While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) senator Melquiades R.R. Martinez, of the confederate state of florida, becomes the first member of CONgress to make a speech in either the senate or house of representatives, in a language other than English (Spanish).

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Judy Holland, “Senator’s Spanish Makes History,” Orange County (California) Register, 3 February 2005, News:7.

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