Speech #990025373

When you think about It. you have refugee camps in Thailand where the Vietnamese Communist army has driven people. You have refugee camps In Honduras and In Costa Rica where the Communist armies have driven people. You have millions of refugees move west in Europe to get away from the Communists. You have refugees who have moved into Florida to get away from Cuba. There is a systematic pattern that where there is communism you get refugees. So if you did not know anything about the planet and you were. let us say. a man from Mars and you came down to Earth and you looked around. you would know instantly that Nicaragu was Communist. instantly. because you could look at the camps and say to yourself. "Aha. right there there must be tyranny of some kind. Something must be wrong." It is interesting. It is a tragic commentary on the modern age that there is a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. and the other point I wanted to make for just a minute. because I find it sc fascinating. and this is the last point I want to make about the BarnesHamilton resolution. is that in this resolution it provides that the refugee money would be spent through either the International Committee of the Red Cross or the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. I have to say first of all I have great respect for the International Red Cross and I think it is well worthy of support. but as one gentleman said earlier tonight. can you imagine if you had been George Washington at Valley Forge and the French had sent you a letter and said. "We know you need money to fight. we know you are trying to fight for your freedom. but we cannot send you any money but we have given $10 million to the Red Cross." Can you imagine if you had been in the French freedom fighters In the middle of World War II and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had called De Gaulle in and said. "You know. we know you are fighting the Nazis. we know you are desperately engaged in a struggle for your life. We cannot give you any weapons but we thought you would like to know we made a contribution of $10 million to the Red Cross in your name." There is something fundamentally wrong. and furthermore.