It's almost 1984!

Okay, so it's really almost 2009, but we are a step closer to having newspeak forced upon us. Several local councils in the UK are now banning their staff from using Latin phrases as it "might confuse people." While the goal itself is laudable, as any government that isn't trying to oppress its citizens would certainly want the average citizen to understand what the government officials are saying, we don't believe that singling out Latin is fair. What will all of the native Latin-speakers think when they are told (obviously not by the government) of these restrictions? Will they feel welcome knowing that their language is specifically forbidden while lesser languages such as Esperanto and Hmong are acceptable? We at the GNU Public Dictatorship promise to accept all people, regardless of their native language, and to give them equal status in The New Future.