{"id":29402,"date":"2014-02-07T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=29402"},"modified":"2014-02-07T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:30:06","slug":"get-scot-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/get-scot-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Get off scot-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former attorney general Edward Buckingham came to answer the allegations while he was the CNMI attorney general. The sentence has been handed down.<br \/>\nI am a little confused. He got off free because there is no imposed punishment except in paper\u2014all suspended.<\/p>\n<p>This sends a message. To me, it is alright to do wrong as a government high official. As an official, you get a slap on the wrist and go free. What will prevent other high officials from doing wrong, to do the same things that Buckingham did or even worse?<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI citizens are left with nothing; nothing seems to be protected. Any high government official who is inclined to do wrong can do so. After all, there is no punishment, just a slap on the wrist. This place is a haven for people who can be high government officials\u2014they can never do wrong that will merit punishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fe Y. Calixterio\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Fina Sisu, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former attorney general Edward Buckingham came to answer the allegations while he was the CNMI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,67],"class_list":["post-29402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-cnmi","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}