WHO? What? Where? When? Why? These are the basics when it comes to informing others about events.
Historical events are often significant when there are delinquent payments in a Capitalist Democracy. Often when Pacific Islanders negotiate with an administering power, there is only fish and taro and whatever else that is the same from island to island to barter, trade and to sell.
What ails Pacific Islanders is constant negotiations that are separate and are supposed to be equal and or unequal. One Pacific Islander group doesn’t know what is negotiated separately from them.
A good example of this would be the Compact Impact agreements that Pacific Islanders on Guam or Saipan or even the state of Hawaii didn’t know about until after it was signed.
This process of chief negotiations is the equal clause that eliminates bargaining since the Trust Territorialship of the Pacific Islands consortia that was always done separately, beginning in the U.S. congressional treaty with Native Hawaiians that excluded all other Pacific Islanders.
So how shall you negotiate if a U.S. State in the Pacific, a U.S. Commonwealth in the Pacific, a U.S. Territory in the Pacific and an Independent Foreign Country aligned with the U.S. in the Pacific are not working out to your favor?
Perhaps it is time to begin a coalition to examine other alternatives for political self-determination proffered by the United Nations or go to the International Court as a Coalition of Pacific Islanders. Don’t have blind faith, hope and love today!
JONATHAN FRANK KRYSTIAN BLAS DIAZ
Barrigada, Guam
