I've seen at least a dozen pictures of Elián González today. People do love their false equivalencies.
So many people are following that attempt to equate that unique situation (a kid being given back to his parent) with what's going on today with thousands of children being forcibly removed from their parents. The former being a matter of following an actual law, and the latter having to do with an idiotic policy created by a man who says he doesn't know anything about it. But anyway... from New York Times 2000:
It is not a false equivalencies. Elian's mother died so that her child can live free in America, instead the democrats returned Elian to a dictator with no respect for human rights. Democrats are hypocrites and the Elian case is a perfect example.
You can spin this all you want, the child was returned to a murderous regime. Parents have no rights over their children in a communist state. Elian's father has no choice but to follow what the state tells him to do or else families members will be tortured or jailed.
