House Proceeding 06-02-09 on Jun 2nd, 2009 :: 0:35:55 to 0:40:15
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Dana Rohrabacher: the world to forget tianmen square. it is up to each of us to keep the memory live. i thank the gentleman and i yield become. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts yields back the balance of his time. the chair regnizes the gentleman from texas. mr. poe: i yield five minutes to the the gentleman from

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Speech By: Dana Rohrabacher

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Dana Rohrabacher: california, mr. rohrabacher, the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. mr. rohrabacher: june 4 marks the anniversary of the massacre of the chinese docracy movement at tianmen square in beijing. this date marks a turning point and it also marks a day of

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Dana Rohrabacher: shame for the bloody murder -- a murder that was committed by the communist party bosses when they sent chinese troops to slaughter the i'd -- ideal is particular people who were demanding democracy in tianmen square just 20 years

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Dana Rohrabacher: ago. this day, the government of china affirmed to the world that it is a criminal enterprise that is perct willing to murder unarmed people in order to stain power. shame on those communist party bosses who still, 20 years

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Dana Rohrabacher: after tianmen square, would still massacre advocates of democracy if they would gather in their streets, just as they massacre fellow members one at a time as they arrest them and put them into prison and murder and sell their body parts, just

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Dana Rohrabacher: as they murder tibet nationalists or christians or other religious believers. shame obey jing. shame on the people of the world who would treat the govement of beijing as it was the same as a democratic government. june 4 is not just a day of shame for the beijing regime but a day of shame for our

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Dana Rohrabacher: government as well. under president reagan we made it clear that the united states would continue tprovide credit, investment, technology transfer as long as china was willing to continue on the path of reform and bringing their society and making it a more open society.

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Dana Rohrabacher: reagan had even been confronted with tiananmen square. if you send the troops in to kill these people, the deal is off. you will pay a price. do you know what our government did? it wasn't president reagan but president herbert walker bush. his message said nothing, because he didn't send the message and that was the

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Dana Rohrabacher: message that the murderers in beijing needed to hear. america doesn't give a damn about demoacy or doesn't care about human rights. we care about making a buck and if you have to slaughter the people of tianmen square, the americans will never ever protest. they won't whisper a protest, they won't cancel contracts

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Dana Rohrabacher: because the money is more important to the americans than freedom. well, that doesn't reprent the america that i'm all about. and that immorality of siding with the gangsters and murders in order to make short-term profit, that policy is coming back to haunt us now.

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Dana Rohrabacher: that policy has created a monster in beijing, a powerful, powerful force for evil in this world that we must now confront. . an anniversary of shame on what our reaction was to that murder and repression that took place

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Dana Rohrabacher: 20 years ago. let us send a message to the people of china. we are on their side. this resolution, if nothing else, hopefully will let them know that as our people stumble over themselves trying to make short-term pfit by making deals with the gangsters that are pressed the people of china that railroad there are

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Dana Rohrabacher: americans here who still hold true to the values of jefferson and washington and our founding