Editorial

Massachusetts Is Propagandized About Elian

Massachusetts News

The Boston Globe has conducted a propaganda campaign about Elian Gonzalez which has misled many citizens. 

If the father is free, everyone agrees he should have the custody of his child. 

But it is so obvious he is not free that it is difficult to know where to start.

· The Catholic nun who opened her home in Miami to the grandmothers when they came to visit Elian in January, now says in a sworn affidavit in federal court that she is convinced that the grandmothers "were not free to respond or act as they would towards their family." She says that the situation was "controlled by the Cuban officials" who accompanied them. Until this visit, this nun, Jeanne O’Laughlin, who is a friend of Janet Reno and the president of an 8,000-student college, had believed the boy should be with the father. But she now says, "Our administration is seeking normal relations with Cuba and this little boy interfered with that." She said last week that she sees the same kind of "artificial" organization around the father. "It breaks my heart," she said. 

She continued, "My ancestors who came over during the potato famine walked ashore with one shoe on and one shoe off and had to work in the quarries and live through ‘No Irish need apply.’" She says that outsiders look at the "privileged status" of the Cuban-American community and forget that it too carried a price tag. "So I get e-mail that reads, ‘Send him back and 100,000 Cubans with him.’ If a mother 15-years-ago came over the Berlin Wall with a child and she was shot en route, they would not send the child back."

· Elian is obviously not "alone" with his father and stepmother at Andrews Air Force Base. Who else is there? Aren’t you curious? They say he was checked by a doctor after he was seized and before he boarded the plane. Why? What doctor? In this day and age, it is certain he was given a medication to "calm him down" after the seizure. What kind of medication? Is he still receiving it? Is that why he appears to be happy in the pictures? They say that the family just wants to have some privacy. But this is absurd. They are not alone. Why is Reno keeping all of this under such total wraps?

· The only person we hear from is Bill Clinton’s expensive lawyer, Gregory Craig, who has somehow become the lawyer for the father who obviously does not have any money to pay any lawyer, much less a high priced one. Craig, or someone approved by him, is the only person who is giving us any information from the compound. 

· The Wall Street Journal reported this month that last November the father called Miami relatives to tell them that Elian and his mother were on the way. A collect telephone bill proves the call was made. Three days later the boy was taken out of the sea and the uncle called the father to give him the news.

· The boy is a ‘possession’ of the state of Cuba, said Luis Fernandez, a spokesman for their unofficial embassy in Washington on April 4.

Boston Globe Promotes Castro’s Interests

The Boston Globe began printing large editorials on its front page only two weeks after Elian Gonzalez was rescued from the ocean last November. It immediately dispatched a reporter to Cuba and printed a 4-column piece on page one with a picture. That’s about as big a story as they ever print. It began this way:

"The first-grade classroom at Marcelo Salado Primary School contains a single green desk, on top of which rests a folded Cuban flag, six neatly stacked books, and a pencil holder. A message is taped to the back of the tiny chair: ‘Elian, your seat is untouchable.’"

They didn’t say that that 1126-word piece was an editorial but it obviously was. It was the beginning of an onslaught which would tug at the emotions of Massachusetts. And tug it has. Even many father activists have become so excited that they don’t consider that the Globe has never before worried about the rights of fathers. 

Is this the same Castro that caused JFK to almost put us at nuclear war in order get the Russian missiles removed from there? What is it that drives the Globe (and its owner, the New York Times) to work so hard on this propaganda drive? 
 

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