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Last weekend was a slow day in the office, so the Bolsavik went around and took some pictures of the weekly protests outside of Nguoi Viet.

Here’s an update on what’s happening now. Every day, the protestors, usually about 4 or 5 of them, still come to Nguoi Viet and open the truck with the photos of former South Vietnam’s generals who died defending the country in the last days of the war. That’s the truck in the foreground.

On week-ends, though, they would come out more in force, each person would carry a flag and they would march up and down Moran Avenue. They would stop for a while at Bolsa, the main thoroughfare of Bolsavikland, and then march right back.

These protestors apparently are very adamant that people know there’s still a protest going on.

A few weeks ago, the L.A. Times ran a story by My-Thuan Tran, here, about the thriving Little Saigon media market. It contains a line about “ending the 18-month demonstrations.”

That little throwaway line turned out to tick off the protestors big time.

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Soon-to-be placed in “round black filing system”

The Nguoi Viet lawsuit never went into its damages phase because the protestors threw in the towel.

On Wednesday morning when the damages phase was supposed to begin, Ky Ngo, Trong Doan and Cung Tran (in Vietnamese: Ngô Kỷ, Đoàn Trọng, Trần Thế Cung) resumed settlement talk instead of having to hear evidence of how destructive they’ve been.

The parties arrived at a stipulated judgment whereby the protestors promised they would pack up and go home.

This is not at all surprising to the Bolsavik, who has said at least twice before (here and here) that Ky Ngo and his gang are showing signs of fatigue.

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The three main characters in the long-running protest against Nguoi Viet Daily News have been found liable in the lawsuit filed by the paper, a jury in the Orange County Superior Court today. Trial will continue tomorrow with the damages phase.

Ky Ngo, Trong Doan and Cung The Tran (in Vietnamese: Ngô Kỷ, Đoàn Trọng, Trần Thế Cung) — all of whom deny being the leaders of what they term the “spontaneous” protest, were found liable after just a few hours of jury deliberation. (Ky Ngo, in particular, uses the term “spontaneous protest” - “biểu tình tự phát” in Vietnamese - so often that he even takes to employing the abbreviation ”BTTP” in his emails.)

Ngo, Doan and Tran were all found liable for interference with business and for nuisance. Ngo and Doan were in addition found liable for trespass.

For the first few days of trial, Cung The Tran came to court on crutches. Perhaps expecting a favorable outcome, Tran walked in unaided today to the jury’s verdict reading.

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To follow up on the Bolsavik’s previous entry here: the City of Westminster’s Traffic Commission last night voted to restrict parking to 40 minutes in the area near Nguoi Viet Daily News in an attempt to drive out Ky Ngo and other protestors who have been camping there.

The Reg’s Deepa Bharath has the story here, which includes a nice and convenient summary of the whole protest, for those of you new to the issue.

The vote was 4-1, with Councilman Andy Quach’s appointee Andrew Nguyen (the Westminster school board member) voting in favor of the restriction. The appointees of Tri Ta and Tyler Diep also voted for the restriction. The lone nay came from Gil Cruz, the appointee of Frank Fry who just didn’t think the parking restriction would be effective in stopping the protest.

At the hearing, Parking Enforcement gave their opinion that, sure, they can chalk the tires to enforce the parking restriction, but, no, they have better things to do than to hang out at the Moran Street cul-de-sac all day (unlike, ahem, certain people). Nonetheless, if the restriction is there, tickets will be handed out.

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An obscure item on the agenda at the City of Westminster’s Traffic Commission meeting on Tuesday may spell the end of Ky Ngo’s reign of the patch of grass across from Nguoi Viet.

On the agenda (here) for the Westminster Traffic Commission for tomorrow night is the following:

“Request for the Installation of 24-Minute Timed Parking Restrictions at 14801 And 14802 Moran Street”

Though innocuous, if passed the item will put a stop to Ky Ngo’s protesting.

Those addresses are the properties on the two sides of Nguoi Viet. Building 14801-14805 on the left belongs to Dong Loi Seafood, a wholesaler which has its own retail store that that location. Ky Ngo has been setting up his lawn chairs and other paraphernalia on Dong Loi’s sidewalk (picture above).

The other building, at 14802-14810 on the right, is the warehouse for Thuy Nga, the producer of the popular Vietnamese variety show Paris by Night. That’s where Ky Ngo usually parks his car and displays the rest of his stuff.

A 24-minute parking restriction would make it impossible for Ky Ngo to camp out at the site.

This item is so unusual for the zoning in the area that there can be no doubt that it’s on the agenda to specifically target Ky Ngo and Ky Ngo only.

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Things have not been going well for Ky Ngo lately.

First, the permanent fixture outside the offices of Nguoi Viet Daily News was told by the Wesminster PD to move his stuff. The Bolsavik is not sure on what grounds the police did it, but it may have something to do with his truck not having moved from the spot on public land for several weeks. Or maybe it’s unsightly. Or whatever.

Anyway so Ky Ngo was forced to get his stuffs out of there a couple weeks ago. That made him and his group very unhappy, so in consolation someone made him a sign that says (pictured) “Someone is still helping the Vietnamese traitors.”

A day or so later, a little sign was added on top saying “Today.”

Thus, apparently, “Today someone is still helping the Vietnamese traitors.”

But who? Who is still helping which Vietnamese traitors??

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A false rumor sent around the emails and posted on an unmoderated Internet forum was elevated when Nguoi Viet, the highest-circulation Vietnamese-language newspaper in the U.S., republished it as “news” on its front page in today’s issue.

The phony rumor purports to claim that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a law banning the display of the flag of North Vietnam, which is now the official flag of Vietnam.

The three-out-of-six-column headline in Nguoi Viet proclaims, “Massachusetts passes law banning communist Vietnam’s red flag.”

Wow! Awesome!

Problem is, Massachusetts did no such thing.

Funny enough, the “news” item purports to quote from the law; and the quoted language is written in the present conditional tense (you know, with “would”) - a tell-tale that should have raised a big red flag.

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It may be because perennial protestor Ky Ngo is sitting outdoor all day watching people going in and out of Nguoi Viet Daily News, but he sure has come up with a lot of fun ideas.

The paraphernalia that he’s putting up outside the newspaper’s office now includes the oil painting above. It’s huge, maybe about 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide, and it depicts Ngo’s car (yellow with three red stripes) and Ngo himself on the left, wearing a flag-themed jacket.

The painting as a whole is a assortment of protesting bric-a-brac. Slogans abound. That conical hat on the left says “Down with Nguoi Viet.” The sign near the back tire of the truck paraphrases a statement of the late President Nguyen Van Thieu on communists and says, “Don’t believe what Nguoi Viet says but watch what Nguoi Viet does.” On the right are four communist helmets labeled with the names of Nguoi Viet officials, current and former. The big sign on the right says “Nguoi Viet is not media.”

What the Bolsavik doesn’t get is the stuff in the lower middle part of the painting, next to the helmets. What are those two containers with copies of the Nguoi Viet newspaper in them? At first sight, the containers look like those brass things that Vietnamese put joss sticks and put on the altar, but that makes no sense to have the Nguoi Viet papers in them.

Anyway, the Bolsavik has long given up on fathoming the depths of Ky Ngo’s mind.

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Ky Ngo, the perennial protestor outside the offices of Nguoi Viet Daily News, held a party today Sunday.

It’s not clear what it is Ky Ngo (far right in the photo) was celebrating. It could be a Tet’s eve party. Or it could be the one-year anniversary of the protest, which began a year ago Monday.

Either way, ’twas the occasion for Ky Ngo to inaugurate three new effigies, shown leaning against the wall in the photo above.

The effigies are of, from left to right, Dat Phan the current CEO of Nguoi Viet, and next to him, Westminster City Councilmen Truong Diep and Tri Ta.

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So on Saturday night the Bolsavik attended the 30th anniversary of Nguoi Viet Daily News, where a well-known Vietnamese music group was heard playing Diễm Xưa, an easy listening Vietnamese song from the 1960s.

And there you have it:

The accused commie Bolsavik, shin-digging it with the accused commie Nguoi Viet, listening to the accused commie The Friends (pictured) playing music by the accused dead commie Trinh Cong Son.