Articulating discriminatory federal policies
The upcoming oversight hearings in Washington before the Murkowski Senate Committee must be employed as an opportunity for the NMI to present and articulate its case against the bias agenda of the lead federal agency who’ve decided to side with the labor unions abrogating its fiduciary responsibility “to assist the NMI attain a higher standard of living”.
For instance, California Congressman George Miller hails from the capital of garment manufacturing in the West Coast. In concert with Interior’s OIA, he viciously bashes and threatens to destroy the NMI’s apparel industry while neglecting the years of neglect of workers’ unpaid wages and squalid working conditions in his state far worse than all the propped-up campaign of perceptual abuses in the islands.
It boggles the mind how members (specifically NMI’s detractors) could embrace an agenda of economic annihilation when from the outset they are fully cognizant of the fact that the indigenous people of these islands (all US Citizens) are not represented in the most powerful chambers on earth. So the controversy is really one of who has the upperhand–the NMI’s lack of representation in the US Congress vs. the natural links of the textile labor unions with detractors whose political careers have been bankrolled by this special interest groups.
When the local economy started sinking into the abyss of bankruptcy as a result of the destructive influence of the Asian Crisis, we yearn for proactive assistance from the lead federal agency, but we’ve seen nothing but a more vicious agenda to kill the apparel industry (now the lead contributor in the local economy) through a scheme of federally mandated wages and control of immigration. The exiting OIA helmsman (Allen Stayman) and cohorts have turned full-time lobbyist against the NMI, an issue that is still under investigation.
Furthermore, other federal officials at Interior have recently been subpoenaed for alleged involvement in launching political attacks against members of the US House of Representatives who have seen fit to protect this group of unrepresented US Citizens who have suffered not only as super minorities outside the fringe of mainstream America, but have decided to reconstruct and rebuild their lives from the destruction of World War II often alone! Suffice it to say, if the federal government really is sincere to ensure that federal laws are followed to the letter, then it should have taken a partnership role from the outset. It didn’t and it consistently refuses to acknowledge that it too is to blame for allowing the emergence of a dysfunctional family.
The fate of the islands in this controversy must be reviewed premised on facts or with a journalistic mind set. Uppermost in the agenda to rectify this messy controversy is the need to halt special interests from infiltrating and compromising equality and justice in our rights to be included in the US Economic Community. And this could only be achieved by our national legislators demonstrating via leadership by example. Equal application of federal laws and policies must filter down to all American communities between here and the Eastern seaboard. Si Yuus Maase`!
