quarterly-report.com Political Commentary by James R. Audet

April 23, 2000
Easter Sunday

The world can celebrate today, the end of a son's separation from his father.   Elian Gonzalez has finally been reunited with his Dad.  We are bestowed a moment of peace on this most appropriate day.

The unenlightened will focus on the government's pre-dawn rescue of Elian from his temporary, Florida "guardians" as another justification to have denied his Cuban father, Juan Gonzalez, the parental right to his son.  The outraged clique of the ignorant will ignore the sinister motives of Elian's dysfunctional relatives who had debased themselves to the level of kidnappers by holding hostage a six year boy for their own selfish, anti-Castro purposes.

For those who hold life and family dear, the picture of a beaming child, glowing in the embrace of his father, will be verification that basic humanity transcends geographical borders, political ideologies, or the flags of nations.  For those that have an understanding of life, the professed outrage of politicians who seek to capitalize on the anguish of a father and the trauma of a child by pandering to the hysterical Cuban-American community will be ignored as the ranting of the inhumane.

On this Easter Sunday, the Christian faith celebrates Jesus' resurrection from the dead, a life given by the Son of God to save humanity from its base evils. The Son's two thousand year old cry from the cross, "Father, why have you forsaken me?" is a moment of unequivocal relevance to the present.  For six year old Elian, that cry was heard by those who understand the relationship of father to son and the heartache of separation.

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