Am 17.03.2015 um 22:26 schrieb Cousin Ricky:

> A fact that sits uncomfortably in the back of the mind of every American
> who isn't a neocon[1] is that there are 4.1 million American citizens in
> Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands
> who still do not have the right to vote for president, and have no
> voting representation in Congress. Even worse, the Americans in American
> Samoa aren't even granted citizenship.  ([1]The neocons aren't even
> aware that we are Americans.)

I presume they do pay taxes, right?

So much for "no taxation without representation"...

> As a Virgin Islander, I had considered this to be an artifact of the
> Constitution, which devotes all of half a sentence to the territories
> (article IV, section 3).  However, the video shows that this matter was
> decided in the Insular Cases in 1901, using horrifyingly racist
> reasoning.

Yeah, the first half of the 20th century was that way. Hitler was only 
the tip of the iceberg.

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