A national language with disasterous consequences.

This week the Republicans have been busy in front of the cameras to propose a federal law that requires English to be the official American language. This is part of a puzzle that has exposed both political parties with the realization they have seriously erred in their caculation of the citizenry's attitude towards illegal immigrants and immigration reform. Your author commented that the only viable, albeit radical, solution is to build a wall on the southern border with several gates that allow a set number of immigrants to pass through. Additionally current laws on books to hiring illegals should be enforced. However both parties played such games as employment tracks and cards that validated the illegal's indentification instead of listening to their constituency.

Senate minority leader Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada, has describes the idea of a national language as being 'racist'. I don't think the idea is racist. It may be practical but not racists. The idea of a national language could come to bite America if Democrats are able to get back control of the Congress. Here is why...

Since 1969 with the passage of the Officials Language Act, Canada has had two official languages-French and English. Originally the national language was English. However Quebec and their influence over Ottawa allowed them to legalize French as the second national language. Now mind you only 23% of Canada's population speaks French. This legitimized and stoked the idea that French speaking province of Quebec should be independent. Thankfully, after decades of intense debate, the issue of independence for the province ended in 1995 when a referendum was voted down.

However despite winning the battle to secure Canada's national sovereignty, French and English languages were across the country. Because it was federal law everything from product labeling and signage were changed to incorporate both languages. All this did was guarantee an additional inflationary cost that was passed to the consumer. A cost that was not necessary and only coddled 23% of the population. It then took 25 years later to end the Quebec debate. If Quebec had been granted independence the end results would have been potentially disasterous-a new currency, a geographically divided country, a new government, etc.

Now back to the United States-if English is required as a national language and the Democrats do get a majority back in Congress; how quickly will Latino voters pursue the someone in the party to propose to institute a second national language? How many businesses and signs will be impacted? How much of a cost will be absorb by our wallets? How many states with a strong Spanish influence-primarily Florida, California and Texas will propose for independence after pushing Congress to pass a second national language? This may sound extreme or radical but so was the idea of an independent Quebec.

Thanks for reading.

Spying On Equal Justice

It is old hat that Democrat Congressman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island dodged a serious bullet when he was able to skirt around his recent auto accident. The incident, which occurred during the wee morning hours of May 4th, caused Kennedy to reevaluate his life and enter a rehabilitation program. Kennedy had claimed that the prescription Ambien, a sedative to treat insomnia, caused him to dress himself and drive to the House before crashing his car.

What is truly sad with Kennedy is like his father, uncles and cousins before him-he is immune to prosecution. The US Capitol police did little to enforce the law by allowing Kennedy to leave, not administering a sobriety test or a trip to downtown booking. Back in July 1969 his father, Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts, was able to run a car off of Chappaquiddick near Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod allowing Bobby Kennedy campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne to drown. Kennedy was never charged or investigated for vehicular manslaughter. In fact he was nowhere to be found and only produce himself 24 hours later. Then in 1991, while taking in the sun at their Palm Beach estate, both father and son became members of central casting when Kennedy cousin Dr. William Kennedy Smith was charged with rape allegations. The Kennedy clan bonded together and Smith was later acquitted. During the trial one of the witnesses claimed she was chatting with Patrick Kennedy when an obvious intoxicated Ted Kennedy staggered in minus his trousers.

Three common threads link all Kennedys-substance abuse problems, immunity from U.S. state and federal laws and big money that allows them to live in a bubble. Your author has long been critical of the family spurned from the seed of former bootlegger Joe Kennedy. However even sadder is that Patrick Kennedy used the ‘gotcha’ and what should have been an arrest to martyr him in many ways by announcing he will enter rehab, thus joining many others who struggle with addiction. In other words it wasn’t bad enough that he was above the law now he will use this scandal as an attempt to relate to the ‘common man’. It’s get better, the Democrat Party has announced they will support Kennedy and his reelection bid. Your author wonders why Rhode Island continues to elect this pompous brat. Then again he also wonders about the good folks of Massachusetts as it relates to his father. He is still waiting for the answer.

Conservative talk radio Godfather Rush Limbaugh on the other hand was able to buy his way out from prosecution. Prior to Kennedy’s recent fiasco, Limbaugh agreed to one count of doctor shopping in what appears to be a weak case brought forth by Florida’s States Attorney involving Limbaugh and his addiction to prescription painkillers. Limbaugh will continue addiction counseling and agreed to a thirty thousand dollar fine. While he was able buy his way out on what were some serious felony charges, Limbaugh is not an elected official unlike Kennedy.

Meanwhile the debate rages on whether how intrusive the federal government should become in this era of national security concerns. The Bush administration along with the National Security Agency (NSA), within the jurisdiction of federal laws, has been compiling phone records. This is all under the cloak of national security and terrorism.

The biggest critics have been the big left leaning media machine and the Democrat party. While both love to conjure up references to George Orwell's 1984 and Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein of California assures America that the NSA and the Fourth Ammendment-protection against illegal search and seizure-will face a showdown; the Infinite Speculator wonders where was this hysteria and concern when then First Lady Hillary R. Clinton set up an exploratory committee to contemplate the implementation of nationalized healthcare. One of the big criticisms of such proposal, besides the fact that the consumer would not have a choice, was that the federal government would have access to personal medical records. Where was the Democrat Party, Los Angeles Times or the New York Times then? They were too busy debating the merit of this so called 'bold attempt' by an unconventional First Lady. She was unconventional for a role that has no official power and for also being the first to occupy such position while she and the sitting President obviously practised an 'open marriage' given the number of countless allegations of adultery. I digress....

To no surprise the media machine and Democrat Party players miss the boat when comes to the NSA, war on terror, national security and general concerns of the average American. The citizenry that votes and pays taxes while not living in a protective bubble found in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston or Manhattan. According to the May 12, 2006 Washington Post-an ABC News poll found that 66% of their surveyed audience were not bothered by the NSA probing into phone records and found this manner of investigation to be acceptable. Then the shocker that 51% approved or did not object on how the Bush administration was handling privacy matters.

So there you have it-Democrats hide behind The Constitution when it benefits them, big media will fruitlessly fuel fires while disguising them as intelligent debate and once again when combined both entities fail to convey the heartbeat of the United States. Of course phone records and national security don't apply to the Kennedy clan- they can weasel, squirm and buy their way out of any situation. For the rest of us who don't vacation on a six acre waterfont compound located at Hyannis, Cape Cod or spend our winters overlooking the blue Atlantic Ocean at a Palm Beach, FL estate, I'm glad someone is looking after our national safety. It is, sadly, quite obvious who isn't sharing our concerns.