[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 74 (Thursday, May 20, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3396]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         RETURN ``THE HUMAN RIGHTS'' TO THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT

  (Mr. DIAZ-BALART asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to protest a violation of 
the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights by the Clinton administration. 
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that the right of 
the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects 
against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.
  Mr. Ramon Saul Sanchez, the President of the Democracy Movement, has 
been on a hunger strike in Miami for 16 days. He began this protest on 
May 5 to protest the illegal confiscation of the boat, The Human 
Rights, by the Coast Guard, acting on orders from the Clinton-Gore 
White House. The small boat was confiscated for the crime of carrying 
copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the high seas 
the same day that dissidents within Cuba had announced that they would 
peacefully be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights.
  That apparently seditious document for the Clinton administration 
reads, everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence.
  Mr. President, today is Cuban Independence Day. Bring an end to the 
hunger strike. Return The Human Rights to the Democracy Movement.

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