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To: hflynn
Si usted no puede hablar inglés usted no debe ser permitido votar.

That's idiotic. If you are an American citizen, you should vote - regardless of the language you commonly use. If you are an American citizen who commonly speaks Spanish, so what? I hope you vote for the Republican candidates.

40 posted on 04/27/2005 3:24:41 PM PDT by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
If you are an American citizen, you should vote - regardless of the language you commonly use.

Good point. The US has no 'official' language, only a majority one.
45 posted on 04/27/2005 3:46:04 PM PDT by clyde asbury (I formulate infinity and store it deep inside of me.)
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To: mountaineer
That's idiotic. If you are an American citizen, you should vote - regardless of the language you commonly use. If you are an American citizen who commonly speaks Spanish, so what? I hope you vote for the Republican candidates.

Thats idiotic? Our laws require that naturalized citizens must "demonstrate an understanding of the English language, including the ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in the English language." Since only citizens can vote, there is no reasonable excuse for non-English ballots.

The historian Theodore White points out, "It is distasteful that a nation whose seal bears the inscription E Pluribus Unum (From the Many, One) should be asked to divide itself from one nation into many tribes."

A voice from another era, President Theodore Roosevelt, bluntly expressed this same, consistent American doctrine: "The one absolute certain way of bringing this nation to ruin would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. We have but one flag. We must also have but one language, and that language is English."

Winston Churchill once said, "The gift of a common language is a priceless inheritance." This gift is part of our inheritance. We would be fools to kick it away.

The historian Theodore White also said there is but 1 glue that holds the nation together. The glue is the Englisn language. If we lose the glue we lose the nation.

I'm going with White, Churchill and Roosevelt on this one, you can go with Jose.

55 posted on 04/27/2005 4:03:12 PM PDT by hflynn
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