I TOOK some flak last week for pointing out the self-evident fact that a handful of activist malcontents seek to mobilize Guam’s Chamorros, and now those of the CNMI as well, to demand some different political status of which they actually want no part. OK, folks, here’s more.
Residents of the CNMI opted 30 years ago to forego touted “freedom and sovereignty” in favor of a more-or-less permanent commonwealth relationship with the U.S.A. There’s no reason to believe their choice would be any different today, but we nevertheless have the rabble-rousing few who’d like to cram their preferences down the throats of everyone else.
An overwhelming majority of Guam residents, including Chamorros, want no part of sovereign status either. We want U.S. citizenship and the American way of life, and we’re not about to risk it through foolish attempts to coerce the federal government into a “have my cake and eat it too” arrangement.
The feds learned a lot from the failed CNMI experiment, and they’re not about to make the same mistakes again. It took CNMI “leaders” only 30 years of unmitigated greed, corruption, abuse, mismanagement and incredible incompetence to lead what could have been a showplace commonwealth to the brink of financial ruin, despite the vast quantities of American tax dollars injected on a regular basis.
GovGuam treads a similar path, now tottering on the brink of payless paydays and much, much worse. Where else in the nation can we find the judiciary threatening to sue the administration? Where else can we find educational institutions rife with violence, and without functional climate control, plumbing and other environmental elements compatible with learning? Where else can we find a government that enacts racially discriminatory policy into local law and practices it routinely?
The inevitable financial train wreck is rapidly approaching. When it happens, you can proudly proclaim: “I voted for that”!

DAVE DAVIS
Yigo, Guam