O Say Can You "Gweld"?

Now we have a Spanish version of our National Anthem and a call to allow crossing the border as the only qualification for citizenship. Read an AP story about the National Anthem here.

At first I was angered by all this. Why can't we all get along and speak (and sing) English? English was good enough for our Founding Fathers; why not us Americans today?

Then I started thinking about it. Wow, did my Polish and Welsh ancestors get a raw deal. They had to go through a complicated immigration procedure, take a difficult test and then they were even expected to speak and read English and have a job. To top this all off, there was no Polish or Welsh version of the National Anthem.

I say, this is the time to correct some of this injustice. Let's be fair to all. We need a federal law to require that the National Anthem be translated and recorded in the language of the country of origin of all Americans. To do this right, let's create a new agency to oversee this project. Hmmm, let's call it the FAOOB. (Federal Anthem of Origin Bureau). Ted Kennedy or some other liberal Dem would make good head of this new agency.

Of course, this would not correct all of the injustice, but it would be a start. The only drawback I can see would be the extra time it would take to sing the various versions of the National Anthem at football or baseball games.

Update 4/30/2006 - For information on the immigrant boycott tomorrow read Michelle Malkin's post titled Standing Up Against Amnesty.