User talk:ElVirgin

Water Island, U.S.V.I was NOT "given" to the Virgin Islands, the government of the Virgin Islands paid 25million dollars, for their own island, leased by the Dept. of Interior to a white, stateside, businessman.This was the exact same total price paid for all the U.S. Virgins, not in 1940 - but on Transfer Day, 1917. The US Virgins were placed under the control of the US Navy. The purchase was for protecting the Sir. Francis Drake XChannel, as well as traffic through the Pamama Canal. Because The United States, is not a "colonistic" country, they were then placed under the control of The Dept. Interior, even though they are located in the Caribbean, not inside a National Park. Because they were never put where they should have been, under the Dept. of State, these Islands are not allowed to participate in the economic Caribbean community known as; CARICOM. They have remained instead as a vacation spot known euphemistically as "The American Paradise" even though living standards for the native Virgin Islander have proven that never to be the case. What these precious Islands really are, according to Thw World Court, are a "Colony".

Despite pleas to every US congress since that time, a congress, to which they only have a non-voting representative,they have never been allowed to develope their own vast resources, fishing/canneries...commercial "Sea Links" between Islands, providing transport for both passengers who cannot afford the air fares, cattle, and fresh milk from the dairy on St. Croix to both residents and cruiseships docking in the port city of the Island's capitol, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, the former cruiseship calling capital of the entire Caribbean.This despite the fact that any container ship able to load only six comntainers becomes ellidgeable for Federal Highway funds.

Ronald Reagan's Sec. of Interior, James Watt,wanted to usurp the Island's right to collect their own taxes, feeling the native population 'too stupid'to control their own taxation process.Thatwould have constituted taxation without representation, and the native community tossed a "St. Thomas Rum Punch invitation lest Watt did not remember the lessons learned by England from the original Boston Tea Party. Watt was fired and sued the government over that firing. His attorney for that suit was Gail Norton. Years later,when George Bush became president, he appointed Watt's lawyer, the same Gail Norton as Sec. of the Interior! Both she, directly and the Dept. itself were sued over 2 Billion dollars 'missing' from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Perhaps the two most significant facts to know about these Island treasures are 1) More Virgin Islanders on a per capita basis, have died in wars fought by the United States, a government for whom they are not allowed to vote. 2) As of 2008, nearly 80% of the unique and remarkable native Virgin Islands population are no longer there, buthave dispersed mostly in Washington DC and New York. No longer able to make a living due to these 97 years of Imperialistic, colonial rule they have simply disappeared.