Wednesday, April 03, 2002
More on Oklahoma Ruling
The Daily Oklahoman's coverage [link good until April 8th] of the Supreme Court ruling suggests the Oklahoma Supreme Court had its mind made up long before the case was heard.
Example: "Even with exceptions for constitutional conflicts, Petition No. 366 would disenfranchise segments of Oklahoma citizens by interfering with their ability to access vital information necessary for a self-governing society and cause self-censorship by inhibiting communications with government officials," the Supreme Court said.
Let's try this again. People who don't speak English will have problems in an English-speaking country, just as a person who speaks no French may have trouble accessing vital information in Paris. The OK Court has transformed a basic fact into a Constitutional crisis.
The OK effort, even it succeeded, would have been limited by federal laws, such as Clinton Executive Order 13166. And the law in question would have encouraged more spending on programs to teach English. The anti-English lobby wants to force immigrants to line up each day for a fish -- a document or translation into another language. We official English supporters think it would be far better to teach people to fish for a lifetime by encouraging them to learn English.
The equation here is mandatory mulitlingualism = permanent dependence on others; official English = freedom and thinking for yourself.
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