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This is from June 16, 1999, on page H4366 (you can search the entire Congressional Record here:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord/This is an amazing statement, and shows how extreme the republican party has become. DeLay is speaker of the House now. He is an extremist, as is made perfectly clear in these comments. I've bolded those of particular interest:
Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Chairman, I appre-ciate
the gentleman from Florida
yielding me this time.
Mr. Chairman, I just think it is sort
of ironic that the very ones that want-ed
us to come straight from the Senate
with a bill to the floor with no consid-eration
are now complaining because
there was not enough consideration.
Mr. Chairman, I just want to say that
the truth will make us free if we admit
what the truth is. Every once in a
while, I read something or hear some-thing
that blows away all that smoke
that clouds a particular issue. A letter
written by a Mr. Addison Dawson to
the San Angelo Standard-Times is just
such a statement. In fact, after I make
this statement, I do not think anybody
else needs to speak. We just need to
vote.
The following is Mr. Dawson’s letter,
which Paul Harvey read on his radio
show: ‘‘For the life of me, I can’t un-derstand
what could have gone wrong
in Littleton, Colorado. If only the par-ents
had kept their children away from
the guns, we wouldn’t have had such a
tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the
guns.
‘‘It couldn’t have been because half
our children are being raised in broken
homes. It couldn’t have been because
our children get to spend an average of
30 seconds in meaningful conversation
with their parents each day.
‘‘After all, we give our children qual-ity
time. It couldn’t have been because
we treat our children as pets and our
pets as children.
‘‘It couldn’t have been because we
place our children in day care centers
where they learn their socialization
skills among their peers under the law
of the jungle, while employees who
have no vested interest in the children
look on and make sure that no blood is
spilled.
It couldn’t have been because we
allow our children to watch, on aver-age,
7 hours of television a day filled
with the glorification of sex and vio-lence
that isn’t even fit for adult con-sumption.
‘‘It couldn’t have been because we
allow (or even encourage) our children
to enter into virtual worlds in which,
to win the game, one must kill as
many opponents as possible in the
most sadistic way possible.
‘‘It couldn’t have been because we
have sterilized and contracepted our
families down to sizes so small that the
children we do have are so spoiled with
material things that they come to
equate the receiving of the material
with love.
‘‘It couldn’t have been because our
children, who historically have been
seen as a blessing from God, are now
being viewed as either a mistake cre-ated
when contraception fails or incon-veniences
that parents try to raise in
their spare time. It couldn’t have been
because we give 2-year prison sentences
to teenagers who kill their newborns.
‘‘It couldn’t have been because our
school systems teach the children that
they are nothing but glorified apes who
have evolutionized out of some pri-mordial
soup of mud.‘‘It couldn’t have been because we
teach our children that there are no
laws of morality that transcend us,
that everything is relative and that ac-tions
do not have consequences. What
the heck, the President gets away with
it.
‘‘Nah, it must have been the guns.’’
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