Ly Tong, the man who spent the last 14 months or so on the fringe of Vietnamese-American society, thrusted himself back in the limelight by dressing up as a woman and pepper-spraying a singer from Vietnam at a concert in Santa Clara.
It’s not the first time Ly Tong made news with a spray can and women’s wear. Last year, he spray painted an artwork and glued lingerie panties to it.
Nguoi Viet Daily News has a detailed story here (in Vietnamese), including accounts from an eyewitness.
According to the witness, she was sitting 3 seats away from Ly Tong at the concert featuring Dam Vinh Hung, a singer who frequently goes by the name Mr Dam.
Ly Tong came in drags, accompanied by a woman. The witness told Nguoi Viet:
“He was wearing a dress but his legs were all spread out. I and my friend were telling each other, ‘That guy’s so gross, dressing as a woman.’ At first we thought maybe Dam Vinh Hung is gay and this gay guy has a crush on him.”
Halfway through the show, Ly Tong came up and assaulted the singer. A press release from the Santa Clara Police Department says:
Ly accomplished the assault by posing as a woman. He purchased a ticket at the door to gain entry to the event and approached the stage acting as if he was going to give Hung Dam a flower. When the performer approached to take the gift, Ly sprayed him with the chemical irritant.
Ly was taken into custody immediately after the assault by Santa Clara police officers who were present at the event. Ly’s motive for the assault is thought to be political in nature.
The spray affected not just Mr Dam but also another singer on stage with him, Mỹ Tâm, and members of the audience.
The police’s press release says, “the audience of several hundred people had to be evacuated temporarily. The show resumed after the venue was ventilated and Santa Clara Fire Department personnel administered first aid.”
The audience member who spoke to Nguoi Viet also said the chemical was spreading throughout the room. “When he sprayed it, everybody knew it’s just pepper spray. At first, the people in the front row, the VIP row, were coughing. Then it spread and me, in the cheapest seats, next to the last row, also coughed.”
Ly Tong is being held in Santa Clara County Jail “on several charges.” Attempts to raise funds to bail him out failed, so Ly Tong announced that he didn’t want to be bailed out.
As news of Ly Tong’s actions spread throughout the web, on Facebook and on the listservs, right-wingers rejoiced.
Many applauded Ly Tong and professed their admiration of him. Which goes, of course, to prove that Vietnamese love children.
One man who’s probably not amused is Congressman Joseph “Anh” Cao. He appeared at the protest outside the concert, but now he’s totally upstaged.
Meanwhile, Mr Dam showed up in Orange County and spoke with members of the local Viet press. He’s scheduled to be part of a concert at Anaheim Arena on July 24, and Mr Dam said he’d be there despite threats of protest.
Said he, “The older people are determined to destroy my show this time, destroy it once to be a lesson to other singers. On the side of the promoters and organizers, including myself, we are equally determined to be there to serve our public.”
The promoter, however, isn’t so sure. Dung Taylor told Nguoi Viet’s reporter that next time he may not ask Dam Vinh Hung to appear.
Wow, I remember when the old right wing looneys protested VietWeekly newspaper and they brought a toilet to flush the newspaper. Now this Ly Tong looney does this childish low class act. Doesn’t surprise me, the republican right wingers are a bunch of sore losers and cry babies. I hope they never get their country back from the commies. Ngo Dinh Diem rot in hell.
Yes I am the Ly Tong I 60 yr old man with no job on welfare and I dress like woman on weeekend and spray commie with pepper spray. Next time commie come to do show I spray tuong ot sriracha and urine and poop on you. Yes that how we do it. We lose our country because we stupid dont know how to fight war but we will win it back with pepper and poop. Yes we very high class. Dont make fun us. Da dao cong san. Freedom and deMOCKracy for Vietnam.
He sprays pepper and the poster above (must be same) is writing trash.
What’s the problem, everyone can protest what he/she wants.
Only because Commie supporters which are spamming online on every site
don’t want to hear it?
Ai sẽ lên tiếng nếu bạn im lặng ?
As much as I despite this ‘freedom fighter’ Ly Tong and his circus clown act I must say I still have more respect for him than the trailer trash viet republicans in little saigon town like Jung Kim , Da Thud, ‘need-to-suck’, and ‘trailer trash’ on this blog. Ly Dong sure got more gut than these clown blog whores, van tran supporters.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAAAA
(Here we go…the broken English insults will come about righttttt—-NOW)
What the hell was Mr. Cao doing there? You’ll be doomed if you hang around with these lunatics, Mr. Cao.
Where? idiot!
Bo May = Anti Viet Clown.
Loretta = Bo May’s whore from another mother
Loretta = Fried
Bo May uses pepper spray deodorant inside his nostrils.
It probably smells better than Loretta’s fart.
Loretta = anti Viet whore.
Hey kids on this blog,
This so called performer/singer Dam Vinh Hung is no ordinary singer. Most Vietnamese singers coming over here to perform do not attract protests like this guy. But why DVH you might ask?
It is because DVH is a senior ranking and fully certified member of the Vietnamese Communist Party, holding an important Party positition in Vietnam.
To add insult to injury, DVH comes over here to perform and make money off of the Viet community, but he has a number of times, publicly insult the Vietnamese community and even challenged the community to do anything about his presence. In short, this DVH is an arrogant bastard Viet Commie Party Hack who comes over here to stir up the pot.
If DVH comes here to sing, stays away from politics, stop wearing his commie flag on his sleeve, and respect the very people who he’s catering to, the overseas Viet community, then nobody would bother him. Instead, he provokes and challenges the community.
DVH got what’s coming to him with pepper spray. No one should feel bad for this Ho Chi Minh lover. He got it coming.
Ly Tong is crazy …. like a fox!!
DVH is a domestic terrorist AND supporting the wrong FLAG!
Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN.
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Comrade Dam should stay low safely in Ho Chi Minh City …………enjoying uncle Mao’s red book.
Oh God, every time I hear the name Ly Tong, I cream my man panties. I just wish that he would come to my place and spank my bottom.
Idiot wannabe Jung Kim, why don’t you go and kiss Dam Vinh Hung’s behind and leave me alone?
Methinks Ly Tong’s jealous of Dam Vinh Hung because DVH has many young male fans while Ly Tong doesn’t have any. If Ly Tong just cross-dresses full time, I’m sure he’ll find someone.
Now Bo May wants to become me …………in last 3 posts.
Bo May idiot is finally losing his mind/ dignity!
Loretta = Fried Whore
Comrade Dam and Bo May can become a “go-for” dudes for anti Viet whore Loretta.
title “Comrade Dam” = offensive to little idiot Bo May
Anti Viet Loretta has an idiot working for her.
Loretta = Fried Loser
Here he comes again : the nutty, nasty hero of the right wing extremists !
Dam Vinh Hung is a card carrying Vietnamese Communist Party member. He gets prostested against everywhere he goes in this country.
Dam is lucky that Ly Tong did not leafleted him this time. This latest incident serves as a strong deterrent for any commie sympahthizer not to meddle in the Vietnamese community. This community hates communists!
Comrade Dam will be called back to labor camp after this pepper spray incident.
Comrade has been discovered/exposed like an idiot.
Vnch are trash. Dirtbags who couldn’t even defend their country from Vietnamese villagers in black pajamas and sandals. Ly Tong is one of these low class dirtbags. Send him to re-education camp!!
yeah fighting “communism” by acting like a communist lovely. this clown ly tong only does these types of things because he knows the sheep in the viet community who “donate” to him will continue to donate making sure he never gets a job. he’s a filthy communist panhandler and the only people dumber than him are the ones dumb enough to actually give him money. what a disgrace.
Hey Trash,
You are one stupid commie. Ly Tong was “re-edcuated” by your commie comrades back in the 1970′s. He did not learn crap from your comrades, but Ly Tong is teaching all you lying bastard commies a bitter lesson on how to properly eat pepper! Now, That’s funny crap. Eat pepper! Ha ha ha!!!
Lots of people believe that, “A good communist is a dead communist.” The Vietnamese Communist Party, in which Dam Vinh Hung is a “made” member, is like the Corsican Mafia, times 10. Scumbag predators are these communists. Go home and play in your muddy playground commies.
What it is with you Jung Kim? Don’t flatter yourself.
Why should I use your post names to pick on you? I pity your post name ‘Jung Kim’.
Dam Vinh Hung may be a commie, may be not. However, because he is a terrible singer that’s alone, good reason to spray him. And people paid good money to see him croons on stage? WTF?
As for Ly Tong, he got more gut than the mouthy blog whore Jung Kim and all the van tran prostitutes put together.
Bo May aka Moron,
Sniffles, sniffles. How do you spell Bo May the Brownnose? Loretta Sanchez misses your nose Bo May.
Bo May aka Moron,
In case you can’t find Loretta Sanchez because she is vacationing with her boyfriend somewhere out of the country, you can stick your nose Bo May in her sister Linda, rice cooker. Sorry, second best Haaahaaaahaaaahaaaahaa!!! Cracks me up
“Ly Tong is being held in Santa Clara County Jail “on several charges.” Attempts to raise funds to bail him out failed, so Ly Tong announced that he didn’t want to be bailed out.” This statement was fabricated by the idiot Bolsavik. This guy is still bitter over his firing from Nguoi Viet.
Ly Tong does not want to be bailed out. He wants to drag out this case as long as possible and become the center of attention and a hero. He’s loving all the adulation and the coverage right now. He just loves it.
Bo May, on the other hand, is a Viet hater. Bo May is the flip side of Damn Vinh Hung, just on the other side of the coin.
Ly Tong should stay in jail forever to pay for a dirty & fool thing he did like a stupid kid.
Ly Tong should be sent to jail because even there, the rapists have more taste than a smelly psychotic wrinkled shrinky. What a pathetic Republican. He made Bush and Palin seem almost normal.
Only in Vietnam would a citizen be jailed for speaking his/her mind.
Viva Ly Tong!!
And why don’t the sick Viet commies bury that carcass lying at the Ba Dinh mausoleum. Only sick Viet commies would preserve a stinking body that caused millions of deaths like Ho Chi Minh!
If any of you want the perspective of someone who is not Vietnamese and has no particular bias one way or the other then here it is:
It is pretty clear that this man is mentally derranged.
The fact that this man is a “Hero” amongst some members of the Vietnamese community is an idictment on that community. His actions paint you all in a bad light even though I understand he represents a small minority of the community.
I did a bit of reasearch on Ly Tong and if you believe half this guys stories of his epic exploits then you are a fool. He has hijacked commerical airliners putting people’s lives at risk for his own attention seeking behaviour. Do his supporters suspend their critical faculties in order to swallow whole his line of BS? Ly Tong (and it would appear a section of the VN community in the US) live in a fantasy land where there are commies behind every corner and lurking in every shadow.
The great irony is that there is a section of the VN community which proclaim that they detest communism but themselves act like communists supressing people’s free speech, vandalising art work and working themselves into hissy fits over not much at all.
People should stop giving him money and stop encouraging him, it only encourages his attention seeking behaviour. He behaves like a child.
Can I ask what has Captain America/James bond Ly Tong actually done to further human rights and democracy in Vietnam? He is a fake hero.
60 year old man acting like a 10 year old. This is the hero of the right wing movement of Little Saigon. This is like electing Sarah Palin to the white house. Oh boy. At least I give him more respect than the idiots running around Bolsa all day chanting “freedom and deMOCKracy for Vietnam” He has courage, unlike Ngo Ky and those other clowns.
Comrade Dam will be sentenced 10 years of hard labor.
Idiot/ anti – Viet/ whore Loretta lover Bo May can be his room mate.
In another news, 10-year-old Timmy has filed a lawsuit with the Orange County Superior Court against a blogger called Bolsavik over his alleged comment comparing 61-year-old lunatic Ly Tong to a child. “To call Ly Tong a child is an insult to children everywhere,” says Timmy. The blogger Bolsavik, real name Vu Qui Hao Nhien, has indicated he does not wish to make any comments while the lawsuit is pending.
Kimmy is off the med again.
Another fake comment by Jung Kim wannabe.
Loretta = Fried.
Comrade Dam and Jung Kim wannabe should get married.
Loretta= Anti Viet Loser.
Ly Tong is my hero. He fights for future Vietnam. For vietnamese coming to the damn vinh hungry show, you idiots don’t forget why you are here. Your father and mother had died for the freedom, they bring you here, then you betray to them, what idiots you are! this is a wake up call for oversea vietnameses, especially in Little Saigon, let boycotting Damn vinh hungry ……..He is gay, communist……….. He was also contempt the little saigoners………….
Comrade Dam should be deported from U.S.
How can you deport a guy from Viet Nam who has no intention of staying here?
Kimmy, are you OK? Off the med again? You wanna go back to Viet Nam with him?
(I know you don’t want to be an US citizen like the rest of us.)
Comrade Bo May,
You are doing a stinking job winning hearts and minds of these poor Viets. Your name will have to be brought up to the Politburo for disciplinary measure.
You need to go back to communist school for better indoctrination on how to win friends and convincing strangers. Right now, you are a poor excuse of being a communist.
Hey idiot Bo May, deportation means revoking Comrade Dam’s visa / sending him to joe mama village in Vietnam.
Bo May = Comrade Dam’s Lover
Why do you keep posting about losers in this community?
he posts about these losers in the community to show people that the right wing conservative republican anti communist nut jobs we have in our community are weird and they are equivalent to the Tea Party activists that the white people have in this country. Same low class tactics, same ignorance.
Hey pro commie throat quencher , your mighty high character deserves a long vacation at uncle Mao’s labor ranch.
Jung Kim is off the med again.
Bo May the Idiot,
Why are you still on this blog with your bad breath Bo May? You are such a Moron with a capital M!
Stupid people like you are supporers of Loretta Sanchez. You are a dumb a….
Bo May, you must be latched on to Loretta’s milk nipple again.
Loretta = Anti Viet loser.