Political stampeding is very un-American

I would dwell for hours of the arrogance of liberal social democrats who have demonstrated to a helpless group of US Citizens what political stampeding is all about especially when our voice isn’t part of the democratic process by way of representation in the US Congress.

But like many Indigenous US Citizens who value our freedom under the “Stars and Stripes Forever”, this apparent threat is but a setback that would eventually turn to water under the bridge hopefully soon. It’s the last ditch effort by liberal social democrats who say one thing about human rights and do the exact opposite against, guess who: US Citizens in the NMI.

National politics being far removed from the simple folks in this archipelago makes it the more difficult to demonstrate our dissenting views where it counts. But we have also placed our lives on the laps of such powerful members of the US House of Representatives such as Congressmen Tom DeLay, Dick Armey, Don Young and others to protect our economic livelihood in an even playing field.

The NMI has an office–essentially a liaison office–so glorified and arbitrary as to miss a huge donkey moving through a needle’s hole right below its nose. Such royal failure (to present our sentiments with the right people) added to the eventual passage of US Senate Bill 1020. After spending over $10 million in taxpayers money to fund the role and function of this office? Wake up NMI taxpayers!

JNBabauta said (when asked about lobbying on our behalf) that such work is done before legislation goes to the floor for a vote. Well, he was here more than two weeks before S1020 was brought to the US Senate floor for consideration. Nice golfer’s excuse but it won’t fly in the minds of our people at the grassroots level who now can’t trust the knee-jerk performances by our man in Washington.

How sad the self-inflicted reputation of a wimp whose vision must have been blinded by a political ambition that included burning his bridges with the local giants of GOP politics. But then, like food, you are what you eat! In other words, the road to the top involves critical scrutiny of past or recent performances. If trust and confidence have slipped into history, it’s all a futile exercise to feed upon. It’s a price one pays for dancing with the wrong crowd on Capitol Hill.

What’s even more damning is the contribution (personal funds) to the re-election bids of NMI’s arch-enemy Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka. So much for a once promising political career.

Such vacillation added fuel to Allen Stayman’s agenda who eventually left his post when he felt strange vibes of one or several of his boys allegedly violating the Hatch Act prohibiting political campaigning on the job. Then there’s the grand performance by our detractors who used outdated information (about several years old) to persuade their ignorant colleagues to vote their way. Quite a fire and rain dance that would have the ill-informed glued to all the wrong information that eventually translated into an uninformed decision in favor of willful political stampeding.

As a US Citizen who is as helpless as a beaten dog at a corner, I can only pray to Divine Providence to help our heroes in the US House of Representatives put this issue in permanent files for review in the year 2050. We pray that even our dedicated detractors would hopefully come to their senses. We are US Citizens too and your capricious agenda won’t stop us from guarding our freedom to the hilt. Si Yuus Maase`!