Should really keep your hands to yourself
Al Hoang, better know by his Vietnamese name Hoàng Duy Hùng, is a city councilman in Houston. The City of Houston has 5 at-large council members and 9 members representing 9 districts in the city of 2 million souls and a $4.12 billion budget.
Before winning office, Hoang is an activist who once was arrested by the Vietnamese government in 1992 for brining anti-communist literature into the country. He was charged with attempting to overthrow “the people’s government” and was extradited.
In 2009, he won the election in Houston’s District F. As soon as he took office, people started calling him a commie. The proof is in his wife’s áo dài, red with a yellow flower.
Al Hoang the night he won
And then he got himself into even hotter water.
The Houston Airport System, owned by the city, had this brilliant idea that since so many Houstonians fly to Vietnam every day, hey, why are we letting LAX get all the revenues? Shouldn’t a Houston airport such as George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) or Hobby Airport (HOU) get in on the action?
It makes sense if you think about it. But, if you do think about it, that makes you a commie.
So when the Houston Airport System approached Hoang and asked if he’d like to join their delegation to go to Vietnam and negotiate a direct flight from Vietnam to Houston, he said he’d think about it.
And he publicly asked people to tell him what they think
Which makes him a big-time commie.
Real Vietnamese, apparently, are not allowed to:
- Travel to Vietnam.
- Talk to Vietnamese officials.
- Set up flights to Vietnam.
You can take off, just not to Vietnam
To add insult to injury, when the Vietnamese community in Houston elect a new leader, it’s Al’s sister Teresa Hoang who won the balloting.
Cheaters! Went the cries from the extremist trenches.
So when Teresa Hoang held her inaugural party at a Houston restaurant, people were out in front protesting.
And then one guy had a brilliant thought.
He drove to the back of the restaurant, climed out, and, get this:
He opened the transformer box, and threw the circuit breaker.
Funny thing is, after running back to the van, he came out to check again!
Dam Nguyen (Nguyễn Trần Đàm), man of the hour
Giving the security camera two opportunities the see his face.
Check out the video here (from 0:57 to 1:25).
So cops came looking for him. He’s identified as Dam Nguyen (Nguyễn Trần Đàm), a former naval officer, who’s now prosecuted for disrupting a meeting/procession – a misdemeanor usually reserved for teens who crash people’s weddings and funerals.
Check out the case information here. Nguyen has posted $500 in bail.
*groan*
This is a fine mess. How do you conquer/subdue your enemy?
Some very small minded people in the Viet community.
Watching the news clip a bit further along and unrelated directly to this post, there was a lady holding a sign “Tunisia, Egypt, Vietnam”.
She is obviously ignorant that the revolutions which occured in Tunisia and Egypt were popular revolutions where the vast majority of the population supported the removal of the regimes in power. The fact which most of the looney yellow and red flag waving overseas Vietnamese who think they know what is best for ALL Vietnamese dont seem to understand is that the vast majority of Vietnamese people in Vietnam support the government in that country.
Even the ones that dont, WOULD NOT support the kind of government these right wingers seem to lament and bemoan. They wave the yellow and red flag of “democratic Vietnam” completely ignorant that it is the flag of the French rulers of Vietnam subsequently adopted by a series of thoroughly undemocratic regimes followed by despotic military dicatorships which killed their own people in order to remain in power.
Non Viet sounds like a ” know nothing about Viet” ……. does this idiot prefers communist junta leadership?
The oversea Vietnamese flag wavers in the US are just like the Cubans in Miami, loud and useless. They’re what we call ‘thung rong keu to.’ The difference between them and the Cubans is that the Cubans have money and political influence but they still can’t achieve anything.
P.S.
Non Viet is a loon.
Big D,
How so? You completely supported what I wrote.
Waving the yellow and red flag whist wearing the uniform and accoutrements of the Saigon regimes is anathema to democracy.
Communism is an anachronism in the 21st Century and it will end in VN, its just a matter of time.
I for one would much rather a peaceful, bloodless transition to democracy in VN, led by Vietnamese in Vietnam FOR Vietnamese in Vietnam regardless of the intersts of overseas Vietnamese or nostalgia for the “good old days” of torture and corruption of the old regime loyalists. If OS Vietnamese want to help then they are welcome but please do so in the interests of Vietnamese in Vietnam and not your own.
The flag wavers seem to think that when communism ends in Vietnam that they will charge in and take their “rightful” place as the leaders of Vietnam and continue on from where they left off in 1975. Right wing hero (chronic attention seeker and pathological liar) Ly Tong said in an interview last year that he would take over the military and his other cronies would fill other appointments. Vietnamese in Vietnam would not idly stand by and allow loonatics from the US take over their country, they would resist.
If communism in VN is to be replaced with the kind of governance that the VNCH regime loyalists describe as “democracy” then the Vietnamese are better off under communism. Dont be so naive (many OS Vietnamese are) that the communist government of VN today is the same of that of 1975 or even 1995. There is still a long way to go but the government in VN today are not the boogey-men that OS Vietnamese tell their children about.
The Vietnamese dont need or want the help of the looney VNCH flag wavers. They had their golden years of killing and torturing their own people in order to remain in power whilst embezzling millions of dollars into their own pockets. Their entire raison d’etre was for power and wealth, not the people of VN. When Saigon fell they all fled to the US taking the wealth which belonged to the people of Vietnam with them, abandoning the South Vietnamese people to whatever fate awaited them. Shame on them. Now they claim mandate as the “rightful” leaders of VN?
There are people working quitely behind the scenes to further human rights and democracy in Vietnam who do more in a day than these idiots do in a lifetime.
Non Viet,
I called you a loon precisely for this statement:
“the vast majority of Vietnamese people in Vietnam support the government in that country”
Unless a Vietnamese has a stake in maintaining the current status quo, I just don’t see how anybody over there can support the current government. These are the reasons:
1. Parents have to pay a big chunk of money to have their children attend public school and pay more to have their children attend tutoring sessions with their teachers. It’s just like bribery. Poor people can’t afford that.
2. Corruption
3. Incompetence
4. Cronyism
Basically, Vietnam is run by a bunch of greedy, corrupted, incompetent assholes who are too busy lining their pockets with ill gotten cash to care about anything else. By the way, the flag wavers over here are also plagued by 2,3 and 4.
Thanks for your reply Big D,
I think we are actually on the same page here…
Please let me re-qualify my statement, “the vast majority of Vietnamese people in Vietnam support the government in that country”….over what the flag wavers are offering which is pretty much the same as what they already have just with a different brand label.
There will come a point where the Vietnamese will want to decide their future and will need the help of OS Vietnamese, I hope that that help is forthcoming without any aspect of self interest.
Democracy will likely come to Vietnam within my lifetime, I believe it will come when the people overwhelmingly no longer accept the governance which they have and demand change. This will take some time, when the world view of the younger generations outweighs that of the older establishment and I hope that it will come without a drop of blood being shed.
The flag waving looney’s who want armed insurrection and violent coup are working for their own interests and not that of the Vietnamese people. In fact, they only make the regime more paranoid, crack down on activists in Vietnam, and prolong its existance.
As for your comment that the country is run by “greedy, corrupted, incompetent assholes” I dont disagree and these terms can certainly also be applied to the bankers, financiers and politicians in our own country.
To non Viet: ….You said: ” I dont disagree and these terms can certainly also be applied to the bankers, financiers and politicians in our own country….”
I agree with your aforementioned attribute to the common crooks around the world who have power to make the law work for their interest but I must disagree with you that it certainly not applied to ‘the bankers, financiers and politicians in our own country’. There are laws to be upheld by people and by the judicial systems, of course, some may fall through the crack and get free with money in the banks but a the end they will have their days at the court and payback big.
The terminology ” pure democracy” (also non – existent) is not a one single fit – all, cookie cut system suited/best for all societies
Look at Iraq and Libya…..
Communist regimes are equivalent to a group dictatorship only serving their own desired plan.
Crooks are the same everywhere, but you can not use that statement to draw to the conclusion that the law are the same everywhere…if it the case, I might as well move to live in Viet Nam then, would you follow me if I do? I guess not.
Big D was right: may be you are just a loon, like jung kim.
We need well structured strong democratic system to replace current out- dated communist government.
Educated/matured society is prerequisite for a good democratic governance.
@ BigD:
Incompetence, Corruption& Cronyism…. you can accuse almost any government of that. It can be easily argued that incompetence, corruption & cronyism are big problems with the US government….you think the $9 trillion deficit came out of nowhere? ?? (Think about that for a second, what kind of shitty government creates a $9 trillion deficit? )
As far as democracy in Vietnam… Vietnam should only become democratic AFTER China becomes democratic. Vietnam under no circumstances should become democratic before China.
Why? Because the ‘China influence’ will always be present for Vietnam…. it doesn’t matter if Vietnam is communist or democratic. .. the China influence will be there forever.
And imo the best form of government (for Vietnam) to deal with a communist China is an authoritarian, non democratic. Vietnamese government.
To ignore China when talking about democracy in Vietnam is stupid, naive and probably harmful over the long term (to Vietnamese people ).
Xu, are you chinese?
Xu,
Dealing with China is easy enough. All it needs is Vietnamese unity because everytime that happens, Vietnam kicks the invading Chinese in the nut sacks. Except in 1979. There was no unity then but there were plenty of nut sacks busting. What VN needs right now is not democracy but an enlightened and competent dictator. It has always worked before. Or we all can just sign up to become the 51st state of the U.S. That would be very interesting and beneficial. I’m pretty sure that all Vietnamese on this blog would agree with me. In fact, I’m pretty sure that the majority of the Vietnamese in VN would agree with me because let’s face it, Vietnamese hate China and adores Uncle Sam. Yep, we Vietnamese want to be Uncle Sam’s bitches.
I am the official Guru.
xu, are you wannabe chinese?
I’ve read most of your comments on here. First off, I believe that the human rights watch organization or whatever the hell you call it are doing their part. Secondly, the history of the flag, of course us OS Viets hold the flag of the southern part of it but do you even know what it stands for? Its bright in yellow with three red stripes but do you even know how long those two colors has been around? It will be a thousand years within the next 3 years from the raise of the first dynasty. Through time it changes shape and form because of one dynasty to the next ruled the country. The democratic flag, yellow represent the sunrise, red represent the blood we end up shedding and now in modern day, the last three stripes represent the three sections of the country. Bac, Hue and Nam correct? The first Vietnamese Dynasty only has yellow flag with a red circle in the middle.
In Vietnam alone, we have 52 different tribes and most speak a different tongue, not dialect. It seems as though most of us OS Viets know little to nothing about our native country and its history because most of us are idiots! I was US born but was welled educated by my family on our family history that goes as far back as to the 1st or 2nd dynasty and it makes you wonder. I have a few other Viet friends who also known about their family dating that far back.
The Vietnamese government is Communist but there are two parties at the matter. One is the Chinese brotherhood loyalists and the other are what I call the Sovereign loyalists. The Chinese government gave money to the ones who are loyal to the Chinese brotherhood in exchange to build infrastructures in Vietnam but only operated by the Chinese. Being a typical Viet, its obviously they took it. The Sovereignist despise and mostly disagree with the Chinese brotherhood because they wouldn’t want anything that would benefit the Chinese government since the Chinese government’s intention is to colonize their ancient Empire. These political figures are either murdered or thrown in prison under the radar by the Chinese brotherhood and other figures are kept silent.
Take one recent example, since Vietnam has the second largest aluminum deposit in the world, the Chinese manage to build a mining town off the mountains of west Vietnam. Those mines are only operated by the Chinese and not Vietnamese like the Chinese government suppose to offer. There is another thing, it is also a tactical advantage that they’ve learned from the Vietnam War that allowed the Communist loyalists to win the war. I’m not gonna go into details about it since the Chinese invasion of 1979 failed unless you ask.
I know a lot more but I won’t put it all on here since I’m trying to stick to the subject. If you end up asking who funded the Vietnamese commies the war, ask the Russians and Chinese. They had military officers who had physically set foot in the fields with other NVA’s and I know of this because I had talked to Vietnam Vets who were SF who had witness this. I didn’t talk to the same Vet, I asked different Vets when I found out they were SF in Vietnam.
Now the former Naval Officer of Vietnam, I would have to say that he’s narrow-minded. Let alone that he’s a total douchebag without even learning the fact that there are two loyalists within the communist party and there has been a power struggle. Vietnam has already lost part of its sovereignty just to pay back the Chinese government almost a decade ago so if they want to bitch, gripe and complain, they should pay more attention to our ancestral enemy of what they’re trying to really do. There isn’t going to be anymore Vietnam in the future if guys like this don’t open their god damn eyes! Nuff said!
Hey, Chan soldier, you have some good information here.
Today’s chinese commie government’s strong muscle/influence primarily comes from their economical might. Their mutated communist ideology has successfully transformed china into today’s world power and currently they have little motivation to become a western modeled democratic state.
We must to restore strong family value coupled with good education in order to follow china’s success. Given our abundant labor resource… we have actually a good shot at re building strong nation. Of course our out dated /slow minded communist regime needs to be disbanded or re organized with much more updated/flexible/efficient governmental institution.
Youse gooks love talking politic, being viet, and shiet. I don’t know how much youse thinking about the stuffs youse bring up. When youse take pride being viet and stuff, be sure which part/s of being viet youse alluding to. Being viet could be 1) ethnically viet-which is almost a contradiction because somewhere in your ancestry, someone must have been from China, Laos, Cambodia or elsewhere. 2) born in a geographical area. 3) nationality. 4) one who follows the viet culture and customs.
Being one does not equate the other/s. So next time, a gook thumps his chest for being viet, good to pull head out and ask which version of being viet are they referring to.
Also being viet does not mean you do smart things to promote being viet. Youse OC gooks have done plenty of damage to harm your own reputation and others associated with being viet for your jungle monkey conduct.
@General Chan: Good info, sounds fairly accurate.
@Unkle Kracker: Really abrasive way of putting it but sort of true. Vietnam expanded Southward from the North. During the southward expansion Vietnam absorbed Cham people then Khmer people.
Also, from experience I can tell you Vietnamese people are very egotistical. More willing to make personal attacks than debating the issues.
General Chan,
Thank you for your very detailed analysis, I read it twice.
There is alot someone like you could teach the OS Viet. community (myself included).
…Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated “Atlas” as the second-most influential book in their lives…
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/