1224 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 2006 and Peter Lewis—who is re- While paying thousands of dollars to ap- criminal behavior on using drugs, including sponsible for most of MPP’s funding—to ac- pear at a conservative conference, MPP is cocaine and marijuana. cess a meeting of conservatives? And, in ex- selling $500 tickets to a March 30 fundraising British newspapers are now covering a sen- sational case of ‘‘ psychosis,’’ in- actly whose estimation would there be balance ‘‘party’’ at the Playboy Mansion. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner provided the seed volving a music producer, Lisa Voice, who in a debate moderated by the MPP? money for the drug legalization movement, ‘‘was viciously assaulted in her home by a Thanks to Accuracy in Media Report Editor which is now underwritten mostly by Soros family friend who had been made psychotic Cliff Kincaid, these are just a few of the ques- and Lewis. by the drug,’’ as the London Sunday Times tions that the CPAC organizers now face. I’d ‘‘Playmates will be available to give tours noted. She suffered a broken jaw, broken like to submit into the RECORD his article of of the mansion grounds as you enjoy great nose, collapsed lung, and eye injuries, and February 7, 2006, entitled ‘‘Soros Infiltrates music and comedy in one of America’s most has already had 11 medical operations to re- Conservative Movement.’’ In exchange for a renowned settings,’’ says MPP’s website. A build her face and head. The attacker had donation, is this 32-year-old conservative con- member of the ‘‘host committee’’ for the been smoking marijuana since the age of 15 ference turning itself into a Soros proxy orga- Playboy event is Tommy Chong, who partici- and believed he was getting subliminal mes- pated in pro-marijuana movies as part of the sages from television. nization just like Abramoff’s TVC? ‘‘Cheech and Chong’’ team and served nine In Britain, penalties for the use and posses- Over the last number of months, we’ve been months in prison for selling drug para- sion of marijuana had been lowered after the surprised to learn how one such as Abramoff phernalia. You won’t need an NSA surveil- drug had been reclassified. But Dr. Shahrokh was able to exploit conservatives for his own lance program to know what’s going on in Mireskandari, lawyer for Lisa Voice, was purposes. Surely in this environment we can’t the Playboy Mansion on March 30. quoted in the Sunday Times as saying, ‘‘Let miss seeing it when it’s happening once again. When Calvina Fay saw that the CPAC ‘‘de- government ministers who say cannabis is a [From Accuracy in Media, Feb. 7, 2006] bate’’ had been stacked against her, she harmless drug come and explain that deci- sion to Mrs. Voice and her many doctors. SOROS INFILTRATES CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT pulled out. However, her group will still have Cannabis should never have been reclassified (By Cliff Kincaid) a booth at CPAC. So will the Drug Policy Al- liance. Later in the day, after the ‘‘debate,’’ and people such as Mrs. Voice now face a Calvina Fay of the Drug Free America Kampia’s MPP will host an event for all lifetime of pain because of the dangers of Foundation has pulled out as a speaker at CPAC attendees and guests on why the war this drug.’’ the Conservative Political Action Conference on drugs should not target marijuana users. So why is CPAC giving Nadelmann, (CPAC), which begins in , D.C., It is not known if Playmates will appear. Kampia and their ilk a platform? on Thursday, because a ‘‘mini-debate’’ she The also participated was scheduled to appear in had been stacked f in CPAC last year, boasting that Executive against her. As it now stands, the event will Director Nadelmann was ‘‘well-received’’ and EULOGY FOR CHIEF WARRANT OF- feature two advocates of drug legalization, ‘‘appeared on several conservative radio FICER 3 MITCHELL ‘‘MITCH’’ both of them funded by leftist billionaire and shows coinciding with the conference.’’ anti-Bush activist George Soros. CARVER Having put most of the left-wing political This is troubling because DPA and MPP movement and many liberal Democrats on are part of a major deception campaign to convince people that marijuana is harmless HON. CHARLES H. TAYLOR his payroll, it is apparent that Soros is now OF NORTH CAROLINA working to manipulate the conservative or even has medical benefits. Accuracy in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES movement. It is surprising that CPAC is fa- Media last year disclosed the existence of cilitating his scheme. documentary evidence that the ‘‘medical Wednesday, February 8, 2006 marijuana’’ movement is a fraud that ex- A convicted inside trader who specializes Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina. Mr. Speak- in manipulating the currencies of the na- ploits sick people. Video footage of a pro- tions of the world, Soros is usually depicted marijuana event showed Ed Rosenthal, for- er, many young men and women have been as a ‘‘philanthropist’’ who believes in an merly of High Times magazine, speaking to killed and wounded in the Iraqi conflict—more ‘‘Open Society.’’ Hence, the name of his dozens of marijuana activists. ‘‘With all the than 2,000 killed and 17,000 wounded. I’d like major funding mechanism, the Open Society talk about medical marijuana, I have to tell today to reprint my eulogy given at the funeral Institute. In the Soros view, of course, an you that I also use marijuana medically of CWO3 Mitchell ‘‘Mitch’’ Carver as a tribute ‘‘open society’’ means encouraging behavior (laughter),’’ he says. ‘‘I have a latent glau- not only to him and his parents, but as a re- that undermines the traditional values and coma, which has never been diagnosed (more laughter). And the reason why it has never minder to all citizens of our country that ‘‘free- culture of America. This is hardly ‘‘conserv- dom is not free.’’ ative.’’ been diagnosed is because I’ve been treating In addition to promoting drug legalization, it (laughter). . . But there is a reason why I In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow his causes include open borders, gay rights, do use it. And that is because I like to get Between the crosses, row on row abortion rights, opposition to the death pen- high. (cheers, applause). Marijuana is fun.’’ That mark our place, and in the sky alty, lighter sentences for criminals, and as- Another video excerpt showed Richard The larks, still bravely singing, fly sisted suicide. He tried almost single- Cowan, former director of the National Orga- Scarce heard amid the guns below. handedly to buy the White House for Demo- nization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, We are the Dead! Short days ago crat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential elec- saying that ‘‘The key to it [legalization] is We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, tion by spending over $20 million on con- medical access because once you have hun- Loved and were loved, and now we lie troversial ‘‘527’’ organizations promoting his dreds of thousands of people using marijuana In Flanders’ fields. candidacy. On foreign policy issues, Soros is medically under medical supervision the whole scam is going to be blown. . . Once John McCrae wrote those words before his a big backer of the U.N. and opposes the own death on the battlefield nearly 90 years Bush Administration’s war in Iraq and han- there’s medical access and if we continue to dling of the war on terrorism. do what we have to do—and we will—then ago. We have learned to protect the lives of The scheduled Friday CPAC event on ‘‘A we’ll get full legalization.’’ Not surprisingly, our soldiers better. In the war to end all wars, Conservative Drug Policy’’ was to feature a a Federal investigation of ‘‘medical mari- more died in single battles than America has mini-debate between Ethan Nadelmann of juana’’ clubs and dispensaries in California lost in all wars since. America has learned to the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Calvina has found they had been used as a cover for protect our soldiers better—but not well Fay. The ‘‘moderator,’’ hardly unbiased, was drug dealing and money laundering. enough for we are here to pay homage to the At the same time, evidence of a connection scheduled to be Rob Kampia of the Mari- life of Mitch Carver. We take pride in reducing juana Policy Project (MPP). The Soros Open between marijuana and mental illness con- Society Institute has given the DPA millions tinues to mount. The influence of marijuana our casualties, but the sacrifice of the family is of dollars, including $2.5 million in 2004 figures in the sensational murder case of not a small percent, it is not a small loss, it is alone. MPP has been funded by Soros as well Colin Roger Cotting, a 16-year-old in Alaska not a small number. Their sacrifice is enor- as Peter Lewis, chairman of the Progressive who allegedly raped his stepmother, beat her mous, it is total, it is all. Corporation, who was arrested in New Zea- to death with a baseball bat, and stuffed her Mitch Carver took up ‘‘The Torch’’ for the land several years ago after customs officers in a freezer. The murder resulted from a dis- country he loved. He knew who he was fight- found marijuana in his luggage. Lewis, who pute when Cotting was confronted by his ing. He was fighting the evil that plants a stepmother about his marijuana use. Cotting gave $340,000 to MPP in 2004, is also a major bomb that kills innocent women and children funder of the ACLU. told police that he was too stoned on mari- Court documents show that Kampia him- juana to remember what had happened. and families who harm no one. Murderers who self was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to In a case that received national attention, kill, kidnap defenseless women and children prison for possessing and intending to dis- Joseph Smith, the convicted killer of 11- for no reason but to show evil. He chose to do tribute marijuana. year-old Carlie Brucia, tried to blame his it. For it is not the press who protect our right

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We wish him years of outstanding achievements on the Pe- time Mitch Carver rejoined his comrades in good fortune in this new chapter of his life. ninsula and extend my hope that many more Iraq because he knew they needed him and Thomas Barton will make us proud. America generations of Takahashis enjoy the success he believed he could, with his advanced skill, will be better because of Thomas Barton’s and community involvement of the Takahashi keep them safer, and perhaps lessen their choice to serve our country. Market. danger. And that he did. We may never know f f how many he saved by his advanced skill. In the 8 years I have been privileged to CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNI- TRIBUTE TO THE FOX CHAPEL serve as representative on the board of our VERSARY OF TAKAHASHI MAR- HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND country’s military academy at West Point, I KET have seen thousands of young men and HON. MELISSA A. HART women take the oath to protect us. Theirs is HON. TOM LANTOS OF a simple pledge: ‘‘Duty, Honor, Country.’’ In OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this world of being told there is no black nor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, February 8, 2006 white, there is only gray political correctness and ‘‘is’’ has to be defined, I thank God we Wednesday, February 8, 2006 Ms. HART. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take have young men and women who have no Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, it is with great this opportunity to congratulate The Fox Chap- trouble defining ‘‘Duty, Honor, Country.’’ pride that I rise today to congratulate the el High School Marching Band of The late T.B. Macaulay in his poem Hora- Takahashi family, proprietors of the Takahashi for its success at the Gator Bowl on Decem- tius at the Bridge says, ‘‘To every man upon Market on the 100th anniversary of their oper- ber 31, 2005. this earth death cometh soon or late. And now ations in the city of San Mateo, California, The Fox Chapel High School Marching how can man die better than facing fearful which is located in my congressional district. Band traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to play odds, for the ashes of his fathers and the tem- The history of the Takahashi Market begins in the Gator Bowl. While at the game the ples of his gods.’’ Mitch Carver believed in with Mr. Tokutaro Takahashi, a former salt- bands’ performance won nine awards. The and loved God. He knew the Bible. He could mine laborer, who recognized that recently ar- band won five awards at the field show, in- quote this verse better than I, ‘‘For God so riving Japanese immigrants in the Peninsula cluding first place in Class A and also won loved the Earth that he gave his only begotten were quickly becoming a burgeoning new mar- Outstanding awards for general effect, auxil- Son, that whosoever believeth in him should ket. According to Kenge Takahashi, son of iary, marching and maneuvering and music. In not perish but have everlasting life.’’ Mitch Tokutaro Takahashi, the business began as a addition to the five awards won on the field, Carver risked and gave his life to perform his peddling operation, with a horse and cart, to the band also won four awards at the parade, duty, but as God promised, he did not perish display and carry the groceries, clothes and including first place in Class A, as well as but will remain in our hearts and memories fishing equipment he sold to them. three Outstanding awards. until he meets his family in another life. Mr. Speaker, the Takahashi Market is no I ask my colleagues in the United States House of Representatives to join me in con- f longer a mere push-cart shop, but has grown to become an established landmark of the Pe- gratulating The Fox Chapel High School CONGRATULATING THOMAS G. ninsula, providing groceries and community, Marching Band. It is an honor to represent the BARTON not only to the Japanese, but to all people in Fourth Congressional District of Pennsylvania the Bay Area. Having been run by three suc- and a pleasure to salute a distinguished group HON. TED POE cessive generations of Takahashis, the busi- like The Fox Chapel High School Marching OF TEXAS ness has withstood extraordinary challenges Band. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and overcame devastating obstacles. One sad f Wednesday, February 8, 2006 example of this, is that the market was closed IN RECOGNITION OF LUCY NOLES Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, I want to congratu- for several years in the 1940s when the GREEN late Mr. Thomas G. Barton, Jr. on his recent Takahashi family was interned in the World offer of appointment to the United States Mili- War II Japanese relocation camps, first in San HON. MIKE ROGERS Bruno, California, and then in Utah. tary Academy at West Point. Thomas sought OF ALABAMA After being released from the internment a nomination to West Point through my office, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES competing with a group of highly qualified ap- camps, Kenge Takahashi joined the Army, plicants. He passed the evaluation process, and served honorably as an infantryman in the Wednesday, February 8, 2006 and I am proud to have given him a Congres- highly decorated, all-Japanese 422nd Regi- Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I sional nomination. ment of United States Army, F Company. After rise today to recognize Ms. Lucy Noles Green, Thomas is currently enrolled in the West completing his service, Kenge returned to his of Randolph County, Alabama. Ms. Green had Point Civil Preparatory Program in Roswell, family business, and prepared to meet the a very special birthday recently, having turned New Mexico, which speaks volumes about his ever-changing needs of his customers. Over 105 years old on December 31, a day which passion to get into West Point. He has the the next few decades the Takahashi Market she celebrated with family and friends in the military in his blood. Thomas’s father and grew to meet the changing demographics of Hawk community where she lives. brother are both graduates of West Point’s its clientele and stopped carrying fishing tackle From 1900 until today, Ms. Green has lived distinguished program. and began stocking Hawaiian food in re- in the Hawk community. She has enjoyed life, A review of Thomas’s life and qualities dem- sponse to a growing population of a Hawaiian and fondly recalls playing the organ and sew- onstrate that he should make an excellent community, resulting from airline hires. ing. She has witnessed the introduction of cadet at West Point and hopefully an excellent Mr. Speaker, while the Takahashi Market cars, computers, and laundry machines, wars, officer. Thomas has a sense of duty to serve, has occupied many storefronts at various loca- depressions, and peaceful times alike. She as shown by the fact that he has achieved the tions on the Peninsula during its 100 year his- was married to Thomas Emmett Green for elite rank of Eagle Scout. He has shown dedi- tory, the store continuously maintain its ex- sixty years, and together they raised five sons. cation as a member of the Kingwood High traordinary reputation as a reliable, family- These days Ms. Green enjoys visitors and School Lacrosse Team, where he was voted owned and run business that specializes in family, and her 14 grandchildren. captain by the rest of the team. He has held products and foods to sustain the Japanese I am proud to recognize Ms. Green today in leadership positions also in the Kingwood High community, and now also the Hawaiian com- the House, and congratulate her on this impor- marching band and the Boy Scouts. He won munity. On the occasion of its centennial, tant milestone in her life. I wish her all the the coveted K Award—for best in class—for Takahashi Market is remodeling to add a com- best and many more enjoyable years with her Outstanding Musical Contribution. mercial kitchen, once again, expanding and di- family and friends.

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