[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H397]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE WAR ON TERRORISM

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow we are going to pass the welfare 
reform act without a single hearing in the subcommittee or in the full 
committee. It simply went to the Rules Committee and will come to the 
floor without debate in this House.
  I implore you, Mr. Speaker, to bring the domestic security 
enhancement bill to the committee and then to the floor with full 
debate before you try and run it through in the confusion around some 
terrorist act.
  I give two quotes and let people decide who said what. The first is: 
``The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That 
is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and 
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country 
to danger. It works the same way in any country.''
  The second quote is: ``To those who scare peace-loving people with 
phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: `Your tactics only aid 
terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our 
resolve.' ''
  The first is a quote from Hermann Goering, the propagandist for the 
Nazis. The second is John Ashcroft. Consider the similarity. We do not 
need to lose more of our liberties to defend ourselves in this country.

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