If you are a statesider again get your facts straight. A simple question: Do you know why and how the United States of America came to be? I will educate you. Do you know the meaning of “no taxation without representation?”
That was the reason the 13 colonies banded together, meaning U-N-I-T-E-D, to oppose King George’s tax policy.
The U.S.A. is the only colonial nation to win their battle for independence against Britain. George Boy was the second monarch to be opposed by his subjects for unfair, unjustifiable demands. Prince John was the first. He was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 by his subjects. Now tell me, why or what is the Magna Carta of 1512? My name is Pedro DLG Pangelinan, P.O. Box 500174, Saipan, MP 96950.
You have touched on our U.S. history. Now, let me see your intelligence or are you just a person who is making noise without getting his facts straight?
Why should we give in to the aliens’ demand? We have opened our doors for them to come and work, earn an income to help their families where they came from. Their remittance is causing our CNMI more damage than help. One, that remittance is not staying in the CNMI to rotate and revitalize the CNMI’s economy. Two, there is no provision in any of the aliens’ contracts that says that after many years in the CNMI, they will be afforded better status and U.S. citizenship.
I am asking you, Marcus A. Perkins, if you are a statesider because I bet you do not know your country’s history. Who is the U.S. president who gave the blacks (African American) recognition and freedom? I’ll educate you again. He was the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, known as Abe, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Still many of the whites more than 50 or 60 years later, even after now, do not abide with that article. Ms. Rosa Parks fought the segregated bus system. Dr. Martin Luther King with his slogan “I have a dream” went on his march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, D.C. in the early 1960’s to have the African-Americans treated equally. Still, the Nazis (skinheads) and rednecks are still giving non-whites problems, if you go through their community in the U.S. today.
Marcus A. Perkins, the U.S. did not give us, CNMI indigenous, freebies, as you claimed. The U.S. have been paying us rental for parts of 2/3 of Tinian, Tanapag Harbor in Saipan, and the use of Farallon de Mendenilla, for target practice, cheap rental, if you want to know.
CNMI is not a territory of the U.S. like Guam. To many, U.S. citizens not from Saipan are ignorant like you. The CNMI is affiliated in Political Union with the U.S.A. The CNMI has a Covenant with U.S.A. Do you know the meaning of a Covenant with the U.S.A.? I will teach you again. Covenant is an agreement between two entities that requires one party to consult (inform) the other if a change is needed to be applied, not just to shove down the throat of what you want to do to the other entity because you are rich and the strongest nation in the world.
Comprendi, Marcus A. Perkins? What is a Covenant? And why are we, the indigenous local inhabitants of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in political affiliation with the U.S.A., are opposing the Department of the Interior’s report by Tony Babauta? He is one Guamanian who does not know his origin, as well as the CNMI’s political ties with the U.S.
You want a rebuttal, Marcus A. Perkins? For your information, I love Guam and its people. My grandparents are from Guam. I was married to a Guamanian. I attended and graduated from J.F.K. Senior High School. I also attended the University of Guam, but graduated from Seattle University in Washington state. Guam is my second home.
Lastly, we the locals in the CNMI are U.S. citizens, too. We did not ask for it as you stated, Marcus A. Perkins. It was bestowed upon us CNMI people. Per capita, our fathers, brothers, sons, and daughters serving in the U.S. armed forces are more than from any state or U.S. territories like Guam, and since we are further from the equator than Guam, CNMI now is where the U.S. of America Day begins. Got you, Perkins! Are you or have you ever enlisted or served in the U.S. armed forces? Because I have more facts to educate you so that you can get your facts straight.
Adios.
PEDRO DLG. PANGELINAN
Finasisu, Saipan
