[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 17 (Wednesday, February 16, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     EXTREME RHETORIC FROM THE LEFT

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the rhetoric of the left these days is 
becoming outrageous. Democrats in Virginia's legislature took this to 
new levels last week. Several compared a measure defining marriage as 
the union of a man and a woman to the Holocaust. Last week, the mayor 
of Baltimore compared President Bush's budget impact on cities to the 
murder of 3,000 civilians on 9/11 killed by terrorists. A Colorado 
professor similarly disparaged 9/11 victims, calling them Nazis, little 
Eichmanns, working to sustain the Fascist capitalist system.
  This demagoguery is an affront to our sense of decency and justice. 
It blames the victims, not those who murder them, for the most terrible 
injustices of our time. The Holocaust is incomparable to anything we 
have ever seen. Fourteen million people were murdered because of their 
race, ideology, nationality, or disability. Mr. Speaker, 9/11 was 
perpetrated not by capitalism, but by terrorists. That is the truth of 
history.
  The left would do well to consider what their words really mean when 
leveling accusations at opponents, not sacrifice decency and truth at 
the altar of political expediency.

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