The Canary In the Coal Mine Is Deader Than A Norwegian Blue
By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, MooreIsBetter.com.Illegal aliens are so numerous that the city of Santa Ana is spending $4.5 million to convince its residents to learn English. Talk about giving up on law enforcement!
A spokesman from the local Chamber of Commerce said, in English, "that out of about 350,000 residents of Santa Ana, which is the most densely populated city in California after San Francisco, about 313,000 speak a language other than English at home."
Given the numbers, and the apparent lack of interest in enforcing our immigration laws or preserving American culture, it would be more cost-effective just to teach Spanish the 37,000 people who speak English at home. When, exactly, did we change from a sovereign nation into a quaint club asking people to learn our language, please?
My platform calls for a somewhat different approach from the Santa Ana surrender strategy. It's called "enforcing the law." I know, it's crazy and radical to think law enforcement should involve, you know, law enforcement, but that's the approach I favor. If you do, too, you need to put your money where your mouth is and contribute to my campaign -- now!
Posted by Walter Moore @ 4/09/2007 10:38:00 PM
9 Comments:
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Hold up. I work for a small "santuary city". Folks come up to the public counter and ask if I speak spanish.
I do. Fluenty. But not at work. They as if I can translate a document into spanish. I can. But I don't. My parents had to learn English in the forties when my dad immigrated - LEGALLY - and later my mom did when she immigrated - LEGALLY. These new people are different. They don't want to work. They know how to hustle the system like nobodies business.
I don't speak spanish at work. I hardly even order mexican food in spanish anymore.
Walter, you ignorant slut.
For over two hundred years, German immigrants to this country settled in communities where their native language was spoken -- often to the exclusion of English.
It was okay for them.
Why is it not okay for the people of Santa Ana?
For over two hundred years, we had slavery in this country. Did that make it right? No.
You're going to have to do better than that, and your Dan Akyrod impersonation is just awful.
while English is the official language of the country, I'm not sure there's a law anywhere that you HAVE TO speak it.
And personally, from my experience down at the beach, the majority of Latino visitors to my incense table prefer to speak English, and will even take offence to any suggestion that they don't speak English. Many are fiercely proud of their ability to speak English as a first choice.
Gross generalizations about all illegal aliens I think are out of line.
But its pointless having an immigration law enforcement platform when a substantial percentage of your constituents either 1. are illegal but still find a way to vote. 2. are friends and family of these 'illegals' or 3. use cheap labor to run their American business profitably.
The lead has to come from the federal government., and the Mayor is actually playing it smart right now flying under the immigration radar, and until s.o. 40 is repealed then theres nothing anyone can do.
Oh, except start busing criminals direct from jail to the other side of the border if they cannot prove their legality. Of course the border needs to be sealed for that to truly be effective. Which it isn't.
I think there's safer platforms than this to hope to be elected on.
"For over two hundred years, German immigrants to this country settled in communities where their native language was spoken -- often to the exclusion of English.
It was okay for them.
Why is it not okay for the people of Santa Ana? "
The Amish still do, in many states; however,they came here legally, established cities and communities are about 100 to 200 families, they all speak two or three languages, they pay all taxes due to their states, they contribute to the community through sales, they build and maintain their own schools, the elderly are taken care of by their family and less than 10% of the population have to go to a hospital.
When the illegial immigrants in Santa Ana achieve the same level of government (being legal first) they can speak any language they want, to whomever will speak with them. But only then.
My god, your rhetoric is horrible:
Pioneers speaking German in America is like... slavery?!
You really are an ignorant slut, Walter.
I think that the point is missed, here in favor of criticizing Walter (again).
Maybe not equal in historical weight or impact, but the analogy simply points out that the practice was accepted at an earlier time but is not anymore.
English is not mandated but common sense would tend to cause people to use it to communicate, without banning other languages a person may want to use.
Too many people are quick to knock off the messenger for any reason. This time it's Walter. Lots of the time it's ZD. Nitpicking is not a lost skill with too many posters.
A analogy may be flawed, but it's only a tool, not a rule.
Personally, I would think that the common language used in a nation should be the language used in the nation's founding documents as well as in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial systems of that nation.
As the predominate language spoken and written in the United States is formally called "American English," then THIS is the language which should be used... and unless someone just changed the name of this nation, we are still the UNITED States of America, not the D.S.A. (Disunited States of America).
The same old tired excuses of why people should NOT speak American English aren't valid arguments anymore! They had d--ned well better learn to read, write, and speak it... unless they want to be rooked out of anything they own - or maybe they want to go back to their own countries where their native language is commonly spoken?
Of course, they also bribe their own police in their native countries too. Let's see them try that here!
The problem isn't Spanish per se, it's having a big chunk of a foreign country in your own country.
Some German community in 1830's Chicago wasn't a chunk of Germany in the U.S., it was a German community in the U.S. These people learned English quickly and became well-integrated into the rest of society in a relatively short time.
On the other hand, VERY LARGE numbers of Mexicans in the U.S., are living in a culture almost entirely apart from the mainstream. It's not like we have little Tijuanas here or there. We've got entire regions (eg, So. California) that are full of medium-size Tijuanas and Guadalajaras. It's not unusual for Mexican immigrants to spend their entire lives in the U.S. without learning more than a few words of English. It's almost as if a big piece of Mexico itself was transplanted into the U.S.
The problem isn’t Mexicans per se, either, since Mexicans 50 or 60 years ago got with the program quickly and learned how to be normal Americans. They had to then. Now, because of massive immigration from Mexico, both legal and illegal, and because of the availability of cheap transportation between here and Mexico as well as cheap telecommunications, it’s become very easy to just stay entirely Mexican after coming to the U.S. Now that we have people like Villaraigosa and Nunez, et al., in government, it will only become more like that. That foot in the door is going to get bigger and bigger.
German immigrants today, by the way, become fluent in English at TWICE the rates of Mexicans, who learn the language slower than ALL other immigrant groups.
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