I just actually opened my email the other day and saw this message from someone near & dear to me from the previous month! I guess when all you do at work is email, the last thing you want to do when you come home from a hard day's work, is send… another email! :)
...So anyway, I just thought I'd take a second to weigh in on this one... I have included a couple links to some different outtakes on this subject. These sites are really good fact-checking tools for you to use whenever you receive this type of manufactured, biased rhetoric. It is just too bad that this kind of stuff is circulated & too often believed.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/englishvote.asp
...It appears that this goes a little deeper than what is portrayed in this email forward, as this e-mail is only partially true and the issue brought up was due to certain wording. The particular wording used would have made it nearly impossible for legal immigrants to even apply, because, in order for them to apply for a Visa, it would require them to already comprehend English. And if there was a legal immigrant who wanted to enroll in an English language class, they would be required to already speak English in order for them to apply for the class they were enrolling in! And it also mentioned that even if the government issued forms in another language those forms would be considered "less legal" than the English forms.
As a whole, the bill was deemed as flawed, and thus, many Senators voted against it. They looked beyond the bold language, dissected the small print and made a conscious decision that it wasn't in the best interests of Americans and didn't reflect what America stands for. How else did all of our ancestors become Americans? Such a law, had it been introduced in the late 1700's, would have prohibited us all from even existing here in this great country today.
As a side note... There were a total of 351 total amendments on record that were suggested to amend that bill from both sides of the aisle.
In regards to the Lincoln quote at the end, which claims that Lincoln said:
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"
Here are a couple other sides to this... it seems that Mr. Lincoln never even said that:
http://www.factcheck.org/misquoting_lincoln.html
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/andrewmcdonaldpdx/gGxd2d
The lessons here are... Don't believe everything that you hear & read! ...And thank god for Google!!! :)
If you ever receive this kind of email, I ask that you please you do your part and forward one of the below sites or quickly grab a line of text and throw it into Google to do a quick fact-check. You will be doing others a great service by spreading the truth.
Here are some really great sites to use to do a quick fact-check just to be sure before you forward these on:
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.snopes.com/
http://urbanlegends.about.com/
Since there is so much info (lies) being stuffed down our throats every day, I use the above sites all the time to stay informed and stay above the lies and phony outrage!
Stay informed! Stay tuned!
...So anyway, I just thought I'd take a second to weigh in on this one... I have included a couple links to some different outtakes on this subject. These sites are really good fact-checking tools for you to use whenever you receive this type of manufactured, biased rhetoric. It is just too bad that this kind of stuff is circulated & too often believed.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/englishvote.asp
...It appears that this goes a little deeper than what is portrayed in this email forward, as this e-mail is only partially true and the issue brought up was due to certain wording. The particular wording used would have made it nearly impossible for legal immigrants to even apply, because, in order for them to apply for a Visa, it would require them to already comprehend English. And if there was a legal immigrant who wanted to enroll in an English language class, they would be required to already speak English in order for them to apply for the class they were enrolling in! And it also mentioned that even if the government issued forms in another language those forms would be considered "less legal" than the English forms.
As a whole, the bill was deemed as flawed, and thus, many Senators voted against it. They looked beyond the bold language, dissected the small print and made a conscious decision that it wasn't in the best interests of Americans and didn't reflect what America stands for. How else did all of our ancestors become Americans? Such a law, had it been introduced in the late 1700's, would have prohibited us all from even existing here in this great country today.
As a side note... There were a total of 351 total amendments on record that were suggested to amend that bill from both sides of the aisle.
In regards to the Lincoln quote at the end, which claims that Lincoln said:
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!"
Here are a couple other sides to this... it seems that Mr. Lincoln never even said that:
http://www.factcheck.org/misquoting_lincoln.html
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/andrewmcdonaldpdx/gGxd2d
The lessons here are... Don't believe everything that you hear & read! ...And thank god for Google!!! :)
If you ever receive this kind of email, I ask that you please you do your part and forward one of the below sites or quickly grab a line of text and throw it into Google to do a quick fact-check. You will be doing others a great service by spreading the truth.
Here are some really great sites to use to do a quick fact-check just to be sure before you forward these on:
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.snopes.com/
http://urbanlegends.about.com/
Since there is so much info (lies) being stuffed down our throats every day, I use the above sites all the time to stay informed and stay above the lies and phony outrage!
Stay informed! Stay tuned!
1 comment:
Great blog!!! Keep it up! It's too bad more people aren't informed. Oh if the media would just do their job we wouldn't have to be so frustrated.
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