Lawyer's Guild Paper on Puerto Rico to be Presented to UN Decolonization Comm. Monday http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/natl-lawyers-guild-paper-on-puerto-rico-to-be-presented-at-un-decolonization-comm-hearings-on-june-21/

II. Colonial administration continues to threaten the future of the nation Many of the specters of disaster augured in our last report to this Committee have unfortunately come to pass�” evidence that the continuing colonial relationship is in dire need of a just solution. The pro-statehood administration on the island has laid off some 20,000 government employees, applying “Law No. 7,” which gave them emergency powers to effect fiscal measures;

10 packed the Puerto Rico Supreme Court with loyal pro-statehood party members;11 attempted to do away with the Puerto Rico Bar Association, the oldest professional organization in Puerto Rico;12 threatened to privatize the government assets that remain in the public domain, including the vast system of higher education;

13 slashed the budget of every cultural institution which preserves and promulgates the dynamic culture of the Puerto Rican people;14 moved against a squatter community of Dominican immigrants15 and against a longstanding, well-organized community of descendants of displaced workers,16 all the while squandering exorbitant amounts of public money lobbying U.S. Congress in efforts to influence annexationist legislation.