Elian and Schiavo


The Elian Gonzalez controversy and the Teri Schiavo controversy have plenty in common besides the fact they took place in Florida.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110006480

Both involve a lot of hypocrisy from the Radical Left.

In both cases, those who were unhappy with the courts' decisions strained to assert the federal government's power to produce a different outcome. The difference is that in Mrs. Schiavo's case, Congress backed off after passing a bill that merely asked a federal court to hear the case from scratch, something that U.S. District Judge James Whittemore declined to do. By contrast, those who wanted the federal government to intervene in Elian Gonzalez's case went all the way, supporting a predawn armed federal raid on the morning before Easter to seize the 6-year-old boy despite a federal appeals court's refusal to order his surrender

That's Right - Then President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Janet Reno DEFIED A COURT ORDER in the Elian Gonzalez case!

Read that sentence 6 times.

Yet, the same Radical Leftist who complain about police brutality cheered on the police brutality that Janet Reno's goons used against Elian Gonzalez and his Miami relatives .