Write the White House NOW and support HR2499
Contact the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status by e-mail at:
"Since federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico, and any status solution must be mutually agreed and approved by Congress, self-determination informed by governing law and status resolution itself is legally impossible without federal facilitation. Thus, to oppose a federally sponsored status resolution process is to oppose status resolution for Puerto Rico.
Decades of federal governing measures reflecting ambivalence in Congressional intentions as to status resolution have institutionalized the contradictions and confusion in federal law and policy applicable to Puerto Rico. In turn, this ambiguity in federal doctrine has been mirrored in locally concocted status doctrines that exploit the long-term confusion for short-term political gain
The inconclusive results of all locally conducted status votes reflect the confusing and fallacies of non-normative status doctrines promoted by local political party leaders in the absence sound and unequivocal federal policy.
Congress and the Executive Branch must actively and affirmatively provide for self determination that meets the democratic standards America has set for the rest of the world and in its own domestic and international practices, with respect to decolonization of dependent territories in the modern era, The U.S. has been a leader among nations on self determination for dependent foreign client states and neo-colonial possessions.
H.R. 2499 is the correct means for Congress to restore the principle of government by consent of the governed. It also will restore federal territorial law and policy to a democratic standard consistent with both modern precepts of self-determination and the anti-colonial principles of the Northwest Ordinance."
Zoraida Fonalledas, Esq.