We didn’t give away our sovereignty
This is in response to Mr. Rudy M. Sablan on his article titled, “New political status commission.” Boy, it just makes my Refaluwasch blood boil when an individual lays claim on another’s belief and integrity.
I totally disagree with his claims that along with the Chamorro and Chamolinian we gave away our sovereignty. Do you even know what sovereignty means let alone write about it?
Sovereignty is who you are as a person, what our community believes in, and best yet what we ourselves portray to the world in general. Meaning the Refaluwasch along with the Chamorro and the many ethnic groups deem proper and or to have a beneficial and prosperous future as one community, at least to my understanding.
Take also for instance why we are being educated. For me I am sure it is not just for personal gains but a gain for our community as well. Would you imagine an individual not educated? I would sadly say he/she will not benefit and or prosper in the future of our community, I believe. Because to tell you the truth, education is somewhat different from being smart. Being smart is so much a simple characteristic of every human being. I mean we are smarter than the next smartest mammal, the dolphin!
Humans have so much evolved we are considered a superior and inferior species capable of orchestrating mass killing and the hurting of everything around us. But hey I am not saying we should continue do mass killing or hurting, I am simply comparing us to mammals that lack our abilities.
Another issue is that which you claim that we as a community can not make it without Uncle Sam. I mean come on, really? Okay I will tell you something I have come to fully understand in all my years getting educated, my teachers or best yet mentors had one thing in common, is that nothing is impossible in this world, you just have to sometime stop for awhile, reset or regroup and look at the impossible at every angle. By then they would say, I do not believe you are not going to locate an angle to solve the impossible.
Yes, you might be saying or thinking how naive and disrespectful kind of individual I am but do not blame me for it, blame my education instead…LOL. And I also tend to think most of the time that the only impossible thing that we as human beings cannot do is live life forever. Unless you have been blessed with eternal life by the guy upstairs, if so can you point in that me or us all in that direction.
Luciano M. Rangamar
Eatonville, WA
Mr. Sablan was alluding to an historical fact inherent under USPL 94-241. What’s yours beyond wild and baseless adolescent pontification?
What is yours what? Speaking of wild and baseless adolescent pontification (that word does not exist. Use the word “pontificating” instead), who’s being adolescent here?
Revisit the dictionary for the word pontification. It’s there!
Mr. loanes, please excuse Mamaya for he does not know what he’s talking about. He thinks he’s a walking dictionary, but only a wanna be. His name speaks abundantly clear as mud. deba?
I fought against the surrender of NMI sovereignty for it meant giving up ownership of sea and seabed resources. And I was interested learning of his take beyond the explanation of the concept among island professors in colleges and universities north and south of the equator.
What needs to be revisited is the pre-plebiscite meetings on our sovereign right to our 200 miles EEZ. The lack of meaningful discussion on our ancestral rights does not mean we acquiesced, conveyed nor did we gave up our rights to our submerged lands within the 200 miles EEZ, including our 3 northernmost Islands.
Peace!
You are right, I am wrong as to the word pontification. My spell check does not have it. The point was made only parenthetically. (note, it was in a parenthesis.) I apologize. The ad hominem tenor of your comment is what was objectionable.
In New political status commission, Mr. Rudy Sablan offers an incisive and highly engaging account of the Covenant’s shortcomings as well as corrective suggestions. Although I may not agree with him on certain interpretations and outlook, his letter is candid and revealing. He provides sound insights for current political leaders as they deliberate on the future of U.S./CNMI political relationship. Equally important, it provides a sound foundation for discussion for our youngsters, such as yourself, on the need to understand our political history. Mr. Sablan is just one of many voices who are united in their belief that CNMI must evolve or face serious consequences.
Nice to know we have individuals who would rather hide than to talk the talk or walk it…..CNMI was never formed, it was more of a carbon copy of the U.S. constitution after the TTPI era….It would suit me and maybe some if not all if we truly are “All created equal” as both the U.S. and C.N.M.I Constitutions stipulates whereas I am basing myself in that I believe that anything is possible. That would include the termination of the Covenant and we all actually give birth to a TRUE form of our representation and as a unique and bio-diversified community.
Mr. Rangamar, you seem to have a lot, I mean a lot of garbage in your above the shoulder. Your point of discussion I thought was about “sovereignty”, then you switch gear suddenly into fantancy idioms in all different directions. Relax, fella and stick to the subject issue.
Another one….freedom of speech hey…why all the hiding….no balls to show….well at least I ain’t baseless to the point of obfuscation….