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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><u>Article in Marianas
Variety 3/11/08 issue</u>:<br><br>
<b>"Airmen warned against possible harassment</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>By Mar-Vic Cagurangan <br>
Variety News Staff<br><br>
AN Air Force official advised airmen to report any possible harassment by
anti-military bases protestors holding rallies across from the main gate
of Andersen Air Force Base.<br><br>
"If the protestor attempts to cross the road and enter the base,
displays vulgar language or rude gestures please report this to the
T&W contract guards while entering or directly to the SFS
Investigator x-7098," stated the memo from USAF MSgt Wesley H.
Willand.<br><br>
Chamorro activist Howard Hemsing, a resident of Yigo, occasionally holds
a one-man protest rally in front of AAFB bearing a "Yankee Go
Home" placard.<br><br>
Hemsing said in an earlier interview that the presence of military bases
on Guam puts the community in danger, and that he would not let up on his
campaign against the U.S. troops.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>In a brief telephone
interview, Willand said anyone who gets harassed by protestors may write
a full statement of complaint for submission to the AAFB
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#000080"><b>LETTER TO
THE EDITOR<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#000080"><b>In
response to the Variety's 3/11/08 article on airmen being warned against
possible harassment - while I do not always agree with the statements or
placard displays by fellow activist Senot Howard Hemsing (Maga'Lahi
Aniti), nor do I espouse his political status choice, I will stand to
defend his right to do so. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#000080"><b>The entire
complement of the United States Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army - and
their associated reservists; Coast Guard; clandestine intelligence
operatives; transplanted neopolitical subversives; nuclear powered ships
and attack submarines - whether crashing into our undersea
mountains or washing their contaminations into our ocean; stealth and
other assorted bombers flying overhead and crashing onto our lands -
whether armed or maybe not with weapons of mass destruction or just
returning from air shows; the U.S. military industrial complex playing a
heavy hand, not only toward the impending so-called "peacetime"
invasion of my homeland, but also inviting further invasion and
population explosion onto this small island under the guise of
"business and other economic opportunities"... yeah, with all
your power and might, USAF MSgt Wesley H. Willand, let's start taking
notes and making reports about harassment.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#000080"><b>Take this
note Master Sgt: Learn about the history and relationship between
the United States and Guam - not just your yes sir, no sir, military
indoctrination but our federal-territorial relationship. Learn
about what my people went through here during WWII, and that even today
there is still so much the United States has, as a sacred trust and
obligation, to accomplish and continues to fail us. Try to see past
the muzzle of your M16 and frightening WMD's, that we are not the enemy
as you may perceive. In fact, you have just re-inforced the
resistance we are fighting... THAT your presence is a detriment to our
peace and political destiny, our very freedom as indigenous people in our
own homeland.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#000080"><b>So, go
ahead Master Sgt. and tell your people to file their complaints to your
AAFB guards, for you see, we have no place to go do the same, save my
voice - and Senot Hemsing's and those of our activist brethren - voices
and signs, however disturbing they may seem to you, but we will not be
silenced. You, sir, must realize you are guests in my homeland, and
yes, even the very base you are occupying is Chamorro land!
<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#000080"><b>Welcome to
Guam Master Sgt., the land of the Chamorro people, colonized by the
United States of America! By the way, why don't you tell your
own people to restrict their own one-finger salutes to each other.
I carry no weapons and I wish you peace, even as I struggle most
non-violently for my own. When you see me next, I would just love
it if you'd wave back, but, uh, no guns or bad language or rude gestures,
OK? Nilibre!<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#000080"><b>Patty
Garrido<br><br>
Harmon Cliffline (Naton, Guahan)<br><br>
688-8038<br><br>
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