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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Solomon Calls for Impeachment (fwd)
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>> CHAIRMAN SOLOMON CALLS FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
>> In the House of Representatives, July 22, 1997
>>
>> Mr. Speaker, those who think the investigation into the scandals
>> surrounding the Clinton White House are sadly mistaken if they
>> dismiss it as a merely partisan attack.
>>
>> The New York Times has never been known as a mouthpiece for the
>> Republican Party, and could not be accused of aiding or abetting
>> such partisanship. All the more significant, then, is the Tuesday
>> column by A.M. Rosenthal, entitled 'The Connecting Line.'
>>
>> The 'connecting' is done to the bewildering and seemingly
>> unconnected scandals, and establishes a common theme.
>>
>> That common theme, Mr. Speaker, is the manipulation of the United
>> States by the People's Republic of China, and the extent to which
>> the actions of the Clinton administration made that manipulation
>> possible. The column is a must-read for anyone who still thinks,
>> and dares to claim, that this scandal is only about campaign
>> finance reform.
>>
>> Mr. Speaker, there is no reason why preparation should not be
>> made for the consideration of impeachment of the President, a
>> suggestion I do not make lightly.
>>
>> I place the Rosenthal column in today's Record.
>>
>> FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 22, 1997, BY A.M. ROSENTHAL
>>
>> In just one day last week three stories were reported that told
>> of the stunning successes the Chinese Politburo has achieved in
>> manipulating America and diminishing it as a credible political
>> player in the Far East.
>>
>> Americans can find similar stories almost every day in their
>> press. But American journalism, like American diplomacy and
>> politics, has failed to show the clear line that connects the
>> stories. And historically--meaning from tomorrow deep into the
>> next century--that failure can be the Politburo's biggest triumph
>> of all.
>>
>> One story dealt with China's plan to influence the American
>> Presidential race and how President Clinton insisted that the
>> agent of Beijing's chief overseas economic commercial partner be
>> given a role in the campaign.
>>
>> This agent, John Huang, received regular C.I.A. briefings. If the
>> White House does not understand that anything interesting the
>> C.I.A. told him found its way through his Indonesian masters to
>> their Beijing partners, it would be obscene self-delusion
>> amounting to dereliction of duty.
>>
>> Another story was about the growing worry in Congress that U.S.
>> intelligence has not kept track of how China's increasing
>> military and political power affect America. The house has called
>> for a report within a year. It appropriated $5 million to hire
>> academics to help our multi-billion-dollar intelligence
>> machinery.
>>
>> The third story told of how the dissident movement has been
>> crushed in China. The Communists got a free hand when the Clinton
>> Administration dropped human rights as a goal of its foreign
>> policy. The Communist then had no worry about economic penalty
>> for the torture and murder of Chinese guilt of trying to express
>> themselves. So they set to work.
>>
>> Just another human rights story. But the connecting line among
>> all the successes of China is human rights. The line begins with
>> President Clinton's decision in 1994 to renege on promises he had
>> made to use economic pressure to help imprisoned Chinese and
>> Tibetan dissidents.
>>
>> Human rights for Chinese--the right to speak, write and worship
>> as they choose--should be important in themselves to Americans.
>> They should make us cherish and protect our own, inspire us to
>> give a hand to those who have none.
>>
>> The apologists for China sneer at all that. What are we,
>> missionaries? They say Americans supporting human rights thirst
>> for enemies after the Soviet breakup and select China for the
>> role.
>>
>> This is a knowing falsehood. The opposite is true. Like other
>> police-state rulers, Chinese Communists live in fear of their
>> people's desire for liberties. They see American democracy as the
>> danger to the Communist Party, the inevitable enemy. They search
>> out other dictatorships for help in damaging America.
>>
>> That is why China sells nuclear technology to the likes of Iran.
>> To weaken America--that is the connecting line in Politburo
>> policy.
>>
>> For Mr. Clinton, the decision to betray Chinese human rights was
>> the beginning of the line to the other accommodations and
>> appeasements that flowed from it. Could he have brought into his
>> campaign a man useful only because of his links with China,
>> direct or indirect, if he were still standing up to what the
>> Communists were doing to dissidents?
>>
>> The President's men, and women, walk the line with him. For
>> career reasons, they pretended to believe his cynical fantasy
>> that deserting human rights would somehow make the Communists
>> improve human rights. They said straight-faced that it would also
>> persuade the Politburo to safeguard America's security
>> interests--no more sales of cruise missiles and nuclear
>> technology to the Irans of the world.
>>
>> So when American intelligence did report those sales, the
>> Administration whined a bit but accepted Beijing's insulting
>> answer that it knew nothing about the sales. They expected
>> Americans to believe even pistols could be exported from China
>> without Beijing's approval.
>>
>> Only one thing prevents Beijing from fully relishing its double
>> victory over Chinese human rights and American's claims to
>> international moral leadership.
>>
>> Beijing has not yet stamped out one human rights struggle--the
>> passion for freedom of worship. Yesterday the U.S. again
>> acknowledged the persecution of Christians in China. America's
>> Government will try to remain detached. Amerca's people may not.
>>
>> Published in the Jul. 28, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly
>> Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
>> Reposting permitted with this message intact
>
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