Interior's OIA's apparent agenda
From the outset, suspicion of alleged illegal political activities among officials of the US Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs started falling out of the closet beginning with the employment of private investigators to prop-up its (OIA’s) case against the NMI.
This must have been carried out with blind faith if only to accede so obediently to the whims of the US Textile Labor Unions who paid for the political careers of certain people between Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill. It must have been a choiceless mandate for it’s pay back time to labor unions who had a war chest of some $500 million for political purposes.
It is obvious now from evidence collected by the US House Committee on Resources that OIA was allegedly involved in political attacks against key members of Congress who championed the rights of the people of these isles (each of whom is a US Citizen) against an agenda of ruination that would not only render useless the democratic process, but send our fragile economic foundation into a total meltdown.
OIA decided that the best approach to compromise and forcibly shut down the only industry (apparel) that now scaffolds the local economy (tourism having gone south) is via the imposition of federal minimum wage (even without thorough analysis of its impact on the local economy), including taking over of control of immigration.
These two half-cocked proposals would have effectively turn the democratic process into a mockery and our livelihood instantly turned into total hardship and helplessness in favor of a powerful special interest group–the US Textile Labor Unions.
This agenda of a lead federal agency is the most dangerous policy of discrimination and ruination of a simple group of US Citizens far removed from the mainstream of our mother country. In the midst of this controversy, we often dwell long and hard how could we also be allowed assimilation into the greater American Economic Community to which President Clinton has boasted of the “economic good times” and his pronouncement that such prosperity must “not leave anybody behind”. Frankly, we could only salivate at the prospects of seeing the Clinton administration implement a policy of inclusion of all American communities that also takes this laboratory of democracy under its wings of political and economic freedom.
Magnanimous are the humble people of these isles for their faith in all that our country stands for and for knowing in their hearts that someone like Congressmen Tom DeLay, Don Young, Dick Armey, Dana Rorabacher and other friends would emerge and defend our rights to political and economic freedom, an integral part of the thriving American Economic Community. These are friends who didn’t sympathize but empathize with our collective efforts to rebuild these islands following the destruction, death and displacement of our people during and after World War II. They deserve to be made honorary representatives of the CNMI in the most powerful chambers on earth.
Our most profound Si Yuus Maase` for giving us a sense of hope to see a more promising Northern Marianas under the “Stars and Stripes Forever”. Our people humbly join us in extending our most profound sense of gratitude to our friends and let us jointly proclaim with a sense of pride and loyalty “God Bless America!” Si Yuus Maase` yan ghilisow!
