Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
Posted on 05/22/2006 4:14:55 PM PDT by 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.
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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.
aifing a criminal is against the law the last time I checked. What you meant to say is that today it is not prosecuted.
In any case it is time to make it clear, if you aid illegals then you have earned punishment.
Now if you care for their needs while you report them to the proper authorities it is all good. There is common ground to be found here and I have reached out with granting you the ability to aid those as a church does. What is your response? Are you meeting me half way when it comes to the rule of law or are you attempting to put churches above that law?
I think the answer to that rhetorical question is already quite clear.
Yeah. Let's go back to the days when the Church was laughed at for not taking a stronger stand against the Nazis.
Instead, we have the activist John Paul II standing up to the Polish communists, and breaking the back of the socialists in his home country, leading to the cascading of communist governments falling all over Eastern Europe, and, in time, the Soviets.
Is that "liberation theology" in your Protestant view? Here's a hint: it's not. It's the Church being active in the world, through the prophetic voices of its leaders.
If you don't like that, too bad. Get used to it. The Church is never going back to the "pray, pay, and obey" mindset that caused it to be a Church of ritual instead of a Church of the apostles.
It's not illegal to have a criminal in your home, unless you know he's a criminal, and you brought him there to hide him.
Quote the law. Sensenbrenner says there is no obligation on the part of clergy to turn in illegals.
Are you going against the author of HR 4437?
No President is going to bomb MEcca, even the publicity hound Tancredo would not do it if in some twilight zone world he became Prez.
"This doesnt have anything to do with liberation theolgy. This viewpoint is very pre vatican II."
Yeah, then it is a much more ingrained problem than previously thought, if was pre-Vatican II, which I don't believe it was. This all started in the 1960's in the U.S., during the VietNam era, when the Marxist socialists started making their inroads at the Universities and in the Catholic church. I know this because I was prime time age-wise when this was all happening. And the Catholic church, the liberal part of it, got real activist in socialistic causes starting then, and up until now. If you want to wear blinders, go ahead. It doesn't change the truth of the matter. Liberation theology is socialism pure and simple. And this immigration issue springs forth from the same socialistic the poor are virtuous and no one else is philosophy. The poor can do no wrong. Bah humbug. Like hell they can't. There are rotten apples at any strata of society, including amongst the quote poor.
You are a flippin' fruitcake.
Oh great we bomb mecca then they bomb the Vatican. Yeah this seems reasonable.
What a coincidence that Tancredo has an antiAmerican book to promote thanks to WND, with whom his good friend Malkin is also affiliated.
Come to think of it, didn't she write a book too?! I wonder what it was about.
OF course there guily of something. They broke the law. I am not disputing that. Thats why a plea deal is a must.
Oh ok well rest assured I am not for open borders I oppose that
Hiding and aiding a person continue a crime is very much against the law. I do not care who wishes to put the church above the law, I will oppose them clearly.
Water stations are another thing I get salty about. That IMHO is an act of treason. Defeating our border defenses is exactly that Treason.
Morality in the area of the belief in the rule of law would seem to guide a person to turn in a law breaker. Either you belive in that rule of law or you do not. Either you believe in the equal prosecution of the law towards all or you don't.
So, start arresting the Catholic bishops and priests. You and I both know they're feeding illegals, giving them clothing, and sending them on their way.
I'd just LOVE to see some law enforcement agency start arresting Catholic, or Episcopalian, or Lutheran, or other group of clergy and putting them in jail.
You "les get the Messicans" crowd would be made to look the fools.
BSD, thanks for the comment up-thread.
Any "church" knowingly engaging in "aiding or abetting" illegal aliens ought immediately have their tax exemption status suspended until the matter is settled and/or those responsible are tried and justice is served.
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