Equal application of laws?

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Posted on Sep 24 1999
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For detractors who advocate equal application of federal laws, there’s an obvious need to revisit the very definition of US Citizenship. It means, among others, the right to equal representation in the US Congress.

That the US Constitution doesn’t provide for equal representation of US Citizens situated outside mainstream America isn’t a reason to detract from striving to ensure that all citizens outside the 50 states are in fact represented in the most powerful policymaking body of our country.

This is where the commitment of human rights activists have missed the boat completely. There seems a meticulous agenda to do away with perceptual human rights violations, yet our rights in this regard is blatantly shoved aside to assist non-citizens reach the American Dream quicker than this group of US Citizens!

This seems to be the very fallacy of our current relationship where mediocre federal bureaucrats can easily impose policies without the consent of governance. Or the powerful though displaced detractors in Congress can literally shift policy regardless of whether the livelihood of this group of unrepresented US Citizens are ruined in the process.

This isn’t our vision of justice and equality for which our country stands for. Nor is anyone granted the unequivocal authority of abuse of power to ruin the livelihood of any group of US Citizens in favor of a special interest group such as the US Textile Labor Unions. In fact, this is where national leadership enters the arena to protect especially the unrepresented whose rights as citizens haven’t been granted fully and equally to ensure that the democratic process is protected to the hilt.

Or are we supposed to succumb to the notion that the alleged illegal overt political activities of evil geniuses in the Clinton administration a running trial of the reality of the democratic process where citizen rights are violated and must forcibly expend their meager resources to defend themselves against this tyranny? Why can’t federal bureaucrats and detractors adopt a partnership role and assist the NMI move forward without the strife to which we must now endure?

To right this constitutional anomaly is the greater agenda for paragons of human rights, including Congressman George Miller of California. It deals with the denial of our rights to equal representation in a national legislative body that considers policies that are often handed to the CNMI without our participation and consent.
This should be the mantra of our detractors–equal representation for the CNMI–not a well shield economic agenda of ruination in favor of special interest groups.

After all, we’re all US Citizens however situated outside mainstream America. Until this anomaly is rectified, detractors must carefully weigh whether it is worth ruining the very exercise of the democratic process. Please, do not deny this group of US Citizens their rights to the very exercise of strengthening and refining our democratic institutions. Nor is it right to venture into the blind agenda of equal application of policies when the playing field is often crumbled by senseless and apparent racist political temblor. Si Yuus Maase`!

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