Update: Dec. 17, 2009 - Once again David Goldman has been led on a wild goose chase! David was on his way to Brazil yesterday to get custody of his son after a five year battle. A Brazilian appeal’s court ordered Sean to be returned to his father. Yes for an entire twelve hours it seemed that this ordeal may have been finally coming to an end! Not so! An order has been halted so that the Lins e Silva family can continue their illusions of grandeur by appealing to the Brazilian Supreme Court in a battle, not so much for the love a small child, but more in a battle of hating to lose!
I say that the American government needs to get involved and we should boycott Brazil until Sean is brought home!
What must be done in order for the Brazilian government to force the Lins e Silva family to turn over Sean Goldman to his father David? President Obama spoke to Brazilian President Lula da Silva privately about this issue when they met last month as was reported by a White House official. On March 25, 2009 the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution calling for Sean to be reunited with his father in the U.S. Must we as citizens boycott anything and everything from Brazil in an effort to force the country to abide by the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction?
Until now David Goldman has gotten the run around from the Brazilian courts for almost five years and although a number of US Senators (Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Bob Casey (D-PA) and Mel Martinez (R-FL)) have personally taken up the cause, still nothing has been resolved! So where does that leave us? To strike where it hurts the most! In the pocketbook!!!
I say boycott Brazil! Do not travel to Brazil, do not buy anything Brazilian, do not go to Brazilian restaurants, etc., until there is an outcry from the Brazilian people themselves to bring closure to this situation that has gone on far too long!!!
Maya Muses: Having Brazilian friends and quite a few readers to my blog from Brazil, I don’t say this very lightly, but enough is enough! This child is growing up without his father and this father without his son.
Photo Credits: Google Images
10 responses so far ↓
1 Deena // Apr 5, 2009 at 11:08 am
I’m not one for boycotts, but if Pres. Obama couldn’t get the ball rolling, what else can be done?
2 Lynn // Apr 5, 2009 at 9:59 pm
That’s what a lot of people are wondering!
3 meredith aka skylar // Apr 6, 2009 at 12:30 am
I totally agree with you! I can`t believe after all the years, Sean isn`t brought back home to his real father…..
4 Lynn // Apr 6, 2009 at 4:48 am
I thought things looked positive last month, but when you see nothing actually being accomplished, you begin to wonder will this thing drag on for another five years???!
5 Mikael Karlsson // Apr 28, 2009 at 8:21 am
I certainly boycott Brazil since a month ago. And I will continue to do that until the day I see radical changes in Brazil’s way of handling these abduction cases. It was certainly the Sean Goldman case that made me well aware how badly the nation respects the Hague convention (many other human rights issues also by the way). Unfortunately, there are many other cases of abduction as well that equally ignored by the the Brazilian government and justice. So the country has a lot to fix before I ever set my foot there again or by anything Brazilian. I first came to Brazil in 1977 and have also lived there.
6 Lynn // Apr 29, 2009 at 12:01 am
Mikael, I’m sure there are many other cases that aren’t in the public eye like Sean and David Goldman’s story is and if the Brazilian government refuses to do anything about this case, imagine how hopeless the other cases are!
What I find unique in this case is the fact that Sean’s mother died. If she were still alive, I could understand the government taking the mother’s side, who was Brazilian afterall. What I don’t understand is now that she’s dead, why they’re not returning Sean to his natural father!
I hope others will also continue to boycott Brazil until justice is done!
7 Mark // Dec 17, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Sick of third world countries doing sh&t like this, return the boy to his father and everyone stop buying anything from Brazil, racist bastards.
8 Lynn // Dec 17, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I agree Mark, this has gone on far too long!!! It’s time to bring Sean home!!! All those precious years that David has been without his son can never be returned to either one. Our government has to put pressure on the Brazilian government to get this case over and done with. In the meantime: Boycott Brazil!!!
Lins e Silva family - “Let this child return to his father!!!” His real father!!!!
9 PHOTO2C // Dec 17, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I also in the pass thought BOYCOTTS were dumb, but in this case I feel that brazil needs to get it though its head that they are WRONG! Let this be a lesson to An America who bitches about the justice system in America. It’s a whole lot better then ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! I will be checking on what I have bought from brazil and will not starting till Sean comes home to his Real Dad!
(Brazilian Exports in US$ 197.9 billion (2008)[7]
Export goods: transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, autos, automotive parts, machinery
Main export partners United States 14.0%, )
10 Lynn // Dec 18, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Thanks for the info, Photo! Brazil along with Italy and Spain make the best shoes in the world, but you won’t see me buying anymore shoes from Brazil until Sean is back in the US with David!
I’m not a coffee drinker, but I hope that those who are will drink Colombian or Jamaican coffee instead. I’m told they’re better anyway!
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