[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2299-2300]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  ANARCHY IS HAPPENING TO OUR NEIGHBOR

  (Mr. MEEKS of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. Mr. Speaker, if not now, when? Blood is in the 
streets. Anarchy is happening to our neighbor right next door, our 
third border is at stake. It is time for the United States of America 
to take serious the activities that are taking place on that island 
called Haiti, for indeed we should have been there long ago, talking 
and trying to negotiate and bringing things so that democracy can 
prevail.
  We are the largest democracy on the planet Earth; and if democracy 
means anything, we should look just 90 miles off our shores and say 
that we are going to support and stand for democracy and not stand for 
anything that will be less than that, where mere villains and thugs can 
then take over a country.
  We should stand strong and say that we are not going to allow that to 
happen, that we want democracy to flourish everywhere, not just 
overseas, not just away from home, but right on our third border. That 
protection that we

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need, we should be mounting the troops together, the United Nations as 
well as other foreign countries, to bring to the people on the ground 
peace.

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