Anti-indigenous interests

Sen. Pete Reyes is endorsing Delegate Greg C. Sablan and perhaps even envies the past election victories of the delegate. Piggyback, join the bandwagon of Sablan? Whatever. I probably would do the same thing but with much caution this year. Delegate Kilili Sablan is in trouble, he knows it and is working hard on damage control by trying to distract public attention from the “mortal sin” he committed that has come out of the closet to haunt him. He is distracting the voting public again with his usual “I did that, I am doing this, and will be doing that.”

Delegate Sablan would do everything but recall his immigration bill, cancel immigration bills that he sponsored, and co-sponsored all that will grant permanent residency and pathway to citizenship to over 14,000 alien/foreign laborers in the CNMI. He has deep allegiance to foreign labor groups in our islands and flatters himself as the messiah or the chosen one to bring political status salvation to the alien/foreign laborer population. Never mind that he disenfranchises and marginalizes his own indigenous people and permanently grant over 14,000 jobs on Saipan, Rota and Tinian to foreign laborers while granting them permanent residency and pathway to citizenship. After granting permanent residency in the CNMI and citizenship to alien/foreign laborers, Delegate Sablan along with Sen. Pete Reyes and other bleeding hearts will shift next to helping these new citizens and fresh rulers petition their families and countrymen to come to the CNMI and help take command and devour the CNMI forever.

Sen. Pete Reyes is an old horse in the Senate who share the values and political agenda of Delegate Sablan. He basically goes with the flow in the Senate in a tired and lazy mode, much less to be desired performance as a lawmaker, endorsed the return of last election’s rejected Rota lawmaker, another old horse colleague, Paul A. Manglona, and objected to the establishment of a Second Political Status Commission to evaluate our souring and failing relationship with the United States. Kudos to the majority of the House of Representatives who voted in favor supporting the measure. Estague na kabajeros man maase nui y linala yan y futurun y Taotao Tano.

One thing that both Delegate Sablan and Sen. Pete Reyes have in common is that both have anti-Chamorro and Carolinian interests: (1) No Second Political Status Commission to re-examine the violations, breach, distrust of our political relationship with the United States. They want Uncle Sam to do whatever it pleases with our lives and continue to treat us as colonial subjects; (2) both embrace foreign dominion of the CNMI people and bring us back 300 years of foreign domination. These lawmakers are doing grave injustice to the CNMI’s people and must be recalled this November to their old jobs at the Election Commission (Greg Sablan) and Customs Office (Pete Reyes).

A Samoan chief once told a returning Samoan graduate and radical college student. He said, “You know, son, we sent you to college and also to represent our cultural identity and to come back a wise and contributing member to our community. We did not send you to become stupid, with a head bigger than your shoulders and whose loyalty is elsewhere. You are better off in the taro patch so you know where you came from.”

Joseph A. Sablan
Kagman III, Saipan