House Proceeding 11-16-09 on Nov 16th, 2009 :: 0:36:50 to 0:41:20
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: join me in celebrating the 100th occasion of the thanksgiving day race in cincinnati and wis cincinnati tradition continued success. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. mr. moran of kansas. mr. diaz-balart of florida. the gentleman is are recognized for five minutes.

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Speech By: Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: mr. diaz-balart: madam speaker, the international press, including thes prein the united states, continues to ignore the suffering of people of cuba. yes, there are exceptions such as "the national review keys"

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: jay the "miami he press almost systematically ignore what is goes on in cuba. despite cuba being 890 miles from our shore, despite hundreds of prison noferse conscience languishing in dunons simply because of their

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: advocacy for freedom, including freedom of the pss which should not be denied to any people, or people guilty of crimes that are only illegal in the fief dom of a dangerous despot, crimes like dangerousness or

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: leave the country. the press continues to ignore cuba. jewish friends told me they understand what i'm talking about when i refer to the concept of a nonperson. for countless generations, for 1800 years, jews were subject

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: to exile, discrimination, and their suffering was ig knowed throughout the world. they were nonpersons. when their suffer wugs not ignored, it was often minimized or ridicule. jews know the recovery of their homeland was absolutely necessary. that was the only way to guarantee the end of the

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: nonperson status. to guarantee an end to pogrom, discrimination, to persecution. cubans have been stateless nonpersons for over 51 years. they sufficienting is systematically ignores. they unity of purpose is questioned or ridiculed. even the torture of their

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: heroes is ignored. a respected economist and leading cuban dissident was only released from prison so she wouldn't die from her many illnesses in prison and embarrass castro. she's close to death due to complications of a hunger strike she engaged in.

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: in the home of one of other cuba's pro democracy leaders, cubans have not yet recovered their jew, they will, but they haven't. i ask the to please cease treating cuba's pro-democracy activists as

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: though they didn't exist. stop treating them as nonpens. why do you c cuba's brave prisoners of conscience? why don't you at least write about the elderly prisoners of conscience, or about the severely handicapped prisoners

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: of conscience. or most especially, about the gravely ill cuban prisoners of conscience in the gulag. members of the press, have you

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: no conscience? do not continue to treat thee of cuba and their heroes as nonpersons. please. do your duty. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under the speaker's announced

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: policy of january 6, 2009, the gentlewoman from ohio recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. ms. fudge: tha speaker. the congressional black caucus