Concerned CNMI citizens are asking critical questions but their questions remained craftily unanswered. This proposal placed residents on alert wondering about the future to agree or not for their children.
Are the persons in support fully aware of the impacts and lasting effects it would have against the CNMI?
What is the purpose of developing this monument at the northernmost three islands? The islands of I-sengsong, Uracas and Maug will be inaccessible to anyone even for the next 20 years?
By George, there has to be a reason for the proponents to do it in far, far away out of reach places.
I think they have something like $9 billion budget to spend, so why not.
Are there minerals found that our CNMI government is not being informed? Or is this just another power wrenching tactics? Yes?
They can wrest and use the ocean since this belongs to them, no mas, but our islands, we had to negotiate.
Why build the monument way up there when there? Aren’t Farallon de Medinilla, Anatahan and Pagan closer to us? These three islands can give our citizens lasting intrinsic enjoyment seeing the richness and different flora and fauna rather than just intermittent bombings destroying Farallon de Medinilla.
Tan Candelaria is highly skeptical about this proposal because it took several months if not years before the Hawaiians agreed. OK?
So then I think it is safe to say that they know every nook and cranny and have perfected the art of illusions, diversions, even of not giving straight answers.
So Canda came up with this statement for them and it goes like this, GIVE US YOUR LANDS AND OCEANS THEN WE CAN NEGOTIATE!
Puti mudoro lao still we can see.
Then Canda came back and said, GIVE THE CNMI $300 MILLION NO LESS EVERY YEAR then we negotiate!
(Psssst, this will give our children a better future and enabling our government to provide critical public services.) Pues adios esta later ha.
GONZALO Q. SANTOS
Capital Hill, Saipan
