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To: ManyMoose who wrote (157624)	7/4/2001 2:30:40 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Texas was a unique addition to the US, since Texas was a sovereign nation. I am sure secession for the state of Texas would be considered illegal. Texas does however have the ability to split into 5 states in the original agreement with the United States. All the Best, josh * * *

To: ManyMoose who wrote (157624)	8/28/2001 1:55:41 PM
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Bilingualism furthers our divide By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com You may remember Broward County, Florida, as one of the counties involved in the controversial Al Gore ballot "count-a-thon" last November. But now, Broward County officials are back in the news for a different – albeit equally disturbing – reason. According to Monday's Miami Herald newspaper, Broward County officials say they will make government "bilingual" in order to "better serve" the region's burgeoning Hispanic population. Officials, quoting data from the U.S. Census Bureau, reported that about 50,000 county residents responded in last year's census that they either don't speak English at all or don't speak it "well." The question Broward officials ought to be asking is not, "Habla Englis?" but rather, "If you can't speak English, how did you fill out your census form?" Is this "political correctness" gone amok? Yes. And no. The PC movement has its share of useful idiots. The agenda is set by a few cultural, political and media "elite" in our country, who then rely on tens of millions of useful idiots, who don't know any better, to carry the agenda out. This whole minority/race/immigration thing operates much the same way. Sound conspiratorial to you? Then, think about it. It simply makes no common sense to cost taxpayers extra billions of dollars (nationwide) every year to print up government documents, forms, letters and materials in a dozen different languages – while still supposedly mandating that all new citizens speak English before they can become citizens, now does it? Yet, this is what advocates of "bilingualism" and "multilingualism" do every single year. Worse, they are creating divisions in our own country that will lead to conflict at some point in the future. You cannot expect a nation of people to be so different they no longer even share a common language, and believe they will get along forever without any cultural clashes or social upheaval. This is what's happening to Indonesia, to the Balkans and – to a lesser extent – Quebec and the rest of Canada. Already our politicians are pandering to Hispanics for their vote, rather than requiring them to become full-fledged Americans and speak the language our first lawmakers chose back in 1776 (the new U.S. government chose English over German by one vote). Useful idiots are helping these PC managers enact this agenda of self-destruction because they really believe they are "doing the right thing" or are being "compassionate and sensitive." If we want to be compassionate and sensitive to our immigrants, we would require them to "do as we do" – as regards language, anyway. Our Constitution recognizes some differences in people – religious beliefs, cultural differences, and other personal or learned lifestyle choices – and that's fine. But if we don't want our children to grow up in a "country within a country," whose parts no longer add up to the whole of the nation, then Americans had better understand that we cannot be a united nation without the common bond of language. worldnetdaily.com * * *