Economic Sanctions or Terrorism?

It’s the usual Interior Department mentality of the NMI being an agency, instrument or territory of the US depending on what suits their interest. It’s a mentality that demonstrates in no uncertain terms that it (Interior) has yet to exit the 19th Century while the rest of us are preparing for the 21st.

It’s all very confusing trying to sift through the maze of the bashing of these isles since 1993 when the first US Congressional Oversight was held in Washington. It was all triggered by the politics of the US textile labor unions who are behind this mess. They’ve sent their dogs (including members of the US Congress) to hunt down and impose economic sanctions against anybody and everybody who gives them stiff competition.

In effect, it’s a total alienation of this group of US Citizens from the American Economic Community, nothing short of economic terrorism in both form and substance. And the evil genius–Allen Stayman–is leaving behind our economic future in ruins smiling from ear to ear. Well, the maxim “what goes around comes around” would eventually get the better part of our public enemy number one! The end is nowhere in sight, sir!

One of the effects of OIA’s racist agenda is the confusion it has forced into the minds of our young people about the essence of our country who now ask: Is this a microcosm of American Democracy–economic terrorism of an island community legally situated under the greater umbrella of the US political and economic community?
Where’s the principle of justice and equality? Why have they completely averted the greater issue of making the NMI a true partner in mainstream America?

All these as they struggle to understand their own set of problems as adolescents and the more difficult issue of pluralism on whether one is a Chamorro, Carolinian or an American. As a US Citizen, it is devastating sifting through the maze of the current controversy riddled with racist policies from a lead federal agency that has gained world repute in ineptitude and inefficiency in nearly 40 years of sterling failure to fulfill its fiduciary duty to help these isles “attain a higher standard of living”.

More boats from China

About 100-plus more illegal Chinese were brought to Tinian over the weekend and sources said, five more Chinese boats are on the way whose passengers would be brought to Northfield for transit accommodations. I wonder how many more are just beyond the horizon and what has pertinent agencies of the federal government done to stop the new fad of turning Northfield into the latest “tent city” on this side of the Pacific.

Barring international law and protocol on the high seas respecting civilian ships, isn’t it possible to prevent these boats from enterring the 200 mile exclusive economic zone of the NMI so to divert these boats elsewhere? Now, the NMI must order certain medicine beyond its means to treat, i.e., crabs among illegal immigrants, a infestation that was eradicated here some 20-30 years ago. This doesn’t include other expenses incurred by the local government in the midst of a deepening crisis. Who’s in charge of this mess anyway, the world repute field office of the Interior’s OIA, US Department of State or US Immigration and Naturalization Service?

It may be a foreign issue given the peculiar nature of the Covenant, but equally a local matter in that it involves hard to come by local resources where we’ve received nothing but lukewarm support from a totally inept Office of Insular Affairs. Need we watch a re-run of this grand culture of inefficiency by the US Department of
Interior’s OIA? Need we repeat this failure all over again? Hello?