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Obama DOJ Threatened Oklahoma Over English-Only Vote
American Spectator ^
| 8.2.09 @ 1:50AM
| By Matthew Vadum
Posted on 08/02/2009 7:39:05 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The Obama administration believes that an inability to speak English is a civil right. It is even more distressing that the administration, legally speaking, may be right.
In April President Obama's Department of Justice threatened to cut off federal funding to Oklahoma if that state's voters approve a state constitutional amendment making English Oklahoma's official language, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) revealed.
The threat came in the form of a letter (PDF) from Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. King wrote that "implementation of this amendment may conflict with Oklahoma's obligations to protect the civil rights of limited English proficient (LEP) persons."
This would mean that such people, LEPs, have not only a federal right not to learn English but a right to have government services provided to them in languages other than English.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: agenda; aliens; bho44; bhodoj; english; englishonly; holder; immigration; obama; oklahoma
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:41:51 AM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
America’s enemies have taken the reins of America’s government.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:42:26 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
and they sit back like a bunch of pansies and let it happen.
To: BenLurkin
and they sit back like a bunch of pansies and let it happen.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Shall we just declare this a dictatorship now?
To: Behind Liberal Lines
If it’s not in the US Constitution, the State has the right to do whatever they want.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:45:53 AM PDT
by
RC2
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Ah, the power of King Obama. Isn't is great!!!! America is done. We are now under full communists rule. King Obama controls everyone in his Administration, Senate, House, and soon the Supreme Court. Our days are over. Sad.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:47:56 AM PDT
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Come on!!! Don’t be bullied by these bastards. English only??? Of course—it is what we speak!!!!
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:50:52 AM PDT
by
BamaAndy
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Yea buddy, just keeeeeep it up. By all means be damn sure EVERYONE knows exactly what a sorry cesspool of commie crap the Øbama administration policies really are.
Let there be no mistaking it for ANYTHING else.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:51:42 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
It is even more distressing that the administration, legally speaking, may be right. The American spectator is nothing more than fish wrap at best.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:52:35 AM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
You all remember they guy who owns the cheesesteak place in philadelphia? He had a sign in is window telling customers that this is America so speak english.
Oklahoma ought to put signs on their state lines, “Welcome to Olkahoma, Speak English.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:52:47 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
To: Texas resident
And send a legal response to the DOJ in Mandarin chinese. That’ll take them a while to translate and prove that point.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:53:34 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Oklahoma can say NO to the feds. I suspect that Texas and Missouri will back up the Okies!
Oklahoma should refuse to send the fed any tax collections.
The government gives. And the government can take away.
Federal coercion always involves withholding money.......
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:54:46 AM PDT
by
o_zarkman44
(Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Incrementally, the desire of a state to one thing in opposition to the feds' desire versus the loss of all federal funds is a huge threat. However, what if a state bundled every regulation, mandate and program dealing with the feds and compared all of their excess costs versus the loss of all federal aid at once? The total cost of the feds' rules might be much greater than the total federal aid. In that case it would be better for the state to give the finger to the federal government and play by its own rules.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:56:05 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Obama's medical nationalization bill reads like Atlas Shrugged with doctors instead of railroads.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Guess Ebonics will be next.
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posted on
08/02/2009 7:59:46 AM PDT
by
bikerman
(Buck Farack)
To: Texas resident
And send a legal response to the DOJ in Mandarin chinese.Better yet, send it in some obscure African or Asian dialect. Make them take the first week just identifying it!
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posted on
08/02/2009 8:02:27 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Next thing ya know he'll be complaining about that Natural Born clause!
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posted on
08/02/2009 8:04:03 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Ifanationexpects tobe ignorantandfree,inastateofcivilization,itexpects whatneverwas andnever will be)
To: JimRed
Nah, ozero is fluent in kenyan and arabic.
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posted on
08/02/2009 8:05:06 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
This couldn't have anything to do with the fact that all counties in OK voted Republican in the last election, would it?
I guess this falls under the same rule as the commiebama crowd trying to gag the GOP Senatorial candidate in Arizona by threatening the Governor with bailout funds.
They need to tell the DOJ to kiss their collective a$$e$.
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posted on
08/02/2009 8:14:42 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(We are only enslaved to the extent of charity we receive....INCUMBENTS OUT!!!)
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