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• Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:38 AM

  Another Issue Worth Noting - (unless, that is, you can't defend it)

  Illegal Seazure of Elian Gonzalez

  Note: This is not an argument for or against Elian being placed in the custody of his father. The Clinton administration defied the rule of law. Eric Holder was at the center of it.

  Elian Gonzalez was taken at gunpoint from the home of his relatives, without a court order to do so. Before they took Elian, the MP5 wielding jackboots smashed in the door to the home, tear-gassed people outside the home, and attempted to prevent the press from covering the event...by forcing them to the ground, at gun point.

  "Although a federal court had ordered that Elian not be removed from the country pending a determination of his asylum petition, and although a court had ruled that the Immigration and Naturalization Service could exercise custody and control of Elian for the time being, no judge or neutral magistrate had issued the type of warrant or other authority needed for the executive branch to break into the home to seize the child." - LAURENCE H. TRIBE, professor of constitutional law at Harvard

  Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4D81530F936A15757C0A9669C8B63

  Alan Dershowitz, and many others, made these same points.

  How can you ignore this? The Marc Rich pardon (as sleazy as it was) doesn't hold a candle to this lawlessness.

  —NotOrbitBoy Read NotOrbitBoy's other letters
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