Nice try

Time to analyze this Kenneth O’Harnett’s verbose “fagaga” stench and his idealization of American history and policy.

Myth-breaking facts about America and Saipan:

1. U.S. liberation was at the point of a gun in 1944, and despite your propaganda, many indigenous people were killed by American soldiers who often wantonly “killed all the yellows and browns.”

2. Liberation Day from the concentration camps of Susupe was on July 4, 1946, nearly a year after the war was over.

3. The United States severely restricted the movement and political control of indigenous people for nearly 20 years under military and secret police control (CIA) from 1944-1962. It had all the hallmarks of a communist state under the guise of “U.S. democracy.” Ironically, that changed when the Soviets in the U.N. Security Council were wondering what the heck was going on down here. So Micronesians political rights changed, but our third-class minimum wages did not, and not our minimal access to education.

4. Let’s not forget how the Marshallese were used as atomic bomb guinea pigs by Uncle Sam. Yes, Micronesians used as lab animals for “respect and dignity.”

5. “White is right” was (is?) a racist, bigoted, and genocidal system that has been perpetuated in America for the last 400-plus years. It needs to stop!

6. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, and prevalent everywhere in the world.

7. Child prostitution, sweatshops, and alien sexploitation are rife across the U.S. so you and your friends should clean up your own yard before saying ours is a mess.

8. And before you go off on heroic Marines “saving us,” remember that Guy Gabaldon never received a Medal of Honor for capturing and saving hundreds of enemy and locals, because he was a brown to be kept down.

9. Oh and let’s not forget how during World War II, the Japanese-American 442nd were decimated to rescue their white brothers of the Texas 35th, when they got encircled in Italy. Meanwhile, Japanese-Americans were put behind barbed wire, and even machine-gunned for getting too close to the concentration camps’ fence. Did you ever give a thought to the sacrifice of the U.S. Army’s 442nd Regiment as you drove down Middle Road? Do you teach this history in your class?

10. Filipinos for federalization, think logically: You had your own Liberation Day celebration on July 4, 1946. Do you know that the United States invaded, occupied, and killed 500,000 Filipinos over their decades of rule on your soil from 1898-1946? And then controlled bases there for four more decades until 1992. Ninety years of being on your knees has made you pliant to the wishes of the “slave master.” Get off your knees and build the Philippines up!

11. Finally, expanding on citizenship, how is it that you Texans don’t want millions of Texano descendants living in Mexico to return to their homeland in Texas? Could it be your “futile outdated territorial defensiveness and xenophobia,” Mr. O’Harnett? Lucky for you there is a 2,000 mile Berlin Wall to keep them out of your WASP “homeland.” Good thing that America is so welcoming to 12 to 30 million undocumented immigrants itself. No hypocrisy there, Mr. O’Harnett? Viva federalization! Viva la green card and blue passport for these indentured and exploited workers.

Nothing wrong with quoting Dylan, Mr. O’Harnett, but I think a quote from a different Bob fits America’s history. But sadly as Nazi propaganda minister Goebel’s said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

So here we go again with hundreds of local people “defending and liberating” people in faraway places. Students and those thinking about the Army, try to remember the experience of Japanese-American soldiers in the 442nd and Black Buffalo soldiers before enlisting and…

Troddin through San Juan in the arms of America;
Troddin through…[Iraq], a buffalo soldier

So nice try. The times are changing, and we are exposing the lies of what our high school teachers call “history.” As an American who loves his country, I have a duty to point out your inaccuracies and lies about American history you are perpetuating in our public schools.