Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970055479

But "by their fruits ye shall know them." say the scriptures. and once again I would like to remind my fellow Americans and my colleagues in this esteemed body of the bitter fruits of communism. They are both manifest and manifold: Thousands of boat people clambering into rickety boats to escape from the new order in Southeast Asia. East Germans dodging bullets and barbed wire to climb the Berlin Wall. the Czech crop duster who loaded his family into his light plane and risked antiaircraft fire to land in Austria. refugees from Red China swimming the straits of Formosa to Quemoy and Matsu. The fruits of communism are a Lithuanian sailor jumping aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter off Marthas Vineyard.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
GERALD SOLOMON
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
1981-07-15
Speech ID
970055479
Paragraph
#0
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