[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 27981]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TERRORIST IN NEW YORK

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, can anything top 
this last week's lesson in absurdity and perversity? I'm talking about 
the administration's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three 
other terrorist suspects from Guantanamo to New York. Absurd, because 
they have been charged before military tribunals, where they ought to 
be. Absurd, because it serves no purpose to bring them to the site of 
their worst action, just a stone's throw from Ground Zero. Perverse, 
because now, if you kill Americans on the battlefield, you will see 
justice done when you are captured by a military tribunal. But if 
instead of being a soldier on the battlefield, you attack Americans in 
their own home, you attack innocent Americans, you will now be 
privileged to get constitutional rights. The worse the terrorist, the 
greater the constitutional rights given to them. What a perverse action 
by this administration.

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