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.
Well an admission like that is an admission that the rule of law doesn.t matter and neither does our nation.
I am deeply saddened by that.
I am not soft on crime. To the anser to your question if plea deals were not offered the system will screech to a halt. Every Shreiff and Da knows that. The key is finding out who to offer a plea deal too
If a Catholic Bishop wants to dabble in the laws, he should run for the legislature just as Tancredo has done. Otherwise he should stick to pastoral work among the sheep entrusted to him.
As far as I know, we haven't outlawed immigration from Mexico. I don't see why anyone would be opposed to reasonable legal immigration. Why must we allow Mexico to decide how many immigrants we accept? Why must we let Mexico decide who those immigrants are? It makes no sense.
You lost me with that statement.
If you can't appreciate the worth of good teachers or the profession of teaching, then you don't know much. Not everything has to be "a wealth producing endeavor". If it were not for good teachers, there wouldn't be much "wealth production". Just because a person is not involved in a wealth producing endeavor does not mean the person is a failure. There is more to life than wealth.
Wishful thinking is not reality.
Bump to myself to pick this up tomorrow. Night yall!
Your FReeper history in five words.
"The vast majority of his career has been spent on the public payroll." Well, that applies to a lot of good people, e.g. Eisenhower, McArthur, Marshall, Schwarzkopf, Franks and a lot of anonymous soldiers, sailors, policemen, firemen, teachers, and others. You may not like Tancredo, but cheap shots always miss the mark.
ok Yall Have all asked a similar question. I will try to answer that in a few minutes but I got to run up the street and get some cigs before they close. But I will anser. Just didnt want you to think I was running out of the discusion
Very helpful, and allowing us to amuse ourselves by playing cat and mouse with them.
Legal immigration is also out of control. We need a moratorium on all immigration until the ones already here can be assimilated.
Okay, while you try reconciling the fact that even KNOWING a person is illegal and not reporting it is a crime, I'm gonna get some shut-eye.
Later, but keep all your aliens hidden..
"Many Catholics are being drawn to the pre-Vatican II values of spirituality that once existed,
You simply don't know what you're talking about."
P.S., go tell that to Pope Benedict XVI who has been meeting with the pre-Vatican II leaders in attempts to reconcile the differences between them This Pope is much more a spirituality guy than an activist Pope, thank goodness. And he will give much more leeway to having the Latin Mass said, and also he will be much more busy in cleaning out the infestation of gays within the U.S. clergy. He's already started. Sounds like you aren't going to like this Pope.
Eccles, you don't know jack about the Catholic Church. You think you do, but you don't.
The Kennedy fortune was built by Joe "I like Hitler" Kennedy's smuggling and bootlegging operation. But I suppose that could be called "free enterprise".
It was much more fun when they were freely admitting hiring illegals. Ah, the good ol' days.
It wasn't a strawman. You made the comparison. We both commented on it. It was a ridiculous comparison to make.
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