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10-13-2009, 02:10 PM #13
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TO SIGN A "CITIZEN'S PETITION AGAINST Making Spanish-Only Puerto Rico our 51st State":
http://www.nopuertoricostatehood.com/pe ... tition.php
Background and Petition Wording:
"This American citizen calls upon the U.S. Congress to reject statehood for Puerto Rico."
Help oppose H.R. 2499, the "PUERTO RICO DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2009", introuduced by Puerto Rican Representative Pedro Pierluisi May 19, 2009:
Background on Statehood for Puerto Rico:
On May 19, 2009, Pedro Peirluisi, Puerto Rico's Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced H.R. 2499, the "Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009", with 88 co-sponsors. That number already has grown to 108. For the third time since 1997, this bill calls for a Puerto Rican referendum on statehood.
http://prssa51.wordpress.com/2009/05/23 ... ry-remarks
No provision is contained in H.R. 2499 requiring that Puerto Rico recognize or adopt English as the official language of its government. Admitting Puerto Rico as our 51st state without such a provision would give defacto recognition to Spanish as a language equal to English in the United States. Further, Puerto Rico has rejected statehood in three such referendums since 1967.
Below is a CITIZEN'S PETITION to the Republican National Committee:
Citizen's Petition to the United States Congress
against making Spanish-only Puerto Rico America's 51st State
"WHEREAS, in his book, Statehood Is for the Poor, Puerto Rico statehood leader Carlos Romero-Barcelo boasted that statehood would be a financial windfall for Puerto Rico at the expense of taxpayers in every other state; and
WHEREAS at least 80% of the residents of Puerto Rico speak little or no English; and WHEREAS, the people of Puerto Rico love their Spanish language and Puerto Rican culture the way Americans used to love their English language and American culture; and
WHEREAS, efforts to introduce English in Puerto Rico's public schools have resulted in protest marches by teachers; and
WHEREAS, given Puerto Rico's hostility to English, making Puerto Rico America's 51st state would simply mean that the United States would have its very own Quebec; and
WHEREAS, Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Presdient Harry Truman in 1950 and opened fire on the House of Representatives in 1954, to protest the island's lack of independence from the United States; and
WHEREAS, given the violent reaction of some Puerto Ricans to the idea of American statehood means that imposing statehood on Puerto Rico would create America's very own Northern Ireland; and
WHEREAS, the people of Puerto Rico have rejected U.S. Statehood in 1967, 1993 and 1998; and
WHEREAS legislation pending in the U.S. House of Representatives would force statehood upon the nation of Puerto Rico; and
WHEREAS the House of Representatives is limited to 435 seats, which means that a 51st state of Puerto Rico will deprive six to seven other states of at least one Congressman each; and
WHEREAS, Puerto Rico can always ask for U.S. statehood but has no right to demand it; and
WHEREAS, the American people have as much right to self-determination as do the people of Puerto Rico, including the right to reject U.S. statehood for a Spanish-only, impoverished island which covets access to the American treasury but despises America's language and culture;
This American citizen calls upon the U.S. Congress to reject statehood for Puerto Rico
Respectfully,"
A "Citizen's Petition to the United States Congress Against Making Spanish-Only Puerto Rico America's 51st State".
http://www.nopuertoricostatehood.com/pe ... tition.php
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