Va. Rep. goes after Keith Ellison of Mn., "fears more Muslims coming to U.S."

[MnFats]

several other sites have angles as well...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/goode-letter/


if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country. I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.
The Ten Commandments and “In God We Trust” are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, “As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.” Thank you again for your email and thoughts.

[AX10]

1. Klans"man" indeed.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Fears Americans will freely elect their own representatives

but ole virgil has no problem with christians who hate in the name of Jesus Christ coming to America. These ignorant motherfuckers know nothing of constitutional liberty. Take your fucking bibles and start your own goddamned theocracy elsewhere. This is the land of the free. Don't spend your whole fucking worthless lives trying to force everyone to believe and live their lives as you do.

[AndyA]

3. Yet another good reason for separation of church and state.

The two do not mix. Government needs to get out of our bedrooms and perform the duties it was intended by the founding fathers.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Personally, I fear more idiots like this

might be elected to Congress.

[Parche]

5. va rep

So I guess he doesnt want anymore of 'their' oil to run his car???

[unpossibles]

6. is it me, or does this "Muslim student..." story sound like complete

bullshit? I'm sure some random Muslim kid just happened to walk by and ask that. Sure. Sounds like everything else these TheoCon idiots do - completely made up.

[CJCRANE]

8. Agreed. I thought the same thing. n/t

[Bill McBlueState]

13. it's unpossible, that's for sure

How did he know the kid was Muslim? I doubt he told the rep what his religion was.

[KingFlorez]

7. I'm glad he switched parties awhile ago

Goode used to be a Democrat. Let the Republicans have all the trash.

[Squatch]

9. Hardly surprising coming out of that backwater district

[Cyrano]

10. I'm always grateful when morons like this speak out. It's a vivid

reminder of what we're up against and why they need to be opposed.

Hopefully, people like this will someday be shunned by decent human beings everywhere.

[Dr.Phool]

11. And I assume Ellison is U.S. born.

Next thing you know, the'll be letting Muhammad Ali into the country.

[MnFats]

12. Ellison was born in Detroit. Moved to Mpls. in 1987 to attend..

.University of Mn. law school.
was a state rep for some time before going after the fifth seat when umpteen=term incumbent Martin Sabo retired...

[icymist]

16. This man went to and graduated from law school?

After passing the bar, he's supposed to be able to represent any one of us Americans? Something wrong here.

[roody]

17. He is a convert to Islam.

[Virginia Dare]

19. Well, that does it...

that should automatically disqualify him from running for office. :sarcasm:

[Virginia Dare]

14. I guess ole Virgil learned nothing from Felix's total humiliation...

asshats like this are so full of hatred and vitriol, they can't see beyond it. I guess he thinks he's pandering to his base, and maybe he is. Hey asshole, the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America are LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. Not just the male white christian racist dumbfucks.

[AspenRose]

18. Ain't that the truth

I shouldn't be dumbstruck, but it never fails, every time one of these guys opens his mouth....I'm like, "huh?"

[icymist]

20. And why is that, these days, in this here old usa?

Times have changed so much that I may say that anyone hanging on to the ideals of the seventies and early eighties are fast discovering the world is lost!

[RubyDuby in GA]

15. God forbid we actually have a Congress that actually looks like America

instead of the body of rich old white men that it usually is.

[Left Is Write]

21. What in idiot. A bigoted, ignorant idiot.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. When Virgil swore on the Bawble to uphold the constitution...

I guess he forgot the durned constitution contain Article VI, section 3,.

"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."