[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 30 (Thursday, March 17, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: March 17, 1994]
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           JEFFREY DAHMER HAS MORE RIGHTS THAN TAXPAYERS? NOT

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Jeffrey Dahmer, the mass murderer, was 
recently asked if he felt any different now as far as his behavior with 
the victims that he had executed. And Jeffrey Dahmer says, ``I don't 
have to answer any questions.'' When he was pressed further, Jeffrey 
Dahmer says, ``Look, there is a Constitution, and I have rights too.'' 
I have rights too, Congress?
  Jeffrey Dahmer has constitutional rights, but a taxpayer accused of 
simple fraud is guilty and has to prove themselves innocent. No wonder 
the American people are sick and tired and fed up with the Congress 
that protects and guarantees the rights of Jeffrey Dahmers but turns 
its back on their own taxpayers who keep this guy Dahmer well fed in 
jail.
  Beam me up, Congress. Sign discharge petition No. 12. The 
Constitution says you are innocent until proven guilty, and I think 
taxpayers, the last I heard, were American citizens.

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