Nancy Pelosi, ignoring a majority vote in the Senate and House, is trying to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can’t speak English.

The full Senate voted 75-19 and the House voted 218-186 passing an amendment authored by Sen. Lemar Alexander to attach an English-in-the-workplace provision to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission budget bill on an Appropriations Committee vote. The bill would shield the Salvation Army and others from lawsuits for requiring English only in the workplace.

Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill the amendment.

This all stems from the EEOC targeting nefarious organizations like the Salvation Army who are discriminating against individuals who are unable to communicate with the general population and who refuse to learn English. The Salvation Army gave employees who spoke only Spanish one year to learn basic English but they refused. The EEOC claims that the Salvation Army fired two Hispanic employees for not learning English and for continuing to speak Spanish on the job.

Rep. Charles Gonzalez of Texas, said, while holding the book Lawyer Speak for Dummies authored by the late Johnny Cochran, “if it is not relevant, it is discriminatory, it is gratuitous, it is a subterfuge to discriminate against people based on national origin.” He stated this after threatening to force “Gringos” to continue to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax, that has become an onerous burden to the middle class, by having the Congressional Hispanic Caucus plead no mas to helping Pelosi change it– it is one of Pelosi’s pet projects. This is a showdown that he will win because he has nothing to lose since he is not elected by the “middle class” and most of his constituents don’t pay taxes.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez also chimed in by stating English-only efforts were symbolic of “bigotry and prejudice” against those who speak other languages. He was sharply reminded that English is the other language in Miami.

In defiance, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have refused to speak English for the rest of the year while in session. Determined to not to be out pettied by anyone since winning the majority in the House and Senate, the Democrats, in an act of harmonious solidarity, Pelosi, Murtha, Reid, and Durbin vowed to continue not to speak English and continue to speak the gibberish they have been speaking for the past year well into next year. When asked for clarification, Pelosi stated, iiiiiieeeeee salmon San Fransisco termites &&*&%%$ I am a Middle East xx*&6 ambassador. The Democrats all nodded in collective agreement with her statement. The Republicans, along with the American citizenry, echoed the same mantra they have been chanting since January of 2007 in response to Pelosi’s statement, said, “huh” with the obligatory scratching of the head.

The tide started to change in favor of Spanish trumping English in a 2000 lawsuit the EEOC brought against Premier Operator Services, Inc. for requiring that phone operators speak English to try to improve its communications with callers seeking information and phone numbers. The EEOC claimed it constituted unlawful national origin discrimination. Premier was fined $709,284. Premier, through an interpreter, laid off all the employees and moved their information division to India.

The ramifications of the Premier lawsuit and the current attack on the Salvation Army by the EEOC and Congress and because of their abusive tactics of requiring their employees to speak English has been made public, lawsuits are being filed almost daily to try and right this pernicious practice. It has spawned a new genre of discrimination lawsuits that have made their way to the Supreme Court.

In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court has taken three discrimination lawsuits under an emergency filing by three separate defendants accusing current and potential employees of discrimination by requiring them to speak English on the job. Justice Ginsburg made the following statement about the court’s sui generis move, “This abhorrent brand of discrimination, as with any part of anyone’s life, should not be left unlegislated and unajuduciated, or anyone not qualified to perform a task will be subjected to apocalyptic consequences. This must be addressed now”. Ginsburg went on to state that if the allegations are true, then she, Souter, Stevens and Breyer are of the opinion that the plaintiff’s 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 19th amendments have been violated on a level not seen since the era of the Jim Crow laws. Believing she had misquoted one of the amendments, she was pressed about how their 19th amendment could have possibly been violated. Ginsburg stated, through tightened lips and with a tone that gave insight to her constitutional acumen, “Where there is a will there is a way.”

A brief summary of the three lawsuits:

Sanchez v Central Intelligence Agency: The law firm of Browbeatum, Flogem and Harassem filed the petition for Sanchez. Sanchez has worked as a grounds keeper at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virgina for the past 15 years. After seeing a note on a poster board in the break room for an opening for a Farsi interpretor in covert operations, he applied for the job. After being denied the job for being only marginally fluent in Spanish and English, he sued alleging discrimination. Flogem, representing the lawfirm, called the CIA’s attitude outrageous and indefensible in todays current climate.

Gonzalez v City of Malibu: The law firm of Payne & Suffrin filed the petition for Gonzalez. Gonzalez worked for the phone company Telemex as an information and emergency operator for the past 7 years before “migrating” to the United States. Dispensing crucial information as to what border crossings were safe on a particular day to cross was considered an emergency in Mexico, especially if the government was not available that day with the information. Being of an industrious nature, he immediately applied for a job as 911 operator for the local police department. Assuming his background as an emergency operator with Telemex in Tzurumútaro, Mexico, he would be a shoe in. With his only command of the English language being the phrases, “George Bush is my friend and “no hablo inglés “, he was not offered the position since no one at the Malibu police station understood a word he said during the interview, so he was deemed not qualified to handle emergency calls that are primarily in English and the fact that the name on his social security card was Harry Connick, Jr. did not help his cause. His attorney, Esquire Payne called the action of the City of Malibu one of the most egregious forms of discrimination he has witnessed in his six months as an attorney.

Castro v Yale University: The firm of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe has filed the petition for Castro. Lyndon Baines Castro migrated to New Haven, Connecticut chasing the American dream for he and his family from the country of Miami. He immediately applied for a position as a professor to teach Spanish at Yale University. Being born and raised in Miami, Baines felt he was qualified to teach Spanish to anyone wanting to learn from an American with a Cuban heritage. Where his job interview turned left was not so much his lack of education, but as his attorney, Gregory Howe stated, we believe he was not hired because he could not speak English. The University’s excuse was that they preferred someone with a doctorate in the foreign language being taught, but we are sure it was because of his Spanish only communication skills and that is blatant discrimination.

All three appeals were dropped by the defendants because the Supreme Court refused , in a vote of 5-4, to hear the oral arguments in Spanish. The defendants refused, on principle, to conduct the hearings in English. They felt so defiled by this discriminatory behavior of the high court that they are, with Bush’s help, going to appeal to the International Court of Justice at the U.N. in their quest for justice.

When asked their opinion about the plethora of lawsuits their actions have caused and the potential disruption of the U.S. economy, an EEOC spokesperson only had a short comment for the media, “no hablo inglés”.