Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-02-07-pt1-PgH1059-3_t6

So back in the home office, in Moscow, they must be chortling that the President of the United States would establish a moral equivalency between the first democracy--the first constitutional democracy ever created on Earth--and a thug who is presiding over essentially a kleptocratic, authoritarian regime in Russia, a man who has said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the single greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. So we have that to deal with. Meantime, instead of taking on the real authoritarians on Earth, the President summons up all of his courage with Steve Bannon, and they impose a ban on people coming to America from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen; and they invoke 9/11 several times in the course of establishing this unprecedented refugee ban. The only problem is that the terrorist hijackers who came to attack the country on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. The vast majority of them came from Saudi Arabia, which is the stronghold and the organizing center of Wahhabism, fundamentalism, radical Islamic terrorism on Earth which has been promoting and disseminating militant Islamist ideology all over the world.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMIE RASKIN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
MD
Gender
Date
2017-02-07
Speech ID
CREC-2017-02-07-pt1-PgH1059-3_t6
Paragraph
#0
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