tom tancredo

From the department of “holy shit!”:

Tancredo applauds the law in that Arizona took control of enforcing laws the federal government hasn’t enforced.

But he questions how police can stop people for any reason. “I do not want people here, there in Arizona, pulled over because you look like [you] should be pulled over,” says Tancredo.

He suspects police in Arizona will only pull people over for breaking the law. But they could already do this before the new law.

(emphasis included)

Congratulations Arizona – you have now made Tom Tancredo look like a sane and rational person.

Considering how FOX likes to ask questions like that, I decided to focus one at their debate, and in particular the section on torture. We heard such things as "I would call Jack Bauer" and other cute little comments all supporting torture. Of course the crowd at the GOP debate loved these responses and cheered for them.

Now let's think about that. We have 3 soldiers currently missing in Iraq. Al Qaeda is believed to be holding them and this was going on during the debate. Now we got one of our front runners, Rudy Giuliani, along with a candidate and current member of Congress, Tom Tancredo, talking about torture and how we should engage in it. Even worse - they are doing it on television. I wonder if al Qaeda was watching FOX? Everytime the Democrats say something about pulling our troops out of Iraq, the Republicans quickly jump on the bandwagon of saying our enemies are watching. Well I got a feeling they would be much more interested in who the next leader of our country might be than what Congress is doing.

Rep. Tancredo (R-Co) told a Florida radio talk show that if terrorists would
use nuclear weapons against us, we would target their holy places such as Mecca.
Needless to say this story is gaining momentum and the words the Congressman
used can have serious repercussions against not only our homeland, but also our
soldiers abroad.

Last week a Chinese General made a statement that if we would go to war
against China in order to defend Taiwan, they could strike us with nuclear
weapons. Ironically this was the same kind of rhetoric used by the Congressman.
Now on July 14, 2005, the Congressman issued a

press release regarding this
General's comments:

Tancredo Slams Senior Chinese Official for Nuke Threat

Congressman Demands Apology, Repudiation of Threat from Chinese Government

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) demanded an immediate
apology and unequivocal repudiation of Major General Zhu Chenghu’s nuclear
threat against the United States.

In an astonishing moment of candor, Zhu, a widely-published PRC defense
strategist and senior government official, told an assembly of foreign
reporters, “If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided
ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to
respond with nuclear weapons.” Zhu went on to state that ‘China’s territory’
includes Taiwan, Chinese warships and aircraft.