[L_F_Miranda]

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Your concerns are the concerns of most Puerto Ricans, what to do if they pull the rug from under our feet.

I just think that the answer to this one is in hands of the GRINGOS, they are the ones who will ultimately decide what they want to do with their obsolete Spanish speaking colony. Will they annex us or set us free?

For one reason or another Gringo's don't seem too keen on solving our status dilema. Statehooders interpret this as Gringos thinking, "WE ARE IMPORTANT, THEY REALLY ACCEPT US AS AMERICANS, but its we who have the problem, we don't seem to get our act together to let them know that we feel AMERICAN!"

Although this sounds ridiculous, Puerto Ricans Statehooders really believe this crap, if not true they say, why is the U.S. refusing to let go of us?

I just think that Congress has never been faced with having to act. I truely believe that when faced with the specter of Statehood, CONGRESS WILL ACT, and there might be surprises.

Nonetheless our status dilema is Congress' responsibility, "THEY ARE THE ONE"S WHO HAVE TO SPEAK UP."

Once they decide on what they are willing to offer, they have to give us guidelines on how to procede. Only then will it be up to us to decide.

I think that for the moment Statehood is out of the question. Why? With the rising tide of illegals creating a paranoia that Whites will be turned into a minority, Statehood is the furthest thing from the mind of Gringos, specially those who want to get elected.

I think there is really no problem with Statehood, if only Politics were played fair and square, like most Puerto Ricans think it is. We fail to realize that "REAL POLITIKS" is how things really work.

In Puerto Rico no one asks themselves, Are Gringos willing to give a 95% Spanish speaking area political power, more power that will outstrip 27 anglo speaking states? I personally don't think so, unless we think they are fools.

At ths very moment Gringo politicians are reacting to fears of being overwhelmed by a people whom they percieve don't want to assimilate, so why then would they pump up the system with 4 million more? Only Puerto Ricans think they will.

Our fears about independence are not THEIR CONCERNS either. Most in the states don't care a hoot if we sink or swim. Yes, there will be an exodus if independence is the outcome. I calculate about a million will leave. But in all political upheavals people move. The US lost 85.000 loyalists (statehooders) to Canada in 1776. In today's terms this might be about three million.

Eventually things settled down and today no one in America even thinks about those who refused to accept American independence. In fact hardly anyone studies this in American History classes.

There is also the middle ground in our status dilema, its Free Association. Its already a reality in some Pacific Territories. The thing with Free Association is that it doesn't carry over American Citizenship and this is where most Puerto Ricans object.

Bottomline, what most of us fear is being taken off the Federal tit, but it WILL HAPPEN sooner or later.

Once again, its up to the Gringos to decide, either to send us off to learn to swim with the sharks or bring us in, a possibility I see getting dimmer and dimmer in this post 9-11 world. Gringos are setting up their covered wagons to protect themselves from the hispanic hordes that are invading their country, why bring in 4 million more and give them more political power that 27 states, beats me!