Jeff Duncan: “a few days ago on this floor I mentioned that most polls showed that the people thought that Elian Gonzalez should be…”

“a few days ago on this floor I mentioned that most polls showed that the people thought that Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father. As a father, I could understand those feelings. I had very mixed emotions about that case. But I said that regardless of how people thought the custody should be handled, all Americans should have been shocked and saddened by the way the excessive gestapo-like way the Justice Department handled that predawn raid at the home in Miami. I quoted Lawrence Tribe and Alan Dershowitz, two very liberal Harvard professors, who said that the way this was handled with the Justice Department taking the law into their own hands should be considered a real danger to the freedom of all Americans. In the May 10 edition of the Conservative Chronicle, there is a column reprinted by Charley Reese, the nationally syndicated columnist, who last year was voted by C-SPAN viewers as their favorite or most popular nationally syndicated columnist. I would like to read most of the column that he wrote concerning this, because it expresses a lot of views that I think need to be expressed and people need to think about.”