Tom Tancredo warns America itself 'in mortal danger'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 22, 2006

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

WASHINGTON – Two years ago, he was as lonely as the Maytag repairman – an obscure congressman trying desperately to raise the visibility of an issue he believed threatened the very security of the U.S.

More recently, he has become a force to be reckoned with, the leader of a powerful House caucus, a Republican who has taken on the president, a man respected for outspoken positions and the political force behind what has become the hottest issue in the nation.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and the undisputed heavyweight champion of the border security issue in the nation's capital, now tells the whole story of the threats facing the nation, the solutions within its grasp and his own personal quest to awaken the political establishment to the seething discontentment gripping America as a result of illegal immigration.

In his new book, "In Mortal Danger," published by WND Books, Tancredo warns that the country is on a course to the dustbin of history. Like the great and mighty empires of the past, he writes, superpowers that once stretched from horizon to horizon, America is heading down the road to ruin.

English historian Edward Gibbon, in penning his classic "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (ironically published in the year America's Founding Fathers declared independence from Great Britain), theorized that Rome fell because it rotted from within. It succumbed to barbarian invasions because of a loss of civic virtue, its citizens became lazy and soft, hiring barbarian mercenaries to defend the empire because they were unwilling to defend it themselves.

Tancredo says America is following in the tragic footsteps of Rome.

Living up to his reputation for candor, Tancredo explains how the economic success and historical military prowess of the United States has transformed a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong into an overindulgent, self-deprecating, immoral cesspool of depravity.

His recipe for turning things around?

Without strong, moral leadership, without a renewed sense of purpose, without a rededication to family and community, without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting borders, language and culture, the nation that once was "the land of the free and home of the brave" and the "one last best hope of mankind" will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past, he writes.

Tancredo, born and raised in Colorado, represents Colorado's 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his election to Congress in 1998, Tancredo worked as a schoolteacher, was elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives in 1976, was appointed by President Reagan as the secretary of education's regional representative in 1981, and served as president of the Independence Institute. He serves on the International Relations Committee, the Resources Committee and the Budget Committee, and is the chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. Tancredo and his wife, Jackie, reside in Littleton, Colo.

[trubluolyguy]

Same here.

[spectre]

First off, I actually heard Tancredo say he wasn't invited to the White House (with my own ears)

Urban Legend? LOL..Here's just one example of your so-called Urban Legend..

Christian Science Monitor, December 10, 2004

 In House, a band of new rebels  

BY GAIL RUSSELL CHADDOCK STAFF WRITERWASHINGTON -

"After dubbing President Bush's "open door" border policy a threat to national security, Rep. Tom Tancredo says, he got a call from Bush aide Karl Rove proposing that he never again "darken the doorstep of the White House." He's glad that the non-invite apparently didn't extend to the annual congressional Christmas party.

"It means a lot to my wife," quips the third-term Colorado Republican, who attended the White House event Monday.

There's no question that a public rift with a Republican president is a tough career move for any aspiring GOP lawmaker. But for Mr. Tancredo, who came to the House after running a libertarian think tank in Golden, Colo., standing up for ideas is what politics is about - and for him, no policy is more vital than controlling borders and ending the "cult of multiculturalism" that sees the US as "groups of victimized classes....snip"

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[catholicfreeper]

So Christians are not suppose to minister to the aliens in their midst?

[philman_36]

What is your point?
The point is that there is no point, there is only intent. Diversion, changing the subject, avoiding the question...same old song and dance that has been going on by the same people for quite some time.
The intent is to get you aggravated and have you slip up so that your own words can be used against you. Other tactics, like baiting with "dual purpose" words (you're so gay instead of you're so happy), are used as well. By your member date you should know this stuff.
The intent towards Tancredo is to demonize him to bolster the argument they present. It's easier than arguing the issue itself which is a losing argument. .

[hosepipe]

[ Notice how Mr. doom and gloom TANCREDO has never worked in a wealth producing endeavor. The vast majority of his career has been on the public payroll. ]

Damning evidence.. But then he is RIGHT.. and you are consistently WRONG.. always for the UNdocumented Illegal and Documented Legal Alien Insurgents.. Multi millions of them becoming Democrats(Legal OR Illegal) means nothing to you.. You are NOT for a Free Republic you are for a Free Democracy.. You know; like those on DU..

[rodeocowboy]

He's almost the perfect candidate, and people blast him. Then, there's Bush, in all of the F ups he has made as supposedly a conservative and they follow him like Bushbots. I don't get it.

[catholicfreeper]

I have never read any post from people that seem to represent these folks "Open Borders,Hate America First crowd and their enablers the ACLU "

[sinkspur]

However, now I seem to see your posts on the I Love Rudy threads. Hopefully you won't stay on that bandwagon long either.

I'd support Guliani over the "nuke Mecca kid" Tancredo.

[BlueStateDepression]

So Christians are not suppose to minister to the aliens in their midst?

Sure minister away, provide food and drink too. So long as what comes afterwords is a call to ICE. After all the Church does promote the rule of law right?

[Luke21]

"I can understand it, I just think it's Tancredoese for "I am your moral savior. Turn America over to me, and I'll make sure there's not a Mexican left to threaten your livelihood."

Just like a liberal, there you go with your codeword nonsense. You question the man's motives and impugn him as some kind of extremist. You conveniently lump opposition to illegals as an attack on all Mexicans. Pure horsehockey. You have been outed as a liberal, a pure socialist. Your views are identical to the politically correct Bolsheviks wrecking this society.

I've been reading your leftist diatribes for many years. I don't think I've ever read a post from you defending the right's position on anything. I honestly don't know why this forum is preferable for you to post in than one where your fellow liberals will agree with you, like DU.

You, Dane, and Johnnie appear like Batman on any thread about immigration. You don't want to debate people, but to throw insults. Tom Tancredo is a fine man and a courageous public servant. He isn't part of the Republican establishment. That sets him all the better by me.

[metalurgist]

Please the Catholic Bishops are not thumbing their nose at the law. Hispanics are a large share of the Evanglical community. THey are ministering and providing for them too.

Bishops can minister to all the hispanics that they want to. As long as they are legally in this country there isn't a problem. When they take tax money and use it on illegals, then there is a problem.

If these concerned bishops care so much for downtrodden hispanics, maybe they should leave their cushy digs and do the Lord's work down Mexico way.

By the way, there is no such thing as a hispanic. This is a made up liberal group-ism word.

[philman_36]

Until they have to return home before applying for citizenship and return here WITH permission to do so, any "plea deal" will be seen as amnesty.

[hosepipe]

[ Neither was tom tancredo's basement theater. It was built with foreign born labor(which tom tancredo admitted, but blamed the contractor, since he was to "busy" in Washington). If Mr. tancredo would stay true to his rehtoric he would get a sledgehammer and destroy the work, by his own rhetoric, done by bad labor. ]

LoL.. you're logic is weak.. very DU...

[axes_of_weezles]

And You are the "Conservative"?? Rudy over Tancredo? Bwaahahahahah..

[sinkspur]

Call it whatever you want to the bottom line is that it is unacceptable to grant them citizenship or the path to it that does not involve going home. That is what the vast majority wants. We will gain it too , you will see.

I'll put $100 on that action. You game?

[Trteamer]

Howdy whiners! I see you all have your hands full tonight! LOL! No need to reply with your regular snide comments, I'm making popcorn. I enjoy reading all the whiny comments from you OBL's, and all the comments putting you in your place.

[trubluolyguy]

It just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER!

[BlueStateDepression]

Sinkspur can you explain the context of the "nuke mecca" comment? After you do , would you be so kind as to explain what you would offer as a result of that context?

[OKIEDOC]

Well New Pilgrim, pull your head out of the sand and do some reading.

[catholicfreeper]

So its the Churches job to call the INS lol. Even King and Tancredo have gone to great lengths to say they dont have to do that