John LeBoutillier. NewsMax.com. My April 3, 2000
Risk and Reward. They always go hand in hand. You want the big payoff, you have to risk the big loss.
The Elian Gonzalez matter is now shaping up as the Big Gamble for all involved - the deadly dictator, Fidel Castro; the pawn of a father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez; and the Miami relatives. Here are their calculations:
There is only one way that Elian ever goes back to Cuba. The father has to come to Miami – without the accompanying Cuban Secret Police thugs that accompanied the two grandmothers – and walk into his uncle Lazaro’s house. He has to sit down – with no lawyers, INS or State
Department hacks – with his family and convince them that he truly wants to take little Elian back to Cuba. Juan Miguel has to convince his relatives that this is his wish. He has to show them that he is making this decision with no pressure from Fidel on him or his family still back in Cuba.
That is the only way the Miami relatives will allow Elian out of their clutches. And, after all, who better to make this decision than Juan Miguel’s own family members, who also lived under Castro’s torturous system and escaped to the wonders of life in America? Who is better able to
decide this matter – these born-again Americans or Janet Reno and her corrupt bureaucrats?
Now, this is Castro’s gamble: In order to get Elian back and to use him as the propaganda tool he envisions, he must risk the possibility that when Juan Miguel walks into Uncle Lazaro’s house, he comes out asking to defect. And what a blow to Castro that would be!
Castro is no fool. He probably will guard against that by refusing to allow Juan’s wife and new child to go to Miami with him.
In that case, Uncle Lazaro and the other relatives will see and feel the fear and pressure. Perhaps Juan Miguel will confide this to them once he is safely among his own family – and away from not just Castro’s spies but also the Fidel-leaning INS boobs who interviewed him in Cuba.
If Juan Miguel can convince his relatives that he is under no duress and wants to take Elian home to Cuba, then the family will most likely let him.
But, based on the grandmothers’ visit to Miami seven weeks ago, clearly all is not as it seems on the surface. We know that those two women, despite being surrounded by Cuban KGB spies, indicated that at least one of them wanted to defect on the spot!
The odds are that Juan Miguel, too, will want to stay here. He just cannot say so for fear of retribution by Castro.
We should all have great sympathy for this father. Nothing he says can be believed because under a communist tyranny like Castro’s all citizens are mere mouthpieces and puppets of the centralized regime. For the INS to claim that their interview of Juan Miguel in Cuba is relevant shows
their naivete about the nature of Fidel’s terror. INS, Clinton and Reno need to read the memoirs of the survivors of the Bay of Pigs. They need to learn of the torture, deprivation and sadistic tactics used by Castro against his own people from the day he seized power 42 years ago. In fact,
Castro learned how to rule from the standard commie handbook. As Mao said, "All power comes from the barrel of a gun."
Many good conservatives are unhappy over the wishes to keep little Elian here. They see this issue as a "family values" matter and thus the boy belongs with the father. But these well-meaning conservatives are showing their ignorance of communism. How quickly they have forgotten why we
waged the Cold War for forty years!
There are NO family values under communism. There are no rights at all!
The fight to keep Elian here is a fight Americans seem to have from time to time. This is a fight about whether we have grown so soft and comfortable that we are easy prey for the evils of a Castro, and this is a fight about whether we still realize how precious and valuable our own freedom is.
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