SCIENCE is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment: Science covers virtually everything especially, the Real-Life Experiment of Governing which is why I have been yelling & screaming about the “violations of the aspects of Political Science and OUR Children Watching.” To think that OUR young adults can’t see the obvious violations of our Laws & Political Science is an insult to their intelligence and even implying they are stupid. Government is Political Science and students KNOW how our Government and Governor should operate, which is why the future of our Political Arena will improve as that is how WE as Humans have evolved to be better through EDUCATION & Experimentation. I don’t have to tell readers about ALL the Political Science lessons being taught on “what NOT to do” by this Governor, the Senate President and the rest of the Governor’s Crew with their experiment refusing to face “facts & reality.”
The CNMI is a Political Experiment and don’t forget, America itself is the first “Political Science Experiment” of its kind that is still improving and ongoing as we continue to face challenges like the Trump’s Dictatorship and learning how OUR nation as a whole should deal with a pandemic. In fact, science covers everything being taught in schools with the only exceptions being Language & Arts and Crafts. Being a Social Science Teacher that they still call Social Studies out here, I can remember teaching students about America, our principles, ideals, values and our government as they relate to the CNMI. And I know what is happening now is NOTHING like “Proper & Right-things being taught in schools” and for my critics, I have local and national recognitions that prove I’m a GREAT teacher — just ask my students if you doubt me.
But the Governor has figuratively but literally “planted a seed of doubt, watered it with his lies, deflecting, gaslighting and pointing-fingers shows to the point that his seed has grown into a complete tree of EVIL full of fruit (supporters & officials)” — for TRUE! He has people following him actually thinking he can be the Governor which defies ALL the odds, common sense and Political Science. Politics is a science and every Neophyte (new) Politician on the mainland KNOWS not to go NEAR a politician facing RICO — it’s basic High School Government but some have to learn the hard way. Yes, I taught that “one was innocent until proven guilty” but that only applies to Judges & Jurors in a court of Law but even the Courts have made HONEST mistakes both ways in convicting and finding innocent. But I’m sure no teacher has ever taught their students that you can have a fair trial “without (the JGO Impeachment documents) Evidence and without a Prosecutor.” I’m sure all the past and potential Mock Trial Students are watching as the Governor & Crew are setting the worse example possible for Governing in front of our children — it’s really PATHETIC!
I used to tell new teachers at the High School and even as a Presenter in some Seminars off-island on dealing with students: High School students have YEARS of experience as students and they KNOW and will TEST you and they will also KNOW when you are teaching them the Right Way and the Right Things, so bring your A-game every-day and be strict but nice with a sense of humor and you won’t have a problem. I said this to WARN these guys who have become the FRUIT on the Governor’s Tree of Evil, that they can’t fool our children and not even their OWN. Saying the Feds, the JGO and now the Judicial System are all on a “witch-hunt” is not going to poli-trick anyone, especially those open-minded & objective youth and voters.
Truth & Justice are REAL principles and values taught and even imprinted on our children and to think that they are being fooled, means you have another think coming. Most children won’t speak-out nor against their parents when they are wrong out of respect, but don’t think for one instance that they don’t know when you are wrong. I have had students to tell me they had been taught to be racist unknowingly because they respected me and KNEW I was teaching them RIGHT! But this thing with the Governor has gotten to be the BIGGEST Political Fiasco in the history of the CNMI’s Political Arena ranging from a Federal RICO Case, Impeachment and now Local Criminal Charges — WOW! I’ve been seeing my former students and asking them about this and believe me they KNOW and any Politician that doesn’t see the Governor is DONE needs to go back to High School and re-take ALL the Social Science Courses, especially on Governments.
How can the Governor, the Senate President and the rest of the Governor’s Crew think they can rationalize away all the evidence against the Governor, a rigged Phony-trial and now criminal charges to our youth who are truly Open & Objective minded? Voters nor our children are stupid and its truly ashamed that the Governor is putting his family, his loyalists and the entire CNMI through this mess, as it can’t all be rationalized away with Word-shows like the Governor seems to think. I know for TRUE that former Mock Trial Students are wondering “WHAT the Heck is Going On in the CNMI,” especially those on the mainland. I coached Mock Trial and one of my students was even the Top Prosecutor and is now an Attorney on the mainland and I was also a Judge in the Finals, and I can tell readers that many Mock Trial students would run-rings-around the Governor’s defense. If you are not a Judge or on the Jury Roster, then it’s perfectly OK for you to form YOUR opinion on the Governor’s guilt even though he does think WE are stupid to believe his lies, deflecting, gaslighting and pointing-fingers shows.
I truly feel so sorry for the CNMI but also for his relatives, especially the youth, that he is putting all of us through this mess. I want them to know I honestly don’t get any pleasure in saying these things but it’s the TRUTH and these are the CONSEQUENCES when the Governor refuses to “face reality and man-up,” or as WE say in the Hood, “it’s time to come to Jesus” — Governor!
Too many people including former Governors have told him to resign — spend time on the beach with your family before you’re locked-up. But he is dead set on dragging ALL of us through RICO, Impeachment and now OUR Justice System with him before he accepts his fate and realizes that he is in the bowels (jail) of the system, as he’s acting like and will end up like a real Godfather in jail — for TRUE but it’s really sad.
He’s not even trying to do right, just look at how he is relentless in using the Retirees politicking to control all the money when everyone knows he can’t be trusted anymore. His own Lt. Governor is running on rebuilding-trust which says it all! Even the Feds have seen enough of him manipulating and mismanaging OUR Federal Money as RICO is Coming Soon! I’m sure most voters can see the Governor’s seed-of-doubt has truly grown into a tree of evil and OUR children are watching as the CNMI has gotten OVER a Billion dollars under Torres alone, and like we say in the Hood, “I can’t tell” and neither can voters and our youth who want to leave because this is not the part of America to full-fill their American Dreams — for TRUE!!! As a teacher who taught THOUSANDS of your children and as the Teacher Rep. on the Board of Education, I can assure voters that what the Governor & his lawyer and the Senate are doing IS NOT what children are being taught in our schools. The Governor’s seed of doubt has truly become a tree of evil now, and as a teacher & father, I humbly and respectfully ask voters to seriously consider helping Democrats to fix this for OUR Children and to end corruption for the sake of the future of our Commonwealth — which side of History will YOU be on when you vote?
To be continued: One people One Direction.
The writer is an Economist, Political Scientist, retired teacher, former CNMI Board of Education Member, James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays & Humanities Scholar who resides in Kagman III.
Ambrose M. Bennett
