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.
I sent a response to your Freepmail and have not sent another.
You are dishonest, Newbie.
You conveniently forget that Spiff addressed that, as well. Silly you if you were thinking he would win.
Silly you if you were thinking he would win.
Of course he can't win, but lots of FRigilantes are going to waste their vote on him.
If you are going to speak about another FReeper, and what he posted or said, why is it you leave him out of your pings? As you well know, Spiff did not post a law book. He posted information taken from the Denver Post and, as you well know, that article does not state that Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo hired anybody save a legal contractor.
Alas, I only intended to name one of the pro-immigration trade groups, and I forgot that La Raza means "the Race". In the future I'll try to leave even the unintentional race-baiting to your side.
Spiff ran away when I asked him to "refute" that Tancredo ducked Vietnam by being "mentally unfit".
Alas, your race baiting posts are tiresome.
I notice that you're really busy posting today- did you draw the short straw and get stuck with the attack-the-border-conservatives duty? That must require a lot of extra typing and all. Maybe we could ping some of the rest of the gang to come help you out?
Most all in response to nonsense like yours. But thanks for checking.
How much are you being paid by the Rat party to smear Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo? But you digress.
When will you stop your lying and misrepresentations regarding Tancredo not breaking the law by legally hiring a contractor for his home?
When the Denver Post and Fox News post retractions on their stories.
Glad to help out.
We all know how tedious it can be to crib from old DU notes- well, at least we can imagine how tedious it must be for you, judging from what it's like reading that junk. But a job's a job, and you must soldier on and earn your pay. You might want to toss in a few 'xenophobes' and 'nativists' for variety.
Their stories state that Tancredo legally hired a subcontractor.
What is there to retract?
Nothing but loser logic from you and yours. Later.
Ping me when you can refute the Tom "mentally unfit" story.
Please keep the meaningless babbles to yourself.
They state more than that, Mr. Pick & Choose.
Yes, the liberal press attempted to smear Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo, just like you. But the end result the smear is, he legally hired subcontractors.
Fox News too liberal for you? You're out of deflections, obviously.
If the end result with the liberal press was that Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo legally hired a contractor, you think that not-so-conservtive Faux News would have come to a different conclusion? If they had, you'd be posting links. But they didn't. So all you've got left is your lies and misrepresentations.
Again, Fox News is not liberal press. Your premise is dishonest, again.
If they had, you'd be posting links.
I did.
The point, however, is that you continue to lie and misrepresent the facts, which are, that Tancredo legally hired subcontractors and is did not break the following laws:
Federal Law--Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
"A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he: assists an illegal alien she/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or encourages that illegal alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
ILLEGAL HIRING:
Section 1324a states: "Any person who knowingly hires/harbors/transports any illegal alien is guilty of a felony punishable by 10 years jail + $2000 fine per illegal alien + forfeiture of the vehicle or property used to commit the crime".
ARTICLE 100
CRIMINAL SOLICITATION
Section 100.10 Criminal solicitation in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal solicitation in the second degree when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a class A felony, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause such other person to engage in such conduct.Criminal solicitation in the second degree is a class D felony.
In addition to the federal statutes....state laws and local ordinances controlling fair labor practices, workers compensation, zoning, safe housing and rental property, nuisance, licensing, street vending, and solicitations by contractors may also apply to activities that involve illegal aliens.
And one last thing, just another reminder:
Jim Robinson stated that the goal of this forum is to elect and re-elect Conservative Republicans. Tom Tancredo is a Conservative Republican, and has been given awards from organizations for his conservatism. Perhaps you'd rather be with folks like DU, whose goal it is to besmirch Conservative Republicans so that Rats get elected instead.
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