By Ambrose M. Bennett – Activist
THE Truth Be Told, if you, citizens of the CNMI, haven’t witnessed the Governor & Legislature IGNORING Ambrodamus, then you may figuratively be wearing “Political-Blinders” instead of actual glasses, especially the Republican Die-hearts. I Told You So, citizens, on more than one occasion how the leaders of the CNMI would rather take a “detour to nowhere than apply the Truths & Ideas FOR the Right-Path that leads to real progress and even prosperity identified by Ambrose M. Bennett, Zaldy & Mr. Jang! Every time they take a Detour, WE the People are sidetracked from the Objective of Progress to their Subjective deflecting & gaslighting tactics to Nowhere! Just think, IF Kan Pacific still had the lease on the Marianas Resort with Japanese Tourists is just ONE example in MILLIONS the People missed Detouring Ambrodamus Too-Nowhere!
If the TWO previous Governors had listened to Ambrodamus the CNMI would have SAVED & Avoided nearly two million wasted paying the Cannabis Commission & Director but they kept all-of-us on a Fake-Detour over 3yrs. to Nowhere that even ended with 2-months of FREE salaries — so sad but very glad Joe & Crew are GONE, TRUTH always wins in the end Joe — I get the last LOL! But the Governor created a DETOUR dissolving the Commission with an Executive Order avoiding the Legislative solution that would have surely allowed Ambrodamus’ “Public Comments” on what really needs to be done! In fact, just dissolving the Commission is NOT the solution for promoting & growing the industry to bring in the millions Ambrodamus envisioned in the first draft of the Cannabis Bill. I can tell they don’t know what they’re doing, as Commerce will only manage the “Same-O Dysfunctional Industry” that needs to be REFORMED! Heck, the first thing Commerce does is ASK-For-Money, so WHY didn’t the Governor simply transfer the Commission’s budget to Commerce in his Executive Order that would leave a surplus. Obviously, there was No Analytical Planning in the Detour to avoid Ambrodamus who “designed and probably knows MORE about what the industry needs than anyone else in the CNMI”, so sad! Readers should go-back and read my Op ed “Truth 99 on Experts & Lay People in March of 2025,” which PROVES Ambrodamus was “ahead of OUR Leaders & ahead of the times,” as Time-is-on-my-Side while leaders are taking DETOURS to Nowhere!
WE the People are being PLAYED by our leaders who know the Labor shortage also applies to a shortage in candidates for office leaving us nearly HELPLESS to elect New & Better Leaders — just look at how the Democrat Party has been devastated from the lack of candidates. But what gets me to debunk Delegate’s claim for input is that she “refused to even hear the proven & successful Workforce Transition Plan I proposed while doing research work for “the CNMI & U.S. Dept. of Education,” PROVING the Political-Bigotry is REAL that I keep writing about. Ambrodamus’ plan even included “a Fed-Funded Repatriation Program with guaranteed jobs,” which is just another example of HOW the CNMI Misses-Out-on-Progress with Detours of Political-Bigotry to Nowhere — so sad! But OMG, she is seeking a 10-yr-DETOUR as if Our-Fathers-In-Washington are STUPID to even consider her request that would mean a ridiculous 20-yrs. when the Government didn’t do SQUAT to create a “Government Systemic Plan” in the past 7-yrs. like I WARNED! They were literally HIDING behind the work of PSS, NMC & NMTI thinking their work would suffice — LAZY! Heck, I even Told-Leaders-So when I tried to HELP that “their Detour of Impotence & Using our Education Institutions was NOT going to work,” yet here WE are with a Delegate asking for another unjustified 10 yrs. due to “Impotence & Political Bigotry” —the TRUE REALITY in the CNMI!
It seems Ambrodamus was the only one alert & listening to the Feds, as CNMI leaders didn’t get-the-memo for a “Systemic Government Workforce Transition Plan for All CW jobs & All CWs,” as “the young don’t often do as they are told” even after a spanking (a Federal Takeover)! In fact, WE haven’t even heard the term “Workforce Transition” coming from any of our leaders since the Mandate in 2019, as they have only been SITTING and letting PSS, NMTI & NMC create a “Natural Deflecting & Gaslighting Show” for them when these institutions were just doing their job FOR-Students, not to meet the Federal Mandate, which was the Government’s Responsibility — duh! Playing Poli-tricks as if the Feds are stupid is a Very-BAD-Idea that can easily prompt a Federal Takeover, but that’s what our leaders do poli-tricking the indigenous people to often! However, poli-tricking won’t work with the Feds’ intellectual where-with-all, which is why I can easily predict the Feds are going to do the same-o thing with the Workforce like they did with Immigration in 2029 — Take-It-Over! Commonsense even dictates that Our-Fathers-In-Washington would have to be “blind & stupid to believe it takes 20yrs. for the CNMI to formulate & execute a simple Workforce Transition Plan” that IS really more about justifying CWs — HELLER!
But Ambrodamus even Predicted & WARNED the CWs several times in the MV & Tribune to “STOP complaining to the Feds & let the CNMI fix-it,” but they didn’t listen, thus the end results was the Federal Mandate! I KNEW from “political science & the history of Congress” what the Federal response would be “to get-rid-of & place-a-check on the-CWs” and as usual Ambrodamus was PROVEN-RIGHT Again! However, there is still time to implement a Systemic Transition Plan, but you can bet the Delegate, like our leaders have proven, would rather face a Federal Takeover than to even try and entertain a solution for PROGRESS from an EXPERT because he is out-spoken & deemed an “outsider” — that Unprofessional Political-Bigotry that keeps Detouring & Killing the CNMI’s chances to find Progress & Prosperity at virtually every corner WE the People want to turn for Progress! Detours have even all but killed the Democrat Party and I’m not hating, just praying for ALL-of-Us to “One-Day Overcome & Bypass the Political-Bigotry Detours,” as the TRUTHS of Ambrodamus will continue to figuratively show leaders and the People the Right-Way to Progress & Prosperity by avoiding the Detours!
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.
