No rights to free speech, no rights to the product of your own labor. If Castro wants you dead, you are dead. If Castro wants your son, you give up your son. Nonetheless, in spite of everything, I think it is clear that if Juan Gonzalez does make it to America, we have no decent choice but to return Elian to him. What makes America free is respect for law, both the written and the moral law.
Parents make decisions about their children's well-being.
I don't know. The fact that Castro has been unwilling to let him come to American soil heretofore speaks volumes about the coercion Mr. Gonzalez has faced in Cuba. He may decide to take Elian back into slavery, fearing for kin left behind. He may decide to make a break for freedom here. But if his father chooses to do so, I do not see how we can forcibly prevent him, without becoming for at least a little while the kind of government we hate.