[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 COURT-MARTIAL OF MICHAEL NEW IS WRONG

  (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, Michael New is a decorated soldier, he 
loves his country. His bravery, patriotism, and devotion to duty have 
never been questioned. As we meet today, Michael New is being court-
martialed, court-martialed for refusing to wear the blue beret and 
shoulder patch of the United Nations on a peacekeeping mission.
  Michael New said, ``I will only wear the uniform of my country, the 
United States of America.'' Bravo, Michael New. Michael New took an 
oath to the Constitution of the United States, not to the charter of 
the United Nations, and I cannot speak for the Congress, ladies and 
gentlemen, but if I could, I would tell all these politically correct 
bureaucrats to take their one world order hands off Michael New and 
leave him alone.
   Mr. Speaker, there is something drastically wrong when a military 
hero is being court-martialed because he refuses to wear a foreign 
uniform. Think about it and beam me up.

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