The president of a non-profit corporation called the Vietnamese Community of Souther (sic) California called a meeting to take action against Brian Doan’s exhibition at Cypress College, and the attendees decided to form a committee to look at the problem – reports Nguoi Viet‘s Do Dzung here (in Vietnamese).
About a dozen people came to the meeting called by Lactan Nuygen for Sunday. (And yes, that’s how he spells his name. If it sounds familiar to you, that’s because in 2006 he ran for the seat once held by now Supervisor Janet Nguyen on the Garden Grove City Council and finished fifth in a field of eight. Or maybe it’s because the Bolsavik told this story once already.)
The low attendance did not please Nuygen. Answering a question from Do Dzung, he complained, “I was told many of the community groups would come, but they haven’t shown up yet. This is a big question for us and the community should raise the issue with them.”
Anyway, at the meeting one person came up a very sensible suggestion.
Fr. Thanh Nguyen, a Catholic priest and former chaplain in the Vietnamese Marines, suggested that the people could just print anti-communist leaflets and paste them all over Cypress College as their own form of expression. Hmm. Marketplace of ideas. Good thought.
Others had different opinions, and after a while the attendees voted to first send a letter to the college’s president, and if their demands are not met then they’d call for a protest.
Whereupon Nuygen appointed all 12 people present onto an Action Committee. Then he designated 7 of the 12 people to be co-chairs, with the priest as advisor.
The plan is for the co-chairs to meet up at Cypress College on Monday to hand the letter to the college president and ask for a face to face meeting on Wednesday where, they hope, they could get some Viet elected officials to go with them.
Don’t know which Viet elected officials Nuygen intends to ask, but one likely prospect is Assemblyman Van Tran. Geographically, Cypress College is located in the 35th Senate District, which seat Tran had filed a statement of intent to run for.
Many other problems facing our community:
- very high percentage of Vietnamese American with autisism .
- high number of many unemployed (recently) .
- increasing number of houses that banks took back, even in stable middle-class neighborhood like Fountain Valley.
Leaders like Tran Thai Van (assemblyman), Janet Nguyen (district 1, supervisor), Diep Mien Truong, Ta Duc Tri, Quach Andy (City of Westminster), Do Andrew, Nguyen Dina (City of Garden Grove) may have high opinion about these problems.
Doc ba`i report cua? ong Do Zung, toi cam tuong nhu ddoc ve^` binh tha^`n kinh cu?a cong ddong VN ta.
what problems ?
* High rate of juvenile delinquencies.
* High rate of drunk driving.
* High rate of petty theft.
* High rate of Hepatitis B.
* High rate of gambling addiction.
* High rate of foreclosures in orange county.
We do not have to worry about these problems because we are anti-commie, we take care of bigger problems.
Good one, Country First.
Majority of us worry about things that Country First wrote above. We worry if we still have jobs so we can feed our children. We worry about health care. We worry about good schools for our kids…
It is only natural for all of us, as communist refugees from Vietnam to be more concerned about Vietnam.
We all hope for more freedom and more wealth for Vietnam.
We must realize that fighting for democracy is a political struggle, not the OLD WAR of violence.
As citizens of the United States of America our new land, We must practice democratic principle of respects for diversity, and for free expression.
** and freedom of expression should be applied to both sides.
** It is time for both sides to win more hearts, not to ferment more hatred.
** It is time for both side to explain your point of view, not to defame other’s opinions.
** It is time to call each other human being, not dehumanizing each other with extreme labels.
Did Tan Nguyen really change his last name to Nugyen, or Bolsavik is being cocky here?
@ChamPha: Lac Tan Nuygen is not the same person as Tan Nguyen. Tan Nguyen, now fighting federal criminal charges, did not change his name. Lac Tan Nuygen did – you can verify by clicking on the election result link in the text and see the spelling of his name there. The ballot listed his name that way, and all his campaign signs spelled Nuygen too.
And it Nuygen not Nugyen.
vietnamese community should take care of the (qu’y cu. ta.i Vie^.n Du+o+~ng La~o) and the education (ho.c Vie^.t Ngu+~) of our younger generation.
Not just a political visit like the one of Tran Thai Van but the real care about the budget (TTV visited Israel during the critical time).
The fundings for Garden Grove will short $80 M and the proponent of new bond $30 M (Andrew Nguyen) should let the citizens of Westminster know about the spending.
These are the real issues that need the real solution and will qualify the elective officials like assemblyman Tran Thai Van, supervisor Janet Nguyen .
HAHAHHAHAH!
We all know they’re not gonna protest on the white man’s turf. Remember USC? If the location in question is not within 1-mile radius of Phuoc Loc Tho, then protesting is out of the question. These professional protestors are just like the Vietnamese gangs in the 80s and early 90s. When they move out of their own turf, they’re like fish out of water.
Chau Nguyen, hahaha. How true!
tolerance