"English First" Snail Mail Spam

Submitted by Andy Axel on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 18:24.

I received the following pamphlet in the mail today (click to embiggen):

And, as suggested, I went to the website to find out more about the suggested legislation.

That referendum, if successful, would add a section 1.08 to Article 1 of the Metro charter as follows:

"English is the official language of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. Official actions (those which bind or commit the government) shall be taken only in the English language, and all official government communications and publications shall be published only in English. No person shall have a right to government services in any other language. All meetings of the Metro Council, Boards, and Commissions of the Metropolitan Government shall be conducted in English. Nothing in this measure shall be interpreted to conflict with federal or state law."

So I found that out. But there's nothing apparent on the website or this mailer of who paid for this stuff, other than "paid for by 'Nashville English First'." That tells me nothing. However, since the Internet makes a lot of that information more or less available if you know a few simple commands...

% whois nashvilleenglishfirst.com

...and if you follow that output, you will find that the administrative contact for this domain is Nashville Metro Councilman Eric Crafton. This stands to reason, as "English first" is one of this guy's known hobby horses (follow below the cut for more).

That being said: Why doesn't he have the courage to sign his proud English name in bold print upon his own mailers?

(For what it's worth, I'm shredding the petition and I'm voting No, Nein, Nyet, Não, Ne, Mecheye, Neu, Tsha, Không, Yuk, Yanda, Naagga, Ntondo, Ochi, Ei, Neen... you get the idea.)

Googling more: he is on record in the Nashville Tennessean as being in favor of an English-only referendum. He sponsored a bill to do this last year which failed passage, and perhaps for good reason:

After learning of Crafton’s ballot initiative, Mayor Karl Dean said he was going to request the legal department to review it.

Dean added that the wording of the initiative was similar to last year’s bill, which had its state and federal constitutionality questioned by the legal department, which later found it unconstitutional.

“Our government doesn’t need to spend taxpayer money defending this in court,” Dean said. “We live in a global economy and the image we want to project of Nashville to the rest of the world is that we’re a welcoming and open city, and that we’re able to communicate with people in more than just our own language.”

Dean specifically took issue with specific phrasing of the charter amendment proposal, which states, “No person shall have a right to government services in any other language.”

That portion goes further than simply making English Metro’s official language.

“As a government, we have a responsibility to protect and care for all of our citizens no matter the language they speak,” Dean said. “Whether it’s someone who is a victim of a crime or someone reporting a crime or an accident, we should have the ability to communicate with them.”

Too bad I don't live in District 22. Regardless, I'd give good money to whoever decides to run against this asshat in the future.

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Terry Troll's picture
Wow

embiggen...? I love it. Like bein home.

I know you don't intend to

I know you don't intend to do so but you sound so prissy. Shred that document sweetie! How dare anyone suggest that America should have English as its official language! The nerve! (You just can't be too skinny or too Liberal) Or is it "Progressive" these days?

I think that those who wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence spoke English didn't they? I think it was White Anglo Saxon Protestants (am I allowed to speak about them - they are white and Christian!) who built this great country that everyone else wants to live in.

If people want to come here then why the hell can't they learn English which will of course force them to assimilate. Or is having a country full of various groups with each seeking its own interests at the expense of the general welfare now the goal rather than being a nation of One from many?

Since white people have created all the great western nations from Australia to Canada (imagine putting a bunch of black convicts on a ship and sending them to Australia - think Hati) it seems that we might have a few rights to protect and preserve our great Heritage.

It was Jews like Jacob Javits who wanted America to be diverse so that Jews wouldn't stand out as a minority. The very act of a leader doing what was in the interests of those of his own ethnic group at the expense of the general welfare is what diversity is about.

Political correctness taught to lowbrows like you guaranteed that whites would lose power and minorities could take over.

A more diabolical way to destroy Anglo Saxon Protestant culture could not have been devised than diversity. Notice that Jews want their own ethnic state and finding so many lowbrows in America they knew they had found the perfect people for their cause.

Now we are being bankrupted, our Christian children are killing Muslims and being killed by them on behalf of a state that is ethnically cleansing Christians and others who are different while you are outraged that we don't do enough on behalf of people who come here not to contribute but to TAKE TAKE TAKE.

Do you support The New World order and doing away with borders altogether? That will be the end of America and YOU will be forced to learn other languages. Do you think these other ethnic groups will be politically correct toward you? good luck. You deserve whatever you get.

Andy Axel's picture
I know you don't intend to

I know you don't intend to do so but you sound so prissy

I'm cut to the quick. I may faint.

I think it was White Anglo Saxon Protestants (am I allowed to speak about them - they are white and Christian!) who built this great country that everyone else wants to live in.

Unless you count the Chinese who built the railroads or the African-Americans who tended to the plantation fields in the South or the Italians who built the better part of New York City or the Irish Catholics/Ukranians/Greeks/Poles who built Chicago or the Hispanics today who hang most of our drywall and do most of our masonry work...

It was Jews like Jacob Javits who wanted America to be diverse so that Jews wouldn't stand out as a minority.

Did you get that from the Ron Paul Report? Sure sounds like it.

Now we are being bankrupted

By the descendants of some of the same White Anglo Saxon Protestants whose legacy you claim. Ironic, innit?

Do you support The New World order and doing away with borders altogether? That will be the end of America and YOU will be forced to learn other languages.

¿Cómo se llama una persona que habla tres lenguas? Trilingüe.
¿Cómo se llama una persona que habla dos lenguas? Bilingüe.
¿Cómo se llama una persona que habla sólamente una? Norteamericano.

Ya hablo Español poquito. Algunos Peruanos que conocí me dijo que yo no parezco como Yanqui cuando conversaremos.

(Many, many people in the world speak two, three, four languages in addition to their own. It's considered "mannerly.")

You deserve whatever you get.

Whatever I have, and whatever I may end up with, I am confident that my spirit and worldview is far richer than yours will ever be.

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So what if some Chinese

So what if some Chinese built railroads. If a farmer uses a mule to plow a field whose making garden.

The slaves learned English and so did the Chinese. I think it is wonderful to learn other languages, customs and to experience other cultures. That has nothing to do with the fact that the entire world must learn English because of the power, influence and greatness that our people have created and that is something to be proud of.

Only now are we being told that these things don't matter and that is to prepare us for Globalization. Only now are we told that the borders we have protected for over 200 years don't matter. And if we object we are accused of being racist. Why isn't it racist when others disobey our laws in seeking THEIR own interests.

By 2050 the UN predicts that we will be overwhelmed with immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. You sure as hell will be forced to learn other languages then buddy.

What good is putting on a uniform when there are no enemies that will wage war against the greatest military superpower the world has ever known. You should put on the armor of knowledge so that you can protect this country which is falling from within because it is attacked by greedy Capitalists and Zionists who are destroying us.

The very image of childishly tearing up a petition in order to feel that others will think of you as good and saintly is childish. your motive is to be kind and good toward others but when you put on a uniform and are willing to shoot someone who threatens your nation then you are also seen as good and a protector and a hero. Too bad you can shoot from the hip but not the head.

There have always been white people who were willing to sell out America or we wouldn't be where we are today. But for most of its history the United States has been an Anglo Saxon Protestant nation and we built the greatest nation on Earth. now we are in decline because we have no sense of ourselves as a country because so many ethnic groups live here. We are destroyed.

Learn Arabic because when they reach 10% of the population it will be all over and they won't feel the need to learn English or tolerate your religion.

You should be ashamed to betray your country and your people. We have every right to protect and preserve our country and our way of life and we have a right to do so without being called vile names.

Call me a racist or anything else you like because its like getting shot at in war. I'm willing to soldier on for my country. Nobody had a right to make this country diverse. That was our decision to make but it was made for us by Jews to serve their own interests and their interests are sure as hell being served while we fall apart.

It is necessary to have a strong leadership when there are different ethinc groups living in a place and while Anglo Saxon white people ran our country we knew who we were. Now we have no idenity. That was stolen from us.

Only white people are expected to take such an attitude toward other groups for they surely don't have that attitude toward us. You have been propagandized. The rest of the ethnic groups are very tribal and self interested but of course you think THEY have that right.

America has the best schools in the world and we sure as hell don't need to be lectured about learning other languages.

America is the most diverse country on Earth so we don't need to be lectured about racism.

America is the most generous nation on Earth so we don't need to be lectured about what we owe others.

America is no small thing, no small accomplishment, and we have a right to protect it but there is no way we can turn back the clock. People like you have already lost your heritage. You gave it up without a shot being fired. I hope your spirit and worldview are worth it. I will impress people by speaking English. You can learn Swaheli

Andy Axel's picture
And this is why I often

And this is why I often think of the Internet as the largest wall in a bathroom stall ever conceived in the history of mankind.

So many words, such little sense.

Apparently all that stands between us and multicultural oblivion is Councilman Crafton's petition. How dare I have missed that oh-so-very-important point...

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R. Neal's picture
America certainly remains

America certainly remains competitive in the anonymous racist nutjob department.

yeah neal I think he's a

yeah neal I think he's a nutjob too. Its not so much the petition as your attitude that anyone who seeks the best for America is automatically racist. There is no evidence that having English as the offical language is racist. Those coming here and making demands are the damn racists.

Other people have as much right to our opinions as you do and you were the one who put on a bathroom tirade and called another man a name and acted like the English website is as dark and dank as Cheney's bunker and shady things go on there.

you are good at attacking other people personally so you are the one writing on the bathroom wall and further more I made my case by citing my reasons but you just announce your position and then attack anyone who doesn't go along like your the offical judge of what we should do.

Why don't you impress everyone by telling us which nations in the world are diverse and how that is working out. You can even go anywhere in history and anytime and place. Go ahead give me historical examples of diversity working. I'm waiting.

Furthermore you can look at Europe, the Middle East, Kosovo, Africa, Asia, and anywhere else today and tell us how diversity is working.

Didn't the blacks take South Africa, not because they built it but because they can breed like flies. Didn't they then kill white farmers and cause people to flee and now they don't even have health care and the Cubans have to provide it for them.

In the past month didn't every human rights group on Earth condemn South Africa because it turned away black African refugees from war torn countries and regions ravaged by famine? Yes they did Mister. Blacks won't even accept other blacks from different tribes.

Why don't get down off your self rightous perch and talk a few facts smart ass. Anybody can put on a superior pretense and make personal attacks but you are shooting blanks. Why don't you tell me where and when in the world diversity has ever worked.

Neal I hope you are smart so I don't have to tell you where you can plant a kiss.

R. Neal's picture
Two words. Bet you can

Two words. Bet you can figure them out yourself.

R. Neal's picture
McCain has Berlin moment too

AP

McCain has run Spanish language ads as well. He has aired ads in Nevada and New Mexico promoting his economic plans. Another featured his Naval Academy roommate Frank Gamboa who touted McCain's work on behalf of Hispanics and stated, without naming Obama, that "the other candidate has just discovered the importance of the Hispanic vote."

McCain has also run a Spanish language radio ad in Florida that promoted his support of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement.

spanish vote

What! You dare talk about the Spanish vote! How dare you be racist by talking about a Spanish vote! What about all the other people in America! There is not supposed to be a Spanish vote! There is only the American vote! Isn't that correct?

Of course its not correct. You are right. There is the Spanish vote, the Black vote, the Jewish vote, the Muslim vote, the white vote, if we still get a vote, the Chinese vote, the Veitnam vote, the Hispanic vote, the Cuban latino vote, the gay vote, the straight vote, the excuse me if I left your ethnic or religous vote out vote.

No longer One from Many but a bunch of ethnic and religious groups with each seeking its own interests at the expense of the General Welfare.

The spanish vote indeed.

Excuse me I forgot to mention the stupid white ass vote where morons champion the interests of others at the expense of their own heritage and the American way. How do you say that in Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Swalhli, and Moron. Its all good. good and Liberal! Progressive! a rose by any other name

Of course mccain will pander to them. Look at it this way. Every time you support illegals and multicultualism which by another name is cheap labor, somewhere a little corporate asshole is laughing because you are helping them bring down Globalization upon America.

We should be nice to those from third world nations because we are fast becoming third world people. Thanks to all the white morons like you who have pretenses that you're glorious defenders against ohmygod Racism. You couldn't defend your asses from invading worms. You don't have the brains for it.

Help bring about Globalization which is the height of racism as rich elites prey on all of us. Hype that Spanish vote. you go guys. you be the man.

I almost forgot the ebonics' vote. Why I'd never be forgiven and I couldn't even forgive myself.

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hahahaha

When you have to resort to the old get back on your meds routine then you know stick a fork in because you're done.

I forgot to mention the sick whacko vote so thanks for reminding me. I don't want to leave anyone out or they might think I'm racist.

I met some new immigrants and they are offended by our Constitution do you think we might be able to get rid of it for them.

btw my neighbor has a mean vicious dog and he keeps in on a chain behind a fence in his back yard. He also has a big Beware of Dog sign which his lawyers told him should protect him very well.

the only problem is the man who got his ass chewed off doesn't speak English. Now he's suing my neighbor and they put his dog down even tho the dog was protecting his owner's property and was in his own back yard.

The law says that it was the obligation of the property owner to make sure everyone could understand that they should beware and that the man had done nothing wrong.

What a coincidence. YOU think its our obligation to learn other languages too! After all we have to be able to communicate with one another and if they don't learn English well guess what! We will learn to speak their languages.

Isn't diversity wonderful. Its sure great for some people. No doubt about that. Its merely OUR job to make sure it stays that way. Thanks so much for being an enforcer and keeping racist white Americans in their places.

You can't be too rich or too liberal I always say.

R. Neal's picture
By the way, there's no such

By the way, there's no such thing as "illegals."

Myths

MYTH: Illegal immigrants are “by definition” criminals.

“Being illegally present in the U.S. has always been a civil, not criminal, violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and subsequent deportation and associated administrative processes are civil proceedings.” (Congressional Research Service, “Immigration Enforcement Within the United States.” April 2006)

In Sept. 2007, former presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said on The Glenn Beck Program, “Glenn, it's not a crime. I know that's very hard for people to understand, but it's not a federal crime…In fact, when you throw an immigrant out of the country, it's not a criminal proceeding. It's a civil proceeding.”

I really think

I really think that this guy should be the spokesman for the resolution. Hey anonymous, get out there and campaign for it. Call into all the radio stations and write plenty of letters to the various newspapers. Be sure to mention that part about how it's the Jews who are forcing all these changes on the U.S. Go right ahead.

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