Bui Kim Thanh, who in all seriousness really ought to get treatment, was present at an event called the “community’s general assembly” organized by the “Vietnamese Federation of Southern California“ on Sunday.

Photo by Nguyen Huy/Nguoi Viet Daily News

Half way through the meeting, Hung Phuong Nguyen showed up.

That’s the former Van Tran PR man who, after years of calling other people commies, recently got a taste of his own medicine and had the Red label slapped on him by no less a red-baiter than Ky Ngo himself.

So Nguyen showed up, and people in attendance wanted to kick him out. (Why should anyone be barred from what is supposedly the “community’s general assembly,” you ask? Hah! If you have to ask, read more Bolsavik.com.)

An argument ensued, and Bui Kim Thanh spoke in favor of Nguyen. They took a vote, and almost all in attendance wanted Nguyen removed.

But Bui Kim Thanh wasn’t done speaking yet, so she spoke some more. And some more. And some more.

The organizers called the cops. Cops came, Bui Kim Thanh started talking on the phone. (Sounds familiar?)

The police cuffed her, led her away, and charged her with trespass. She spent a couple days in county jail, appeared in court on Tuesday, pled guilty, was sentenced to time served and released.

Despite his outside appearance as a sloppy, weird and strange unstable man, there is evidence that Ky Ngo, that perennial protestor against everything, knows what he’s doing and knows how to do it right.

When he was leading the protests against Nguoi Viet Daily News, Ky Ngo for all his vulgarities cleverly managed to stay just on this side of the line. It was neophyte Trong Doan, the man with no known history, who was prosecuted for assault and pleaded guilty — not Ngo.

And as soon as he lost the lawsuit filed by Nguoi Viet, Ngo knew enough not to violate the injunction, despite the name-calling (coward, traitor, etc.) by fellow Red baiters.

And now here’s another piece of evidence that Ky Ngo knows how to take care of business.

See that car above? That’s one of his 3 cars. For many months – more than a year now - it’s been parked across the street from Viet Herald, a Vietnamese daily newspaper in Westminster. And the reason the car is there, is because at one time a columnist at Viet Herald said something unflattering about South Vietnam’s former president Nguyen Van Thieu.

The picture was taken several months ago. That banner’s gone now. Only the car remains.

But, look at this. Even though the car is as good as abandoned, Ky Ngo still cares enough to pay its registration, and get it new tag to last until January of next year.

Presumably, if Ky Ngo had wanted the car towed he would have said so.

If we haven’t heard from Ky Ngo for a while, we will now. That’s because he’s got new people to attack. And in the process he’s reclaiming his rightful place as king of the irrelevant.

His new bete noire is Lai To, the producer of what is probably the most popular music and variety show, “Paris by Night,” also known as “Thuy Nga Paris.” (There’s a cover  feature story by OC Weekly here.)

Lai To’s problem was that he was present at a banquet, supposedly taking place in Huntington Beach, where the (communist) Vietnamese Consul was also present.

In typical Ky Ngo fashion, he claimed the banquet was “chaired” by the Consul, even though Ngo’s video evidence shows the Consul was also a guest (at 1:04 he says he’s “honored to be present at your corporation’s banquet”).

Whatever. Facts have never been Ky Ngo’s strong suit anyway.

The point is, he’s got a new cause. And he’s got a new ally, Garden Grove City Councilwoman Dina Nguyen‘s husband Joseph Dovinh (above).  So, after months and months living on the fringe of the fringe, Ky Ngo is back in the mainstream of the fringe.

Welcome back, Ky Ngo.

Tequila's boobs didn't calm crowd

Tila Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, got on the receiving end of rocks, beer bottles, and feces thrown at her at the Juggalos music fest last weekend, according to the AP here.

The Juggalos is an annual festival that stretches over 4 days, organized by Insane Clown Posse and featuring mostly artists from their own label. Tequila was there as a guest artist on their “Ladies Night.”

As she went on stage, the crowd started throwing things. Apparently, this crowd loves throwing stuff because security is already on stage batting away things.

The crowd screamed for Tequila to take her top off – which she did, while still prancing around singing. The crowd got even worse, says MTV here.

According to comedian Tom Green who was there, “a mob of hundreds chas[ed] Tequila from the stage and surrounding a trailer where she sought refuge. They rocked the trailer and smashed its windows,” he told CNN here. (Watch video shot by Tom Green at the end of this entry.)

Tequila told E! Online here that she wants to sue the concert promoters.

It’s a strange day when a crowd actually gets upset at seeing Tila Tequila’s boobs.

Born in Singapore of Vietnamese boat-people parents, Tequila is probably the most famous Vietnamese TV star in the world.

She formerly hosted the reality dating competition show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila on MTV, which ended after its second season.

Tila was named the hottest artist on Myspace in 2006.

In 2008, Tila Tequila starred in an ad calling attention to human-rights abuses in Burma. Read here. The ad was directed by Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon) and was one in a series produced by the Human Rights Action Center.

Last year, Tequila sued, and got sued back by, San Diego Charger Shawne Merriman after she claimed he choked and falsely imprisoned her. Merriman said Tequila was too drunk to drive and he was just keeping her safe until a taxi could arrive.

In a strange twist in the case, a few days after filing the lawsuit, Tequila got on the internet, stripped naked, and accused Merriman of an assortment of vices, including drugging underage girls and having sex with them.

That’s a far fall for a man who came out of nowhere to become a leader of two major protest campaigns, and who even was convicted of assault and battery for the cause.

Apparently that was then and this is, well, not then.

Back then, Trong Doan led the protest against the Viet Weekly magazine, and moved on to lead the protest against Nguoi Viet Daily News. He was one of three defendants named in a lawsuit by Nguoi Viet, which he lost, and which made him now subject of a permanent injunction against messing with the newspaper.

He was also the defendant in a criminal case arising out of pushing and shoving a Nguoi Viet reporter (now an editor at Viet Herald).

But that was all history. The protestors against Viet Weekly capitulated, and several of the protest leaders, including Assemblyman Van Tran‘s henchman Hung Phuong Nguyen and Trong Doan, now work for Viet Weekly.

The protest against Nguoi Viet fizzled out, and in fact of the three named defendants in the lawsuit, Doan was the second to stop showing up.

It is in Doan’s current position as Viet Weekly reporter that his former friends boycotted him.

They accused him of coming to events and asking questions that exploit personal conflicts blah blah – in general, off-topic and weird. Which is what he does. All the time. But apparently they’ve only now noticed.

What they were most pissed about, though, was that Doan supported the concert they were protesting.

And we all know that if you’re not with the protestors, then you’re a commie. So now Mr. Big Shot Red-baiter is a commie.

Officially, the protest organizers on Thursday called on all community groups to boycott Trong Doan (plus two others, including one Nguoi Viet reporter) and have no contact, no interviews, no advertising, no photos, and no admission into their events.

Read the statement in two pages of Vietnamese, dated the day before it’s proclaimed, here and here.

OK, so if you don’t know Bui Kim Thanh, you may want to revisit this, this and this.

Now, maybe the woman has a medical condition that makes her prone to fainting. Or something.

But anyway, so there was a concert at the Anaheim Arena on Saturday, and hundreds of Vietnamese-American protestors (600, according to Anaheim PD Sgt. Chris Pena) came out to protest. Because Dam Vinh Hung – the victim of Ly Tong‘s criminal act – sang there.

So anyway, Bui Kim Thanh scored herself a ticket. When she passed the security check point, but before entering the arena, she stopped, whipped out a couple flags, and started shouting slogans and trying to stop people from going in.

Security came and asked her to leave. She said no, wait, I need to call 9-1-1.

So she picked up her phone, and dialed something.

Then she spoke into the phone, in Vietnamese: “Is this 9-1-1? I am lawyer Bui Kim Thanh, communists are terrorizing me.”

(Bui Kim Thanh has been calling herself “the people’s lawyer” since her days fighting the communist government’s land-grab in Vietnam.)

Security asked her to leave, she wouldn’t. Security called the cops, and when cops came she said she don’t speak English. So they got a Viet cop.

A Viet cop came. (Pena is the cop to the right, below.) He asked her to leave, or else he’d put her under arrest.

That pissed her off. She yelled, “You have no right!”

“This is the USA, I’m calling 9-1-1, I have a ticket, why are you making me leave,” she yelled.

And then, referring to the time in Vietnam when the government arrested her, she said something that made no sense to the Bolsavik:

“I went to prison to protect U.S. rule of law. I’m not going to leave. This is the law of the jungle.”

So, really, what does getting arrested in Vietnam (for a good cause, granted) have to do with U.S. rule of law? No idea.

Anyway, so if she ain’t gonna leave of her own accord, cops are gonna make her.

Half way down the hall, she caught a fainting spell again.

Told you so. If she fainted once she certainly will faint again. So cops called EMS, and cuffed her.

EMS came, took one look at her, and put her on a wheelchair. Cops wheeled her away, took her to the station and charged her with trespassing and obstruction of business.

Last year, when Bui Kim Thanh protested VAALA, she asked VAALA to give her the ride home. And they did.

It’s not clear who gave Bui Kim Thanh the ride home from the police station this time.

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.

Watch:

Yes, you heard it right, the man just asked another human being to go kill himself.

WTF.

Gives whole new meaning to “spilling his guts”!