[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22501]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           OCCUPIED TERRITORY

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, several nations are involved. These nations, 
with their thousands of peoples, have occupied someone else's sovereign 
country. They moved in silently over a long period of time. Some of the 
infiltrators were organized, some were not. They crossed national 
boundaries without regard for the rule of law. The migrant peoples 
began to colonize the new land because it was flowing with milk and 
honey. And the inhabitants did not resist the infiltration. The 
inhabitants of the occupied land paid little attention to the invasion. 
The inhabitants and their leaders were too busy. After all, they were 
protecting the borders of other nations. The colonists from the foreign 
nations began to take from the new land. They demanded and received 
benefits from the inhabitants. The locals suddenly became alarmed and 
asked, how can this be happening? These foreign nations were uninvited. 
They cared little about the sovereignty of the occupied nation. They 
came and brought another culture, another language. They moved in and 
lived on the land because they could.
  Mr. Speaker, this ought not to be. But it is. It is the occupied 
territory of the United States of America. And that's just the way it 
is.

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