They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but ....
Look carefully now. Notice how the CNMI is banned? And the written message is "No to Federalization." I guess they finally got it logically right (but why this is what they want is beyond me):
Ban (destroy) the CNMI, say no to federalization.
Of course, we have to admit that the message is a bit ambiguous. After all, it doesn't actually say what they mean by "federalization." We are just assuming the reference is to the extension of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to the CNMI "in the manner and to the extent" provided by the U.S. Congress pursuant to its express authority under Section 503 of the Covenant.
What a wonderful word for an oppositionist, "federalization" -- it serves to spook or rile anyone with something to fear or dislike about the federal government; it plays to parochialism, insular pride, hubris, interests vested in patronage politics, and ignorance.
She also wants us to visit her new CNMI Labor Forum, and tells us PL 15-108 is a good law!
CNMI Labor Forum ... now that sounds official. Is it? Is this an official CNMI government blog? Run by Cinta Kaipat?
UPDATE: The Monday, February 11, 2008, Saipan Tribune reports that Ms. Kaipat has been appointed Deputy Secretary of Labor. Wendy Doromal, who gives a voice to the islands' Nobodies
Official or unofficial, I am sure we can count on this new forum to be as clear, reliable, accurate, insightful, and helpful as Cinta, Howard, and company's recent pronouncements in the local media, and the statements of Governor Fitial, Charles Reyes, and the rest.
PL 15-108 is a good law. And ... the state of the commonwealth is "pretty darn good!" "Better times." Yes, indeed, "better times."
Remember now, if you are an alien and you exercise your right to free speech, you are "illegal." The Governor himself said so ... to a subcommittee of a standing committeee of the U.S. House of Representatives, no less.
PL 15-108 is carefully designed to limit the rights, benefits, and liberties of alien workers, make them more fully subject to the yoke, subject their every significant employment-related move to close administrative supervision and the imperspicuities of administrative personnel, and facilitate the removal from the CNMI of as many foreign nationals as possible, as quickly as possible.
PL 15-108 is indeed a good law. Despite Deanne Siemers's handiwork via the regulations to radically reconstruct it to make it appear less oppressive and make it less vulnerable to legal attack, it remains what it is: the strongest, most powerful proof the CNMI could possibly offer of the necessity and value of "federalization."
"Yes" -- to immigration federalization, the death of PL 15-108, and the dawning of the CNMI revival!
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Who better to push the crap, than the person who produced the crap?
It will be interesting (and somewhat fullfilling), to see her have to work with and around Federal Immigration Authorities.
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