[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6837-H6838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      DANGEROUS CAMPAIGN RHETORIC

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the 

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House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, yesterday a special 
congressional panel heard stories of growing threats and attacks 
against public officials, law enforcement officers, environmentalists, 
and women advocates by extremist right-wing groups and militia in this 
country.
  This week the Nation was shocked by extremist campaign material 
produced by the National Republican Congressional Committee in the name 
of Speaker Gingrich that suggested Democratic Members of the House are 
wanted criminals just for disagreeing with the Republican Contract for 
America.
  That extremist rhetoric endangers democracy and encourages a lunatic 
fringe of this Nation. As a Nation we have learned that when you preach 
hate; you get hate, when you preach violence, you get violence.
  Thirty-two years ago another wanted poster was distributed in Dallas, 
TX, on November 22, 1963, accusing President Kennedy of selling out 
America to the United Nations and being anti-Christian. This wanted 
poster ended in a tragedy.
  We should understand that we cannot have the leading politicians of 
this Nation preaching hatred, preaching the suggestion that politicians 
who disagree are somehow criminals. Speaker Gingrich should repudiate 
this poster and withdraw this campaign rhetoric from the public.


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