Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000
Elian: Reno Press Conference
Thomas M. Miovas, Jr.
>From: Scott Adams <from a private email to TM, reprinted here by
permission--HB>
>
>I haven't read _The Man Who Laughs_ but have read
>the Comprachicos. I recently finished reading
>_Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the
>Gulag_, which is a really good book. In it he makes
>an interesting observation about people and their
>attitudes toward horror of this kind. He wrote that
>such horror is actually so petty and small that you
>cannot really take it seriously, it is too unreal.
>But that's how it ultimately wins--the disbelief and
>subsequent apathy of its victims.
><snip>
I know what you mean. I was over a friend's house last night
watching recorded episodes from the Fox News Channel (that my
cable company doesn't carry) and some of the things being said
by the politicians and other pundits that want to return Elian
to Cuba are so outrageous I was actually laughing. On Friday,
"Hannity and Colmes" interviewed an asylum lawyer working for
the INS. She insisted Juan Miguel has had ample opportunity to
seek political asylum in this country if he wanted it. Hannity
pointed out that Juan has family being held hostage by Castro
back in Cuba and is currently surrounded by Castro thugs 24
hours a day, so he has no opportunity. She said Juan has spoken
with Janet Reno and didn't seek asylum (as if any rational
person would ask that wench for political asylum after what she
has done to Elian!). Again, Hannity asserted Jaun did not have
freedom of speech in Cuba and as a Cuban citizen. You know what
her reply was? "Well, he could have come across on a raft like
everyone else" !!!!!!!!! This was **so** outrageous and pathetic
that I burst into laughter that she would expect anyone to take
her seriously.
Also, she said that if we accept the idea that anyone applying
for political asylum residing in a communist country should be
automatically granted asylum we would be flooded by such people,
I said "Bring them on! Especially the Cubans. We need them to
help us keep this country free!"
