Thread: D.A. King

Well my opinion? I don't give a rats as_ what Mexico thinks. If Fox wants to take us on I say "bring it on"!!!!!!


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D.A. King

"We are as American as anyone else- but we won't give up our language or culture" - Hector Flores, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens commenting on Mexican-Americans.

"I think this amendment is racist" - U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, objecting to an amendment in the Senate last week to make English the "national language" in the United States.

If you ask Americans what they think the official language in the United States is, many will reply something like "English, of course."

The United States has no official language. It never has.

It should.

As the Senate debates another amnesty for illegal aliens - and their criminal employers - other issues besides that annoying rule of law are coming to the surface.

Like language and culture.

Having intimidated into silence a large number of Americans on the reality that millions of people are living and working in our nation illegally, the illegal alien lobby is ready, willing - and with the help of leftist American journalists - quite able to label anyone who suggests that English be the common language that binds our very diverse nation together a "racist." We should all remember this: In any language, silence is consent.

On the topic of illegal immigration, many oh-so-noble newspaper editors will point to the "last great wave" of immigration" and dutifully lecture that today's illegal immigration crisis is "no different than when the Polish, Irish or Italians came to our shores."

We all remember when we were required to "Press one" to speak, Polish, Celtic or Italian on the telephone - right? We all remember the resentful illegal aliens from those countries marching in the streets of America demanding amnesty, citizenship and the "right" to continue to change our nation into an image of the one they left - right?

We all remember studying in multi-lingual schools. None of us can forget the Greek language ballots of past elections - right?

Hector Flores and his defiant words should not be forgotten. Neither should Sen. Reid's.

While the motivation of each may be different, the harm they do to the American rule of law, culture and tradition is the same.

Elected officials like Reid are simply doing what they are told by their "cheap-labor" addicted campaign donors. Follow the money.

Identity-based "civil rights" organizations like LULAC, The National Council of La Raza (English translation: "The Race") and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - are aimed at the ongoing creation of what University of California ethnic studies professor and immigration-rights activist Armando Navarro calls the "nation within a nation as the community that we are."

Note to Navarro & Co: We honor real "immigrants" here, it is the illegals that concern us. "Immigrants" do not require amnesty. They came here lawfully.

English as a "national language" does not fit in with the "nation within a nation" agenda here.

Navarro is author of the book "Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan."

What is Aztlan? The territory "stolen" from Mexico in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War. That would include California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.

There is considerably more being decided in Congress than whether or not we capitulate and award American citizenship to whoever can steal that privilege.

We are watching our elected leaders make a decision on whether we will be allowed to have borders, what it means to be an American and what manner of nation we will pass on.

It is not un-American to have a "national language" (not many have the courage to suggest an "official" language). It is not "racist" to demand that our borders be defended and to stand up and insist that the law be equally applied - even for someone here illegally from Mexico.

Mexico does have an official language. It does defend its borders - with its military. It is a felony to enter Mexico or work there illegally and it deports more people annually than we do.

We should be asking ourselves why we don't see angry mass demonstrations in that sovereign nation and how we allowed ourselves to get to the point that they are now familiar here.

We should be asking if another amnesty would cost us more even more than our rule of law.

D.A. King lives in northeast Cobb and is president of The Dustin Inman Society, a coalition dedicated to educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration.

That's all Harry Reid needed to say was that it was racists, and now that's all we ever hear

D.A. King lives in northeast Cobb and is president of The Dustin Inman Society, a coalition dedicated to educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration

He is such a great American.

Ohflyingone's

Well my opinion? I don't give a rats as_ what Mexico thinks. If Fox wants to take us on I say "bring it on"!!!!!!

Is that any way to talk to such a respectable neighbor, ohflyingone !!??

Concernedcitizen's

That's all Harry Reid needed to say was that it was racists, and now that's all we ever hear

I don't think so, Concerned. In fact I think it may just be the opposite. We just might get a little respect for our language and our culture now that word is out that we intend to KEEP them.

"We are as American as anyone else- but we won't give up our language or culture"

who said anything about giving up their language? haven't they heard of bi-lingual? when I was a child, about 5 years old and we stayed with my daddy's first cousins -- 3 old maids and 1 bachelor -- they would get in arguments but we never knew what they said because they spoke French. But I promise you, when they threatened to whip our tails, they said it in English!

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

That's all Harry Reid needed to say was that it was racists, and now that's all we ever hear

I like to think of it in reverse.

Harry Reid will forever be known as a liar and will forever hear this statement being thrown back in his face.

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

That's all Harry Reid needed to say was that it was racists, and now that's all we ever hear

I like to think of it in reverse.

Harry Reid will forever be known as a liar and will forever hear this statement being thrown back in his face.

I second that

Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't english voted in as the official language in 1777 by the founding fathers? If I remember my trivia correctly it won over German being elected the national by a vote or so. Spanish wasn't even in the running, although French may have been.

Originally Posted by 5

Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't english voted in as the official language in 1777 by the founding fathers? If I remember my trivia correctly it won over German being elected the national by a vote or so. Spanish wasn't even in the running, although French may have been.

I don't know but I hope that is true,

considering the Constitution and Declaration of Independence was written in English only, I just thought it was understood that English was the official language. These were the 'British' colonies -- the only thing that changed following the revolution was the 'states' were independent of the king

Originally Posted by Mamie

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

That's all Harry Reid needed to say was that it was racists, and now that's all we ever hear

I like to think of it in reverse.

Harry Reid will forever be known as a liar and will forever hear this statement being thrown back in his face.

I second that

True, but ever since he made that stupid comment, that's all every illegal activist every says now "how racists " it is to want everyone to speak English