Ted Poe: “I thank the gentleman from Iowa for yielding some time. I want to address the House on a different issue tonight, but I…”

“I thank the gentleman from Iowa for yielding some time. I want to address the House on a different issue tonight, but I do appreciate the time and letting me be off the subject that he was going to, and will, talk about momentarily. Mr. Speaker, as you know, there are people in Boston--and really around the world, and in the United States especially--trying to recover from the terrorist attack that took place in Boston. The Richard family laid their 8-year-old boy to rest, as did other families. As a father of 4 and a grandfather of 10, no parent or grandparent ever wants to see a child die in their youth, especially being murdered the way this young lad was. But meanwhile, in the halls of academia, Richard Falk, a professor and an official with the United Nations Human Rights Council, he blamed the terrorist attack on what he claims is American global domination-- and on the country of Israel, of all things. What an absurd comment for this so-called ``intellectual'' to make. The vile comments come only 2 years after he personally was reprimanded by the United Nations for promoting fantasy-like 9/11 conspiracy theories. Mr. Speaker, why is Richard Falks still employed by the United Nations Human Rights Council? Can someone please explain why the United States also continues to be the largest funder of the United Nations, which gives radical wingbats like Falk a platform to spew their hate and anti-American rhetoric?…”