He needs to be deported today!

Jose S,
Many of the local DPOC activists have been behaving just like the Main Street and Moran street protestors. So I have been speaking up and fighting against that type of lynch mob mentality. And Art Pedroza is their pie eyed piper who fans the flames with his hyperbole filled posts.

That Protest at Tony Lams restaurant was a long time ago. I think it stemmed from the protest at the video store where the owner displayed a banner with Ho Chi Minh on it.

The Vietnamese Community has really gotten tired of the knee jerk type of protests. In fact, I talked to many of the protestors who were on Main Street and the funny thing was that a large portion of them were not even residents of either Westminster or GG.

That extended protest really cost Hung Nguyen a lot of face in the community. Andin the end that was a major reason for him to work to stop the protest. The really odd thing was that the City gave him and Peter Katz an award for helping put a stop to the protests. That didnt make any sense to me at all. The organizer of the protests got a certificate of appreciation for stopping the protest. That didn’t make any sense at all to me.

Almost all of the Community Actions by these organizers with the exception of the upheaval over the prospect of a casino in Garden Grove are over issues in the Vietnamese Community itself. And at the root of them, are just contests between personalities and egos.

That’s the feedback I keep getting from community members. The younger generation of Viets who are born here can’t stand these protests, the protestors, or their organizers. In time, they will go the way of the Dodo.

That being said, the city Council members tried to find a way to shut down the protests on Main Street even going as far as using a meter to measure the sound level they make to keep them within code at the Bain of being shut down for the day. But the outright stopping of the protests was found to be unconstitutional due to the first amendment. Which is the height of irony since they were protesting a newspaper over their content.

That whole ball of wax is a tangled web of craziness that no one can unwind except for the Vietnamese Community itself. That being said, I believe it will take a Vietnamese leader to make these guys go away.

Just as it was Van Tran who whipped the crowd into a frenzy over the display of Ho Chi Minh in his video store. And then rode that wave of fame into GG City Council, it will take another leader to make them stop. If you remember, it was the fact that that video store owner was selling bootlegged videos that got him shut down. Not the protestors.

And now, if you read the thread above, many of the local DPOC activists are behaving just like the protestors on Main Street and Moran Street. And Art Pedroza is fanning the flames with his hyperbolic posts just like any good pie eyed piper would do. The only problem is that the DPOC activists are dancing to his tune just like zombies.

Get rid of phnony opportunist Andrew Do from Garden Grove City and send him back to his family in Santa Ana home.

And a correction in your post. I did not send an email to just the E Board of the DPOC, I sent that email out to the entire body of the DPOC Central Committee.