IMAGINE yourself as a tiny baby boy coming into this world with severe complications from a premature birth, where survival is uncertain and death is a real possibility.
To perish within the first week of life is a harsh reality for many newborns. My birth mother believed that outcome was possible, so she entrusted me to my grandmother, who she believed possessed natural spiritual healing powers that could keep me alive during the critical first 48 hours.
My grandmother was a respected native community healer in San Jose, Chalan Laulau, Saipan. On her chicken farm, she raised her own family while also caring for orphaned children and helping save lives within the community.
Picture that, and ask yourself whether I should disobey the moral, ethical, and family values my grandmother instilled in me — values that guided me from being a fragile, lifeless infant to becoming the U.S.-CNMI journalist and writer I am today.
The love my grandmother taught me was powerful — so powerful that I feared it, because she believed that failing to live by her principles carried consequences. I was fortunate to be raised by a loving, spiritually gifted grandmother who shaped the person I am today.
Why is that? Because my father, a traditional and powerful healer himself, told me to become a journalist.
Now imagine yourself doing your job as a journalism student when a Trump supporter from Oregon State calls your personal cell phone and threatens to block your access to your wife. How would you react? I took the matter to Multnomah County Family Court, where false statements were made to a U.S. judge regarding my visitation rights.
Nothing scares me. Why should I believe a system when I know that certain individuals within county government were operating inside what I believe to be a deeply corrupt structure?
To organizations in Oregon: American families deserve the truth about your abuses. You receive millions — if not billions — of dollars in federal grants each year, yet you still separated me from my lawful wife, Shu Chun Romolor.
I have spoken with other family victims — mothers of boys and girls — who say they have been silenced by corrupt organizations working alongside local officials.
In Nevada, state officials targeted not only homeless individuals but also people under 50 who were barred from aging and disability programs. The exploitation of homeless people for profit and federal funding was the very reason U.S. Judge Carter publicly rebuked California state lawmakers. Witnessing this firsthand is horrifying.
I will continue fighting to expose organizations that abuse families across the United States. The media, too, bears responsibility for enabling corruption by protecting its own interests. However, Coconut News will shine the truth.
At this point, we may as well return to the caveman era, because we have become delusional — worshipping money and greed instead of Jesus Christ and God Almighty.
Sincerely,
JOAQUIN O. ROMOLOR
Washington, D.C.
