[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H532]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SUPPORT DEMOCRACY IN HAITI

  (Mr. OWENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, the bloody spectacle of this week is not the 
release of Mel Gibson's gory movie exploiting the suffering of Jesus 
Christ. In this hemisphere, 600 miles from our shores, blood is flowing 
in the streets of Haiti with the complicity of the Bush administration. 
This White House and its agents are like Pontius Pilate, pretending to 
wash their hands while the democratic nation of Haiti is assassinated.
  At least one former CIA asset has been identified as a leader of the 
band of savage guerrillas. The people of the United States must turn 
their backs on this conspiracy and demand that the democratic nation of 
Haiti, the democratic government, the duly-elected President of Haiti 
be supported by the United States Government and that Aristide be 
allowed to serve out his next 2 years without any compromise with bands 
of thugs in the street.
  There is only one opposition. The so-called civil opposition is not 
civil at all. They operate hand in hand with the violence. Stop the 
violence and support democracy in Haiti.

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