On June 6, 2007, the U.S. Senate considered a bill that would have made English our national language and the following senators voted against it: Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd and Barack Obama. Are these the kind of leaders we want in charge of keeping this country free when they put votes ahead of our country’s language just to appease those that have immigrated here to enjoy our way of life and want us to adapt to their ways?

You have a right to choose in this country what your language is and your way of life and that is the way it has been since we started but English has been our language and we reserve the right to learn other languages if we so choose.

If you took a nationwide vote what do you think the outcome would be? Can you hear the hollering then? English has been our language since we began this nation. This is the language we print on our money and on all official documents and we have no desire to print them in several languages.

All we expect of a visitor to this country is a little common courtesy and a respect for our language and our way of life.

Robert L. Tufts

Stockton Springs