May 25, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE S7479 

ADL uses its information ‘‘to suppress free 

speech and discussion and to influence public 

thought and sentiment of an unsuspecting 

citizenry.’’

Lo and behold what do we now have? Legislation that will suppress freedom of speech 

and discussion. 

In 1983 the Department of Justice (DOJ) 

paid the ADL $20,000 in taxpayers’ money to 

produce a report on so-called ‘‘hate groups’’. 

The DOJ refused to publish the report because it was so sensationalized that the DOJ 

could not consider it credible. The ADL went 

ahead with it’s own copyright and published 

the report anyway, feeding it to the press. 

The DOJ forced the ADL to relinquish the 

copyright. Now the ADL is once again feeding the press lies, rumor and gossip which 

the press accepts as gospel. 

The press then takes this mis-information, 

rumor and gossip, sensationalizes it to spin a 

tale until it grows and grows so out of proportion that the press starts scrambling to 

create a better story than the other guy. 

Law enforcement, military and government 

officials then pick up on it believing in a literal ‘‘feeding-frenzy’’ of the press. This has 

become a story that had lost control and 

those who do not investigate it for themselves are totally irresponsible, especially 

law makers. 

As we are now witnessing, Americans are 

questioning the press. This is evidenced by 

the phenomenal growth of the patriot/militia 

movement. 

As this patriotic awareness expands, millions of Americans will expect a new view 

from a more responsive government. A new 

re-birth of responsibility from a government 

that has strayed from it’s ‘‘job-description’’

as mandated by the Constitution. A government created by the people and for the people. Not the limited few. 

May God be with all America as he watches over the shoulders of you who write her 

laws. A nation can survive it’s fools and even 

the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason 

from within. 

America has nothing to fear from patriots 

maintaining ‘‘vigilance.’’ She should, however, fear those that would ‘‘outlaw’’ vigilance. 

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WACO AND RUBY RIDGE INQUIRIES 

Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I had 

been looking for some time to talk on 

my own inquiries into the events at 

Waco and Ruby Ridge, but since the 

leader has scheduled the terrorism bill 

to come up and has limited the opening 

statements in morning business to 5 

minutes, it is my intention to try to be 

the lead speaker tomorrow. That will 

fit into some of my opening comments 

on terrorism. I will present the findings of my preliminary inquiry at that 

time. 

I thank the Chair and yield the floor. 

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CONCLUSION OF MORNING 

BUSINESS 

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that morning business be closed. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

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COMPREHENSIVE TERRORISM 

PREVENTION ACT 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

clerk will report S. 735 by title. 

The legislative clerk read as follows: 

A bill (S. 735) to prevent and punish acts of 

terrorism, and for other purposes. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there 

objection to the immediate consideration of the bill? 

There being no objection, the Senate 

proceeded to consider the bill. 

AMENDMENT NO. 1199

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I send an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute to the desk and ask for its immediate consideration. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

clerk will report. 

The legislative clerk read as follows: 

The Senator from Utah [Mr. HATCH], for 

Mr. DOLE, for himself, Mr. HATCH, Mr. NICKLES, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. GRAMM, and Mr. BROWN, 

proposes an amendment numbered 1199. 

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that reading of the 

amendment be dispensed with. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

(The amendment is printed in today’s 

RECORD under ‘‘Amendments Submitted.’’) 

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, today the 

Senate begins consideration of the 

Dole-Hatch Comprehensive Terrorism 

Prevention Act of 1995. This amendment has within it one of the most important pieces of criminal law in this 

country’s history, and that is the DoleSpecter-Hatch habeas corpus reform 

bill. That is only one part of it, but 

that is the one part that will make a 

difference with regard to the Oklahoma 

City bombing. 

This legislation represents a landmark bipartisan effort to address the 

issue of grave national importance; 

that is, the prevention and punishment 

of acts of domestic and international 

terrorism. 

This legislation adds important tools 

to the Government’s fight against terrorism and does so in a temperate manner that is protective of civil liberties. 

In short, I believe that this bill is the 

most comprehensive antiterrorism bill 

ever considered in the Senate. 

This legislation increases the penalties for acts of foreign and domestic 

terrorism, including the use of weapons 

of mass destruction, attacks on officials and employees of the United 

States, and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. 

It gives the President enhanced tools 

to use his foreign policy powers to 

combat terrorism overseas, and it gives 

those of our citizens harmed by terrorist acts of outlaw states the right to 

sue their attackers in our own courts 

of law. 

Our bill provides a constitutional 

mechanism to the Government to deport aliens suspected of engaging in 

terrorist activity without divulging 

our national security secrets. 

It also includes a provision that constitutionally limits the ability of foreign terrorist organizations to raise 

funds within the United States. 

Our bill also provides measured enhancements to the authority of Federal 

law enforcement to investigate terrorist threats and acts. In addition to 

giving law enforcement the legal tools 

they need to do the job, our bill also 

authorizes increased resources for law 

enforcement to carry out its mission. 

The bill provides for $1.8 billion over 5 

years for an enhanced antiterrorism effort at both the Federal and the State 

level. 

The bill also implements the convention on the marking of plastic explosives. It requires that the makers of 

plastic explosives make the explosives 

detectable. 

Finally, the bill appropriately reforms habeas corpus, as I mentioned 

before. 

The Specter-Hatch habeas corpus bill 

will correct some of the deficiencies in 

criminal law that exist today. It will 

stop the frivolous appeals that have 

been driving people nuts throughout 

this country and subjecting victims 

and families of victims to unnecessary 

pain for year after year after year. 

Habeas corpus allows those convicted 

of brutal crimes, including terrorism, 

to delay the just imposition of punishment for years. And this will correct 

that while still preserving and protecting the constitutional rights of 

those who are accused. 

Several points, however, should be 

addressed. I have long opposed the unchecked expansion of Federal authority and will continue to do so. Still, 

the Federal Government does have a legitimate role to play in our national 

life and in law enforcement. In particular, the Federal Government has an 

obligation to protect all of our citizens 

from serious criminal threats emanating from abroad or those that involve the national interest. Over 140 

years ago, Abraham Lincoln had this 

to say about the role of Government. 

The legitimate object of Government 

is—

. . . to do for the people what needs to be 

done, but which they cannot, by individual 

effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves. If some men will kill, it is a common 

object with peaceful and just men to prevent 

it. 

Similarly, it is the responsibility of 

the Federal Government to assist the 

States in meeting those threats that 

none alone can adequately meet. The 

terrorist threat, whether posed by foreign entities or domestic interests, 

meets this test. 

We must, nevertheless, remember 

that our response to terrorism carries 

with it the grave risk of impinging on 

the rights of free speech, assembly, petition for the redress of grievances, and 

the right to keep and bear arms. We 

cannot allow this to happen. It would 

be cruel irony if, in response to the 

acts of evil and misguided men hostile 

to our Government, we stifled true debate on the proper role of Government. 

Nor shall we exchange our precious 

Constitution which has protected us 

for over 200 years for false promises of 

‘‘increased security.’’ For as Ben 

Franklin said: 

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