Posted on 07/09/2002 10:43:24 AM PDT by Tancredo Fan
But the gist of the comments that I responded to, were from people saying that we needed to establish an "official" language in the US...by law.
My response was then, and it continues to be that the government is forbidden to do so by the First Amendment for anything beyond it's own workings.
The rest of you guys, obssesed with illegal immigrants (as you all are), immediately jumped on the "illegals have no wish to learn English" bandwagon.
Not what I am talking about.
I was very sad to read your post. Times have changed, and not for the better. I weep for this country.
Nice to hear you say that, I nominate you head of the INS then since Washington seems to think it's no big deal they're pouring into our communities and imposing their culture on us.
That's right, and these pandering politicians who refuse to toss these squatters out need to go along with them.
What time should I come over?
no tejano music please, it sounds like a polka with an accent
I said the same thing in posts #218, #310, #318, #322, #326, #332, and #336...several of them addressed to you by the way. Maybe YOU need to learn English.
This post made me laugh out loud. You just proved the point of the ones you are arguing against. If you had called someone a "faggot" in English here on FR, that post would have been deleted, so you use Spanish to subvert your message. Keep it up, this is rich stuff!
You mean to hide it from the .5% of the population that doesn't know what that word means?
PLEEEEZE!!!!
Here I am, hiding in plain sight again.
It's simply uncivilized to serve it otherwise.
Now, now Luis, I always spoke well of you.
You need to read my posts as well, I don't care what language legal Hispanics want to speak at home or on the street. I think it would be courteous of them though at work to speak English, it's not too much to ask since this wonderful country was generous enough to let them in. It's illegals who are splitting the country apart, and the boys in Washington need to stop playing games with this. Maybe Mr. Brock is the start of something, I hope so.
See?
My point, the one that I have been making since my arrival on the thread, is that the First Amendment to the constitution prevents the Feds from establishing an official language.
Period.
The secondary point being that given time, people will assimilate into the culture, but only if they are here legally. You can't both be marginalized and assimilate.
That's because you are not one Joe. And the race-baiter here is you, you sorry ass bigot. No one is talking about race here, other than you and the rest of the Mexiphobes.
If I'm not mistaken the Founders did vote to make English the official language, beating out German or French by one vote. And it was a German immigrant?? who voted to keep it English (someone can correct me if I'm wrong). No, technically there isn't anything in the Constitution that specifically mandates an official language, but unofficially we all know English is.
As I have been saying since the beginning of this thread, if Congress would get immigration under control, we wouldn't be having these problems since the assimiliation process would work much better than it is now.
Get out of town!!! Really?
All this time I've been pissed off at JimRob for the lack of Spanish threads in the forum...and here I thought it was the software.
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