Intelligence Squad on Marianas Affairs

Just curious yellow what condescending adjective Interior’s OIA’s Jeff Schorr has for my colleagues in this corner of the paper.

“Jerk” is taken or conveyed to his boss Ferdinand (Danny) Aranza, another well-meaning individual who had no choice, but do the “automatic pilot” rain dance by instant command from his predecessor.

“Lackey” belongs to Senator Pedro Reyes (Slow) who found the term a bit sour. He and cabals have drafted a resolution demanding Schorr’s expulsion. Oh, please, don’t do that to another OIA operative forced into “automatic pilot”!

Intelligence undertaking against the indigenous people is nothing new. I have been under the microscope (US Department of State’s Bureau of intelligence in 1972) for my dissenting views on the Covenant Agreement.

A member of the US contingent was assigned to tail my whereabouts 48 hours a day. A Harvard graduate in linguistics, the sucker translated every Chamorro column I wrote and returns for specifics. Of course, I’d give him all the wrong answers for I was equally busy sizing him up.

Finally, at a party (can’t recall the occasion) at the old Coast Guard Station in San Antonio (now PIC), I needed to clear my kidney bladder. So I headed to the center of tall ironwood trees. He came with me throwing peripheral questions. I grabbed him by the neck, shoved him up against the tree (with feet hanging) and told him: “You’re darker than me. You have a history of over 200 years of discrimination! How could you work up the nerves to tinker with the fate of my people? Have you been completely emancipated?” I caught him off-guard, stunned! Before he left the island, he came by my house apologizing, “Sorry, it’s part of my job, JR”.

Well, I really haven’t paid much attention to Schorr’s activities though it’s interesting to find out who’s the Deep Throat in the administration. Double agents have infested the governor’s office who are too close to confidential documents. And they’d do anything especially when jockeying for promotions outside the NMI. Their sense of loyalty stinks, right? I have several names under this “Dual Loyalty List”.
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If you wish to stone others knowing you’re equally guilty of the same offense, then please make sure you’re squeaky clean and without stain either. Otherwise, it’s simply an act of “foot-in-mouth” or the glass house syndrome intoning lyrics that speak of yourself. Don’t get into the Federal Variety’s habit of, well, the kettle calling the pot black!

I have been to the Federal Variety’s barracks and it’s really embarrassing how male and female employees have allegedly been forced to use the same rest room. OSHA citations of Micronesia’s Leading Newspaper have never been FAIRLY printed in its pages, but sees fit to front-page other companies for negligence in poor living conditions of employees. The principle is the same and the same set of laws equally apply to the Federal Variety.

How could you have royally missed the sacrifices of the indigenous people so inherent in the Covenant Agreement? And how could you have overlooked the bad economic conditions here while you claim to be the guardian of the public’s interest?
Apparently, you too have employed adolescency, more specifically, the picnic attitude, di ba?
The meeting being sought by its editor and associate editor would have to be their boss–publisher, in my office, too!
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Then there’s the “Federal Apologist” Ruth Tighe who wanted to spread her ramblings outside her own website. Strange, yeah? Obviously, the pages of both papers are still far more accessible than her little known corner of the world.

As strange her unsolicited views may be as a self-anointed media expert, she certainly has dwarfed my career as a journalist of nearly 30 years. But then we’re dealing with a “has been” whose fishbowl view is far from representative of the sentiments of the indigenous people. It must be the Marianas Bug, isn’t it? A` Saina!