By Ambrose M. Bennett – Activist
THE Truth Be Told, the CNMI has yet to consummate the marriage into the American Family by not living up to the agreement in the Covenant Negotiations to “treat ALL Americans as Equals in the CNMI”! The CNMI’s negotiators with the U.S. Senate AGREED to a “25-year ban to avoid American Speculators from owning property in the CNMI to allow for locals to pursue the American Dream unopposed.” Well, the 25 years have come & gone and Taxpaying Americans who have sent BILLIONS to the CNMI and many even DIED freeing the indigenous People, YET mainland Americans are still FORMALLY Second Class Citizens, but an adopted Chinese is treated EQUALLY — it’s hypocrisy towards Fellow-Americans, not patriotism! This Demarcation line of Stratification that elevates Indigenous People over other American Citizens is literally a “slap-in-the-face” to all Americans on the mainland for the sacrifices made to HELP the CNMI — it’s called HYPOCRISY when PATRIOTISM should be the Special-of-the-Day in the CNMI Every-Day! For me, OUR leaders are representing the People TOOO-MUCH like Parasites instead of Patriots Doing-the-Work FOR Prosperity with this handicap-dependency on the Feds to always come up with funding. It’s pathetic asking the Feds to make-up for OUR-OWN-Waste in the hundreds of millions & mistakes! The CNMI has NEVER offered anything to the Feds & America, not even living up to the agreement made nearly 50 yrs ago in the unconsummated marriage with America — hypocrisy!
I don’t blame the People for the Political-Hypocrisy in the CNMI, as I blame the LEADERS who seem to just PREY on America for HELP but no real commitment to the American Dream FOR All Citizens! Just like the CNMI is obviously going to FAIL to meet the Federal Mandate in 2029, as Ambrodamus PREDICTED the FAILURE nearly five years ago when trying to help with the implementation of Mexico’s already PROVEN Systemic & Successful Government Plan to transition as much of the local workforce as humanly possible while justifying to the Feds the need for CWs — it was really that simple to keep the CWs who have better contracts than locals with guaranteed work & insurance. But they didn’t listen to Ambrodamus and now the failure & hypocrisy to institute a Systemic Government Plan has caused the Delegate to push for ANOTHER ten years but still NO Real Transition Plan in the Legislation-duh! WHAT is WRONG with these Leaders who can’t make any kind of PLANS for our Workforce nor Economic Reforms, as “a FAILLURE to PLAN is a PLAN for FAILURE” — HELLER! Failing to meet the Federal Mandates is like Failing to consummate a marriage that can only be described as hypocrisy! WE can’t offer a PLAN, just begging for time after 7 yrs. of deflecting & TAYA by the Government!
Heck, now T’way Air and Jeju Air are facing challenges with the Korea-Saipan flights and the Commonwealth Economic Incentive Authority is even focused on marketing outside the CNMI but No One is trying to fix the internal “mess-ups” that WE can fix if leaders had true convictions & fortitude to Reform the CNMI for the BETTER, as WE really miss leaders like Stanley Torres — the fighter! But it’s TRUE like one of my daughters said when she was in High School listening to me complain about the Government, as she said; “Dad, this Government only does something when it HAS-TO” (forced) which is WHY WE witnessed the Federal immigration & wages takeover. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Same-O thing happens again with the Feds taking over the Workforce Transition forcing the CNMI to COMPLY ending the “CNMI’s leaders’ deflecting & gaslighting” for 7 yrs. to Nowhere — didn’t Listen! The Feds’ Workforce Transition Law puts the RESPONSIBILITY on the Government, not PSS, NMC, & NMTI who are just fulfilling their Mission for their Students to get jobs but not for “All the Jobs & All Adult Workers in the CNMI” which is what the Federal Mandate expected OF the Government but the Feds got hypocrisy instead!
For me, it’s obvious WE need a LOT-Of-NEW-Leaders who will LISTEN to their BOSSES (the People) for office in 2026, as those in power are depending on the lack of competition to keep sitting & doing TAYA! WE have 31 elected leaders on the Hill, most were re-elected, yet OUR Economic decline for over a decade is the BEST they can do — so sad! I KNOW and have PROVEN along with Zaldy that the CNMI could Do & Be much BETTER-OFF if OUR leaders would simply LISTEN — Linda (Leaders)! I know a lot of People are discouraged from running for office due to our sad politics & destitute state but if there was ever an opportunity for NEW leaders its NOW, as WE need REAL Patriots to save & rebuild the CNMI beyond tourism! We even have Independents running for the Executive Office for the first time due to GOP’s impotency, so anyone NEW has a real chance to win in 2026 — for TRUE! The CNMI is far beyond the need of a “gaslighted reboot of tourists from China or anywhere” like Jude Hofschneider & King-Hinds want citizens to think, as the CNMI needs some Major REFORMS in many areas beyond the tourist’s market to find real & perpetual PROSPERITY! For example: The Business & Real Estate Housing legal infrastructure of the CNMI is “by design prejudice towards mainland American Citizens & Investors” which is why WE only see foreign investors! The CNMI is begging for money from the Feds while playing-up-to the gambling whelms & schemes of foreign investors and even begging for tourists from China which is America’s ENEMY — duh! These very REAL Dichotomies of Hypocrisies that OUR leaders have created are so ridiculous watching as an American Patriot that I have to LOL (laugh) to keep from crying, as it would even be a great “Fictional Movie on American Politics in the Pacific gone AWRY”! When will “Enough Be Enough of the Hypocrisy in favor of Patriotism”?
One People, One Direction.
Ambrose M. Bennett is an Economist who minored in Sociology, a Political Scientist, a retired teacher & former CNMI Board of Education Member, a James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays-Lifetime Humanities & Religious Scholar who resides in Kagman III in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
