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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 17 |
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Taking time away from his busy schedule promoting "gun control," Mr. Clinton noted that the seizure of Elian Gonzalez was an exercise of "rule of law." "The rule of law has got to be upheld. If we don't do it here, where do we stop? ... I believed that it was the right thing to do." This "rule of law" in practice constitutes a fine example of why Americans need to uphold the Second Amendment's theoretical limitations on government, because Sociocrats don't know "where to stop."
TCN- What "law" Mr Clinton? Is this another case of "The stroke of the pen, the law of the land"? Or have we come to the place already where you don't even need to write it down for it to become law. Does the "re-invented government" that you promised and have now delivered also carry with it the practice that anything you want immediately becomes law?
For her part, Ms. Janet Reno insisted, "We worked so hard to make sure that this was done in a peaceful and voluntary way."
TCN- I would certainly hate for your storm troopers to get rough. I doubt that those who felt the gun butts are much comforted by your failed efforts to make the raid peaceful. The cameraman that was supposed to film the raid and is now laying in a Miami hospital might bring a different picture to light if he chooses to bring your actions to court…
U.S. Sen. Bob Smith said the child was subjected to "violent police tactics better suited for the Gestapo or KGB than for a country or a government that is supposed to uphold the rule of law and protect our basic freedoms. ... I'm disgusted, I'm angry, I'm sad. I couldn't feel worse if my own son were taken. ... I think this is one of the blackest marks in American history for our Justice Department. If that's justice, I don't want any part of it."
Florida Senator Connie Mack added, "I am repulsed and outraged at the government's use of force to seize a boy in a family's home at the point of a gun. These are the tactics of the Cuban government, not a free democracy."
As for the "rule of law" thing, worth noting is this exchange between Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, a constitutional scholar, and Mr. Eric Holder, Janet Reno's second in command at DoJ:
Napolitano: Tell me, Mr. Holder, why did you not get a court order authorizing you to go in and get the boy?
Holder: Because we didn't need a court order. INS can do this on its own.
Napolitano: You know that a court order would have given you the cloak of respectability to have seized the boy.
Holder: We didn't need an order.
Napolitano: Then why did you ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for such an order if you didn't need one?
Holder: [Silence]
Napolitano: The fact is, for the first time in history, you have taken a child from his residence at gunpoint to enforce your custody position, even though you did not have an order authorizing it."
"Fidel Castro has succeeded in imposing his will on the United States. In time we may learn precisely why and how, and what it portends for the future." --Wall Street Journal
NewsMax.com now has the actual "search warrant" issued as a phony pretext for the pre-dawn raid upon Elian's refuge. Upon review, it appears that the Clinton Administration acted more unlawfully than even NewsMax.com suspected.
The warrant, in order to be issued, required Reno's Justice Department to assert that the boy, Elian, was a "concealed person"; that is, that the Justice Department did not know where he was by virtue of his being hidden.
Did not everyone on the planet except Janet Reno know where the boy was? All the media of the modern world were in front of Elian's house because everyone knew he was there! He came out almost every day to play. If he was to be taken, without a court order, which the 11th Circuit refused to give, then he would be taken from that house and that house only.
But "concealed person" is the word required on any search warrant. The Clinton Justice Department used that word in a context defining it as the opposite of its clear meaning in order that the White House spinners would be able to say, lyingly, that a court approved the raid.
Elian's whereabouts were not concealed. They were know to an absolute certainty. Which is why the search warrant was illegally obtained and void, thereby rendering the taking of the boy, with no legitimate judicial approval, illegal in yet another way yet unknown until the search warrant has now seen the light of day.
This is an Administration that does not know what "is" is, and uses "concealed" when disclosed would be the right word. Only the truth is here concealed from a naive majority by a President and Administration betting heavily on P.T. Barnum's "sucker born every minute" maxim.
I used to marvel at how the German people could support a man like Adolf Hitler. When Hitler came to power, Germany was a republic. Furthermore, they had a rich Christian history. The Germans were cultured, law-abiding people. How they could follow a man like Hitler was a mystery to me - until now.
Are we not like Germany of old when we applaud as federal Storm Troopers kick down our fellow citizen's doors during the night to carry out the unlawful orders of a ruthless ruler? Do we really think that it can only happen to our neighbors, and not to us?
"Ling-Ling, the panda from China, died about a year ago. Some of the public wanted to stuff and mount Ling-Ling, but the people at the Smithsonian did not give in to pressure, and said no. They said that if people want to see a semi-lifelike gift from China to America, they're going to have to vote for Al Gore." --Bill Maher
I have also heard that Ms Reno has a new book on child rearing coming out soon called, "It Takes the Village SWAT Team."
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