Tom Tancredo and the Truth

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.–Winston Churchill

 

The threats to our national security in the order of the threat level:

1. George Bush’s lack of immigration enforcement since 9-11. His immigration plan would be the equivalent of putting bars on all the windows in the front of your house, adding three additional deadbolts to the front door, installing a state of the art alarm, placing armed guards in the front of the house and at the same time you leave the back door wide open and place signs in the front yard saying” come around back the door is open.” We were attacked on our soil by people who should not have been here. The absolute first thing would have been to shut down the borders and run anyone coming into this country from a middle eastern background under the microscope and find any and everyone not supposed to be here i.e. the 600,000 criminal illegals from around the world with expired visas, crimes, etc. that are still unaccounted for. Engaging in a war with a country that posed no direct threat to this country without addressing our borders and illegal infiltration is nothing short of ignorant. If a group of caucasians bombed a holy site in an Arabic country you could expect nothing less than the tables being turned. And justifiably so. It is the only effective way to stop it in it’s tracks.
2. Michael Chertoff and the Office of Home Land Security. This weed is allegedly in charge of enforcing the laws that are on the books with regards to immigration and national security. Rather than focusing on building the border fence that has been mandated and funded, he has spent his time parading around the country as a politician and lobbyist trying to sell Bush’s snake oil immigration plan. His department is also responsible for the idiotic screening process at the airports. A 75 year old nun in a wheelchair is just as likely to be searched as a person who would fit the profile of someone who would be the most likely to commit an act of terrorism. You know who I am talking about. Keep in mind that not all Muslims are terrorist, but nearly all terrorist are Muslims. This should be tattooed on Chertoff’s forehead in an inverted fashion so he sees it every time he looks in the mirror. Michael Chertoff and the Homeland Security Agency would be better served consulting with odds makers in Vegas on who would be a more likely candidate as a terrorist, a nun or a person of Middle Eastern ancestry chanting Allah rather than bowing to political correctness for their inane procedures. In Vegas the house always comes out ahead.
3. Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department who is in the pocket of the Mexican government when it comes to prosecuting Border Agents vis a vis illegal aliens and drug smugglers. And for allowing the Mexican government to be involved in any capacity in the cases and witnesses being investigated on the U.S. side of the border.
4. The Democrat controlled Congress has not passed any law or policy to weaken our national security-yet. They have tried but their efforts have so far been benign. They have been chipping away at the intelligence gathering procedures at Guantanamo Bay. The Democrats and their left wing loons are still wringing their hands over the tactics used to coerce intelligence from the prisoners there concerning national intelligence. If one of their children or spouses were captured and held hostage with threats of being beheaded and they had one hour alone with someone who knew the location of the hostage and they had anything at their disposal to get the information, what would they do? That should be the standard for extracting information.
5. Al Qaeda comes in at fifth because even though they would attack us on our soil again, they are not a direct threat unless they are here. The misguided policies that have been in place since 9-11 and the political correctness that is driving our national security policy is the only avenue they need to execute an attack. They are here and the only thing keeping more from coming into this country is Chertoff and his Home Land Security Department. The Bush administration can expand F.I.S.A. all you want and listen to whatever they want but until all threats are eradicated from our back yard and their entrance into the U.S. is cut off, you can expect nothing less than another attack here.

The only person who has spoken the truth about the gapping holes in our national security is Tom Tancredo and he has been assailed from the left and the right for his views. His views are factual and void of political correctness. Tancredo recently received harsh criticism for the following statement about bombing Mecca:

Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s campaign stood by his assertion that bombing holy Muslim sites would serve as a good “deterrent” to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the United States, his spokeswoman said Friday.

“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” Tancredo said. “That is the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they would otherwise do. If I am wrong, fine, tell me, and I would be happy to do something else. But you had better find a deterrent, or you will find an attack.”

Tom Casey, a deputy spokesman for the State Department, told CNN’s Elise Labott that the congressman’s comments were “reprehensible” and “absolutely crazy.” Tancredo was widely criticized in 2005 for making a similar suggestion.

Just the fact that the inept State Department made these comments gives credence to what Tancredo said. Tancredo made a statement to this effect. Tom Tancredo has identified the enemy while Bush has never identified the enemy. You have to identify your enemy to defeat it. You can’t win if you don’t know who you are fighting. Bush keeps harping about the war on terror. Terror is not an enemy. Terror and terrorism are tactics. Terrorism is the weapon of choice that our enemy chooses to fight with. Our enemy is Islam. Is it all of Islam? No. Bush continues to call it a small faction of Islam’s radical wing that is the root of the problem. Let’s look at the small radical wing by the numbers. There are approximately 1.5 million Muslims in the U.S. and 1.4 billion worldwide.
A poll conducted by Radwan Masmoudi, president of the Washington-based Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, which promotes the compatibility of Islam with democracy, 13% of all Muslims in the U. S. said that bombing of Civilians is justifiable in defense of Islam. Since there are 1.5 million Muslims in the U. S. that translates into 195,000 Muslims in the U.S. that agree with the bombing of civilians. In Europe the number is 25%. There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world and that translates into 350 million who agree that bombing of civilians in defense of Islam is justifiable. Do those numbers equate a radical fringe? That is 50 million more Muslims who agree with the bombing of civilians than live in the U.S. Since we have been emasculated by political correctness, we are unable to identify our enemy and take the appropriate actions to defend our national security against it.

Tancredo also received criticism and death threats that caused him to cancel a speech in Miami for this comment:

“Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you’re in the United States of America. You would certainly say you’re in a Third World country,” Tancredo said.

Governor Bush, who replicates his brother’s ignorance on immigration and political correctness, had this to say in response in to Tancredo:

Tancredo’s comments were “disappointing” and “naive.”

“Miami is a wonderful city filled with diversity and heritage that we choose to celebrate, not insult.”

Tancredo responded with this:

“I certainly understand and appreciate your need and desire to create the illusion of Miami as a multi ethnic ‘All American’ city” “I can also appreciate that Miami’s schools graduate many outstanding students and that the cultural and ethnic diversity of the city offers many advantages to its residents.

“However, it is neither naive nor insulting to call attention to a real problem that cannot be easily dismissed through politically correct happy talk.”

Consider the immigration policy we have with the Cubans. It reads like a board game by Milton Bradley. Cubans who do not reach the shore (i.e. dry land), are interdicted and returned to Cuba. Cubans who successfully reach the shore are inspected for entry by DHS and generally permitted to stay and adjust under the Cuban Adjustment Act the following year. To show the idiocy of these policies, there was a case where a group of Cubans landed on a pier and were being returned to Cuba but filed a lawsuit. There was the splitting of hairs of whether a pier was considered dry land or not.

There are second generation people living in Miami who don’t speak English. They don’t have to. You can live in Miami, work in Miami, shop in Miami and live a complete life in Miami and never utter a word of English. Here is a result of that:

A South Florida man who is being evicted from his place of business because he speaks no Spanish – just English – says he will move out, as he’s suddenly become the focus of national debates over illegal immigration and property rights.

“I guess I don’t serve the ‘Spanish need,’ whatever that means,” McKenna told the Stuart News in a story published Sunday. Since then, the saga has been prominently featured on websites including WND and the Drudge Report, and now McKenna is making the rounds on the television-news circuit, both on Florida stations as well as national shows such as CNN’s “Glenn Beck.”

Islam, terrorism and immigration are not mutually exclusive and here is the documented tie in that Tancredo warns about:

Rep. Ed Royce, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs terrorism and nonproliferation subcommittee, said the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) document – first reported yesterday by The Washington Times – highlights how vulnerable the nation is when fighting the war on terrorism.

“I’ll be asking the terrorism subcommittee to hold a hearing on the DEA report’s disturbing findings,” said Mr. Royce of California. “A flood of name changes from Arabic to Hispanic and the reported linking of drug cartels on the Texas border with Middle East terrorism need to be thoroughly investigated.”

Likewise, Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, said the DEA document revealed startling evidence that Islamic radicals are camouflaging themselves as Hispanics while conducting business with violent drug-trafficking organizations.

I have been ringing the bell about this serious threat of Islamic individuals changing their surnames to Hispanic surnames for three to four years,” Mr. Culberson said. “Unfortunately, Homeland Security’s highest priority is to hide the truth from Congress and the public. I just hope we’re not closing the barn door after terrorists have already made their way in.”

The 2005 DEA report outlines several incidents in which multiple Middle Eastern drug-trafficking and terrorist cells in the U.S. are funding terrorism networks overseas with the aid of Mexican cartels. These sleeper cells use established Mexican cartels with highly sophisticated trafficking routes to move narcotics – and other contraband – in and out of the United States, the report said.

Of the estimated 500,00 illegal aliens who cross our border each year how many of them would it take to bring in a WMD and destroy a city? Just a couple of them or .00001% of them. What would Vegas think about those odds?