38 Senators voted today AGAINST Englsh as our official language.
HERE THEY ARE:
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D -WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)
What do you think about THESE little green apples?
2006-09-20 06:39:39 · 14 answers · asked by silvercomet 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
OH MY GOSH!! WHAT A SURPRISE!!!
2006-09-20 06:41:09 · answer #1 · answered by El Pistolero Negra 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think they are nitwits.
I am an immigrant and I think a national Language is importatnt to keep the people united. I learnt the language as I HAD to ADAPT to the country.
Otherwise we should live like europe in differnet countries.
Every immigrant who has come to this country has learnt to speak the language of the people( with different accents ofcourse):)
. SO why not have a language common to everybody plus a language is like an umbrella under which all citizens live.
My 2 cents.....
2006-09-20 13:47:55 · answer #2 · answered by A_and_Nid 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps they are aware that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, and that under the Treaty of Paris 1898 and the Organic Act of Puerto Rico passed by Congress, Spanish is their operating, if not (because there is none) "official" language . . .
And that laws passed in haste and without feasibility studies ALWAYS have unintended consequences.
Or perhaps they remember the effort in the 1920s to ban the teaching of foreign languages in schools: Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923); Bartels v. Iowa, 262 U.S. 404 (1923)
http://supreme.justia.com/us/262/390/case.html
http://supreme.justia.com/us/262/404/case.html
Or the reported effort by Texas to ban foreign schools, that threatened to close the Japanese and French schools and drive investment away.
A lot of people who would have voted FOR your law would have done so only because they knew it couldn't pass. I think the appropriate names for such person are "hypocrite" and "demagogue".
After all Congress has made its policy clear:
Native Hawaiian language promotion under 20 U.S.C. § 7905 (1996) (now renumbered: 7517), Pub. L. 89-10, Pub. L. 103-382, 108 Stat. 3800
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode20/usc_sec_20_00007517----000-.html
Native American language policy, 104 Stat. 1155, 25 U.S.C. § 2903 (1996) http://www2.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode25/usc_sec_25_00002903----000-.html
Did any readers of this see THE CODE TALKERS? Were those Navajos great patriots, or what?
2006-09-20 13:42:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess you forgot about this country being a "melting pot" of many different people, and languages.
Your own grand-pappy woulda had a hard time when he first saw the Statue of Liberty, and tried to read, and understanding, "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.", if English would've been the official language of The Land of Liberty.
It's sad how easily people actually forget what our fore-fathers tried to create, and some people in their infinite wisdom just don't see...
2006-09-20 13:50:28 · answer #4 · answered by Ricardo C 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Heroes.
This is a country of immigrants.
A national language betrays the principles of the people who founded this country.
2006-09-23 15:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they should receive the death penalty for treason. treason by acting against the citizens of America. the citizens, who by a large majority speak English. any country with sense has an official language.
2006-09-20 13:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by kunta kinte 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think their very bad apples, and there screwing up our country! Some of our tax money is going towards printing government service info packets in different languages besides English. This is terrible why not just have them all in English and use that tax money to go towards Free English classes for immigrants. This will force them to learn English. Then everyone ends up ahead!
2006-09-20 13:48:06 · answer #7 · answered by antihero1776 1 · 1⤊ 4⤋
we all should. the founding fathers said there should be no national language. they rightly feared the trappings of empire. that is why we honor freedom, rather than our leaders. and we honor america, rather than the small things we might choose to prop her up.
2006-09-20 13:41:58 · answer #8 · answered by uncle osbert 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
So, if english is not the official language of the U.S., than which is it??
2006-09-20 13:47:39 · answer #9 · answered by qbanita0113 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good for them. BTW, it was Republican "legerdomaine" that carved out this ridiculous bill for small minded twits.
2006-09-20 13:42:11 · answer #10 · answered by Akkakk the befuddled 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Everyone needs to pay attention, and vote them OUT.
2006-09-20 13:42:31 · answer #11 · answered by longhair140 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋