Posted on 11/22/2006 5:29:38 AM PST by Dane
Beth Gorham, The Canadian Press Published: Tuesday, November 21, 2006
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. legislator who backs tough anti-immigrant measures and more security at the Canada-U.S. border is warning Americans that President George W. Bush is plotting to integrate the continent.
And he says Prime Minister Stephen Harper “buys into it.”
Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, revered by some U.S. conservatives for his efforts to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico, said this week that Bush is a dangerous internationalist.
“He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that, it’s an idea. It’s not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where the guy is really going,” he told WorldNetDaily, a controversial conservative website.
“I know this is dramatic, or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic. But I’m telling you that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American union, it’s not something that’s just written about by right-wing fringe kooks,” said Tancredo, who is considering a run at the presidency.
“It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it...”
Tancredo followed up with an interview on the conservative Fox News network, where he said the borders will lose all their significance, serving merely as “speed bumps” in the flow of goods, services and people.
In October, Tancredo demanded the United States suspend work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) signed last year by Canada, Mexico and The United States until Congress examines its goals and agreements, which include standardizing regulations and dismantling other barriers to trade.
The deal to collaborate on a wide range of trade and security issues is part of a larger plot to merge the countries in a European Union-like arrangement using a common currency, he said, with no oversight from legislators.
The congressman, who wrote a book on the border security issue called “In Mortal Danger,” is one of four members of Congress who’ve signed a resolution opposed to a union or a free trade “superhighway system.”
They’re not the only ones worried about closer ties between the three countries.
A coalition of American conservatives is organizing a grassroots effort to make it an issue in the 2008 presidential race and vow to campaign against any candidate, Republican or Democrat, who won’t side with them.
The movement was spearheaded in October by Howard Phillips, chairman of the public policy group Conservative Caucus, anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly and author Jerome Corsi.
The group is calling for a congressional investigation into the SPP and full disclosure of all documents when the new Congress run by Democrats begins in January. They’re getting support from the Minuteman Project that monitors the borders to deter illegal crossings, a group Bush has called vigilantes.
Supporters of the anti-union stand point out that a prominent three-country task force backed by Canada’s business elite has promoted an elaborate vision of a common economy and security perimeter.
The plan, released last year, drew fire from some Canadians who saw it as a dangerous surrender of sovereignty designed to benefit big business.
Tancredo, who has often talked about the “porous” Canada-U.S. border, stirred up controversy last year when he mused on a Florida radio show that America could destroy Islamic holy sites like Mecca if there’s another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
While beloved by many right-wingers and immigration hawks, Tancredo was recently labelled one of the 10 worst congressmen by Rolling Stone magazine.
The publication noted he wants to deport every undocumented worker in the United States, a proposal that would cost at least US$200 billion, and has called for halting all immigration, legal or otherwise.
If there is a third party, I think there will be a fourth. It doesn't matter which side starts it; both parties have hard core 'true believers' who have been barely restrained from creating their own party by the fear of throwing the election to the hated enemy.
If a third part appears on the other side, that restraining factor is gone.
Consider; a serious anti-war party appears on the left with a real politician leading it, say Dennis Kucinich (I have it from my socialist brother that 'DK' is well-respected by the hard left), and suddenly starts polling with 7-8% of the electorate. At that point, the anti-illegal crowd on the right realize that they can create their own party, and make the statement they want to make with a greatly reduced chance of giving the election to the democrats. And away we go.
I don't know what was in Ronaldus Magnus's mind, but the Mexicans threw off the French reign around 1867 and executed Emperor Maximillian.
For Tancredo, it's getting less and less about the votes and more and more about the benjamins...
"But I’m telling you that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American union, it’s not something that’s just written about by right-wing fringe kooks,” said Tancredo, a right-wing fringe kook.
Don't talk to Dane about Denmark. As I recall in a post to me a few years ago Dane stated that they have a right to control immigration because of their history and culture. Only the US must keep open the borders to anyone who wants to enter, whether legally or not. Hypocrisy knows no bounds from liberal fifth columnists like Dane.
" Gee, smoking some of the "herbs" in your stuffing the day before you put the stuffing into Tom Turkey there, dlj."
Wanna' hit? :)
Tancredo, just like his puppet master Pat Buchanan, would like nothing more than to destroy the GOP.
The man is "coo coo for cocopuffs," so to speak.
You have Google News E-mail alerts for Tom Tancredo, don't you?
The Mexican government does well in requiring ID before voting. They also do far better than our own government in enforcing immigration laws at their southern border than we do. These are two areas where we would do well by imitating our southern neighbors.
They also lost a bit of the white vote as well. Should they have pandered to the honkies too?
I thought he faked mental illness to avoid Vietnam...maybe he really is a nutcase.
You're just saying that because your team blows goats.
There was an earlier thread. Tancredo is fairly adept, but he is missing some basic philosophy and history.
Hang on, time out. You're really going to say with a straight face that the Mexican government is not dysfunctional?!? You must be nucking futs.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Would you please enlighten us all as to which branch of the military you served in?
Tank is a loon
No. Tancredo's mental instability has nothing to do with you or I.
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