# Elian has been freed!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 28, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920 "2000-06-28T19:21:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/1 "2000-06-28T19:21:12Z")
I just heard on the radio that the supreme court has made its final ruling - the family might be back in Cuba by tonight! Yipeee! ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/2 "2000-06-28T19:22:49Z")
Thank God! I was so sick of that kid. ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/3 "2000-06-28T19:23:06Z")
It’s about time they made a final decision. That poor boy has been in limbo for far too long. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/4 "2000-06-28T19:28:43Z")
Would this be the same Elian that I stopped thinking/caring about 2 months ago? [breaking news] 5 more people have joined a protest somewhere about something to do with this story. We will be back with 12 more live reports this half hour containing nothing either interesting or informative. [/breaking news] ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/5 "2000-06-28T19:33:10Z")
Go Elian! And take Maryselisis with you! ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/6 "2000-06-28T19:37:04Z")
It’s about time. I was about ready to smuggle the kid out myself. ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/7 "2000-06-28T19:37:53Z")
“Thank God! I was so sick of that kid” “Would this be the same Elian that I stopped thinking/caring about 2 months ago?” Leaving aside the issue of the kid himself, the case has enormous ramifications for the right of all of us to raise our families as we see fit. All too frequently, our government and legal system chooses to second guess and supecede parental authority. An adverse ruling in this case would have set a terrible precedent, and accelerated this trend. All freedom loving Americans should cheer the total legal defeat for the Miami relatives. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/8 "2000-06-28T19:39:00Z")
_GIT_ already! This should have happened 7 months ago. And if the freaks in Florida riot, let them secede. Yah wanna come to our country? Abide its laws. _Sheesh_/ ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/9 "2000-06-28T19:43:35Z")
I am Shocked, I think the kid should stay here. His mother died to bring him here and Castro is just going to kill him ---
**Author:** ![BigJoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BigJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/10 "2000-06-28T19:46:57Z")
Off with his head! er… I mean, off to Cuba with him! Glad I’m not the only one sick of this non-issue. ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/11 "2000-06-28T20:04:26Z")
Why on earth would Castro kill him? 😕 Him coming back to Cuba is the kind of thing Castro uses in his anti-America propoganda to show how much better Cuba is. ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/12 "2000-06-28T20:06:45Z")
in the santaria religion, it was saidthat a boy rescued by dolphins was going to kill/depose/eliminate Castro, elian was rescued by dolphins ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/13 "2000-06-28T20:28:30Z")
… and Fidel cares about Santeria since when? Now, I don’t practice Santeria (nor do I have a crystal ball), but something tells me that Mr. Castro has stomped that as far underground as it will go. Besides, Castro isn’t immortal. By the time Elian gets old enough to make a difference, they should already be building a nice big Castro memorial in downtown Havana. Anyway, I’m glad he’s going back. Everybody I’ve talked to, including not a few Republicans, believes that he should have been sent back a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/14 "2000-06-28T20:33:54Z")
But couldn’t this have waited another hour?? Here I am, trying to watch an episode of Sally Jessy Raphael about 14 year olds having kids, and this ‘breaking news’ comes in and interrupts the show just when Sally gets pissed. So I miss the big blow up. She’s so funny when she’s mad. _yawn_ So now there’s this guy standing near the plane that’s taking young Elian home, talking endlessly about the weather. Why the hell are there 2 planes??? Ohhh…to make it look more important when they arrive in Havana. Media hype and stuff. In the ongoing feud between Cuba and the US, Castro refers to us, Americans, as the demon. Bwahahahaha!!! Okay, I’m done now. And changing the channel. This is retarded. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/15 "2000-06-28T20:35:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > in the santaria religion, it was saidthat a boy rescued by dolphins was going to kill/depose/eliminate Castro, elian was rescued by dolphins > \*\* Well \*\*\*\* me. I can’t imagine why the Miami lawyers didn’t mention _that_ to the Court. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/16 "2000-06-28T20:36:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > elian was rescued by dolphins > \*\* I still get chills when I see that infamous photograph of the dolphin holding little Elian in that closet with that gun pointed at them. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/17 "2000-06-28T20:41:18Z")
Hopefully the plane will crash. How ironic that would be. One terrible disaster to the US would kill another disaster to the US. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/18 "2000-06-28T20:47:51Z")
Gosh, and only $1.85 million spent trying to determine that an illegal immigrant is actually an illegal immigrant… BTW, ResevoirDogs, if I had been drinking something at the time I read your dolphin post, it would now be all over the screen. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/19 "2000-06-28T20:52:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > in the santaria religion, it was saidthat a boy rescued by dolphins was going to kill/depose/eliminate Castro, elian was rescued by dolphins > \*\* If you believe that Elian was rescued by dolphins, I suppose you would also believe that the image of the “virgin mary” popped up on a damn mirror. The kid had been ashore a month or so before his Miami Maniacs cooked that lie. Where the hell were the damn dolphins while every one else on the stinking boat croaked? I live in the Miami-Dade area, my life has been severely disrupted by the Elian saga and I will be damn glad to have it over and done with. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920/20 "2000-06-28T20:55:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > elian was rescued by dolphins > > \*\* > > I still get chills when I see that infamous photograph of the dolphin holding little Elian in that closet with that gun pointed at them. > > \*\* ROTF laughing my ass off!!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elian-has-been-freed/23920.md?page=2)