Yes definitely it is time for reform of border/immigration policy, i agree completely ... for a number of reasons - even before you get to our national security and social engineering issues, there is the immediate practical fact that the US will act if we don't, and if we don't then there goes NAFTA, poof ... we depend on trade, we better filter out the dangerous elements at the perimeter of the continent or we'll be facing walls at the borders [borders plural, i am including México, we are all together on this rock], the US will act unilaterally, to an extent it already has
It's just that when these things come up, out come the Doug Collins-type Canada Firsters using the situation to generate support for their racism - and it is racism, that is not an empty charge, something made up for political gain - racism is alive and well in what passes for minds in a few everywhere ... it enrages me that these mental midgets use the Red Ensign, the real flag of this country, in promotion of their hatred .... there are these sorts everywhere, you know, some hopefully minute proportion of our entire species is afflicted ... in the regional town nearest our village in Chiapas there is a group with which i have had way too much contact because they have a hate on against my friend who runs a cantina, they try to use against him the fact that as a reasonable human being [ex-logger, no less] he has an eclectic group of friends and associates who speak at times languages other than spanish ... quite a number of them - chol/lacandón they hate the most perhaps as symbol of living maya culture, but of the rest it is english that most aggravates their xenophobia ... it amuses me to speak english loud and clear around these 'people', and to them ... around the Doug Collinses wham i am pure hispano, and think often of faking french or urdu or yiddish or whatever would turn their crank the fastest ... phuque 'em, no quarter
My two posts of yesterday were largely in re this - #reply-16568137 ... i mean, look at what's driving this jerkoff - ' ... the anti-English-language crowd ... All bilingual programs should be abandoned immediately .. ' ... like english is in any danger, lol .... guy is a US national so is speaking of spanish here, of course ... calls himself an 'american' likely, and quite rightly, living in the Américas - yet hearing spanish bothers him ... pues amigo, vete en otro lado, que te vayas bien, por allá ... and don't worry about english, it'll be just fine ... lol ... same sort of crap as i stared in the face at those Reform startup meetings, except there the boogeyman was le francais ... with as little reason - the french were given guarantees of full partnership in this country at Confederation, and they were betrayed in later political expediencies, just as were hispanos in the immediate abrogations of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
English french and spanish [by alphabetical order] are our principal languages on this continent, and we are lucky to have them all ... languages are bridges, those who would suppress them would build walls to impede our progress .... likewise those who would mandate them - it is wrong of government to regulate the tongue on the back of the cereal box, or anywhere else in private life ... simply is not their business ... government must decide in which tongues it does its legitimate business of course, well in Canada that is logically and by contract english and french, in the US english and spanish ... in México there exists no compelling historical or contractual reason to become bilingual, but it is clear that it should, and it will in time ... there is much english already of course, in business/intellectual circles ... french too - quite a colony of french i knew around a university centre a few years ago, one young lady of whom got me as interested in the language as i've ever been in Montréal ..... i know it's politically incorrect for a western canehjun to say so, but face it folks - french is a beautiful language to hear spoken, it has rich nuance and literature, it's going to be around a long long time, like english and spanish, get used to it, it's a Good Thing.
Stephen, lorne, later, gotta go ... cháu/salut/cheers |
