[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           SOMETHING 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, Rodney Hamrick, who is in prison for 
threatening the life of Ronald Reagan, threatened to blow up a Federal 
courthouse, a judge, the NAACP headquarters, and an airplane. Then he 
went beyond and he sent a bomb in the mail, that did not explode, to 
the U.S. attorney that had convicted him. He was naturally convicted.
  But a three-judge panel at the Fourth Circuit Court overturned the 
decision by saying, since the bomb did not detonate, it was not deadly. 
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. I believe that these three judges must have 
received a defective mail-order law degree from Sears Roebuck. 
Something is wrong when Gorbachev gets slapped in the face in Russia 
while campaigning and they call it an assassination. In America, a 
prisoner sends a mail bomb and it is treated like a misdemeanor. If 
that does not explain it all, I do not know what does.

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