YOUR editorial ("Who will sign it?" 8.21.2012) refers to polls taken by We Are Guåhan and the Guam Chamber of Commerce as "intended to stifle debate, not promote it."
You miss the point. It is not about debate, it is about decision.
The debate over the buildup has raged large for years now, and people have been all over the road. Look at just one "debater," Sen. Judi Guthertz. She at one point called for putting up tollbooths outside the bases, and then just a couple of weeks ago declared, in an article carried in your paper, "I support any program by our military to enhance its presence in the Mariana Islands." So, where then does she, and all the other "shades of gray," actually stand?
All intelligent people understand nuance and qualification. But when you go into the voting booth, you don't get to qualify your vote and wax eloquently and conveniently about what's in this hand and the other. It is a "yes" or "no" vote. Elections are not debates, they are decisions, often very hard and soul-searching decisions.
We've heard the debates, and we understand the issues. It is time to count noses, and these polls are very useful for that purpose.
John Brown,
Tumon
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Time to count noses
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