James Traficant: “America is up in arms over the cruel and unusual sentence imposed on an American teenager in Singapore: Caning. It is…”

“America is up in arms over the cruel and unusual sentence imposed on an American teenager in Singapore: Caning. It is painful, it is bloody, it is a whipping of the buttocks. The crime: The American teen spray painted several cars, spray painted several cars. Now the punishment in Singapore for spray painting cars is, in fact, caning for everybody. Now if this would have been an American teen in our country, in any city, he would have gotten, in fact, a token fine and a stern lecture, and I do not mean from Howard Stern. Without a doubt caning is excessive. The truth is Singapore has little, if any, crime, and most of America is Dodge City, my colleagues. Evidently America treats it criminals with kid gloves. Singapore takes the glove off. Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues, "Congress, if you think Amnesty International is going to stop the crime problem in America, you're smoking dope like a lot of kids in our streets." This is excessive, but I think we are a little too lax, my colleagues.”