Dana Rohrabacher: “it is a great honor to join with my colleagues tonight on a matter of principle. And my colleague who just spoke…”

“it is a great honor to join with my colleagues tonight on a matter of principle. And my colleague who just spoke certainly has spoken for all of us in the points that she has made, and I hope that the words that I am going to utter now also maintain what one would say is bipartisan. But it is not actually a bipartisan spirit; it is an American spirit. It has nothing to do with politics and nothing to do with anything but a belief in human beings and a belief that we care and a demonstration that we care about people. Mr. Speaker, the Falun Gong, if anyone has ever met anybody in the Falun Gong, they know how easy it is to really care about these people, because they have such wonderful hearts. Here we have people who practice meditation and yoga, and they have committed themselves to treating other people with kindness and trying to be honest. For that, they have made themselves a target of one of the most brutal regimes on this planet. How could anyone do anything other than sympathize with people like the Falun Gong? They are so demonstrative, and they are so exemplary of the oppressed people of the world. Not all oppressed people in the world have such good hearts and are kind and practice yoga and meditation, but they are all oppressed. And the fact that we have a regime that can be so brutal with these pacifists indicates just how immoral and horrifying the Communist regime in Beijing actually is.”