To Tan Francisco R. Agulto

I differ on your opinion that we were seeking ministerial assistance from the Honorable Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan. Some of my fellow Marines when I was in the U.S. Marine Corp paid the ultimate sacrifice by defending the United States Constitution, so people like you and I can be afforded the privileges of being a United States citizen.

One of our privileges is being represented in Washington, D.C. We were exercising our privileges as United States citizen from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and it is up to each one of us to utilize our rights privileges.

We wonder at times if we were asking for ministerial assistance from the U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) when one of our constituents (Hmong Family) in California was about to lose their house, cars, and life savings in the bank, because the Internal Revenue Services was in the process of putting a lean on their assets for erroneously collecting Earn Income Credit for over five years.

The Honorable Barbara Boxer put a stop for the IRS to collect its lean from our constituents and we negotiated for the family to pay back the IRS in a payment plan. Maybe we were asking for ministerial assistance when we contacted the Honorable George Randanovich (U.S. Congress-R-California) in the past for his assistance relating to our clients immigration status (Refugee Status) and to prevent the so call Immigration Naturalization Services from deporting our clients back to Laos for his/her negligent to update or upgrade his/her temporary stay in the United States.

When the United States Congress legislate to stop giving the United States alien residents the privilege of getting welfare over a decade ago, maybe we were asking for ministerial assistance when we went state to state and to Washington, D.C. lobbying for the United States Congress to exempted the Hmong Community (they fought with the Central Intelligent Agency against the Communist Pathet Lao in Laos during the 60s and early 70s) from the legislation.

The Non-Profit Organizations (501 C4) throughout the United States collective afforded the Hmong People the exemption to continue receiving their welfare benefit. The information technology that you claim that can solve our predicaments instantly is very much untrue. We always opted to request assistance from our elected officials, because it is a given privileges for each one of us, either we are United State Citizen or not. It is not a bother of our congressional office in D.C., but we mare exercising our constitutional right.

Mr. Agulto, it was insignificant on your opinion that Mr. Sablan should not take the time to entertain our predicament and we strongly disagree on your notion. If the Honorable Sablan should have not entertained us, we will be very vocal on his inactions. We guess that your priorities in your life is very much not the same as our priorities. Your opinion on such matter is acknowledged, but we are group of people who do things differently in our life and we followed what is good for our people as a whole. Step Uncle (based on my elders), you mentioned that you were responding to U.S. Delegate Kilili’s challenge and we respect what you said. We are a believer of not fixing anything that is not broken. When I was in the United States Marine, I (Non Commission Officer in-charge of the 100 hours inspection shop—Phase Shop) always instill to my fellow Marines the notion that do not worked on anything that is not broken on our aircraft being inspected under my supervision. We can relate to such predicament to Honorable Sablan’s performance in Washington. D.C. and we do not need to replace him for he is doing a good job. You stated, Think of it this way, and minds like that of Segundo Castro would be frustrated and disenfranchised because the reality in the games of politics in the U.S. Congress is not for the elementary observer.

Wow, we were very ashamed of your assumption of us, but again life must move on and we have no need to prove our political experience in the United States in the CNMI to anyone. You will be surprised how knowledgeable we are in the games of politics in the United States Congress, the state governments, and we used it to the fullest. Any actions or inactions within the United States Congress, state governments, or local governments there will be reactions. Uncle Pete and Former U.S. Congressman Pambo should know that by now, their inaction in the past with our constituents (United States/Hmong) and the CNMI) had cost them for us not to vote for them during the first CNMI Election for the United States Delegate Seat to the U.S. Congress and Pambos 2006 re-election bid for U.S. Congress in the State of California. We the people easily forget good deeds, but we will never forget bad deeds for life.