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.
BTW...What about that definition of amnesty? You just blew right by that as if it wasn't even there...
And it's not against the law for me to have a serial killer living in my house, if I had one. But I don't have any serial killers. Do you have any illegal aliens?
I guess it means by what you mean by "aid" Yes if the Cardinal Mahoney was running a coyote ring and we were involved in smuggling aliens across the border yes that s aiding an illegal alien and against the law. However, and lets be realistic here often when the Church is ministering to folks they have no idea if they are legal or not unless they tell some one. But anyway giving them the Sacraments is not illegal. Providing services for them is not illegal.
that comparsion is not apt. Its not against the law for me to have someone in my home that has a bench warrent for a speeding ticket. That comparision is more apt
Providing them with shelter and the supplies they need to continue their crime, is a crime.
It's amnesty, but you want to spout the spin and call it a "plea deal".
Tell me, what happens to an elected prosecutor who lets every criminal get away with their crimes by giving them all "plea deals"? What happens to the crime rate in their city?
Are you a conservative Republican? Then why are you so soft on crime?
I wasn't trying to suggest the two crimes are equal. I find it telling that you equate illegal immigration with speeding.
TITLE 8 CHAPTER 12 SUBCHAPTER II Part VIII § 1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
(a) Criminal penalties
(1)
(A) Any person who—
(iv) encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law;
The violation of our sovereign, national borders is the equivalent to jay walking to some of these people.
If that's all they were doing, no one would care. The problem is, the bishops give very indication that they want to broadly undermine and destroy the immigration laws of the United States. That isn't their job. No one elected them to write or unwrite the laws. If they want to write or unwrite laws they need to leave the clergy and run for the legislature. Agree?
It's not, but thanks for playing.
LEt me clear up some responses and I will respond to that
Aiding and abetting a crime is not a crime? Thank you for sharing your expertise, on yet another subject. You wear so many hats, I think I'll just start consulting with you on every issue, so I'll know what to think.
I believe that Tancredo's book is very antiAmerican. He paints a bleak picture of our country, and plays up the negatives. The United States is a 'cesspool of depravity', according to him. He's wrong.
This so-called 'article' is nothing more than an advertising gimmick from WND. So much for Tancredo's principles.
The buck stops alright---with WND. It obviously pays to cater to renegades and rebels and "freedom fighters". LOL.
The Church is seeking to put Christ in the immigration laws. Groups try to do that all the time in respect to other laws. Plus what they are proposing is not open borders or amnesty to all. There giving guidance on broad concepts
Some have exhibited an immeasurable unfamiliarity with immigration code. They don't know what's been broken.
Aiding criminals is against the law sir, wether it is enforced or not does not define if it is legal or not. Murder happens all the time too, it is still against the law.
If they were reported and know they will be isn't that a GREAT DETERRANT to breaking the law? See how that works?
I see one thing you think it is ok not to conform to the rule of law and base that on church status.
Your colors are shining thru quite nicely. you do that with your words better than I could ever so. Thank you for emulating such anti rule of law.
If you break into my house and steal my tings and then go to the church and they help you are they breaking the law? YUP, see that yet? Keep in mind now in the context of illegal aliens the USA is my house and indeed by their very defenition they broke in. Rationalize it all you want to but it is still the very same thing.
And you're wrong anyway...TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VIII > § 1324
(a) Criminal penalties
(1) (A) Any person who—
...(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
Snip...shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
Any questions?
Oh, since you're so big on word definitions...harbor...1 a : to give shelter or refuge to b : to be the home or habitat of
"You simply don't know what you're talking about."
Yes I do, Mr. know-it-all, and you aren't the only Catholic here. You assumed I was Protestant, but I switched many years ago and was confirmed a Catholic. Half of my family is Catholic. Although I know the Protestant viewpoint also, as the other half of my family is Missouri Synod Lutheran (very conservative, compared to today's Catholic Church, unless you are a pre-Vatican II'er). So, get off your high horse thinking you are the oracle on this matter and study your history. Of course, you choose to revise it, just like all of the socialistically liberal post-Vatican II types do.
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