[Vision2020] Words Bring Pause

[Sue Hovey]

And so does Canada.

Belgium has three, I think: French, Walloon, and Flemish

Why now?  We have always been a nation of immigrants, and most of them are 
eager to learn English. When we pass restrictive laws such as this one, 
there should, at a minimum, to be a mechanism in place to provide 
non-English speaking adults with the classes to help them.  Didn't happen, 
though.  We're big into telling folks what they must do if they want to live 
here, we aren't much into helping them do it, though.

Sue Hovey


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david sarff" <davesway at hotmail.com>
To: <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Words Bring Pause


> India has two official languages.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_languages_of_India
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>>Sorry - gotta disagree with the good Senator.  In NO other country in this
>>world is this type of discussion ever even taken place or considered.  You
>>move to a country - YOU LEARN THE LANGUAGE!  Period.
>>
>>What does the Senator suggest - we all learn his father's language?  What
>>about the Japanese or the Latin or the Haitian or......it goes on and on
>>and
>>on.
>>
>>Having one language that everyone speaks, to me, guarantees that we will 
>>at
>>least be able to talk to one another and THAT is where democracy starts.
>>We
>>can't talk, we can't agree, we can't get anywhere.
>>
>>Remember the Tower of Babel......
>>
>>
>>J  :]
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>> >From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>> >To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> >Subject: [Vision2020] Words Bring Pause
>> >Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:42:03 -0700
>> >
>> > >From today's (March 11, 2007) Spokesman Review with a very special
>>thanks
>> >to
>> >State Senator Edgar Malepeai -
>> >
>> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >Words Bring Pause
>> >
>> >The Idaho Senate voted 20-15 in favor of Senate Bill 1172, declaring
>> >English
>> >to be the official language of Idaho, in a debate that took a personal
>> >turn.
>> >
>> >"It's not for shutting people out, but bringing people in," Sen. Mel
>> >Richardson, R-Idaho Falls, lead sponsor of the bill, told the Senate.
>> >
>> >Sen. Edgar Malepeai, D-Pocatello, said quietly, "Looking around the
>> >chamber,
>> >I think I'm probably the only one that has English as a second 
>> >language."
>> >Malepeai recalled that his late father and uncles served proudly in the
>> >U.S.
>> >military. "They spoke very, very broken English, but they were proud
>> >American Samoans," Malepeai said. Democracy and freedom "is what unifies
>> >people in this country," he said, "not the English language." A hush 
>> >fell
>> >in
>> >the Senate after Malepeai's comments, and no one else debated the bill.
>> >
>> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >Seeya round town, Moscow.
>> >
>> >Tom Hansen
>> >Moscow, Idaho
>> >
>> >"I love my country but fear my government."
>> >
>> >- Author Unknown
>> >
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