Of Grand Self-Ruination

For the wont of power, careers may be ruined, and the livelihood of a people is at the brink of destruction. Such is the case in the blind agenda to ruin these islands when staff people at the US Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs decided to take matters into their own hands.

OIA hired private eyes to scrounge up dirt from the apparel industry here using US taxpayers money. It allegedly used, again, US taxpayers money to lobby against the CNMI in the US Congress. To top it all off, some of its staff allegedly used government time and resources to launch overt political activities against certain members of the US Congress so prohibited by federal law.

Perhaps OIA’s operatives were convinced that the relative primitivity of technology in these isles grants them the cart blanche ticket to undertake ruinous and alleged overt political activities to ensure the elimination of national legislative leaders who really are adept at playing hard ball. In the process, they left common sense in their tiny computer folders convinced that when it’s trashed, it’s gone!

Well, we understand that forensic experts have found what the US House Resources Committee wanted from OIA’s alleged overt activities. And it would interesting to know what else did the operatives do while collecting paychecks from US taxpayers from across the country. Or, how much did our detractors collected in soft money from the more than $500 million war chest of labor unions.

If you will, a secret is only a secret if only you know about it and manage to keep it to yourself. Once conveyed to a second person, it is no longer a secret. Like promises, the second person would eventually mouth-off or start singing and destroy what you’ve dubbed a “secret”. The secret, which is no longer a secret at this point, becomes the very source of trailing the source. It’s dangerous business, especially when it involves violation of federal law.

As such, careers are now on the brink of ruination for alleged violation of the Hatch Act. In the famous words of Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time”. Such should have been printed in the very computer used by OIA and posted on their office walls to remind all operatives that you “cannot fool all the people all of the time”. Presto!