Interior’s frivolous agenda

It isn’t surprising that the US Department of Interior would once again reintroduce its frivolous federal takeover agenda of the NMI under the guise of reform. In fact, such tired agenda remains the purview of pet tigers (in both the lame duck Clinton administration and liberal social democrats in Congress) on behalf of labor unions across the country.

The inequity inherent in such an agenda is the obvious violation of human rights in garment industries between Manhattan in New York and the capital of garment manufacturing in California. The irony is in the commission of human rights abuses that dwarf perceptual wrongs against apparel workers in these isles. It is basically an economic issue to which the NMI is viewed as a foreign country.

This frivolous agenda would soon be reduced to another scandal when the Don Young Committee is done investigating all that Interior has done illegally to prop-up its case. All these would eventually be made public and would illustrate in crystal clear fashion how operatives at Interior’s OIA have spent US mainland taxpayers money even against members of the US Congress.

This investigation should bring to full closure all that liberal social democrats have elected to ignore. The reason that the NMI has prevailed on this matter since 1993 is quite obvious: We have stuck to the truth in defense of our rights to self-government. Negative issues stormed up by Interior’s OIA have lost credibility not necessarily because it stumbled in its agenda, but it hasn’t been able to uphold the equal application of federal laws and policies. It has yet to learn that the people of these are isles are US Citizens too!

Therefore, it behooves the lead federal agency to ascertain equal application of laws. Such, however, isn’t the forte of mediocre bureaucrats at Interior. And we need not go further than a quick glimpse into how it neglected keeping complete records of Native Americans entitled to millions of dollars in royalty funds.

It is an agenda of last ditch effort it knows it can’t maneuver through both chambers of the US Congress but perhaps pursue it to keep the big wheels in labor unions happy. At least they could lay claim to obedience in doing the “rain dance” for the big boys in labor unions who have generously donated “soft” money upon which they’ve built their political careers. It’s the NMI versus a complacent garment industry in California where Congressman George

Miller lives. He wants jobs for his group of US Citizens at our expense. Whatever happened to his boastful claim as a paragon of human rights? Aren’t we US Citizens too Congressman Miller?

The bully pulpit approach isn’t going to work for the poor multitude in third world countries nor is it going to aid these isles in its quest to sever total reliance on US grant funds. In short, let us begin with our own set of abuses such as granting the children of migrant workers in farmlands across the country the opportunity to march to class with their American peers at dawn. And the least that we expect is leadership through role modeling-practicing what we preach, fair? Otherwise, it’s the usual senseless perpetuation of the glass house syndrome. Felis Noche Buena!