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Posted on Feb 06 2009
In response to the letter to the editor called “Oil money loses, we win” written by the grimy old billy goat, Rep. Stanley McGinnis Torres at the CNMI perpetual legislature, we suggest that the use of actual facts would serve the public better and would simultaneously make him look less like a crackpot and more like an honest man. Of course, the history of Mr. Torres histrionic hyperbole is well known, and to expect him to rein it in is as implausible as expecting Ben Fitial to stop his drive-by racist shouting ways. Oh, well.
Life on Saipan will no doubt go on (minimally) even as the Commonwealth strives to regain its former glory as a talaya-fishing, banana-picking subsistence indigenous economy. Before signing off on this enlightening reply to the old drivel-doer himself, we really should help to set the record straight for Mr. Torres, et al. Mr. Torres wrote of the proud…citizens of the Commonwealth in voluntary political alliance with the USA. Well, that isn’t exactly how it is, Mr. Torres. Oh, the citizens may be proud all right, some of them. However, the Commonwealth exists in political union with the great USA, not in alliance with it. An alliance is formed only by treaty between sovereign independent states. The Marianas have never been a sovereign state. Not now, not ever. The Marianas were not a political state prior to 1521 when Magellan sailed through and have been governed by other entities ever since. And that is the cold, hard, historical reality of it, all illusions, delusions and pretenses aside.
Furthermore, the word “union” derives from the Latin, unis, meaning one as in uno and as in one nation under God, indivisible…etc. Yes, indivisible, Stanley. There is no alliance between the CNMI and the USA. The CNMI is USA as much California, Florida, New York and Washington are. And that’s the way it is.
Finally, you really ought to drop the self-deceiving false notion that the union with the USA is voluntary. It is not. It is an obligation and has been that way since the day the political Covenant with the USA was signed and adopted by both parties. This reality check is offered with the sincerest goodwill. Enjoy the sun, surf and free coconuts.
[B]Carlos J. Naranja Jr. [/B] [I]Boca Raton, FL[/I]
