At least one person correctly deduced that my current Undisclosed Location is Puerto Rico.
I return home today, but I couldn’t wind down the trip without a Puerto Rico post. Fortunately, I already wrote one, back in August 2004:
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The good folks at Catallarchy beat me to blogging about a curious question:
Why does Puerto Rico have an Olympic team?
Last time I checked, Puerto Rico was part of the United States — specifically, it has “commonwealth status.”
Same thing for American Samoa (”protectorate status”), and apparently for the Northern Marianas Islands (”commonwealth status”), the U.S. Virgin Islands (”unincorporated territory”) and Guam (”unincorporated territory”), which also have teams.
What’s next — the Guantanamo Detainee Olympic Team?
Of course, as for the Olympics, the whole Puerto Rico thing is a publicity maneuver (think “basketball”), as is the whole ridiculous sham of allowing professionals to play at all.
But this is as good a time as any to revisit the whole loopy Puerto Rico situation. I always find it amazing how loudly (and I’m in NYC, so I mean loudly), Puerto Ricans walk the walk when it comes to questions of pride and culture, and even of independence from the U.S., but they never seem to walk the walk whenever there’s a referendum on the matter in the homeland (the last such referendum was in 1998).
I guess being a recipient of unspeakably massive amounts of mainland tax dollars, not to mention the ability to issue tax-advantaged municipal bonds, has its addictions advantages.
(The International Olympic Committee’s reasoning here. But after the Beijing Olympics human rights debacle, the IOC’s reasoning on anything is irrelevant.)
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The 2008 Puerto Rico Olympic Team earned zero medals. They entered 22 athletes in eight sports.
Meanwhile, Congress passed the Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2007, instructing the Puerto Rico government to hold yet another (non-binding) referendum on Puerto Rico’s status no later than December 31, 2009.
See Also:
–Do They Have a National Anthem? — The Sequel
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Link ronbothunter // Sep 15, 2008 at 10:15 am
WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OPPOSES YOUR RIGHT TO BE FREE!!
Puerto Ricans, who desire to be free, must always know that the federal government, here in the States has no “subject matter jurisdiction” over the person, case or location and should be challenged to proof it.
You won’t be told this in court but: All jury members, judges, attorneys, and employees working in federal court, must reside in federal territory to legally be a federal juror or touch your case or they can be commercially sued, disbarred and financially ruined for violating your constitutional rights etc.
Your god given right to be free is not wanted by the USA, it will oppose your desire for independence and freedom.
The USA has been the biggest alien invaders the world has ever known. In order to win your freedom you must oppose them by knowing that their weakness lies in their violations to the Constitution and to the common law and common law remedies.
The Federal Government owns Puerto Rico, because it is a slave colony—whether you like the idea or not. But the Federal Government takes orders from those who own and run this Country, but are not of this country. The International Bankers, who really own the USA, will let PR be free, only if enough real men of Boricua blood wish to be free.
The answer to your freedom lies in your Constitutional rights — To win –You must always reserve your constitutional, commercial rights and know what they are.
The majority of Americans have no idea that the USA has killed more Latinos, than Hitler Killed Jews, The USA has supported Traitors, Dictators, Gringitos, Butchers, Sociopaths, and Megalomaniacs who were supported and kept in power by these monsters, sucking up to the Anglo Alien Invaders.
Latin America has had enough of this form of genocide of Latinos. That includes other African, Asian etc. countries that lost millions of innocent people from USA aggression.
I want to vomit every time some ignorant fools says: “If you don’t like it here –go home”.
If the Alien Invaders would get out of each and every Latin Country and stop interfering in our affairs—it would make sense to say such a stupid thing. But unless the Snakes get out of Latin America-we have just as much right to be here!!! So, grin and put up with it—this was once our land.
A Puerto Rican without a desire for independence and/or freedom from alien control has no soul of a man.
The fact that the public does not know that we are NOT free, makes no difference, to the desire to be free. The PR that wants Statehood is a Gringito, who has no soul of a man left in his traitor's heart. Freedom is happening all over the world and yet we allow Gringitos to kill our right to be free.
A Gringito is a non-Anglo thing/person who internally is so inferior, that he desires to be what he can not be—thus Gringito means little gringo.
The Gringito is like an Uncle Tom to blacks or a collaborator and traitor to many others.
We allow the Alien Invaders to kill, harm, abuse, rape, and scam us and yet the Gringito wants to give our Country away.
This abuse must end. No man or woman is a real Man or real woman who is too scared to fight for their souls and be free. If you listen to the Gringito, you will lose your soul.
Thru out eternity Humanity owes its freedom from slavery, ONLY to brave souls who fought for your right to be free.
The fight will NOT succeed if you don't fight the Gringito enemy at home first. He is there next door and claims he is a real man and tries to give you many excuses of why PR can't be a free Country.
The fight for the independence of Puerto Rico is now non-violent and will be won in the hearts of real men around the World.
The Ronbothunter,
A proud freedom loving Puerto Rican.
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