To Mike Coordero and Whomever it may Concern:
Coordero, you rejected statehooders at the front door, now be cautious that you don't let them in through the backdoor, or worst through the kitchen of the Puerto Rican family.
It's valuable to seek compromises sometimes, but when you are dealing with convicted imperialists look out that they don't steal the nails from your cross.
Sure we ought to give our Puertorriquenos what they want, but not all want to retain a second-class citizenship imposed by those imperialists. Even if 90% want that citizenship, the future Independent gov't would not stand in their way if they wanted to immigrate to the U.S.. They got 50 states to choose from. And know this the Independent gov't would not strip them of their second class citizenships; its the u.S. gov't that you have to be wary of; the U.S. congress are looking for scapegoats, and they would fit the bill.
Know also that, if hypothetically 90% would go to the States, that would leave 10% who wanted Puerto Rican citizenship and that would amount to a population of approx. 380, 000 in P.R, making it easier to feed them and to give them whatever services the P.R. gov't found necessary.
Such a population would be over 3 times as many as there were in 1898, which then was about 187,000 by the "census" the U.S. military governor took after the Spanish-American War.
So you see we are better off even with 3 times as many now; and also, since the U.S. gov't has committed moral outrages and international violations like in Vieques, the U.S. has forfeited all rights to lands in P.R., even though they payed a pittance for it when the Yanqui Tugwell was the governor in P.R..
We will not give up any of our people who want to apply for Puerto Rican citizenship; those that don't apply for it will be given 3 months residency visas to decide, and at the end of that time if they will not accept P.R. citizenship they will have to leave P.R. for whereever they want to go, which in all probablity will be to the States of the U.S. in the North.
Bye and good-riddence to them I shall say. We don't need vendepatrias like that even though theoretically it will amount to about between 50 to 90% of the present population in P.R.
We can't compromise on our Sovereignty nor on our loyalty to our Isla-Nacion de Puerto Rico, Vieques, y los otros Terrunos de Borinquen.
Take care and exercise Caution Mike,
EddieR #1
[This message has been edited by Eddier1 (edited 20 August 2000).]
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