An appeal and statement of political opinion

With eyes on the CNMI, many of us who have lived parts of our lives in the Marianas continue to take rapt interest in news from your beautiful, but unfortunately morally contaminated, islands. I have followed the ups and downs of Marianas governments and societal attitudes in the CNMI for sometime. Since leaving the Marianas for the greener pastures on the mainland several years ago, I have observed from afar the ascendance of institutionalized blatant moral turpitude on a grand scale in the CNMI. Now I find that it’s time I express my thoughts and opinions to whomever will hear or read them in the Marianas.

No good person with a moral conscience should sit by at this time in light of the disturbing events that have revealed once and for all, the corrupted morality in the shameful local labor and immigration system in the CNMI.
[I] “Anything that reduces truth is a lie.” “Anything that delays revelation of truth is a lie.”—from THE AGELESS ADEPT (pseudonymous A. Seeker) [/I]

Citizens, hear me out. This is happening to you! It is now clear, absolutely and abundantly clear, that for the sake of all the people, local indigenous, citizen transplants, and foreign guest workers alike, Cinta Kaipat, the patronage-appointed assistant director of the Department of Labor, MUST be fired NOW. Ms. Kaipat must then be disbarred from the practice of law in the CNMI! That is the opinion of many absentee observers who watch the CNMI with the clear vision of objective distance. Perhaps you think this opinion is extreme. Okay. But please consider the facts and ask yourself this: Do you think this poor, maligned, “well meaning” (ha!) bureaucrat, privileged woman should be tolerated and deferred to simply because she’s related by blood to people in higher places? Is that what you think? Cinta Kaipat serves in a patronage position at DOLI under the watchful eye of her hate-shouting uncle, Benigno Fitial. Do you not remember Fitial’s racist tirade as he drove past a group of activists, “Filipinos, go home. You are ALL illegal here”?

In light of the recent revelations of Cinta Kaipat’s complicity with Deane Siemer to engage in premeditated malicious e-mailing to Rep. Tina M. Sablan for the purpose of intentionally delaying communication of legally requested operational information, it is obvious that her lack of ethics in government and the general lack of moral responsibility in her department (DOLI) is a corrupt standard operating procedure. Human rights and legal procedures are certainly being abridged by the disreputable odd-couple of Seimer and Kaipat. This unholy alliance of coconspirators in a scheme to impede access to information necessary to fair and honest administration of the Labor agency is an atrocity.

These ambitious and corrupt scoundrels are an insult to the principles of fair, honest, and open government in the CNMI. On the other hand, you might think Ms. Siemer’s lying, harassing, phony joke emails are harmless. Think again.

Impeding fair, honest, and open government isn’t “harmless.” Conspiring to thwart the operation of a critical government agency and the legislative branch isn’t “harmless.” Harassing a government official with “bogus” or deceptive communications isn’t “harmless.” Being a “volunteer” who attempts to shape the policies and procedures of a government agency for which she is a “servant” not a director, isn’t “harmless.”

Siemer’s e-mails to Jacinta Matagolai Kaipat and to Rep. Tina M. Sablan are “smoking guns.” Siemer’s e-mailing are good enough proof of the moral corruption that is tolerated in your institutions because this unethical phony Seimer operates with the de facto authority from the central government. Siemer is a co-conspirator with Cinta Kaipat to undermine honest government. As such the CNMI government itself continues to show itself, in many ways, to be the moral equivalent of a crime syndicate if it isn’t actually the real thing… an organization tantamount to a mob of gangsters.

In fairness, though, a second opinion might be appropriate. Okay, then. It is my second opinion that in lieu of being fired and/or disbarred, Jacinta Matagolai Kaipat most certainly should be enjoined, censured, forbidden, and barred (if not disbarred), from holding any administrative office within the government that permits her to be the direct enforcer of a heavy-handed P.L. 15-108 law of which she is the author. And Siemer should be prosecuted for violating the laws of ethics in government. Or maybe the sweet CNMI has never bothered to put such expectations for its officials and their “volunteer” assistants into law. Simple logic: Cinta Kaipat and her sidekick, Deane Siemer, must go.

I’ll tell you why.This barking former legislator’s public writings, most certainly ghost written or authored by her phony “volunteer” friend at the Division of Labor (yep, that’s right, Ms. Siemer), but nevertheless appearing over Ms. Kaipat’s signature, are flush with racist innuendo and implications, fat with discriminatory extra-legal “opinions,” and most insidiously, are rife with contrived legal theories invented to justify inhumane and indefensible legalistic manipulation that can, when the department chooses, in effect, blatantly and shamelessly deny due process and basic human rights to criminally mistreated, but legitimate, invited foreign guest workers in the Commonwealth.

Ms. Kaipat’s (or her counterparts) concocted legal theories amount to little more than tendentious rationalizations. Ah, but you intellectually honest and morally astute residents of the community can be the final judges of these statements. These are my opinions. How does one answer an invited guest worker who has run headlong into the barriers and obstructions thrown in his or her path by Ms. Kaipat, her lackeys, and the bullheaded administrators of her prejudiced pet project, P.L. 15-108, What happened to American justice? Who can explain the unexplainable? Do you tell a good, honest, hardworking longterm resident worker that the CNMI government, this authority in an American jurisdiction, believes that both legalized hostage holding and whimsical abandonment of time-honored principles of human rights are simultaneously permissible depending on its capricious mood? Do you say that the CNMI, as an American territory, does its utmost to twist law and reason in un-American ways that hold peoples lives in limbo, essentially as hostages for as long or a short a time as it pleases without giving real due process or even permitting them reasonable and humane recourse or redress of their (labor) grievances? Does anyone cringe at that thought? Can anyone give a justifiable reason for the lack of ethics? Can anyone make a valid explanation? Apparently, the CNMI overseers and their mercenary hired hands (if the shoe fits, wear it, Ms. Siemer) can tie people up in an administrative “Neverland” of false information, misinformation, and missing information for as long as anyone at the Labor Department pleases.

Apparently the big shots at Labor think that they have the law all unto themselves without accountability and that they can throw any resident worker out of the CNMI on a trumped-up whim regardless of their circumstances. Under the twisted legalistic cloak of Ms. Kaipat’s P.L. 15-108, the “system” can apparently threaten any non-citizen worker’s livelihood and can also threaten their very survival. It is clear that Kaipat and Siemer often conspire together to intentionally, without compunction, act to destroy their families by separating them from their U.S. citizen children, et al. because they enjoy wielding the perks of power. And, the CNMI authorities can seemingly also justify refusing to provide remedies for mistreated workers who only want to work in dignity. The CNMI administration (Fitial, et al.) and its lackeys working in the farthest corner of the American nation can deny human rights to invited guests, because under Cinta Kaipat (with Deane Siemer bellowing in her ear) neither cares about them nor wants to hear their legitimate complaints. In a society in which we allow immoral rules and create discriminatory laws, laws built not on the basis of their inherent rightness or wrongness, but on how a lot of politicians actually behave, we create a wider corrupt society destined eventually to fail in every way. That is what we have seen to be happening in the CNMI. And the CNMI is reaping the fruit of its political moral failings. The politicians and the governments patronage-heavy bureaucracy filled with their appointed flunkies, like Cinta Kaipat and Deane Siemer, can no longer be allowed to say that lying, cheating, misappropriating public funds, obstructing honest government, outright stealing, and abridging human rights are ethically permissible, let alone laudable.

Because if this kind of turpitude continues to be the island way it is, of course, not only ridiculous, indefensible, and dangerous, but it will also ultimately spell total federal takeover of CNMI and will be the demise of the CNMI as a discrete political entity.

You can count on it, boys and girls! Agree or disagree, this is an honest and open opinion… unlike the trash-talk, deceptions and utter mendacity that has been coming of late from Cinta Kaipat and her gray-ghost writer, jokester, “volunteer” friend, Deane Siemers.