Jack Thompson. NewsMax.com. Friday, May 19, 2000
For weeks I have been noting the malfeasance of Kendall Coffey, the lead attorney for Elian Gonzalez's Miami family.
Significant reports have surfaced indicating young Elian may be drugged by his Cuban controllers on the Wye Plantation.
The latest bit of evidence in this regard was aired by the Fox News Channel on Wednesday evening on its O'Reilly Factor. Castro himself was conducting a live "Roundtable" discussion on Cuban television when one of the doctors on the panel stood up to discuss what drugs Elian might be
medicated with and what their effects would be.
Castro ordered the doctor to sit down and "shut up," reported Bill O'Reilly.
Already NewsMax.com reported that a Cuban doctor was snagged by U.S. Customs carrying powerful tranquilizers intended for the little boy.
As used in many Eastern European police states of old, drugs are a frequent means to brainwash and coerce dissidents in communist strongholds such as Castro's Cuba.
Elian is a political dissident.
A Miami lawyer familiar with the case and expert in these matters was astounded that Coffey and his merry band of attorneys have not asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to order immediate drug testing of the boy.
The lawyer says this would not be an unusual step, especially since the court specifically ordered that government doctors would have to periodically report back to the court on the status, including the health, of the boy.
The fact that Team Coffey is not doing this is very disturbing but not surprising in light of the failure of these lawyers to raise the fact that the federal government conducted an illegal raid that has resulted in the boy's being held hostage and unable to meet with his own lawyers during the
litigation.
By filing motions to ask the raid be declared illegal — or finding out if Elian has been drugged — Coffey would surely embarrass his onetime mentor Janet Reno. This is something he won't do.
Still, it is vitally important to determine if the boy has been drugged. Even if the boy is granted an asylum hearing by the 11th Circuit, he is highly likely to withdraw his application for asylum immediately, particularly if he's a tranquilized mini-zombie.
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