Anyway, the founding fathers of the US believed that having an official language probably intervened with the concept of freedom (or something). Even though I’d disagree, I do get where they’re coming from. Basically, the founding fathers didn’t give a rat’s ass as to what language an American would speak.

I’m not so sure you (or even I, a U.S. citizen) are quaified to speak to the founders intent by not specifying an official language for the U.S. But I think it is more likely that it did not seem to be an issue at that time, since nearly all of the “voting” citizens of the time spoke English as a first language.

In addition, as a decentralized republic, it’s likely that it was an issue thought best left to the states. And, as it turns out, more than half of the states have legislated English as their official language. The U.S. Constitution does say that any powers not expressly granted to the Federal Government are reserved for the states (and/or the “People”).

This goes to show that the freedom you as an American have is absolutely worthless.

Seems to me like you’ve reached a conclusion based very weakly on fact. It’s OK. I spent more than my fair share of time at universities in the U.S. and in Europe, and I know how it works. I’d recommend, however, that you spend more time postulating about things you know based on experience, such as operating systems and other technical subjects, and stay away from the topics which require more research than reading headlines and chatting with friends in the coffeehouse over a spacecake and a latte.

In the US, freedom ends where it threathens the white populace. Scary.

Not as scary as the Internet trend that anyone with a weblog is an expert on anything!

P.S. oh, and the whole Israel NNPT thing would require many pages to do it justice. It’s a lot more complicated than your terse summary.

I’m not so sure you (or even I, a U.S. citizen) are quaified to speak to the founders intent by not specifying an official language for the U.S. But I think it is more likely that it did not seem to be an issue at that time, since nearly all of the “voting” citizens of the time spoke English as a first language.

In addition, as a decentralized republic, it’s likely that it was an issue thought best left to the states. And, as it turns out, more than half of the states have legislated English as their official language. The U.S. Constitution does say that any powers not expressly granted to the Federal Government are reserved for the states (and/or the “People”).

Seems to me like you’ve reached a conclusion based very weakly on fact. It’s OK. I spent more than my fair share of time at universities in the U.S. and in Europe, and I know how it works. I’d recommend, however, that you spend more time postulating about things you know based on experience, such as operating systems and other technical subjects, and stay away from the topics which require more research than reading headlines and chatting with friends in the coffeehouse over a spacecake and a latte.

Not as scary as the Internet trend that anyone with a weblog is an expert on anything!

P.S. oh, and the whole Israel NNPT thing would require many pages to do it justice. It’s a lot more complicated than your terse summary.

International relations is completely hipocritial. Mind, that Israel is basicly a fortress-state, since it’s been attacked/threatened numerous times by its neighbours, ever since it’s conception.

As far as I see it, an “Official language” doesn’t really matter, so long as there is a de-facto language that most people know (and governmental and other mainstream institutions use it)… In East-Timor, the Government chose Portugese, which was a wrong move, since only an elite few speak it. Contrast to the US, where most speak English (and it’s unlikely that it will loose it’s role as lingua franca in the US for a while at least).

What I wanted to show with this blog post, was that freedom in the United States ends there where it threatens the rich white people. This language thing I mentioned was just proof of this.

ajww: Yup, here’s your cookie.

You owe me two.

Alternatively, you can have 2 official languages, just like the Swiss have 3. But not having any at all, is problematic. I for one, hail English becoming the official language here and having all citizens speak it.