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Diaz blasts Palau 2012 Facebook Group

“Ngdikea dodengei el kmo kede mo smind el mor. A rechad ra beluu a complain rar rengarbab el chad al ngara FACE BOOK, ekemiu a kmo bemtobed emouchais, ma kimekerang a ki ekong a lechub a kimei. Ngkora mesesechull ra Belau e kemiu a ngara ngebard el menga ungil kall e kemam a diak a dengkii er kemam ma rechad a ngara mork el mengiil a kemeldillir e kemiu a ngara face book el melekoi a klebelngud ma betok elultelechakl el tekoi, alkero a kuubail a deel, ea lak aklocha dirrek el ngara mork. Ng meral tuobed a cherik er kemiu, ngak a 62 rekik e mla ra mekemad ra vietnam e mla remuul a lmuut el kmal betok el tekoi el loumesind er kemiu a diak el sebechemiu el remuul, bai moker medolsisechakl er kemiu e lak mo mekkellomes er kid e kede kmal ebuul er kemiu e kmal kurismas.”
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Ng kmal dimle tal sils e kuilil lebengkemiu e mla mo medengei a mentality er kemiu. A renguk komelekoi a meral tekoi, ma kunger a keremiu, ekomo tubid, el diua tial radio ra internet, ng kmal mle blak a renguk el rullii el kiriu, eng bai diak moureng a saul ebai melekoi a klebelnguk mak stop. Komolengit a chais mekedouchais, e kom kmu SOB, meng tiang morael a keskelel. Erei e kulemolem el serve el mora tkul rebab el sebechek eng kmal dimedechel a kesai ra tal rak ea choice a mora imomiu. Esel kurrenges er kemiu e ng kiriu el lou senator ra dios eleng perfect. Ng bai seuak el mesaod a tekoi lobenterir ar delodau el chad ra bai spend a temek el mengebelung. Sera lomuchel a ampt er kid el mer chelechang e kemiu tia ra omo mektakl ra remenguteling er tial beluu lolab a sengyo rekemiu, le sel momdasue ea rebekl chad tedua btelmiu? a kmerulung ediak kluut el me teloi er kemiu leng diak a meral tekoi el mosaod, ngdi tal Clint Watchi a meral blak a rengul louchais a meral tekoi. A kmal mlamo medengei el kmo a uchul mete betok el chad a olkebai ra kemam el kmo lak bomsiseb ra milil ngalk, now I know.Don’t bother to reply or comment, I don’t want to waste my time with you anymore. 
Ak dimlemedengei el kmo ng diak el bol meketeketek…Ng soal mengarm a mcherocher…what follows is that it won’t take long for him to unsubscribe from Palau 2012…

Posted on December 7, 2011 at 11:52 pm in General articles, Others   |  RSS feed |   Respond   |   Trackback URL

2 Responses to “Diaz blasts Palau 2012 Facebook Group”

    
  1. richardnsalvador
    December 9, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    Response to “Diaz blasts Palau 2012 Facebook Group” and Comments to “Palau 2012” Group

    Richard Salvador
    08 December 2001

    Sometime back, I was invited by someone to join “Palau 2012” Facebook group. I have never been on Facebook and probably never will. I once listened to a radio interview where someone who was researching social media and open intelligence gathering was describing how some agencies of the US Government was using Facebook to spy on people. I vowed I would never join Facebook.

    Perhaps I am naïve or that I am too gullible to accept what people say about government conspiracies. I know about the increasing power of social media these days. Social media and other Internet tools are enabling regular people to take on oppressive government leaders and pushing political reforms where a generation ago it seemed unthinkable. 2011 will end as a year when social media activists and government reform advocates collaborated together so effectively they toppled oppressive government regimes and brought down dictatorships. This is why I am so happy to see that “Palau 2012” was created and has grown to be what it is.

    Today it seems as though it was ages ago, but the Belau Bridgelist played a similar role. It was called that because it was created so many Internet moons ago immediately after the unfortunate collapse of the KB Bridge connecting Koror and the Big Island of Belau! I was happy for Bridgelist because it evolved into a platform for informing folks about what went on at home, a place to discuss, and space for collaborative action, even if those had fleeting significance. I am sad that the Bridgelist’s fire has now been reduced to embers. I completed graduate school and moved on to professional life teaching and living and so Bridgelist changed as well. All good things come and go and I, of all people, knew that we, too, must move on. But we do so not forgetting what we learned and continue to hope that our work will continue to inspire and encourage others. I am also excited to imagine that out of that and so many other embers of fires in Belau peoples’ hearts, the “Palau 2012” group emerged. Nowadays, the Bridgelist is used mostly for informing folks of things I see as potentially important to all of us.

    As one person who learned immensely from the creation and maintenance of the Bridgelist in the last 15 years, I hope every single person who graced us during that period learned something significant about ourselves as a political community and how we go about improving that community. But most importantly, I hope that all of us learned something about ourselves individually. This is important because it is understanding ourselves and knowing what our individual talents and expertise are that we can begin utilizing these to improve the quality of our political community.

    In this connection I must say something about Alfonso Diaz’s comments about “Palau 2012” and in doing so, say something also about “Palau 2012” as well.

    These are typical comments from a man with whom I clashed some years ago, also on the Bridgelist on the topic of whether or not to expand an elected leader’s circle of advice, something similar to what is referred to as “prior and informed consent.” The issue back then was whether OEK should go forward in passing legislation allowing land leases to 99 years and whether the Belau public should be given sufficient time to allow for full discussion and disclosure of all potential implications without time pressure or constraints and being informed of all relevant information available reflecting all views and positions. Public policies like these would then need to proceed with public consent resulting from demonstration of clear, compelling agreement of stakeholders.

    What followed instead was a travesty of political leadership. Women and men in Belau who raised these issues were ridiculed and called names. I raised the questions myself too. Instead of critically addressing our questions, Diaz threatened me and continued to ridicule anyone who disagreed with him. In my letter I described the situation as a serious crisis of legitimacy of political leadership and governance. You can see two letters I submitted to the media in Belau then regarding the actions of Diaz here: http://okedyulabeluu.typepad.com/okedyulabeluu/2006/05/index.html

    Sadly, today, we are still mired in the same dismal state of affairs. Diaz possesses an ego the size of Babeldaob landmass. It’s an outsized ego! I bet the “Palau 2012” membership includes not just folks living abroad but also citizens in Belau. Even then, they are not just anybody. They are the citizens of Belau who are doing the best they know how to organize and attempt to elevate the quality of political discourse in Belau. It is so very small of Diaz to speak this way, to denigrate the citizens with whom he can potentially engage in a debate that explores why many Belau people are living outside of Belau in the first place. These are not just anyone, these are the citizens of Belau who question, who interrogate, who critique the failures of nation building and the many roles politicians play the larger scheme of things in terms of how Belau is governed. The way Diaz speaks, his locus of enunciation, that is, the place from where he articulates his understanding of the roles citizens play, is such an impoverished view of Democracy. My advice to Diaz is for him to become more critical not reactive in the way he relates with Belau’s citizens. Look at their criticisms, both negative and constructive, as a window to the alleged failures of nation-state in Belau and opportunities to engage the public on what to do. This is the destiny and fate of leaders, great and small, to listen attentively to and respond to peoples with an open mind and willingness to consider their discontent and disappointment.

    This is not just directed at Diaz but the rest of Belau’s elected as well as non-elected officials.

    Finally, to the members of “Palau 2012”, you have a duty to question our leaders, even to interrogate them at length the reasons for failure of nation building in all aspects… But there are greater responsibilities to shape the political discourse in Belau so that it continues to evolve. That is done critically but also respectfully. I do not suggest the latter is not done. But I encourage you all too to always be cognizant of the humanity of all of our leaders as you call them to account. I commend you all for carrying on the wonderful work of Democratic reform in Belau and pray for your (our) success overall. December 31, 2012 will come and go soon enough. It is Belau’s long term future overall that we should keep our eyes on all the time.

    I don’t know; I might join you all soon! :o )

    God bless you all. Long Live Belau!

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