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Could get out of hand.....

kolanuraven

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America is called the land of opportunity, so I am giving the opportunity for people to listen to what I have to say.

Recently I have heard of a Hispanic man who is suing a police officer for the officer's inability to speak Spanish. Not police brutality, not racism, but because the officer of the law could not speak Spanish which, if I may point out, is not the majority language of America.

I cannot describe how angered I am at such a misuse of the legal system by suing a representative of the law simply because he or she could not speak a language that is not a prerequisite for the completion of their duty. However, if such a case does make it to court I am led to believe that nothing will be spared in the future.

I now have to ask myself that if in the future, if I don't speak a language that is someone else's only language, if they need something and I cannot help them will I be sued afterward? Will the government create a new policy to teach all government officials and employees all the languages that they may encounter until they are fluent? And exactly how much money would that take?

In my opinion I'm sure it would take more time, effort and money than would ever need to be expended on matters that are so amazingly trivial as to be totally unimportant to myself, and I'm sure many others feel the same way as I.

As far as I'm concerned this should have never happened and that I can only hope that this is an isolated incident that it does not set off a chain of events that once set into motion could not be stopped.

This appeared in our local paper in the Letters to the Editor section and is true. Hmmmmm......even I agree that this is getting WAY out of hand if this goes to court, which I guess it will.[/b]
 

Jinglebob

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I think you should have put this under Political Bull. :)

I think this has all come about by the Liberals letting everyone just slide by and upholding their "heritage". I got news for them. We all have differing heritages, but one of the things that has always tied us together is our language.

Granted, we have had people from all over the world come here to America, and they spoke different languages. But in order to survive and do better for themselves and their families, they needed to learn our language. What they spoke at home or amongst themselves, made only a small difference.In school and public, they spoke English, mostly.

If the Libs would have let the Conserv's pass a law, making English, or better yet, American, as our official language, and if the stupid judges would have not only thrown a bunch of cases like this out and censured the lawyers who brought them before the bar, we wouldn't be having these kinds of problems, IMO. If kids can't learn to speak our language in school, they will suffer, as will their families. Thats the way it's worked for years. It might not be fair or nice, but thats the way it is. If you can't do the job or understand the orders from the boss, you probably ain't going to be around too long. Unless you get a lawyer and he sues and you win. That's the reason we have crap like this. Life isn't fair and it's kind of tuff at times. Get tough. Learn the language.

We all had to learn certain skills to do good at life and our jobs. The lib's want to take care of those who have fallen behind and aren't doing too good of a job. That might be noble, but it sure isn't efficient.

Show me any job, where they put more emphasis on style than on efficiencey. I don't think there are many in the real world. Maybe in Hollyweird, but not in most of our lives.

We need two sides to a coin, but the lib's held sway for too long and they are now recieving the backlash of what they allowed to happen. And so are all of the rest of us.

At some point, the conservatives will have held sway too long and people will get tired of them and go the other way. But for now, we all need to try and get things switched back to where there weren't so many stupid judges and laws.

I'm afraid it may be a pandora's box. I hope we can get the lid back on.

Just my opinion, and I ain't trying to start any fights. We need both sides on an argument or we will slip into totaliterismn(sp). Kind of like Hitler and the Nazi's. Or communism.

I think thats why we are a great nation.

I don't have to agree with you or anyone else, but we can still work together and get the job done. :)
 

IL Rancher

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This is why the country needs to implement English as an official language period... Not just in practice but in law... This lawsuit just might have that affect.
 
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IL Rancher said:
This is why the country needs to implement English as an official language period... Not just in practice but in law... This lawsuit just might have that affect.

I saw a figure once about how much the Federal and State governments could save in just paper and printing if they didn't print everything in both English and Spanish--- It was an astonishing figure in the Billions $....

Yep this should be on the political page- but we do need a law saying that English is the official language of the United States- would take care of all these suits.....
 

kolanuraven

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I started to put in on the Political page....but I guess someone with greater knowhow than me can move it if it gets involved enough.
 

IL Rancher

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Here is the deal.. My Great and great great grandparents, immigrated from Germany, Poland and Sweden (And Prince Edward Island but that is a different story as are the British immigrants).. They all learned english or at least made sure their children did as did most all of the imigrants from that time... I'm going to stop now, this issue ticks me off... I have a LEGAL mexican immigrant who works for me and he is literate, speaks english and has worked at assimilating his family into this county (His wife is crazy fluent in English, French and Spanish).... Even he thinks English should be the official language and finds those who don't want to learn it to ignorant.. I guess they have this problem in Mexico itself with some of the "Mayan" population from the Yucatan moving to the cities who are unable to speak spanish,, the only speak some creole or native language...
 

Faster horses

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Jinglebob's post makes a whole lot of sense.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.


Learn to speak English, or leave!!!!!!!
 
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