Posted on 11/19/2006 3:30:50 PM PST by A. Pole
Tancredo says president believes nation should be merely 'idea' without borders
PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Bush believes America should be more of an idea than an actual place, a Republican congressman told WND in an exclusive interview.
"People have to understand what we're talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. "He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that – it's an idea. It's not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where this guy is really going."
Tancredo lashed out at the White House's lack of action in securing U.S. borders, and said efforts to merge the U.S. with both Mexico and Canada is not a fantasy.
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He pointed to Florida's largest city as an example of how the nature of America can be changed by uncontrolled immigration.
"Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country," he said. "You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country."
He said quickly changing demographics can cause big problems, and specifically cited the "Islamization of Europe" in recent years which has led to conflict across the continent.
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As for Tancredo......ugh.
Ronald Reagan had one mission and that was to defeat communism. No small accomplishment but many many domestic issues fell to the wayside.
Tom Tancredo and WND saying stupid things in harmony. Why am I not surprised?
Do you not understand that in order to get the funding for defense, President Reagan allowed congress social spending to their heart's content.
Who has introduced the bill to do so? Give me the bill number, not the edition of the John Birch crap you read.
FYI, a moderator changed the title, not the poster.
America is an "idea" now?
Is this what it has become? Some idealistic concept that we can take or leave if we should so decide?
This is what so many of our brave have died for, for so long?
Silly me, I thought it was actually a place of dreams fulfilled, a land of discovery, of purpose-- a shining example of what can be done with courage, determination,.hard work and FREEDOM. A place of hope. AND, a place with actual borders, and not just an abstraction.
Guess I'm just one of those overly emotional "reactionaries" who doesn't see the "broad picture" that those "progressive" internationalists see.
I do not wish them well in their quest for a diverse one-world government. There is no kind of misery more imaginable that what would result from this silly fantasy.
What the fools do not understand, is that all nations and cultures came about NATURALLY, from passion for and love of surrounding soil, to create their own identity, through art, costume, food, etc, and to have something to DIE for.
This is why Italians love things Italian, Greeks things that are Greek, etc. It is what all nations have nutured, enjoyed, and yes, FOUGHT for--for thousands of years. These are the things that give meaning to life for many.
liberals will never understand this. They foolishly believe they can put us under one common (will they need a flag?)govt that will force to just "get along" and don't be mean(or else). We would spend most of our time getting high and contemplating the universe. No more war because there will be nothing to defend. Peace will prevail.
What will happen of course, is that the more passionate among us will soon get bored and seek out adversity and identity again. Tribalism will rise and dominate and the not so passionate will be the first to go. THAT'S nature and it cannot be overruled by liberal child-thought.
And yes, war is a part of it.
Mr. Bush, tell us more about the "idea" of America again, if that is what you indeed think about.
Correction: NUTURED
Except France, of course.
"You're just a nattering nabob of neo-nativism...thank goodness we lost the election so we can win the surrender," said Tony Snow: The surrender, that is, to Mexico.
Did it ever! The Federal Constitution changed everything. They still called it the United States of America. America remained underneath, untouched where it still is no matter how many layers of state are piled on top.
Maybe, but he still confutes America and The United States of America.
"Because Tancredo isn't afraid to say when president Bush is wrong."
No because I think Tancredo is a weirdo.
Where's James Traficant when we need him? LOL!
Let's meet on a halfway point. While you give support (maybe inadvertently) to the PC ideal that everything about Western Civilization is somehow evil I take the stance that this continent would never have moved up to World Power status without the influx of primarily European immigrants injecting technological innovation while sharing more cultural traits and commonalities than not.
Representative Tancredo has been careful to point out that every move to legitimize illegals via the wide array of pseudo-amnesty programs require officers on all levels to abide a two-tiered system of law enforcement where illegals get to skate while a legal citizen is held in stricter regard. Considering the progress of communities where this practice is already public policy (sanctuary cities, etc.), I say that Tom is not the yahoo alarmist portrayed but the necons but the prophet of our increasingly disenfranchised future.
He did all that and more for 2.7 million illegals who received amnesty in 1986.
But my statement was merely meant to point out the flaw in Tancredo's logic. In 1979 Reagan proposed the North American accord, which looked a lot like the NAFTA superhighway.
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