[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 65 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E848]
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              THE NEED FOR MORE THOROUGH BACKGROUND CHECKS

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                          HON. MAJOR R. OWENS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, April 6, 1995
  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, recent background checks of public officials 
and candidates for public office have appropriately caused concern. The 
legal practices of a professional physician have been thoroughly 
scrutinized. A sitting cabinet secretary has been cited for not telling 
absolutely everything about a personal sin. It may be that the 
background checks by the FBI have been assigned too great a role in 
deciding who is fit to serve in public office. Or it may be that the 
well developed skills of the brigade handling these background checks 
could perform a higher service for this increasingly mean-spirited and 
merciless nation. Why not go deeper with background checks and tell us 
about the ancestors of our public spokespersons? The world can clearly 
see that some of us are the descendants of the victims of the criminal 
slave industry. We do not know which officials are the descendants of 
the oppressors who were the beneficiaries of the heinous slave 
industry. Such identities were not important in the past; however, now 
a new level of evil has been unleashed and all kinds of knowledge is 
needed to compare this attempt to wipe out all progress achieved by the 
descendants of slaves. As the scorched earth fiscal policies of the 
Republican majority escalate in unison with a blitzkrieg attack on 
affirmative action, it would be illuminating to review a more detailed 
background of the leaders in this public policy assault. To increase 
their profits, over a two hundred year period, whose ancestors promoted 
slave breeding with teenage pregnancies? Whose ancestors for two 
hundred years worked mightily to obliterate all sense of family and 
humanity from slaves in order to make them more efficient beasts of 
burden? Backgrounds should be checked and it should be a crime to tell 
a lie to the FBI.
                       It's a Crime To Tell a Lie

     It's a crime
       To tell a lie
     To the background brigade
       Of the FBI
     Did your great
       Great grandfather
     Rape his slaves
       Or torture the males
     Are you the descendant
       Of greedy knaves
     Enriched by human sales
       It's a crime
     To tell a lie
       To honest interrogators
     From the FBI
       To meet their labor need
     Did your ancestors
       Make teenage girls breed
     Were young females
       Forced to go
     Or could they choose
       Their own Romeo
     Slavery was legal
       In white men's eyes
     But judged a moral crime
       By the ruler of all skies
     Don't tell a lie
       To the background brigade
     Of the FBI
       List deeds done
     To cleanse the shame
       Attach records
     Which clear
       Your family's name
     Remember
       It's a crime
     To tell a lie
       To the background brigade
     Of the FBI.
     

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