The Pleasure Inn Has “For Service Speak English” Company

It’s a good thing for this guy that The Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC) can’t cross state lines (HT Michelle Malkin):

How do you say cheesesteak with in Spanish?

Joseph Vento, the owner of Geno’s Steaks, doesn’t know. And he doesn’t care.

Just read the laminated signs, festooned with American eagles, at his South Philadelphia cheesesteak emporium: This is America. When Ordering, Speak English.

This is my kind of guy:

Some try to order a cheesesteak. And it bugs Vento if they can’t ask for American cheese, provolone or the classic – Cheez Whiz – without pointing.

“If you can’t tell me what you want, I can’t serve you,” he said. “It’s up to you. If you can’t read, if you can’t say the word cheese, how can I communicate with you – and why should I have to bend?

“I got a business to run.”

Vento, who lives in Shamong, put up the signs when the immigration debate seized national headlines six months ago.

With Geno’s Steaks tattooed on his arm, Vento is used to publicizing things, especially what’s on his mind. Speak English signs also poster his Hummer. He has driven through South Philadelphia blaring through the SUV’s P.A. system denunciations of neighborhood business owners who hire illegal immigrants.

“I say what everybody’s thinking but is afraid to say,” Vento said.

Unfortunately for Tom Ullum at the Pleasure Inn, the OCRC, described by the R-Rated Whistleblower as the “$11,456,071-per-year Political Correctness Commission, whose 135+ bureaucRATS seem to have nothing better to do than travel around the state so they can persecute people like bar owners in Mason for having a helpful sign in their window…..” can, and has, come into Mason, and is attempting to make him pay a heavy price for posting signs (originally “For Service Speak English,” plus the recently added “For Service You Must Be Legal”) he has every right to post.

Earth to OCRC: If the State of Pennsylvania can leave Geno’s alone, leave the Pleasure Inn alone. NOW.
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Previous Posts:

• May 13, 2006 — Why Won’t the Ohio Civil Rights Commission Get Off Tom Ullum’s Back?
• Dec. 19, 2005 — Update: Thought Police 1, Bar Owner 0; Bar Owners Showing Solidarity–1
• Dec. 16 — Thought Police 1, Bar Owner 0
• Oct. 9 — Questions for the Thought Police at the Ohio Civil Rights Commission and The Cincinnati Enquirer

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