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.
I don't think there is any question that if Tancredo runs as a 3rd party, he will take more than 3% and less than 10%. 75% of that will be from the Republican nominee. That will ensure a Democrat victory.
Whose fault will this be? Well, not Tancredo's really. He is just playing a role that is entirely predictible. The fault will lie with those who ignored what every good poll will tell you is the second most important issue on the minds of voters in fly over country, second only to WOT (and actually inseparable from that, if you think about it).
I'm not nearly as hawkish as Tom on the border. But I have a hard time getting mad at him. He's just doing his deal and responding to a real crisis in big government/corporate Republicanism brought to us by GWB and many others.
If the GOP loses b/c of his 3rd party run, we only have ourselves to blame.
This isn't about the WND or politics. It's about the NWO/NAU/UN world government. You really want the UN deciding what's best for you and yours?
Tancredo will never get more than 3/8 of one percent of the total votes.
The main stream media will destroy Tancredo. They will treat him like a bad racist joke. After the media is through with Tancredo he could not get a majority of votes from the KLU KLUX KLAN... let alone normal human beings.
LOL! He will get 10 times the vote pat buchanan got in 2000, while buchanan had $12,000,000 in taxpayers money to play with(from the Reform Party).
What do you smoke in the morning?
Tom misread the plan: We want to ANNEX Canada, and kick the French Canadians down to Mexico....
Please quote my FR rhetoric where I said that Ronald Reagan was an OBL free traitor.
"He will get 10 times the vote pat buchanan got in 2000"
That's exactly what I said, moron. Pat got north of 400,000 votes, or about .4%. If Tancredo gets 4 million votes, as you say he will (ten times what Pat got), that will be right around the 3% that I said would be his low.
Glad you agree with me. LOL!
Uh no, Ronald Reagan's speech as posted in reply #14 of this thread by AU, is what would make Ronald Reagan an OBL"free traitor", per your your previous rhetoric on FR.
And like I said earlier, what are you smoking?
"Got too hot for ya on the other thread eh?"
Dane's at it again, eh? Trying to paint anyone who is against open borders as a nut job?
He has mastered the art of saying just enough sensible things to get noticed, and only later do you discover that he is just another wack-job in the mode of Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan and others.
There will be FReepers who follow him in lockstep because of the few common sense comments he makes, and will ignore their own unease when he goes off the reservation into idiocy.
Whenever there is a leadership void, people leap and nuts like Tancredo out of desperation and anger. This is how the left adopted Howard Dean early on.
Wake up FReepers, Tancredo is a stopped-clock nutjob.
Uh no,
Is that "uh no" ss in you won't quote my FR rhetoric?
Ronald Reagan's speech as posted in reply #14 of this thread by AU, is what would make Ronald Reagan an OBL"free traitor", per your your previous rhetoric on FR.
Please quote that previous FR rhetoric of mine.
That is not a very good example.
Gore didn't win. By saying that "Buchanan is the only way Gore could win" is like saying "he drastically improves his otherwise poor chances." Pat may have drastically improved Gore's chances but it still wasn't enough.
What I am saying about Hillary is that if she runs against 1 conservative Republican she has no chance of victory. If she runs against 1 moderate Repub and 1 conservative 3rd party she has a moderate chance.
I loath Mrs. Clinton. I don't want to see her have any chance.
Whatever DD(ACLU rhetoric user).
You(DD) are well known for your rhetoric(i.e Tancredo/J.D. Hayworth harshness) on FR.
Using trial lawyerly spin tactics, ain't going to work, dude.
Nice.....:)
You(DD) are well known for your rhetoric(i.e Tancredo/J.D. Hayworth harshness) on FR.
Using trial lawyerly spin tactics, ain't going to work, dude.
You are certifiable.
"Stopped-Clocker"
-A politician or pundit who makes enough sensible comments to gain a following, then later reviles him/her self to be an idiot, villain, conspiracy theorist, or incompetent.
Notable examples would be:
Pat Buchanan
Ross Perot
Tom Tancredo
Bill Frist
Elizabeth Dole
Katherine Harris(sorry)
I will not argue that point, since you are the self-procalimed expert from peronal experience on such things.
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