These people need to sit down and talk to Joey about this and stop the saber rattling.  This is getting totally out of hand.  Joey is not a racist, he is a patriot.

It is not racist to ask people to speak English, particularly when you are not actually refusing service when they cannot.  Since so far there has been no direct accusation that he is discriminating against anyone, it is not a civil rights issue.  He asserts, and no one disputes, that no one has ever been refused service for language issues.

The problem is, and what the lefties fear, is that he is resonating with the public.  He has 80% support in Philly according to a recent TV poll.  Nationally the support for English as our official language is fairly well supported.

Only the Reconquistas are pissed.  They cannot stand that one fiesty businessman refuses to make his business bilingual to assist them in their conquest.

I say wahhhh.  Deal with it. 

All the hue and cry about this is just the liberals race baiting. 

Philadelphia "English-only" eatery faces probe

A civil rights watchdog agency opened an investigation on Monday into a Philadelphia cheese steak restaurant that posted a sign saying "This is America - when ordering, speak English."

The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations complaint effectively opens a case against Geno’s Steaks of South Philadelphia, said Rachel Lawton, acting executive director of the agency.

The Philadelphia controversy has fed a national debate over immigration in which the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would declare English the national language and politicians have raised objections to a Spanish version of the national anthem.

The sign may violate the city’s Fair Practices Ordinance, which bans businesses from discriminating on the basis of nationality or ethnicity, Lawton said.

"The complaint will say that the sign discourages patronage by non-English speakers because of their national origin and/or ancestry," Lawton, whose agency enforces the city’s anti-discrimination laws, said before the official filing.

Look, I made my feelings pretty clear on this guy.  I don’t need to rehash it.  I will say that the more I read about him and his protest, the less I like it.  This is a clear case of one man making a conditional stand against something.  He is not an anti war activist, and therefore cannot claim CO status, so he instead cites reasons why this war is unjust, casually smearing unnamed officers as having performed some manner of unlawful actions, thereby justifying his stance.

But it is still insufficient.  The War itself does not become unjust even if some high ranking officer is guilty of misconduct. 

The war was authorithized by Congress, and all the accusations of lies, which are still unprovable, is just political rhetoric the same way the liberals love to drop the race card.  The fact is that there was more then enough justification for war.  The WMD issues is still in doubt, and the recently declassified and translated documents paint a picture of Iraq that supports the existence of WMD’s and a desire to maintain them.

So the war id not unjust, and nothign there excuses his actions.

He has taken a position of his own choice, and that position is just one of disobedience.  He has no moral authority to shield him. 

So he had a meeting in Tacoma and issued some more statements.  A couple things in this newest article (below) kinda irritate me.  So I have commented inline:

And this is a shock, why?  The speed in which they put up a website to support him was proof this was a carefully premeditated, choreographed stunt.

I am through her first three chapters, and I am rather intrigued.

Her first chapter is entitled "On the Seventh Day, God Rested and Liberals Schemed",  There, she lays out her basic arguments as to why liberalism is a religion, and not only that, a religion that seeks to replace all others as the prominent religion.

I won’t go into too much detail here, you can read chapter one here:

http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=144645

She raises some interesting points about liberals and environmentalism.  She is a believer in Dominionism, where man is a distinctly unique creature, as compared to the environmentalist who consider man just another animal in the greater Eco system.

The core of the Judeo-Christian tradition says that we are utterly and distinctly apart from other species. We have dominion over the plants and the animals on Earth. God gave it to us, it’s ours—as stated succinctly in the book of Genesis. Liberals would sooner trust the stewardship of the Earth to Shetland ponies and dung beetles. All their pseudoscience supports an alternative religion that says we are an insignificant part of nature. Environmentalists want mass infanticide, zero population growth, reduced standards of living, and vegetarianism. The core of environmentalism is that they hate mankind. Everything liberals believe is in elegant opposition to basic Biblical precepts.

_ Our religion says that human progress proceeds from the spark of divinity in the human soul; their religion holds that human progress is achieved through sex and death.

_ We believe in invention and creation; they catalog with stupefaction the current state of our diminishing resources and tell us to stop consuming.

_ We say humans stand apart from the world and our charge is Planet Earth; they say we are part of the world, and our hubristic use of nature is sinful.

_ We say humans are in God’s image; they say we are no different morally from the apes.

_ We believe in populating the Earth until there’s standing room only and then colonizing Mars; they believe humans are in the twilight of their existence.