At Last. An Honest Man.

US Rep Virgil Goode of Virginia has informed constituents via letter that he's not just against illegal immigration. He wants legal immigration stopped as well if it would mean that we were letting in people who don't look like he does.

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.

Goode (rhymes with rude) also has a problem with those who would live out the tenets of their religion.

In a letter sent out to select supporters earlier this month reacting to the controversy (among certain extreme conservatives, at least) over Muslim representative-elect Keith Ellison's (D-MN) decision to be sworn in on the Koran, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) warned that the U.S. must close its borders to guard against the influx of still more Muslims. In it, he also proudly recounts his retort to a Muslim student who asked him why he did not include the Koran with The Ten Commandments on his wall. "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," he says he told the student.

Do you suppose that anybody will tell Ol' Virg that our allies in Iraq, Indonesia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are Muslims? Or would that be just a little too much fact for a Good Old Racist to swallow?