Robert Dornan: “this is as good a debate as we have had on this House floor in a long, long time, but it is because of the quality of…”

“this is as good a debate as we have had on this House floor in a long, long time, but it is because of the quality of intellectual potency of the two gentlemen on this side of the aisle and some over here. But the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant] beat me to the punch about a letter from a Birmingham jail. What civil disobedience is all about, whether it is Jesus or Gandhi or Reverend Martin Luther King, is a measured response to a law one thinks is illegal and taking the consequences. I picked up the telephone, as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of the Committee on National Security, and called Michael New in Germany a year ago, before all of this started, and I advised him to obey an order, even if he thought it was unlawful. I had just come back from Macedonia. I have to correct something I said earlier. We were repainting all our Blackhawk helicopters pure white. The men called them white hawks. I flew on one. It made me a little uncomfortable. They could tell what they were, but up in Bosnia they were taking Dutch and Ukranian U.N. forces, stripping them of their blue braids, taking their shoes off and taking their weapons away from them and chaining them to minor little tactical targets. That is how much respect some people in that God forsaken place had for U.N. personnel. But I said to Michael New, ``Obey this order. Macedonia is fascinating.'' I did not say he would look fabulous. I said, ``I know what you mean.…”