Thread: Stealth task force on Puerto Rican statehood moving bill for

May 29, 2010

Stealth task force on Puerto Rican statehood moving bill forward

Greg Halvorson
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Call it "Amnesty, East Coast style," call it "the Bilingual Express," but in keeping with the theme of "fundamental transformation," the task force on Puerto Rican statehood (yes, there is one) has been quietly scheming to move this ball forward.

Associate Attorney General, Thomas Perrelli, addressing "taskers," recently shared some high-level thoughts: http://tinyurl.com/36ddox

"President Obama is open to the idea of Puerto Rico becoming a state," he said. "He strongly believes that the status question is a significant one. He believes that Puerto Rican status must be based on self-determination by the people of Puerto Rico. And we on the task force have open minds on the issue."

Wonderful. It's good to know what your president believes, but it's also good to know the end-game. Puerto Rican statehood will add permanent House seats and a pair of liberal senators to the current Dem-count. It will transform America into a bilingual nation. The average income of Puerto Ricans is less than half of our poorest state, http://tinyurl.com/255vasf unemployment is high, so it will require increased spending. http://tinyurl.com/24rouxy

No doubt, the president knows all of this. You might say he "believes" it. Puerto Rican statehood doesn't strengthen America, it strengthens Democrats. And that is the truth.

Greg Halvorson is the founder of Soldiers Without Boots and hosts Freedom Warrior Radio on Blog Talk Radio.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... rto_r.html

Each of these national organizations opposes statehood for Puerto Rico (at least without a strong English provision for its government) and offers detailed factual information on why it should not be made a state:

See:
English First
No Statehood for Puerto Rico Campaign
http://englishfirst.org/puerto/

ProEnglish
No Puerto Rican Statehood Without English
http://www.proenglish.org/issues/pr/index.html

U.S. English
Chaiman quoted in opposition to H.R. 2499
http://www.us-english.org/view/776

This is all fine and good but in the end the Puerto Rican people have to vote on whether or not they want statehood. From what I understand they don't.