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Our homeland?

Anglico — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:41:59 -0500

That's pretty darn rich. Looks like you might have missed just a little bit of history on your way to establishing your white-boy supremacy.

The reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a "vast genocide . . . , the most sustained on record." By the end of the 19th century, writes David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, native Americans had undergone the "worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people."

"There can be no more monumental example of sustained genocide—certainly none involving a 'race' of people as broad and complex as this—anywhere in the annals of human history."

Re: Jones co-sponsors English-only bill

ThomasBrock — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:46:10 -0500

"Force assimilation." Is that what we should do in the U.S. now? Force everyone to become like us?

Last time I checked, we weren't the greatest role models around.

Re: Jones co-sponsors English-only bill

CarltonH — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:42:30 -0500

Go Walter go. It's high time we force assimilation rather then accomodation when the rest of the world shows up in our homeland.

Re: Jones co-sponsors English-only bill

FSUNoles46 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:26:44 -0500

I don't agree, simply because there is no official language of the United States.

Re: What Would Jesus Do?

newbernbear — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:57:57 -0500

Jones always talks about how he only answers to Jesus, not his constituents. I sure hope Jesus speaks English, not Hebrew, or Walter won't listen. Keep up the spin pretty boy.

Re: Jones co-sponsors English-only bill

jjsmith2 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:26:13 -0500

I hope Rep. Jones never goes to the official website for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, his head might explode.

Deaf

Anglico — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:13:12 -0500

It's a good thing no one in America is deaf.

American Sign Language isn't English and anyone who "speaks" it should be thrown under the bus along with all the other terrorists who refuse to adopt God's chosen language.

Re: Jones co-sponsors English-only bill

ThomasBrock — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:57:15 -0500

Gotta love that meltin' pot feelin'...

Ah jus love it

Anglico — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:50:07 -0400

Can't you see it now? An innocent non-English-speaking person gets confronted by federal agents who aren't allowed to speak another language because of Liddy Dole.

Not knowing WTF the agents are saying, the person tries to get away and gets shot. Just what Senator Dole and her fellow xenophobes wanted all along!

Re: English only

lefaim — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:01:25 -0400

Does she plan on voting for the whole plan it the amendment passes or will she once again vote against something she says she support?

Or will she vote at all? She has been missing a ton of votes lately.