Puerto ricons, what are they saying . Most active show in some time. Israel balderas says, plural majority saying no. However right after that, ladal gedo, october 2012 we said hell no to the political status. Clearly this is hitting a lot of buttons. Puerto ricos commonwealth status has sparked conversation for over 100 years. While Puerto Ricans are, outright independence and those who advocate becoming the 51st state of the United States. The american principles project which by the way backed statehood explains it this way the fathers of our nation believe that all men are created equal and that every citizen in a Political Community must be entitled to the same basic rights and freedoms. Yet today, the Great Republic that came about from a rebellion of a people who refused to be deprived of its basic freedoms as citizens seems intent in holding citizens without their full constitutional and political rights. The issue is actually very simple. The people of puerto rico were granted