RESOLUTION SUBMITTED BY BOK PON FOR THE SEPTEMBER 15-17, 2000 CONVENTION IN
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA

WHEREAS, under the leadership of the Clinton-Gore administration, the racial
profiling and human rights violations are randomly ignored; and

WHEREAS, the innocence or guilt of Dr. Lee will be determined, as it should
be, in a court of law. The important question for America is not how a jury
will judge Dr. Wen Ho Lee, the key question is how America will treat Dr.
Wen Ho Lee; and

WHEREAS, for America to fulfill its promise as a home to every willing
heart, every American must be treated equally under the law. To do otherwise
could tear our common country apart, based on religious, racial, political
or ethnic difference; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Wen Ho Lee has been denied that equal treatment by the
administration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore; and

WHEREAS, even the most generous friends of Bill Richardson and President
Clinton have conceded that the Energy Department bungled its investigation
of missing nuclear secrets. Robert Vrooman, the head of counter-intelligence
at the Energy Department, has stated that the investigation solely and
unfairly targeted ethnic Chinese Americans, and quickly zeroed in on Dr.
Lee, while ignoring other possibilities. On May 9th, the Justice Department
demoted the attorney prosecuting Dr. Wen Ho Lee. In June, the Energy
Department misplaced more nuclear secrets after the Los Alamos fire; and

WHEREAS, after all the investigations the Clinton-Gore administration did
not find enough evidence to charge Dr. Lee with spying. Although he pled
guilty to a single minor charge, the federal judge who took his plea
apologized to Dr. Lee for the unfair nature of the prosecution against him;
and

WHEREAS, most Americans would not have been treated the way the Clinton-Gore
administration has treated Dr. Wen Ho Lee. No American should be treated the
way Dr. Wen Ho Lee has been; and

WHEREAS, partisan defenders of the Clinton-Gore administration have
suggested that the administration persecuted Dr. Lee in response to the
bi-partisan Cox report, and to avoid public political criticism. Any leader
who would unfairly persecute another person for cowardly political reasons
is unfit to hold any position of trust in the United States, especially not
the high office of President; and

WHEREAS, the actions of the Clinton-Gore administration in persecuting Dr.
Lee, and the administration’s repeated abuses of the trust of
Asian-Americans through their fund raising scandals, have shamed and angered
the entire Asian-American community; and

WHEREAS, the best defense of our rights as Americans is to vigorously
exercise them. To suffer in silence the indignities inflicted by the
Clinton-Gore administration would only encourage further abuses of
Asian-Americans; now therefore

BE IT RESOLVED, that the California Republican Party joins millions of
Asian-Americans in demanding that Dr. Wen Ho Lee be given equal treatment
under the law; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the California Republican Party, calls upon the
Asian-American community, and those political and community leaders who
purport to be friends of the Asian American community, to continue to demand
that the Clinton-Gore administration live up to the American ideal of equal
justice for all, including Asian, Arab, Latino, Native-Americans, and all
others.

SUBMITTED BY:  BOK PON
Former two term CRP Vice Chairman/N and currently CRP 2nd Asst. Secretary
August 7, 2000

Supported by:  CA Secretary Bill Jones, CRP Chairman John McGraw,
Congressman Thomas Campbell, Darrell Issa of Arab American Council, and
Asian & Pacific Islander Republican Coalitions (a chartered State GOP
organization of Muslin, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Chinese and other
Pacific ethnic groups)
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