Updated: Louie Gohmert: Islamic Terrorists Training To ‘Act Like Hispanic’

[DonViejo]

Last edited Wed Apr 17, 2013, 01:06 PM - Edit history (1)

BENJY SARLIN 11:37 AM EDT, WEDNESDAY APRIL 17, 2013

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of the most conservative members of the House, said on Wednesday that Islamic terrorists were training members to pretend to be Latino in order to infiltrate the United States.

"We know Al Qaeda has camps over with the drug cartels on the other side of the Mexican border," he said in an appearance on C-SPAN, according to the Huffington Post. "We know that people that are now being trained to come in and act like Hispanic [sic] when they are radical Islamists. We know these things are happening. It is just insane not to protect ourselves, to make sure that people come in as most people do ... They want the freedoms we have."

Gohmert previously criticized birthright citizenship by claiming it would enable pregnant terrorists to come to America, deliver their baby, and raise them as sleeper agents.

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Hispanic Conservative Group Condemns Rep. Gohmert’s ‘Hispanic’ Terrorist Claim

BENJY SARLIN 1:00 PM EDT, WEDNESDAY APRIL 17, 2013

The conservative Hispanic Leadership Network is not happy with Rep. Louie Gohmert's (R-TX) claim Wednesday that Islamic terrorists could train their members to "act like Hispanic" in order to infiltrate the United States.

“Rep. Louie Gohmert’s comments were unacceptable, offensive, and ignorant," Jennifer S. Korn, executive director of HLN, said in a statement. "Using a national tragedy to further his own anti-immigration reform agenda is not only shameful, but also a blatant attempt to disingenuously twist public sentiment at a vulnerable time. We must take a strong stand and making it clear this kind of intolerance has no place in the conservative movement.”

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[MrScorpio]

1. You can always count on birds to sing, bees to sting...

And Louie Gohmert to sound like a moronic dumbass.

[Eleanors38]

2. Just another of Gohmert's piles.

[backscatter712]

3. Gohmert Pyle: There's a reliable source of information... n/t

[SummerSnow]

4. And he knows this how?

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. Louie Gohmert has been watchiing "Born in East LA" too much. nt

[blueknight]

6. i really think

the repugs keep this crazy bastard around, just to make the rest look sane

[Shankapotomus]

7. Yea that's what you want to do

You want to hide your profiled ethnicity by pretending to be another ethnicity White America is already highly suspicious of. I mean, who in America would be suspicious of a Mexican? It's not like pretending to be Italian would be easier, even though, as an Italian, I've been mistaken for Middle Eastern.

[Initech]

8. And once again this asshole has no idea what he's talking about.

[HughBeaumont]

9. People like this get elected to office.

People like Michele Bachmann get RE-elected to office.

I'm amazed with two "a"s. What an embarrassment.