[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9079]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE UNITED NATIONS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I do applaud the comments being a Rotarian. 
Rotary International has done a great deal.
  But I rise today because, yesterday, we heard and read news reports 
of the United Nations efforts to keep secret the very information with 
which it should have been most forthcoming. At a time when the United 
Nations' reputation for trust, justice, fairness and following its own 
rules is at an all time low, it should be doing everything it can to 
bring information to light, whether it is good or bad.
  However, this United Nations and apparently its leader has far more 
guilty culpability than many of us ever suspected. The United Nations' 
leadership seems united in one thing: Do not let people discover the 
truth. The U.N. leadership, if it spent half the time lining the fabric 
of freedom as it is alleged to have done in lining the pockets of his 
family and friends, we would not have these problems.
  If the U.N. is going to cover up the wrongs it has done from those 
who pay for the U.N., then it is high time we cover our U.S. bank 
account from them. We are literally paying them to hire guns, to hide 
information from us. Organized crime is said to have cleaners that come 
in and clean up after illegal activity. Sounds like the Secretary 
General himself has full-time cleaners on his staff.
  It is time to hold the U.N. accountable.

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