{"id":196687,"date":"2008-04-01T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/bill-to-prohibit-de-facto-slavery-in-marianas-progresses\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T04:09:00","slug":"bill-to-prohibit-de-facto-slavery-in-marianas-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/bill-to-prohibit-de-facto-slavery-in-marianas-progresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to Prohibit De-Facto Slavery in Marianas Progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The immigration system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), one of Jack Abramhoff&#8217;s slimier clients<sup>*<\/sup>, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/Story?id=4567036&amp;page=1\">will be brought into line with the rest of the US<\/a> under a bill making progress in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacle of what amounted to indentured servitude at factories there was a blot on the US, and this change is good policy, additionally, the tremendously corrupt behavior of the government of the CNMI appears to be getting a well deserved dope slap.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Scary thought that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immigration system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), one of Jack Abramhoff&#8217;s slimier clients*, will be brought into line with the rest of the US under a bill making progress in the Senate. The spectacle of what amounted to indentured servitude at factories there was a blot on the US, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}