Letters to the Editor
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speechless
an ad like this does leave one speechless...except for this: the ad makes it sound as if the things the announcer is talking about *have already happened* in America, are happening right now.
How much you want to bet there are people who will watch the ad and say to each other "did you hear about the Islamoterrorist who blew up the shopping mall? I heard about it on TV... it's all because of those traitors who won't close our borders."?
Disturbing...what political desperation does to a man.
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What Tancredo is saying is far worse
Posted under the wrong story
Tancredo is saying people crossing the border are far more sinister than just wanting to take our jobs. He's saying they want to murder us.
Fear and hyperbole taken to a whole new level.
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Just what we need...
another fear mongering nut in the White House.
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I for one support emptying all the prisons
What could possibly go wrong, and besides, prison is mean.
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Parody?
Tancredo was also the one that named his PAC "Team America" long after the movie came out. There is truly no telling on the self-parody front.
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Keep it up!
Keep up the good work, Tancredo! Every hyperbolic, fear mongering, xenophobic and ethnocentric ad only guarantees that the expanding Latino demographic will vote Democrat for generations to come.
For a great article on this see:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/11/the-50-year-strategy.html
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I hear a different reference...
Does anyone else think this has to be the same producer/script-writer/etc as the one Vernon Robinson for that odious "Twilight Zone" ad? Same kind of cadence in the voice too. Creepy all around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDTr6vHS5l8
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same voiceover as in Helms ad?
I know those vacuous baritones (hat tip to Garry Trudeau) all sound the same, but this guy's voice reminds me of the narrator in the famous Jesse Helms ad, ca. 1986 or '88, with the white hands crumpling the rejection letter as the voiceover talked about "You needed that job, and you were the most qualified, but you lost it to an ethnic minority because of a racial quota." Thing was, in North Carolina back then, it worked. Let's hope it won't work for Tancredo.
The right wing continues to marginalize itself. Let 'em.
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The "Approve This Message" segment
Is it just me, or does it look like Tancredo's sitting on the set of the Colbert Report? He's been on the show, right? Could be something the show put together. Don't get me wrong, Tancredo's a joke- we just shouldn't get too worked up over something that may be a joke as well.
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The voice on the ad
Doesn't the voice on the ad sound a lot like Philip Baker Hall? Is there any way to find out if it's actually him?
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Destruction of school systems
The advertisement could have mentioned destruction of school systems, increased crime, increased environmental footprint due to population growth, destuction of community, increase in ethnic conflict, lowering of wages, etc.
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wait a minute
Tancredo is opposed to ILLEGAL immigration-- that is the major thrust of his anger. You know, people breaking our laws when they come into our country for whatever reason, good or bad. How many times do those of us who oppose illegal immigration have to say ILLEGAL before you understand why we are so angry?? I have to obey the law, why shouldn't they?? God help me if I get a speeding ticket and don't pay it-- then there's a warrant out for my arrest. This is all about laws, not race. Either we obey the laws or we don't. I am forced to obey the laws, and those entering our country should have to abide by our laws, as well. Leave race out of it, I could care less if there were 20 million illegal Latinos or 20 million Swedes. They must abide by the laws of our land. And get this! I'm an Independent who voted a straight Democrat ticket for the last four presidential elections. Yes, we are out there, and we care deeply about the illegal immigration problem. Illegal-- the key word here.
Cary Tennis wrote the following when he was advising a reader; I thought it was so good, that I copied it for an ocassion such as this.
"There is also the matter of morality and principle. In principle, laws are good. They protect people and preserve order. In general, we ought to support the system of laws we live under, because it benefits us. There are rare cases where a law itself might be unjust and institutions deaf to demands for change; civil disobedience in such cases is a noble and sometimes inescapable act. But to disobey a law simply to make some money is a selfish act of disregard that achieves no greater aim. We ought instead to act in accordance with the laws so that when we need their protection we are fully deserving of it."
I couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you, Cary, for stating this so well.
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No illegal immigration ok'ed in Scandinavia
The liberal, Nordic democracies do not tolerate illegal immigration. These countries keep working class wages high and standards in their schools high.