I came here to say why in the hell would Wisconsin feel the need to recite the pledge in Spanish? After RTFA all I have to say is, sand/vagina.

In a perfect world, every person who complained about this would be shot in the head and buried in a mass grave.

You know, I had a few comments pasted in here and I was prepared to refer to each of the comments and explain why the person responsible for the comments was a complete and utter retard. But, by the time that jackass said it disrespected the troops...I lost it.

Bunch of goddamn idiots.

bulldg4life: You know, I had a few comments pasted in here and I was prepared to refer to each of the comments and explain why the person responsible for the comments was a complete and utter retard. But, by the time that jackass said it disrespected the troops...I lost it.

Bunch of goddamn idiots.

I know. One day a year Spanish students say the pledge over the intercom in Spanish and this "disrespects the troops?" How farking stupid.

Prometo lealtad a la reina Frag y a su estado poderoso de la histeria.

bulldg4life: You know, I had a few comments pasted in here and I was prepared to refer to each of the comments and explain why the person responsible for the comments was a complete and utter retard. But, by the time that jackass said it disrespected the troops...I lost it.

Bunch of goddamn idiots.

Hmm. Wonder if that includes the troops THAT SPEAK SPANISH. 'Cause a lot of people in America do. And why does everybody drag "the troops" into their hissy fit? "The troops" are now the "new children."
//Won't somebody think of them?

The following day, the Janesville Gazette ran a story entitled "Spanish Pledge Angers Veteran."

It quoted Todd Dix, whose son goes to the high school.

"This is America; we speak English," said Dix, who retired from the National Guard last year.

...wha?

LaChanz: I came here to say why in the hell would Wisconsin feel the need to recite the pledge in Spanish? After RTFA all I have to say is, sand/vagina.

What he said.

Samuel L. Jackson said it best. ENGLISH MOTHERFARKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!

kronicfeld: In a perfect world, every person who complained about this would be shot in the head and buried in a mass grave.

Points gun at eddyatwork, unlocks safety, cocks trigger...

As a career active duty soldier, I'm getting a kick out of these replies already. As far as I'm concerned, no BFD.

Seriously, I'm not offended by this. Did they recite the Mexican pledge? Um, no. Americans should be honored that foreigners in our country recite the Pledge in any language, just as long as ours gets recited before any others.

When I was in Korea (3 1/2 years), every military ceremony I attended -- including my own change of command -- featured someone singing the American National Anthem in English, followed by the Korean one, in Korean. The Koreans in the audience loved us for allowing theirs. (But we wouldn't have dared translate theirs into English, because it probably wouldn't have made any sense.)

IMHO, the morans in Wisconsin need to STFU and just be glad someone's honoring our flag, no matter what the language.

UNC_Samurai: Prometo lealtad a la reina Frag y a su estado poderoso de la histeria.

Wait, Def Lep did what and which steak house?

My family came from Germany in the late 1840's. They continued to speak German at home up until the start of World War I when my great-grandparents banned it. They stopped speaking German and sent my grandfather off to fight the Hun.

Level of patriotism for the adopted country is not necessarily proportional to the English spoken. They are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance for crying out loud and allegiance is the same in any language.

We have a problem with illegal immigration...as in law breakers....we don't have a problem with legal immigrants still speaking their native language after they arrive.

We are trying to stop illegal immigration....not Spanish speakers.

(one way to decrease illegal immigration is to streamline the process for legal immigration and raise quotas to the number we actually need to make people want to go through the legal process)

arkansas:
Level of patriotism for the adopted country is not necessarily proportional to the English spoken. They are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance for crying out loud and allegiance is the same in any language.

We have a problem with illegal immigration...as in law breakers....we don't have a problem with legal immigrants still speaking their native language after they arrive.

We are trying to stop illegal immigration....not Spanish speakers.



These weren't immigrants reciting the pledge in Spanish. They were students taking a Spanish class.

/just saying

ExJerseyGirl:
These weren't immigrants reciting the pledge in Spanish. They were students taking a Spanish class.

I've read so much on this that I didn't RTFA. That makes it even stupider doesn't it? Sorry, I thought it was normal stupid and not insane stupid. Stupid me.

Anyone who has a problem with this on the level of the asshats in TFA needs to be locked up for the good of the country. That is some serious weapons grade stupid right there.

Yay racism!

/madre di dios, es el pollo diablo!

You know, I had a few comments pasted in here and I was prepared to refer to each of the comments and explain why the person responsible for the comments was a complete and utter retard. But, by the time that jackass said it disrespected the troops...I lost it.

Is this the new, "I'm getting a kick out of ..."?

Technically, the U.S. does not have a national language so these people need to quit complaining.

But they said "under God", right?

This is bullshiat. It doesn't matter what language you say the pledge in. Are these same people pissed off that the Bible has been published in every language spoken by man? Seriously, there are more impotant things to get your panties in a wad over.

//like boobies

infantry: his is America; we speak English,"

god damn right. fark saying the pledge in spanish

Your troll-fu...it is strong...

I went to a high school in WI, so I'm getting a kick out of these responses...

Anyways, I remember when I was in sophomore English, which was held at the time of day they gave the Pledge over the intercom. Some assholes in the class (mainly the conservatards, btw) would purposefully mumble the Pledge. Our teacher, who was a huge liberal and didn't even say the pledge (but still stood up when it was spoken) finally yelled at them one day. And he was the defensive coach for the football team, so he was a big guy.

/now THAT was disrepsecting the pledge
//that said, I'm glad I don't have to repeat it anymore

arkansas: Level of patriotism for the adopted country is not necessarily proportionalbears absolutely no farking relationship at all to the English spoken.

That's better.

kronicfeld: In a perfect world, every person who complained about this would be shot in the head and buried in a mass grave.

Yo quiero freedom of speech?

People have some real weird ideas on what constitutes freedom in this country.

Got jingoism down pat though...

I remember having to recite the pledge in latin after translating it as a class project in high school. No one got in a tizzy for that...nor did anyone claim that the Romans were trying to take over our culture...

who farted: Are these same people pissed off that the Bible has been published in every language spoken by man?

It hurts the troops.

I had to learn this in Spanish class about 18 years ago. Here's my attempt (it surely has flaws):

Juro fidelidad a la bandera de Los Estatos Unidos de America. Y a la republica, que representa, una nacion, debajo de Dios, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos.

I predict a race war in 4 years max.

FTFA: It also invites foreign exchange students (the school now has three) to say it in their own language.

If you're a citizen of another country and just in the US as a visitor, what are you doing pledging allegiance to the American flag? Either you don't mean what you're saying or you don't think much of your own country.

Speak English. What's the problem?

infantry: his is America; we speak English,"

god damn right. fark saying thesay the farking pledge in spanishbecause we're a nation of immigrants and we can't afford to forget it.

FTFY.

What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? Bilingual
What do you call someone who speaks 1 language? American

kronicfeld: In a perfect world, every person who complained about this would be shot in the head and buried in a mass grave.



"Now that's what I'm talking about."

In the article it says that other students from the other language classes were invited to say the pledge in that language, too. For a day. So wth is the problem? If they said the pledge in French afterwards, would there be a hissyfit that the school "Doesn't love America"?

/MINDBOGGLING

Veteran
National Guard
...wha?

oh for fark sake. Are you one of those retards who still thinks the National Guard isn't the same thing as the military?

I think it's strange that kids are required to recite the pledge at all. But then again, I'm a Jesus-hating commie.

This is ridiculous.

/refused to say the pledge in high school
//still refuses to say it
///owes allegiance to self and self only, fark bullshiat nationalism

LaChanz: I came here to say why in the hell would Wisconsin feel the need to recite the pledge in Spanish? After RTFA all I have to say is, sand/vagina.

Actually there's a lot of Hispanic people in WI (MKE, at least)

I had a math teacher in high school who also happened to be the football coach (terrible, terrible combination btw), and he asked us to stand for the pledge every day, and one day a kid didn't and the teacher actually kicked him out of class. He wasn't even being insolent about it. I didn't stand up for it anymore after that.

logic523: Juro fidelidad a la bandera de Los Estatos Unidos de America. Y a la republica, que representa, una nacion, debajo de Dios, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos.

nicely done.

just a couple of things:

no comma between y a la republica que representa. "and to the republic for which it stands". Though schoolkids often pause in between I think that's supposed to be one untinterrupted phrase.

/maybe I'm wrong, see what other farkers think
//pledge of allegiance in farsi anyone? That'll really ruffle their feathers!

VoiceofGod: Speak English. What's the problem?

Moot point. It doesn't matter what language. Its the thought that counts, no?

ciocia: Hmm. Wonder if that includes the troops THAT SPEAK SPANISH. 'Cause a lot of people in America do. And why does everybody drag "the troops" into their hissy fit? "The troops" are now the "new children."
//Won't somebody think of them?

I think you're onto a new paradigm that's spreading like a pox:

1) Anyone under 23 is referred to as a "child".
2) Most of the troops are under 23.

So, indeed their has been a *tweek* in the minds of a lot of Scared Americans:

Troops = Children = OMG WE MUST PROTECT AND THINK OF THEM!!

Scary stuff. We send our children to get shot up, and then grouse when they get treated like adults by other Americans. We live in a messed-up time.

Yea! My state made the news!

/Hobbies...
//People from Wisconsin need them

We're not a "nation of immigrants," at least not yet. I was born here and so was the majority of the American population. If you mean that our ancestors came here as immigrants, then by that standard everybody everywhere except the Fertile Crescent is an immigrant.

No wall just machine gun turrets with heat sensors. No more border hopping!!!

Wow. I'm just surprised this was a Madison issue. I thought for sure it would be either Milwaukee, Sheboygan or Racine.

/I taught my grandma some very basic Spanish. She was a waitress, and there were a bunch of new Spanish speakers in Sheboygan.
//1975

I may be painting in broad strokes here, but why are republicans such assholes?

Is there a republican out there in farkland who can answer this?

Our national language is still English. Formally promoting other languages is bad from a communication standpoint.

It's the Spanish class.. saying the pledge in Spanish.. this is such a non-issue. It's not like it's LA and every class is in spanish.