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To: Buddy B

"What do we want?" shouted interpreter Antonio Lopez as he led marchers in a circle around a dry fountain.

"Prinkkll manhbbar ktazzzzwa!", the crowd roared back, a dozen jumbled foreign tongues blending in an enraged jumble of unintelligible nonsense.

If you've been in this country long enough to commit a crime, you've been here long enough to learn English.


2 posted on 05/18/2005 10:12:12 AM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel ("Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - Groucho Marx)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
If you've been in this country long enough to commit a crime, you've been here long enough to learn English.

Agree...

To serve on a JURY in Washington State you must speak ENGLISH.

...How would a Juror know the interpreter interpreted correctly?

4 posted on 05/18/2005 10:21:08 AM PDT by Buddy B (MSgt Retired-USAF)
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