Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, who is perhaps best known outside Colorado for his recent remarks about nuking Muslim holy sites such as the city of Mecca, wants to run the US.
Tancredo has already visited New Hampshire and Iowa this year, and says he found a welcome audience among voters who are fed up with the nation’s immigration policies, including proposals by President Bush.“Unless I misread the political tea leaves, there is a great deal of support for what I say,” Tancredo said.
Tancredo said he was just “throwing out ideas” when he speculated about using nuclear weapons on civilian populations in cities such as Mecca, and saw no need to apologize for comments that he says were taken out of context.
Tancredo has not provided further description of the context in which such remarks are appropriate.
According to Associated Press, the Republican National Committee supports Tancredo in his 2006 Congressional race after previously shying away from him.
Unlike 2002, when the GOP tried to distance itself from Tancredo amid concern he could cost them Hispanic votes, the national party is backing the four-term congressman’s re-election bid in the heavily Republican suburbs of southern Denver. So far, there is no Democratic challenger for the 2006 race.
We at BTC News believe Tom Tancredo’s run for the presidency deserves the support not only of the Republican National Committee, but of every Democrat with a few dollars to spare. It is high time the US once again has a candidate who believes yesterday’s immigrants were okay but tomorrow’s suck, and who is willing to demystify the deployment of nuclear weapons against the civilian populations of religiously significant cities.
Muslim holy sites and potential Tancredo targets include Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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UPDATE: A reader has pointed out that Rep. Tancredo did not specify nuclear weapons as the means for “taking out their holy sites.” We stand corrected; he may well have been thinking of a Tokyo- or Dresden-style firebombing, or some other tactic.
I am an immigrant, and I am sick of ILLEGAL ALIENS.
TANCREDO FOR PRESIDENT 2008:”OUR LAST AND ONLY HOPE TO SAVE AMERICA”
fuck you son of the bitch
It would be useful to be accurate. Rep. Tancredo did NOT advocate “nuking” Mecca. Nuclear weapons did not come up in the KFLA interview, and were not mentioned by Tancredo.
He spoke hypothetically about a possible DETERENT to radical Islamists considering using nuclear weapons on U.S. cities. Mecca is the center of the universe for Moslems, who pray toward it five times a day. They treasure nothing on earth more.
Perhaps Imams and Mullahs would consider hacking off the heads of the jihadist madmen if they finally realize that these idiots are endangering what they revere most. ONE American life is worth more than a HUNDRED MECCAS!
You can be sure that IF nukes are detonated in ANY of our cities by Islamists, THE GLOVES COME OFF. Mr. “Tolerance” and Mr. “PC” will die that day, and Mr. Mecca just might experience an artificial sunrise.
Oh, I see, Bruce. So it would be fine, then, for the British to take out the Vatican if Irish Catholic terrorists did something drastic in London? That’s pretty good. Sure, there are a billion and a half Catholics in the world, some of whom live in London, and only a tiny fraction of them ever committed acts of terror, but that’s what they get.
And your point about 100 Meccas is well-taken too. The population of Mecca in the off-season is somewhere around a million, so by your calculations, one American is worth at least 100 million Wogs. Brilliant! Let’s hope you can persuade the Congressman to work that into his campaign material.
Run, Tom, Run!
You dipshits can’t even get the radio station right it’s 540WFLA.
Transcript of Tancredo comments
By Rocky Mountain News
July 18, 2005
Comments made by Rep. Tom Tancredo on Friday during an on-air interview on radio station WFLA in Orlando, Fla. Host Pat Campbell and the congressman were discussing the possibility of future terrorist attacks inside the United States.
Campbell: Worst case scenario, if they do have these nukes inside the borders and they were to use something like that — what would our response be?
Tancredo: What would be the response? You know, there are things that you could threaten to do before something like that happens and then you may have to do afterwards that are quite draconian.
Campbell: Such as…
Tancredo: Well, what if you said something like — if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, um, you know, you could take out their holy sites . . .
Campbell: You’re talking about bombing Mecca.
Tancredo: Yeah. What if you said — what if you said that we recognize that this is the ultimate threat to the United States — therefore this is the ultimate threat, this is the ultimate response.
I mean, I don’t know, I’m just throwing out there some ideas because it seems to me . . . at that point in time you would be talking about taking the most draconian measures you could possibly imagine and because other than that all you could do is once again tighten up internally.
Letters To Leaders
All messages are published with permission of the sender. The general topic of this message is Terrorism:
Subject:
The End of Terror, A Call For the Destruction of Mecca
To:
President George Bush
July 23, 2005
“A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” –James Madison
There is no “Jihad”, no holy war, when the “holiest of holies” has been blown to smithereens by a bomb of Western manufacture.
The time for entertaining the Jihadist wish-fulfillment is at an end. For those agents of chaos, and destroyers of civilization, there is only one “future.” That future will be entirely predicated on our national resolve to end the madness once and for all.
It is time to end the stalemate in the Middle East. There is no negotiating with animals who destroy innocent men, women and children. Besides, there is already a Palestinian homeland–it’s called Jordan. The real issue is the right of Israel and America to exist. Others have plans in that regard which contraindicate our survival in any form. There is no negotiating with those who saw peoples’ heads off with a dull knife. There is no truce, no lasting peace, with the likes of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. These Satanic forces understand only one thing, and that is annihilation. They live and breathe it, they dream it, so let’s give it to them so they can have the ultimate orgasm of martyrdom and hasten the end product of their violent sojourn on Earth. This shouldn’t be too hard for a president sanctioned by the wrathful Jehovah.
It is indeed “Judgement Day” here on Earth, as in Heaven. We can no longer afford to watch ourselves being picked off one by one, country by country. World civilization requires the resolve to incinerate cities. Our enemies have now established that ground rule. We did not choose it, it was forced on us, and we must play the game or die. Since we no longer officially trust in God, let’s change the motto on our coinage to: “Survival of the Fittest.”
Mr. bin Laden has “misunderestimated” the resolve and strength of The United States of America. He believes–as evidenced by that serene smile on his face–that it is only a matter of time before the life-loving Western world grows weary of strife, and seeks accomodation with an “unbeatable” foe. He depends on Americans to keep eating their junk food, growing fat and lazy, while his own forces grow strong, lean and impervious to hardship and sacrifice. He depends on our national attention defecit disorder, and our predilection for sitcoms and reality docudramas about “Survivor” on the telly. He believes that the degenerate, fat infidel, who cannot control his own borders, or national self-determination, will simply fall before the awful Satanic majesty of the Jihadi. He will fly into our country on the magic carpet of porous borders, to inflict terror and national psychic trauma at will.
Even now, Congress has made the fatal mistake of giving Big Brother the mandate to rule over us–with renewal of the Patriot Act– in the new police state crafted for us by the Bush administration. Our leaders imagine they are buying security, by destroying the freedom and privacy of the American people. In a certain sense, Jihadistan has already won the war, for they have preempted our pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, and made their problem with Israel our problem. They have destroyed our pursuit of joy and replaced it with fear. They have forced us to substitute the bounty of liberty and freedom from fear for a permanent state of paranoia, so paranoid that we declare war on our own people who smoke marijuana as a pursuit of happiness.
The reason Osama bin Laden has such a serene smile on his face, is because he knows we are a degenerate people who have no national resolve to define ourselves as a people, but would rather instead pay lip service to lofty ideals, as we sacrifice our youth in the hot desert sands of Iraq. While our servicemen and women are thousands of miles away, “nation-building” (a Bush brainchild) and defending borders for ingrates, our own borders are routinely breached by invaders.
We did not buy into Saddam Hussein’s contention that Kuwait is a “province of Iraq,” yet our schizophrenic national psyche believes that the Communist overlords in Beijing have every right to regard the autonomous nation of Taiwan as a “province.” Our “One China Policy” is warped and misdirected, insofar as we believe that the Maoist slave traders and pirates in Beijing are a legitimate government. So we grant tyranny “Most Favored Nation” status, both abroad and at home.
We have forgotten the heroic revolution at Tiananmen Square, and the bold Chinese patriot who stood alone naked in the street, facing off a tank. The sacrifices of those Chinese patriots who built a monument to goddess Liberty has now been quite forgotten, as we seek to befriend the Red Dragon, whose talons now squeeze the life out of our economy.
A position of strength, would require us to immeadiately declare all Chinese assets as forfeit to the spoils of war. That is the only politically correct stance for those who have issued us the ultimate warning of nuclear annihilation. Since words have meaning, we must regard those words as an act of war–the same as say, if someone threatened the president in print, how long would he last?
Since the Red Chinese are sneak-thieves, mad dogs and opportunists, and they cannot be trusted to return our true friendship, we must discount them completely and turn the tables on them by now holding them hostage–even as they have done to us. The same law applies to the Ayatollah set.
We are in a war for our national survival, and yet we do not have the balls to declare total war–much less any statement or formal declaration– for that would be “politically incorrect.” Since we have now witnessed a “spilling of the beans”–or should I say rice?–by the foolish Red Chinese general who made that ultimate threat, perhaps we need to reevaluate if that falls under a “Red Alert.”
Since at this juncture in time, Red China lacks the wherewithal to project its’ new military power, any so-called “War President” worth his salt would have followed through with the hot-air proclamation of “Preemption,” to actually deliver Armageddon to America’s enemies. Rather, this administration prefers to “wait and see” and ignore like an ostrich the gathering danger. The perilous words fall off us like water on a duck’s back. We do not absorb the intent or meaning, nor do we respond in a decisive manner, by now declaring Taiwan the only legitimate government for all of China. Taiwan must be MFN.
Since we are ostensibly a freedom-promoting power, we should be initiating regime change for Beijing, and Pyongyang, as well as state sponsors of Middle East terror. The first act in that declaration of war, being the outright confiscation of all ill-gotten gains by Red China. Such strategic assets and the soil of our homeland revert back to the rightful owners. The Red Chinese “lease” has expired. We must regard Red China as a drug-dealer whose theft of our technology and homeland is now subject to “search and seizure” and forfeiture. We should be pulling the plug on the Red Chinese economy, and informing Jihadistan that they must immeadiately hand over bin Laden, or face the annihilation of Mecca, Medina, and all other “holy places” of Islam. If they fail to deliver, we also blow up madrassas, minarets and mosques. Nothing is exempt from retribution–not even the grave of the “Prophet,” for the Jihadist established the ground rules, by desecrating Jewish graves and formulating the hostage-taking game.
That would be a “robust” action by a true “War President,” but our “illustrious leader” is a little bit “fuzzy.” He would rather declare war on his own people and trample on their rights, while appeasing the enemy in a million different ways. This “War President” imagines surrender is really illegal alien amnesty. He wants to “forgive” Third World debt, as the Communists buy up more and more of our country. The only debt he should be forgiving is our own, for it was manufactured in stealth, as an act of war by a hostile power with aspirations to eclipse us.
This administration hopes the threat to national security will just go away, it prefers instead to harass hippies with back packs at the airport, and little old dope-smoking grandmas. Then we can have a feel-good Kumbayah moment–like we’re accomplishing some mission. Meanwhile the sharks circle around us, but they cannot move in, completely for we are still too strong. There is a movement in our republic by the Guardians–the Minutemen and women, the common folk who stuff their faces and watch Hank Hill on T.V.. We just got up off the couch to declare the Second American Revolution, and that we “aren’t going to take it anymore.” Call us “vigilantes” if you like, it is revolution in response to dire threat to our nation from within and without.
We will not stand idle while dangers gather. We will not depend on our leaders to do one single thing for us, save harass and betray us yet again, with their renewal of the oppressive Patriot Act. It is time to abandon form in favor of substance, something we can really sink our teeth into–like blowing up the well spring where terrorists suckle and formulate their evil ideology. We need to demolish the center of their universe. It does not do any good to cut off the tenatacles of the octopus, while the head remains. These are half-measures.
Our “War President” shouldn’t have a problem with total war, for that is what we pay him for when the need arises. Every movement in history, every ideology has something which is most dear–even the shadow known as terrorism. For the Jihadist, religion and martydom are all there is to strive for in this world–along with world domination. So let us hit the enemy once and for all, and end this thousand-year-old slog in a day. The Angel of National Survival calls on our inept leaders to NUKE MECCA! Go ahead and do it, for that nation which hesitates will be lost forever.
We must take Red China hostage and contain her. ” Regime change” is the order of the day; let’s not be squeamish in enforcement by using our MX missle, for that will save the lives of our troops. They after all, are not expendable pawns–contrary to popular belief by this administration.
To those who would question why we fight, the answer is to preserve the country of our Founding Fathers, and world civilization. “One giant leap for Mankind……..” as it were.
We have sold off our birthright of freedom to declare the oppressor victor in the “One China” weltanschauung. We feed and appease the poisonous serpent with the fat of our good graces. We sell off our nation to the highest bidder inch by inch, bit by bit, until there is nothing left that is our own. It is all owned by foreign invaders–our lives, our jobs and our self-determination. In short, we dig our own graves with disastrous trade policies and inaction in the face of world-wide war. We have been sucker-punched, and our cranial meninges have been jarred. We need to get up like men and start issuing a few warnings and orders of our own, AFTER we nuke them.
If that weren’t enough, we actually flirt with making our own nation Communist with the recent Kelo decision by Justice Souter. We see the destruction of the bedrock principle of our Founding Fathers for home ownership, as forfeit to the New Order of corporate hegemony over our lives and freedoms. The invasion comes on multiple fronts, and thus must be fought with the only weapon which can divide itself into multiple warheads. The time for negotiation is past, for our enemies use it only as a tactic of war.
Our president and Congress are in bed with special interests, to the detriment of our concept that the “people rule” in a democracy. But how can we rule when foreigners own so much of our country? How is it that foreign interests own so much, while We the American People, are left with nothing? What kind of mixed signals do we send our enemies, when our leaders do virtually nothing concrete to insure the continued existence of our beloved country, for they imagine themselves our Big Brother?
The Jihadist sees America as a bull moose stuck in a bog, surrounded by a pack of ravening wolves. To the Jihadist mind, it is only a matter of time, before the whole rotten underbelly of appeasement and lack of national resolve comes crashing down, like a hoary old redwood tree. Thus, the Osama smiles, for his skull has not been delivered to our cigar-chomping generals at the Pentagon, for use as an ash tray. We are too politically correct for that. We are also too stupid to humiliate the Jihadist, for that is his Achilles heel, which he fears more than death. Instead we seek appeasement, by appealing to his cultural sensibilities, when the only fit place for the Koran is in fact a toilet.
We have become diluted and adulterated by terrorists who come over for a lap dance, before they deliver devastating blows to our national psyche and economy. Our nation has become “Pleasure Island” where tyrants go to play and stay, and wear out their welcome.
Thousand Oaks , CA
Islam says that “Allah will never grant a way for the unbeleivers to triumph over the beleivers”. Therefore, complete destruction and uninhabitability of Islam’s holiest site, would suggest that allah did not have the strength make good on his promises. It would place severe doubt in the minds of Jihadists.
Tancredo for President.
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