The red-baiting competition reached shrill level over the last couple of days, with Trannies Lan Quoc Nguyen and Trung Nguyen battling Janet’s chief of staff Andrew Do over the radio air waves, and all sorts of other surrogagtes chiming in.
And then in all the cacophony, the Bolsavik remembers something.
As though on cue to prove the Bolsavik’s point that nobody is above suspicion of being a communist, an email arrived yesterday from one of those right-wing listservs, with the subject line ”Zen Cobra Monk.”
No, it’s not the title of a Jackie Chan movie. The email contains a number of photos accusing a Buddhist monk of — really, what else? – being a communist.
After puzzling over the subject line for a while, the Bolsavik finally realized that it was a literal translation of a Vietnamese phrase (”su ho mang”), meaning a false monk. A snake in monk’s clothing, so to speak.
The subject of the accusation is Thich Nhat Hanh, a world-renowned anti-war activist and Zen author who runs the Deer Park Buddhist monastery in San Diego County, as well as other Zen centers.
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