Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Left's Hypocrisy Game
Let's Go Back to Elian Gonzalez
Liberals say state courts have the right to decide whether brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo lives or dies, but they held a different position in the case of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez in 1999.
WSJ - John Fund - Liberals cheered when Janet Reno defied the courts to seize Elian Gonzalez.
Liberals have gotten off easy for some of the somersaulting arguments they have made on behalf of judicial independence and states' rights to justify their position that Terri Schiavo should not be saved. Many made the opposite arguments in the Elian Gonzalez case.
The Reno Justice Department acted ... to short-circuit a legal process that was clearly going against it. On Good Friday evening, after all courts had closed for the day, the department obtained a "search" warrant from a night-duty magistrate who was not familiar with the case, submitting a supporting affidavit that seriously distorted the facts.
Armed with that dubious warrant, the INS's helmeted officers, assault rifles at the ready, burst into the home of Elian's relatives and snatched the screaming boy from a bedroom closet... Elian was quickly returned to Cuba; because he was never able to meet with his lawyers a scheduled May 11 asylum hearing on his case in Atlanta became moot. (See Picture Elian Snatched)
Rush: The 11th circuit basically ruled against Reno, ruled against the justice department, and Reno said, "To hell with it," and went and got a search warrant for the home where Elian was, spirited the kid out of there with an armed INS agent, and, bam, sent him back down to Cuba.
The left is out there shouting hypocrisy at the right. If they're going to shout hypocrisy I'm going to turn it around and let it bounce right off me and aim it back at them, because where was their disgust with the same types of things they think they're clearly disgusted with today, although the things they're disgusted with today pale in comparison to what Reno, the justice department, and Greg Craig did five years ago: Utter defiance of two different courts, and the veritable kidnapping via search warrant from a night court magistrate of Elian Gonzales and then sending him back to Cuba.
Let's Go Back to Elian Gonzalez
Liberals say state courts have the right to decide whether brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo lives or dies, but they held a different position in the case of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez in 1999.
WSJ - John Fund - Liberals cheered when Janet Reno defied the courts to seize Elian Gonzalez.
Liberals have gotten off easy for some of the somersaulting arguments they have made on behalf of judicial independence and states' rights to justify their position that Terri Schiavo should not be saved. Many made the opposite arguments in the Elian Gonzalez case.
The Reno Justice Department acted ... to short-circuit a legal process that was clearly going against it. On Good Friday evening, after all courts had closed for the day, the department obtained a "search" warrant from a night-duty magistrate who was not familiar with the case, submitting a supporting affidavit that seriously distorted the facts.
Armed with that dubious warrant, the INS's helmeted officers, assault rifles at the ready, burst into the home of Elian's relatives and snatched the screaming boy from a bedroom closet... Elian was quickly returned to Cuba; because he was never able to meet with his lawyers a scheduled May 11 asylum hearing on his case in Atlanta became moot. (See Picture Elian Snatched)
Rush: The 11th circuit basically ruled against Reno, ruled against the justice department, and Reno said, "To hell with it," and went and got a search warrant for the home where Elian was, spirited the kid out of there with an armed INS agent, and, bam, sent him back down to Cuba.
The left is out there shouting hypocrisy at the right. If they're going to shout hypocrisy I'm going to turn it around and let it bounce right off me and aim it back at them, because where was their disgust with the same types of things they think they're clearly disgusted with today, although the things they're disgusted with today pale in comparison to what Reno, the justice department, and Greg Craig did five years ago: Utter defiance of two different courts, and the veritable kidnapping via search warrant from a night court magistrate of Elian Gonzales and then sending him back to Cuba.
