Divisive in Any Language
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052201156_pf.html/
From his column today in the WP he covers this subject so much better than I could ever attempt to do in this space. He goes on to say, "There is no point to this amendment (English as the "OFFICIAL LANGUAGE") except to say to members of our currently large Spanish-speaking population that they will be legally and formally disrespected in a way that earlier generations of immigrants from -- this is just a partial list -- Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, France, Hungary, Greece, China, Japan, Finland, Lithuania, Lebanon, Syria, Bohemia, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia were not."
The Senate passed this utterly useless amendment sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) declaring English to be our "national language" and calling for a government role in "preserving and enhancing" the place of English. A very strange stance for a "NATIVE AMERICAN" to place himself, considering his native language is not English either.
Talk about pandering to the BASE.
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." ~ George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer
"Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence." ~ Morris Kline
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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