Let This Boy's Fate Be Decided on Free Soil - Not By Clinton-Gore Bureaucrats'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chairman of the Republican National Committee said he is "outraged" by the "high-handed, ham-handed decision by Clinton-Gore bureaucrats to use the fate of a 6 year-old-boy to appease Fidel Castro," and offered to "personally pay
all costs for Elian Gonzalez's entire family to come to Miami, where the boy's future can be decided on free soil."
"I will personally pay the cost to bring Elian's entire family to Miami so that we can learn for sure what his father wants -- free of Communist coercion," said RNC Chairman Nicholson. "Once that has been established, we should let an impartial and open court decide this case --
not Clinton-Gore bureaucrats.
"Rather than deliver this boy to a life of repression, Clinton and Gore should stand up to Castro and insist that the intentions of Elian's family in Cuba be known -- intentions they can freely express only when they are outside the clutches of Castro's police state."
"Instead of letting INS bureaucrats send this boy into the arms of the Castro regime, Clinton and Gore should have done what they promised in the first place -- allow his fate to be decided by a court here on free American soil, in a manner consistent with the principles of human rights,
political asylum and parental rights as freely expressed."
Nicholson said he would pay roundtrip airfare, meals and lodging for "Elian's father, and for any other members of the Gonzalez family that the father wants to have with him to make a free expression of his views."
"Bringing Elian's father here by himself would not ensure that he would be able to speak freely," Nicholson said, "because, as everyone knows, Castro's dictatorship is not above using family members as hostages."
SOURCE Republican National Committee
CO: Republican National Committee
ST: District of Columbia, Florida, Cuba
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