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.
There is nothing at all "antiAmerican" about Tom Tancredo's book.
Where did I do that, Eccles?
You love to build strawmen.
You do know there's a difference between Nazi Germany and modern day United States, right? Don't you?
You are welcome and I agree, for the rule of law to function proprly all people have to be held to the same standard equally.
I'll bet "anti-American" Tancredo wouldn't agree.
What do you think? Sinkspur apparently wants the Catholic Bishops to lead a movement to topple the evil and oppressive United States of America just as was done behind the Iron Curtain. Is that a "pro-American" sentiment in your view? Why do you think that?
LOL! That is a fact.
Another strawman.
At this rate, there won't be a crow within 1000 miles of FR.
Yeah. Let's go back to the days when the Church was laughed at for not taking a stronger stand against the Nazis.
Oh, I see, you are part of the Pope Pius XII was Hitler's Pope group, yes? All those books about this myth have been from this recent generation, Mr. Historically Illiterate. The commentaries and news articles from the WWII period and shortly thereafter, including Jewish ones, were all how much Pope Pius XII did for the Jews during the war period, in attempting to save lives. It is the revisionist, post-Vatican II commentaries and books that have said otherwise. Glad you brought up yet another negative side effect of the post-Vatican II Catholic generations. They can't get their historical facts straight, including you.
"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."
We'll see what happens. Many Catholics are being drawn to the pre-Vatican II values of spirituality that once existed, and the true dogma and traditions of the Catholic church, not the shake hands, and listen to guitar music crowd that stole all the beauty and spirituality out of the Catholic church. But, your liking for the liberal part of the Catholic church just points out what a RINO you really are. If you are even a Republican, which is debatable.
First off its not against the law or individuals to aid illegal aliens. That happens all the time. Second if you report them then they would never come to you in the first place. Third- I think most churches Catholic or otherwize would not voluntarily conform to such a law if it was enacted. There is too much of a tradition in this country and World wide of not doing that.
You simply don't know what you're talking about.
All I can say is that I would back Tom Tancredo in 2008 (although Michael Savage is my dream candidate). I'd add more but I got to get up for work tomorrow so I'm just basically reading the mail so to speak.
Besides being as right as anyone could be on this issue, his name attracts the moonbat detractors like flies to hoo-fa.
Had to. I was three hundred comments behind when I got here.
You might want to brush up on US Code Title 8.
Its not against the law for me to have an illegal alien staying at my house if I had one.
Isn't helpful when they use up all their arguments in the 2nd post, and spend the next several hundred repeating themselves?
Remember that sinkspur has admitted to hiring illegal aliens. Hmmmmm.... It really lends to his credibility on this topic, don't you think?
Many around here are becoming just like Democrats. When they have no ideas of their own, they attack and discredit the individual. Very sad, in my view. Those who do, know who they are.
Thank God for Tom Tancredo who has helped get this issue to the forefront.
"Its not against the law for me to have an illegal alien staying at my house if I had one."
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