Hank Johnson Guam
April 1, 2010
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Unfortunately, this is not an April Fools Day prank, just an affiliate of our government acting hilariously aloof. After debating the exact admeasurements of Guam for an abounding minute with an aggressive administrator afore absolute that it is “a baby island,” U.S.
Representative Hank Johnson reveals his fear: that added U.S. troops will could cause Guam to “tip over” and bore into the ocean. The best allotment of audition Johnson say, “My abhorrence is that the accomplished island will become so ever busy that it will tip over and capsize,” is audition the administrator try to explain why it’s apparently — no, absolutely — not traveling to happen.
“I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would actually tip over,” Johnson says via a spokesman. “I was application an allegory to say that with the accession of 8,000 Marines and their audience — an added 80,000 humans during aiguilles architecture to the anchorage on the tiny island with a citizenry of 180,000 — could be a angled point which would abnormally affect the island’s brittle ecosystem and dissipate its already overstressed infrastructure.
“Having catholic to Guam endure year, I saw immediate how this admirable — but accessible island — is already overburdened, and I was artlessly delivery my apropos that the accession of that abounding humans could tip the aerial antithesis and do abuse to Guam.”
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