Subpoena of Interior officials

It should be interesting to see what information the House Resources Committee of the US House of Representatives unravels in confidential letters allegedly dispatched by Department of Interior officials to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and his public affairs staff David North were served with subpoenas by the committee for illegal launching of political attacks against certain members of the US House of Representatives.

Under the Hatch Act, federal government employees are prohibited from participating in political activity on the job or use their office for partisan purposes; penalties range from a 30-day suspension or removal from office.

Since 1993, the lead federal agency (Office of Insular Affairs) has launched a federal takeover agenda contrary to the very concept and essence of the rights of the indigenous people of these isles to self-government as guaranteed under the Covenant Agreement.

In the first oversight hearing in 1993, local leadership heard the call for major reform though little did they know that it was the US Textile Labor Unions who were behind the federal takeover scheme to cripple the NMI’s fast growing apparel industry.

OIA has since turned into a complete adversary of the NMI and has allegedly used US mainland taxpayers money to take on the role of a lobbyist against the islands. Its activities included private investigations of the local industry though it was trashed by the US Senate Energy Committee in that the Justice Department said they can’t be verified. The Inspector General has been asked to investigate the legality of this specific activity.

Exiting OIA helmsman Allen Stayman has done nothing but demonize the NMI in almost every radio talk show around the Washington, D.C. area. His reports of the NMI’s working conditions may appear logical, but grandly propped-up so he could advance his agenda to completely ruin the very exercise of self-government inherent in the Covenant Agreement in favor of labor unions’ interest.

Interior’s agenda of ruination has seemingly extended into the political destruction of members of the US House of Representatives who have seen and espoused the grand success of the free enterprise system in this laboratory of democracy. Perhaps such quiet agenda is OIA’s way of shielding its ineptitude as the lead federal agency in the development of insular areas. Thirty-seven years of sterling failure is a bit too much for the NMI and all other US territories to chew where they are discouraged from the actual exercise and refinement of their democratic institutions.

And as we march toward the 21st Century, a meddlesome and ineptitude lead federal agency is the least we need as we work diligently in the refinement of our republican form of government. Si Yuus Maase`!