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May 01, 2005

SAIPAN SURE GOT A BLACK EYE FROM AL FRANKEN ON THE DENNIS MILLER SHOW ON NBC THIS MORNING!

It's worth looking into if the story's not true!

I love early morning arrivals, it means freshly brewed coffee and breakfast in bed and lots of fat newspapers....and late t.v. shows about brides that don't know how to say I don't before they put the ring on the finger. While surfing the channels, I stopped on the Dennis Miller show and watched Al Franken who was vaguely familiar because I recently watched him on the Air America movie about Montvel-Cohen/Sorensen et other radio station in the U.S. of A.....Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff also caught my ears as did 'Saipan', 'Marianas Islands' and '14-yr-old girls' and 'brothels' and Abramoff paying for Delay's trip to the Marianas supposedly to investigate the textile industry there. Franken actually spoke into the camera as if there is a way that someone can go to Saipan in the Marianas(wow, does this include Guam, Tinian and Rota?) and have sexual relations with a 14-yr-old? He said it so matter-of-factly, as if it was fact and Dennis was dumb and didn't know that such things existed out here.
I just know that there's much more than meets the eye about Mr. Jack Abramoff and his lobbying tactics with the Indians(west and not east) and Mr. Delay I know only about what's been on talk radio and know less about the 14-yr-old scene at brothels on Saipan, but if I were on the visitor's bureau there and Mr. Franken's information is untrue, I'd get him to retract his statements....or, get him to apologize........hmmm, do leftwingers do the apology thing? I bet not!

Posted by auntiecharo at May 1, 2005 01:07 PM

Comments

"slavery and prostitution are endemic to the islands' economy."

from Akaka, Hawaii Senator (1999)
http://akaka.senate.gov/~akaka/speeches/991021.html

more recent (2003):
"Many young women from Asia have also fallen victim to indentured servitude in the Northern Mariana Island of Saipan, a United States Commonwealth, working for 12 hour days, seven days a week, in unsanitary conditions, all for pay below the U.S. minimum wage standards, for many well known brand name manufacturers. You are probably aware of the recent decision of a U.S. Federal Judge to approve the settlement of sweatshop lawsuits filed in Saipan in 1999, establishing a $20 million fund to pay the 30,000 garment workers who are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit and who had been or still are working in such conditions."
[Testimony from a US government website]
http://www.us.gov/fgsearch/resultstrack.jsp?sid=171046332&url=http://reform.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Mattar%20Testimony%20-%20The%20Role%20of%20the%20Government%20in%20Combating%20Trafficking%20in%20Persons.pdf


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Also, check out this site:

http://www.saipansucks.com

Posted by: random reader at June 8, 2005 02:10 AM

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