RE: Political kidnapping of 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez

Stretchy-talk? Now we have really gotten silly, haven't we?

Here is a quote from Mr. Brooks:

"I did attack the ridiculous statement of Mr. Beaty, who seemed to attribute
Cuba's problems to "Castro""

In other words, contrary to what you say, I was not referring to "Cameron's
words...regarding Elian," I was referring to his words regarding Cuba's
problems in general.

In point of fact, not one word of either of Mr. Brook's two posts refer to
Elian. So your statement that "Cameron [is] saying that Castro is not the
issue in the debate over Elian's situation" is a pure and simple
fabrication - all that he wrote referred to the broader situation in Cuba.

In fact, as I said in plain English, I quite agree Elian should be returned
and, obviously, Castro is only of marginal importance to this issue which
is, itself, an issue of marginal importance. This, however, was not the
issue to which I responded, and your post has nothing to do with anything
either Mr. Brooks or myself wrote. Stretchy talk indeed. As with others,
what you refuse to confront is plain English and plain facts. And, my only
real point, this is sadly in keeping with a tragic historic legacy of such
intellectual dishonesty.

Anthony Chase



-----Original Message-----
From:   owner-wsn@csf.colorado.edu [mailto:owner-wsn@csf.colorado.edu] On
Behalf Of Andrew Wayne Austin
Sent:   Monday, January 17, 2000 12:27 AM
To:     WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK
Subject:        RE: Political kidnapping of 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez

By what form of reason is Cameron saying that Castro is not the issue in
the debate over Elian's situation at odds with Cameron saying he not
making excuses for Castro? Anthony Chase ought to rethink the logic of his
"double-talk" accusation (hint: the logic fails).

Given the stretch Chase makes of Cameron's words to turn his statements
regarding Elian into support for Castro we ought to call the content of
Chase's post "stretchy-talk."

It is more accurate to say that Castro *should* not be the issue, but
unfortunately he is, albeit in an indirect way, since what is keeping
Elian from his father is the anti-Castro South Floridians and their
government mouthpieces. Of course, Castro can do nothing about this.

This is something of an ironic situation, I think: one way or another
anti-Castro zealots intend to make Elian suffer for Castro's existence.

Andy