By Ambrose M. Bennett
Activist
MILLIONS on the mainland are poised for the No Kings Day PROTEST this Saturday March 28th and I hope there will be a Protest in the CNMI. But Truth be told, Ambrodamus has always Told Readers the TRUTH over the years and the light of TRUTH will always eventually shine through like it just did with the mining. I just FEEL Soooo MUCH FOR the People of the CNMI who thought they would be part of the American Dream only to realize they are ALL living an “illusion-of-America” due to POOR & Misleading Leaders who now depend more on the Feds than “Making a Living for OURSELVES like Patriotic Americans working FOR the People & the Dream”! But I Told Readers So, that “mining would take place offshore anyway even in the face of the No Protest by a few thousand islanders, as the mining is about the majority of 300 million-plus Americans who need these minerals, as the majority always RULES in America. I also Told Readers it was far more PRUDENT & WISER to push for mining inside the CNMI that would automatically provide a level of accountability & revenues for the CNMI” — now its TAYA accountability & revenues, so sad! However, no one listens to the PROVEN U.S. Economist & Political Scientist as Ambrodamus was RIGHT Again and the CNMI has missed out AGAIN on real PROGRES. But One-Day it will sink-in CNMI leaders should have listened to outsiders Ambrodamus, Zaldy & Mr. Jang!
But when it comes to Protest-in-the-CNMI the lack of Protests clearly demonstrates WHY there’s no Economic Progress that continues to swing back & forth in Limbo with No Defined Goals (No Economic Recovery Plan). In fact, voters should be insisting by now that EVERY Candidate for Office show them a “Plan for OUR Economy,” especially when the Governor just announced another Austerity Monday-duh! I can’t be the only one who can see WE Need a Systemic (System-wide) Plans to Execute! YES, the Feds are not perfect, and neither is the CNMI who ignores the Feds’ requests with issues like the request for “a complete (systemic) Government Workforce Transition Plan,” not a PSS & NMC Plan. There is also the violation of the U.S. Constitution on EQUALITY for All Americans, as the CNMI needs to look-in-the-mirror at its failures.
In fact, the CNMI’s ideology of being “Special with Special Rights in the American Family is FLAWED” as every State is Equal in the American Family only requiring “Special Needs,” not FLAWED Rights. The Territories & Commonwealths of America CHOSE Freely in their Plebiscites to determine their Status that avoided Statehood & Equality as a State, meaning the decision was made BY the People to be “LESS than a State in their relationship in the American Family” and to complain about the Covenant & Rights now is WRONG & FUTILE. No disrespect but, the CNMI must do less crying & complaining about the Feds and start doing a LOT of Work to “Help Ourselves” as this Federal Dependency is getting out-of-hand with every Local Budget in the past decade Depending on Our-Fathers-In-Washington to save us! I’m sure patriotic Americans would humbly & respectfully ask “WHAT has the CNMI offered or contributed to America to deserve what now amounts to more than a TRILLION Dollars in Taxpayer money,” as the CNMI even gives America a hard time about the Military Buildup and recently for mining! WHERE is the Patriotism, as one might even view the nature of the CNMI as being “parasitic in nature instead of the symbiotic relationship prescribed in the U.S. Constitution for the State Level Governments.” Heck, mainland Americans are still denied the American Dream of simply owning a home & business by CNMI Law in defiance of the Supreme Law in the U.S. Constitution and one day Time is going to catch-up to this injustice tooooo! The Feds will have to execute Supreme Authority AGAIN for American Workforce Accountability & EQUALITY in the CNMI — for TRUE!
Just to name a few of Ambrodamus’ I Told You So; The Tons of Pozzolan that is now worthless that WE could have sold to China — There is still No Public Surface Transportation to Tinian when WE could have a Roll-On & Off Ferry for Cars to Tinian — The Mariana Resort is still DEPRECIATING-in-Value with No Lease Payments and No Japanese Tourists — the FAILED Casino Commission that Rep. Ralph Yumul refuses to fix, the MACS Scam that goes “unchecked & stealing the future” and the list goes on of failures that would have been Protested-For-Progress on the mainland but it’s silence FOR Progress in the CNMI. I’m sure voters on the mainland would be “OUTRAGED” over these FAILED opportunities for progress but it’s like “it-never-happened in the CNMI,” which is WHY the CNMI can’t get on the Right Course in the Right Direction to find Progress & Prosperity for ALL! Democracy DEPENDS on Protests to ensure Prosperity but not in the CNMI — so sad!
Heck & just THINK, no candidate has even bothered to offer a “Platform for Office” not even the Gubernatorial Candidates who are just “plotting to SIT with no plans FOR the People.” No one is even promising anything FOR the NMDs, Retirees & Government Employees who constantly face Austerity — WE the People are being PLAYED and Voters better Wake-Up! Platforms have pretty much been ignored in the past but I’m sure Platforms (PLANS) will be front & center on the minds of the voters who truly care more about the CNMI & its future than any Party or Family affiliation. It is truly time for voters to CHANGE and start Protesting & Holding ALL Candidates’ accountable with their feet-to-the-fire by insisting on their “Platform for Office.” The “Lack of Protests & Silence, No Leadership Work, No Planning and No Oversights that are going Unprotested” is the DEADLY Phenomenon that has encapsulated the CNMI putting All-Of-Us on a course to Nowhere! If WE the People don’t change and start Protesting-For-Progress, it’s going to be the Same-O CNMI with a Lousy-Economy and where the American Dream does NOT exist, as it has always been on the voters to improve the CNMI with “Informed & Progressive-Voting”!
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.
