten outside the home during the early morning raid on April 22, 2000. U.S. District Judge Michael Moore set the trial date Friday. "I think the public's going to be surprised that elderly people were gassed while praying the rosary," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which represents 11 of the plaintiffs.Oh, please. For one thing, that wasn't Elian's home. His home was in Cuba, with his father. And Elian, when he was picked up and before his distant Miami rellies turned him into a bargaining chip, had repeatedly said that he wanted to go home to his father. For another, the idiots holding Elian hostage had videotaped the whole thing and released it to the media. It lasted less than five minutes. No beatings, no teargassings. It's all on the video. The Feds went in, looked for Elian, found him being hidden in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, took him, and left. They tried to do as little damage as they could. (In fact, they didn't even damage the door to the room where Elian was being held hidden in the closet. THAT damage happened hours later, when his now-former captors had time to stage-manage things:
"...Several talking heads also mention Marisleysis Gonzalez's contention that the government drugged Elian and doctored the photos of him with his father." [And talking of doctoring, the AP photos show the feds leaving with Elian, the bedroom door on its hinges and in one piece. The photos taken four hours later under the direction of Marisleysis and the rest of the Gonzalez family show that same door off its hinges in two pieces. jp] --Michael Brus, 4/24/00Bartcop has more here. Most Miami Cuban-Americans are law-abiding Americans. But there is a certain section of the Miami Cuban exile community -- known in certain quarters as "Los Cobardes" (the cowards), for their preference for sneak attacks and bombings -- that are terroristic thugs. They are responsible for committing scores of car bombings, attacks, and murders over the years. But they figure that the Bush family will protect them.
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