Repeal the Organic Act of 1954 for the US Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands is not functioning as is and needs a new guideline
The Organic Act, under which the US Virgin Islands functions, is dysfunctional. The Act needs to be repealed or modified by Congress, so that there is representation through districts on each island rather than a group of senators that can conspire to circumvent what may help one district. Elections do not serve to create an atmosphere of creative competition, but rather an atmosphere of conclusion by a group of like minded senators. The effect has been to create an elite class of over privileged individuals solely on the basis that they have been elected to Senate position in the territory. This petition also requests the offices of the elected officials be termed in a manner more fitting of an elected official of a population of 100,000 people, such as alderman or Councillor, not Senator. The fact that the Senators of the Virgin Islands who represent about 100,000 people are paid more than all but one state is outrageous. The fact that 5 times the Virgin Islands has had a constitutional convention and failed every time on violation of the US constitution is ample evidence that one cannot expect a different result by trying the same thing over and over. It is time to recognize there is a failure in the original drafting of the Organic Act which has lead to blatant corruption and misanthropy, and go back to the drafting board and re-define the parameters to which the existing political system cannot direct itself.
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