[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 44 (Wednesday, April 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 20, 1994]
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                          THE CRIME IN GORAZDE

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I had intended to get up here and talk about 
crime this morning, but I will wait until later to speak at length on 
the so-called crime bill we are debating this week.
  Instead, I want to start by mentioning the crime that is going on in 
and around the village of Gorazde in what used to be Yugoslavia.
  We must lift the arms embargo, even if that means the number of 
killings will increase.
  This week is the 51st anniversary of the beginning of the slaughter 
of the Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. It would have been nice if 
they had been able to make the Gestapo pay a more severe price as they 
were slaughtered.
  We cannot let people be killed wholesale without giving them the 
means to defend themselves.
  Mr. Speaker, it took us 30 years from the anarchy of the mid-1960's 
to reach the deplorable rate of crime we now have today.

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  It is going to take a full generation to change the attitudes that 
have created this crime wave across this country. Liberal philosophy 
has brought us to this point.
  It is going to take another 30 years to begin to undo the damage that 
has been done. The liberal philosophy in this Chamber, putting up these 
phony resistances to a good crime bill, is tragic. Crime will be 
identical next year, worse than what it is right now. And the Democrats 
crime bill will matter nothing because it is phony.

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