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To: montag813

I AM a liberal and I support English only. Not for racist, biased or hostile reasons but for pure and simple safety reasons. Street signs are written in English. Traffic tickets are written in English. If you are in an accident or given a ticket, the officers will be speaking English. If you must go to court for a traffic issue everyone will be speaking English. Can you imagine a police officer trying to sort out the details of a traffic accident if the driver cannot explain in English what happened? Street signs often have symbols, but what about construction signs? “Lane change ahead” “Right lane closed, merge left” “Speed limit reduced up ahead” “Bridge freezes before road”
In my opinion, this is about safety and NOTHING else. Driving requires more than just “driving”. You must understand and be able to respond to certain things, including signs.


6 posted on 01/13/2011 5:37:54 PM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

What does language have to do with race? I agree however with your stance on English. Consider that a currency is a country’s language and ours is printed in English. So is The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, there isn’t any ‘’’press one for English/press two for Spanish’’ on those. And lastly, all the wars America fought from our own Revolution to today were fought and won speaking English.


9 posted on 01/13/2011 6:49:35 PM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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