*In America, ‘We’ Don’t Necessarily Speak English---but if you want to
drive on our roads you have to be able to read english.*
On Monday, February 3, 2014 6:39:50 PM UTC-6, MJ wrote:
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> February 3, 2014
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> *In America, ‘We’ Don’t Necessarily Speak English *Ryan McMaken
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> As Lew pointed
> out<http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/also-at-the-crony-bowl/>,
> Coca Cola Corporation joined in the jingoist party at the Super Bowl by
> airing a pro-government commercial that included people singing one of the
> regime’s quasi-religious hymns in a variety of languages. To anyone who
> doesn’t equate the American government with God Almighty, this was of
> course silly.
>
> Equally ridiculous, however, was the
> reaction<http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/75447787843/speak-english-racist-revolt-as-coca-cola-airs>among
> some nationalists who disliked the commercial because it wasn’t
> nationalistic *enough.* It seems that for some people, you’re only
> allowed to worship the US government in English. To wit:
>
> [image: english] <http://www.lewrockwell.com/assets/2014/02/english.jpg>
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> Now in spite of their professed love for all things American, I doubt that
> more than 1 in 100 of these sorts of people could even tell you in what
> decade the United States Constitution was ratified. Their regard for
> historical facts is probably less that exacting, but I’ll break the news to
> them nonetheless. Historically, the United States has never
> been<http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/back-when-america-was-multi-lingual/>a
> place where “we” speak English only. This has never been true as either a
> legal or a practical matter. The Colorado Constitution of 1876, for
> example, specifically declares English, German and Spanish to be the
> languages of the state:
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>
>
> Article XVIII, sec 8 (1876):
>
> “The general assembly shall provide for publication of the laws passed
> at each session thereof; and until the year 1900, they shall cause to be
> published in Spanish and German a sufficient number of copies of said laws
> to supply that portion of the inhabitants of the State who speak those
> languages and who may be unable to read and understand the English
> language.”
>
> No “official” language is declared, however, because “official” languages
> are primarily the domain of know-nothings and other hard-core nationalists
> who think it’s the government’s business to regulate every aspect of human
> life.
>
> Moreover, we might point to the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which declared
> large numbers of Mexican citizens to suddenly be American citizens at the
> end of the American war of aggression against the Mexicans in 1848. The
> citizenship of those Mexicans was certainly not predicated on their
> learning of English. We might also say the same about the French speakers
> forced into the US by the Louisiana Purchase. The fact that government
> schooling and other huge-government programs has largely stamped out
> non-English languages does not mean that in America “we” speak English. It
> simply means that as freedom has waned in America, so has the freedom to
> communicate in a language of one’s own choosing.
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