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A few words on Russell Pearce
May. 22nd, 2010 03:55 amFor those who don't keep track of local Arizona politics, Russell Pearce is the state senator who wrote the anti-immigration bill (and who, probably not incidentally, pals around with a notorious neo-Nazi). His latest crusade involves reviving an old plan of his to deny citizenship to children born in the US to non-citizen parents, apparently not having noticed that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution has this point pretty well covered.
So I wandered by his website, http://www.russellpearce.com/. The front page is an image, so I can't copy the text; instead, I'll let you visit it, and restrict myself to several observations here:
1. There's no comma after the first word of the Declaration of Independence (at least, not according to the transcript at archives.gov, and I trust them to know).
2. Those words were not "penned July 4th 1776". They were written some time in June and then debated and edited for several weeks.
3. You can't really threaten words; the words are there, period. You could threaten the sentiment they express, but the first thing quoted there doesn't express a sentiment at all. It's a dependent clause. You can't threaten the idea that "when a certain thing happens". (Also: "so long ago written"? English has a standard word order, you know.)
4. "I have pledge..." should be "I have pledged...." (Unless you have Lemon Pledge. In which case, capitalize it; it's a brand name.)
5. The plural of "Arizonan" is "Arizonans", not "Arizonan's".
6. "I receive a lot of the questions from concerned citizen on various issues" has at least two grammatical errors: you can't use a definite article and refer to "the questions" without having already introduced those questions into the discourse, and "citizen" should be plural. (Additionally, "on various issues" is somewhat misplaced, unless you've got a constituent who's a citizen on various issues.)
7. You're an idiot.
Or...wait. Wait! Someone whose command of English is that bad can't possibly have been raised and educated in an English-speaking country! I hereby ask the Arizona police to detain Russell Pearce, based on reasonable suspicion that he's an illegal immigrant masquerading as a citizen.
(For more evidence, try reading his bio. Among other things, we learn that his son was shot by an illegal alien, which might explain some of his irrational hatred. And imagine being an English teacher who has to correct the following bullet point: "Established no smoking jails, removal of explicit magazines, and removal of PG-13 and R rated movies from the county jail".)
So I wandered by his website, http://www.russellpearce.com/. The front page is an image, so I can't copy the text; instead, I'll let you visit it, and restrict myself to several observations here:
1. There's no comma after the first word of the Declaration of Independence (at least, not according to the transcript at archives.gov, and I trust them to know).
2. Those words were not "penned July 4th 1776". They were written some time in June and then debated and edited for several weeks.
3. You can't really threaten words; the words are there, period. You could threaten the sentiment they express, but the first thing quoted there doesn't express a sentiment at all. It's a dependent clause. You can't threaten the idea that "when a certain thing happens". (Also: "so long ago written"? English has a standard word order, you know.)
4. "I have pledge..." should be "I have pledged...." (Unless you have Lemon Pledge. In which case, capitalize it; it's a brand name.)
5. The plural of "Arizonan" is "Arizonans", not "Arizonan's".
6. "I receive a lot of the questions from concerned citizen on various issues" has at least two grammatical errors: you can't use a definite article and refer to "the questions" without having already introduced those questions into the discourse, and "citizen" should be plural. (Additionally, "on various issues" is somewhat misplaced, unless you've got a constituent who's a citizen on various issues.)
7. You're an idiot.
Or...wait. Wait! Someone whose command of English is that bad can't possibly have been raised and educated in an English-speaking country! I hereby ask the Arizona police to detain Russell Pearce, based on reasonable suspicion that he's an illegal immigrant masquerading as a citizen.
(For more evidence, try reading his bio. Among other things, we learn that his son was shot by an illegal alien, which might explain some of his irrational hatred. And imagine being an English teacher who has to correct the following bullet point: "Established no smoking jails, removal of explicit magazines, and removal of PG-13 and R rated movies from the county jail".)