The locals really don't like the tourism industry in chuck eh...!
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It's actually "Territoriality Posturing" --a kind of tribal/nationalistic or even just "gangster neighborhood" punk thug attitude. By the Compact of Free Association with the US, everybody is on assisted living and the whole FSM Country/Chuuk State is a "welfare state", with all its socioeconomic & political consequences & circumstances, and at its worst negative connotations ('nuff said).The locals really don't like the tourism industry in chuck eh...!
Is there solid evidence the locals committed arson?
The pics of the burned down yacht?? The yacht did not catch fire on its own so definitely arson. Not sure that constitutes evidence that it was 'the locals' but it certainly wasn't the Siren crew. Current theory is the looters/vandals were trying to cover evidence of their crimes.