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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (253549)	5/8/2002 10:44:45 PM
From: d.taggart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I hope you find someone to fill your open position Flapjack,as I understand it democrats want to do for Israel what they have done for Blacks here in the United States.I remember when the dems in lockstep voted against defending our middle east interests under a different Bush,and they were wrong then as they are phony now...........keep deluding the public is there only goal untill they get their job done................What is the dem party goal anyway?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (253549)	5/8/2002 11:23:10 PM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The New America courtesy of the left. Government Worker in U.S. Fired for Speaking English An employee of Miami-Dade County, harassed by Latino co-workers for being a white American, says she was fired for speaking English on the job. "I was referred to as the 'gringa,' the 'Americana,'" Zita Wilensky told Miami's WSVN-TV. "Did they mean it in a polite way or a derogatory way? In some ways, at times, it was joking. But then it was like every single day, and you know what? I have a name." She was the only "Anglo" in the Domestic Violence Unit. All of her co-workers were Hispanic, and she says they liked to play tricks on her. "My boss presented me with an envelope one day when the anthrax was going around and told me: 'Come here; could you smell this? This just came in the mail.' Big joke in front of the whole department. Made me look like an idiot." A 16-year county employee, she has a personnel file full of letters of praise, but the racial discrimination began to take its toll. "Then Zita was told she had to speak Spanish in the office. She was given 60 days to learn. After 30 days her boss disguised her voice and called her," WSVN reported. Wilensky told the station: "So she called pretending to be someone who didn't speak English." "And when you could not communicate she fired you?" "Yes ... that's how it happened." According to the county, she was fired (merely) for transferring the call to the clerk's office. Wilensky says she transferred it because she wanted what she thought was a Spanish-speaking caller to talk to someone. Her boss claims she just requested that Wilensky learn Spanish, but a letter from the boss says Wilensky must speak Spanish, the TV station reported. The result: After her long service with the county, she was fired and replaced by a Hispanic. Now she is looking into whether an American can be fired for not speaking Spanish on the job. WSVN says that according to its legal expert, Howard Finkelstein: "The Florida Constitution says that English is the official language of the government. So you can't fire someone simply because they don't speak Spanish, and you can't fire them simply because they are Anglo. That's discrimination. That's illegal." Finkelstein added: "An employer cannot allow an employee to be subjected to racial slurs like 'gringo' or to be ridiculed or intimidated. ... That's called a hostile work environment, and that's illegal." If Wilensky sues the county, she has an excellent chance of winning, he said. The banana republic of Miami-Dade County, by the way, is the same government that failed to fire three black firemen who refused to respond to emergency calls until an "offensive" American flag was removed from a fire truck