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Earlier today, I wrote about how Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo has been a proponent of a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that claimed that 20 nuclear bombs the size of suitcases would be detonated inside of American cities by the end of 2005. I suggested that Representative Tancredo was something of a fruitcake for going along with this cockamamie idea.

Well, I didn’t know the half of Tom Tancredo’s fruitcake problem. Today, it is being reported that Congressman Tancredo attended a luncheon of the League of the South in Columbia, South Carolina last week.

The League of the South is an organization that promotes the secession of the South from the United States of America. You know, like they did in the 1800s. They call themselves Southern nationalists.

The League of the South decided to honor Tom Tancredo in part because of Tancredo’s crusade against illegal immigration. Opposition to immigration is one of the planks of the League of the South’s agenda. A recruitment brochure for the League of the South says that it’s new Southern Confederacy must have a government that “maintains secure borders and strictly limits immigration.”

So, here’s what I don’t get. If the South secedes from the United States of America again, and becomes its own sovereign nation, then someone who moved from the state of Colorado, where Tom Tancredo lives, to the state of South Carolina, where he gave his speech praising the League of the South, would be an immigrant, right? A person moving from South Carolina to Colorado would be an immigrant too.

So, when Tom Tancredo says he opposes illegal immigration, is he saying that he wants to prevent people from the South from moving to Colorado? Does Congressman Tancredo also oppose people from Denver moving to the South? Does he regard people coming from Atlanta to get jobs in Denver as criminals?

I’m just asking.

Now, Tom Tancredo is trying to revise history, much as his neo-Confederate friends have, and says that the South Carolina League of the South did not sponsor his talk. That’s a funny thing to say, given that the web site of the League of the South South Carolina chapter clearly states “Tancredo will be our guest”.

Tancredo gave his speech in a room dedicated to relics of the Confederacy, at a podium draped in the Confederate Battle Flag, in front of a portrait of Robert E. Lee, to an audience filled with people wearing red shirts, the Nazi-evocative uniform of the League of the South. Brown shirts in Germany, red shirts in America - get it? At the event, the whole group joined in a prayer invoking God’s assistance for people who are fighting against people of “disparate cultures and languages.”

Tom Tancredo represents Colorado’s 6th district in the United States House of Representatives. If you’re in that district please visit the campaign web site of Democrat Bill Winter, and give him your support.

If you’re not in Tom Tancredo’s district, visit that web site and give Bill Winter your support anyway. Tom Tancredo has gone so far into right wing fanaticism that even the rightward-leaning residents of Tancredo’s district are beginning to get nervous about being represented by him. Tancredo’s district now needs to be considered in play for the 2006 congressional elections and a priority race for attention by Democrats across America.