Tuesday
Mar232010
New Legislation Could Change U.S.-Vietnamese Relations
By Benny Martinez - University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service
Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao (R-La) announced today at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that he will introduce legislation that would reinstate Vietnam into the Countries of Particular Concern list.
A Country of Particular Concern is a designation from the State Department indicating that a nation is guilty of particularly severe violations of religious freedom under the International Religious Freedom Act.
The roots for the new legislation stem from religious freedom violations by the Vietnamese government. According to a statement released by the commission, Vietnam continues to backslide on human rights by discriminating against certain religious practices in the country, detaining some and forcing others to renounce their respective faiths.
Cao said that Vietnam is seeking to create a stronger relationship with the United States. Despite provisions in the Vietnamese Constitution that protect human rights, Cao said that discriminatory actions imposed against certain religions makes creating this relationship a futile effort.
“We have very real concerns about backsliding on issues of human rights and religious freedom issues,” Cao said. “It’s going to be very hard to have that kind of relationship, [and] it cannot happen without the improvements of human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam.”
Cao believes that designating Vietnam as a Country of Particular Concern would shed light on the situation and help convince the Vietnamese government to sway from discriminating its own people.
Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao (R-La) announced today at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that he will introduce legislation that would reinstate Vietnam into the Countries of Particular Concern list.
A Country of Particular Concern is a designation from the State Department indicating that a nation is guilty of particularly severe violations of religious freedom under the International Religious Freedom Act.
The roots for the new legislation stem from religious freedom violations by the Vietnamese government. According to a statement released by the commission, Vietnam continues to backslide on human rights by discriminating against certain religious practices in the country, detaining some and forcing others to renounce their respective faiths.
Cao said that Vietnam is seeking to create a stronger relationship with the United States. Despite provisions in the Vietnamese Constitution that protect human rights, Cao said that discriminatory actions imposed against certain religions makes creating this relationship a futile effort.
“We have very real concerns about backsliding on issues of human rights and religious freedom issues,” Cao said. “It’s going to be very hard to have that kind of relationship, [and] it cannot happen without the improvements of human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam.”
Cao believes that designating Vietnam as a Country of Particular Concern would shed light on the situation and help convince the Vietnamese government to sway from discriminating its own people.
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Reader Comments (112)
For Edwin, CU CHI tunnel is for the bunch of criminals and "chicken" to hide or to retreat. If your father were so heroic, why he did not come out from the cave and fight. CU CHI was a retreat for you father and grand father if they survived at all after the TET offensive. 95% of your family were eliminated during the offensive and the remaining had to retreat to ensure they had some "chicken feed". So, CUCHI tunnel was created as a hide out for criminals like your family or your ancestors.
You can see today, CUCHI tunnel even in your own father "fantasy" or fairy tales is talking about a hiding place, not a fighting story. Understand pal?
Anymore, running dog? that means a subservant for Russia, a proud slave for your father generation.
BIG CHICKEN WROTE: Edwin Tran may be an Elementary, but he is much smarter than those NGUY KIEU educated in the US.
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OK, PAL, show me your smart..and EDWIN's smart..then i will show you a pig or a money with no brain. Do not forget you guys in Hanoi eat monkey brain, and Maybe , maybe only Edwin fails into the victims of such violence act.
Bringing in! If you think you are smart than NGUY KIEU then walk into this minefield. And if you guys are smart, you will never lose Give me a story and remark, i will meet you anywhere. KheSanh, or the battle of Kandahar.
hey, EDWIN, why not answer of the DAVID's allegation? i want to see how do you perform in the intellectual world?
If Edwin's has been considered as a smart person, then chicken, monkey and duck or "attack dog" can be re-classified as human spicy. The entire universe history must be re written.
If Edwin repented and go back to civilized world and debate the issue in a civilized manner, i will stop attack EDWIN personally. I rather focus on the issue, but i cannot sit back to watch some idiot to belittle and assault upon the entire overseas Vietnamese community.
Come on Edwin, i am waiting for the evolution of your part.
DAVID YOU ARE ON DRUG. I DO NOT TALK TO DRUG PEOPLE.
DAVE, YOU MUST HAVE LOAD OF DOGS, CATS AND PIGS AT HOME?!! YAH?
YOU GUYS ARE NOT VIET KIEU, BUT NGUY KIEU!
YOU GUYS INTELLIGENT EQUVALENT OF A GOLD FISH AND SO SHUT THE THE F... AND GET OUT OF HERE!
For a second thought, i have to agree with EDWIN that the USA Vietkieu are bunch of idiot. Who has the genius like Edwin and his father or his forefather turned the entire national airlines, VIETNAM AIRLINES, into 'OFFICIAL AIRLINES FOR SMUGGLERS". Edwin's family is far too smart for VIETKIEU. Whey the Japanese customs broke the case, it was isolated incidents. If not BEING CAUGHT, the fortune will keep flowing in. With that kind of fortune, they have more than enough to send EDWIN and his brother, cousins and other criminals go to school in overseas. And my 'Idiot Vietkieu" have to labour until breaking their backs from 6 or 7 days a week in the factories in order to send the kids to school, and to see their kids to become politicians or navy commander later on.
Hey, my USA Vietkieu learn a "hard lesson" from EDWIN'S grand father's legend. NO SWEAT, BUT PLENTY OF SWEAT. Damn with the Japanese customs, they spoiled the whole party, otherwise, EDWIN family had enough money to open another bank in his 'homeland". I feel your pain, EDWIN.
there you go, EDWIN, you are really showing your color. I had achieved something, but just not something, but something big: get into your nerve.
Come on Ed, do not kid yourself, you do not talk to talk to drug people. If you and your family do not talk to people on drugs, where do you get the money to build new home and send you to school? Keeping in mind that your culture and tradition are criminal, thief, robbery and gangsters. you are the culture of criminal, it is well known around the world, particular in Eastern europe, where your former master cannot wait to kick your brother and father out of the country.
Your father have hauled drugs from Laos and Myanmar your two close allies, to feed you and the entire village. What your father and your forefather have done are criminals or felony in somebody's eyes but it is entirely legal in your tight circle. It is your culture and you and your father have spread that culture around world so viciously that look bad on anyone even has a little resemlant to you. Nevertheless, it is your culture of theft and robbery that entitle you to maintain that practice. Thank to your hard work, your criminal culture has exported to all part of Asia, leading one country to another to expel your brothers from their soil. And yet, it is this kind of hard core criminal work your family manages to come up with the money sending you to school to act as an "attack dog"?
Are you telling me your money are hard earned ?
and yes, i have HAVE LOAD OF DOGS, CATS AND PIGS AT HOME. They are Edwin, Edwin's father and Edwin's forefather. They are what we called "Animal farm".
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EDWIN WROTE:
DAVID YOU ARE ON DRUG. I DO NOT TALK TO DRUG PEOPLE.
DAVE, !! YAH?
YOU GUYS ARE NOT VIET KIEU, BUT NGUY KIEU!
YOU GUYS INTELLIGENT EQUVALENT OF A GOLD FISH AND SO SHUT THE THE F… AND GET OUT OF HERE!
TRAN VIET HUNG 007 Says:
Edwin Tran may be an Elementary, but he is much smarter than those NGUY KIEU educated in the US.
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OK, I got your point. Here is the proof of your theory.
Who has the genius like Edwin and his father or his forefather turned the entire national airlines, VIETNAM AIRLINES, into ‘OFFICIAL AIRLINES FOR SMUGGLERS”. Who can manage to corrupt the officials from Australia, Germany and Japanese to name a few and to put into their "pockets"?
SO far NONE. Both of you are right, NGUY KIEU have failed to show they have that disgraceful act to reach that threshold. Too bad for the NGUY KIEU in the race for the best place for "Vietnam IDIOT" or "VN's CORRUPT TALENT".
NGUY KIEU what do you think if I suggest to send our children to the Russian school to learn about 1 or 2 of the corruption and about acting like an animal? If we do not act quickly, NGUY KIEU's children Will be too far behind. NGUY KIEU children will grow up as politicians, army officer, software engineers and early meager salaries only. On the other hand, Edwin's family go into smuggling rings, extortion business and robbery business and make a fortune. Or they are selling old clothing or stealing goods in the former eastern Europe and often chase down by their former master. (hey, if their former masters cannot stand them, who can?). NGUY KIEU is a decision time. According TO the monkey brain and TRAN VIET HUNG, these are the smart people.
come piggy eddy, show me your intelligence, don't hide from Cu Chi tunnel. Write something instead of posting some other people stuffs. You are paid by your people to do terrorize people on the net. Give me something smart so your work is justified. Remember, your salary is paid by ordinary sweat and tear, so don't waste their money and be so lazy. If you don't do your job right, quit and find something that you can put your sweat and earn the money in respectable way. Your commie party doesn't give you sheesh. Are you too dump to understand what I and Dave and your Ho daddy write and can't make any argument out of it? Next time choose your battle wisely. Don't sing the same song in different places that you beat the American and you hate the Nguy and this and that. If you think the commie is so smart to govern the people than why there are so many Vietnamese women are being sold over sea? Why our land is taken away from the chinese? Why many fishermen being killed or hurt by the chinese and instead taking your smart effort to confront with the chinse rather spend your stupid time here to argue with your own people. We Nguy send back 8 billion dollar a year to pump into your economy and ask nothing back in return, but you would rather give up the land and resources to someone else and they still terrorize your own people. If you are so intelligent, why don't you advice your stupid government protect your country so the Vietnamese can live prosperously and hold their heads high with other nations? Think about it. One day if you have a daughter, would you like your daughter being sold to the chinese for couple hundred dollars to be their wife? Or your daughter may be doing prostitute in Cambodia so she can send money back to you to buy some rice?
I have never come across a bunch of idiot-ology, stupidity and senseless like this bunch of NGUY KIEU!
Sorry guys, you are poor as Jo Cao.
Proud Viet please check the communist dungs Edwin Tran and Tran Viet Hung 007 has been ehh...ehh poping up in google in relates Viet news and bad mouth the proud Viet communities.
Need to let American know that they are communist low life dungs so they can go back to their Cu Chi tunnel and hide like their rats ancestors.
With a degree dish cleaner like communist leader Ho (whore male) the communist Edwin Tran could be promotes to Prime Minister somedays because he has a nails diploma. No wonder that dungs kept stinking all over google news.
I already talked to FBI to track down his IP address it just only time to find the dump dungs and flush away.
Yu called yourself as a nation of democracy, freedom and choices, and because I have different opionions from Nguy Tac and you wanted FBI to flush me away! I might die under the hand of FBI, but the freedom, democracy and choices voiced by Luther King and me live forever.
NGUY TAC SHUT THE F****
piggy eddy, if you have never come across people like us, you do now. You are a piece of dung ho.
sorry commie piggy, we will not shut up. why don't you change your name to dung ho instead of edwin tran?
EDWIN WROTE:
"Ypu called yourself as a nation of democracy, freedom and choices, and because I have different opionions from Nguy Tac and you wanted FBI to flush me away! I might die under the hand of FBI, but the freedom, democracy and choices voiced by Luther King and me live forever."
TO BE fair, nobody has called to flush you out from the rat tunnel. What we are looking for is a reasonable and civilized discussion, and to the disappointment of all, you country and your unique culture under the RED did not have that kind of opportunity.
Did you remember that EDWIN, you started the whole "war", the holy war, by attacking JESEPH
American pay attention, communist Edwin Tran or Tran Viet Hung is about flush in the septic tank and it's because the dungs was stink. His ancestors which is whore Ho male will evetually eliminate the dungs' s relatives too. There are no place for the stinky low life human form to live. Just wait and see the dungs will be clean up soon.
this dung ho edwin is every where on the net. If you google his name, he makes so many comments on the nets. I think he is from ontorio, canada and his face like a viet cong. He probably sells drugs overthere. Just report him to department of narcotics in Canada so they put this dung ho in jail for good.
I like the way Edwin dung afraid of flushing new, it lowlife form has accepted it name dungs
TO BE fair, nobody has called to flush you out from the rat tunnel. What we are looking for is a reasonable and civilized discussion, and to the disappointment of all, you country and your unique culture under the RED did not GIVE you that kind of opportunity.
Did you remember that EDWIN, you started the whole "war", the holy war, by attacking JESEPH CAO and NGUY KIEU. If you want to attack CAO, attack his policy, not his faith. A personal faith, in a civilized society, is sacred. You have intruded into a non-fly zone. I am not a Catholic, and i do not have any slight sympathy with the Catholic and i come to his defend simply for that reason: you have violated the "Cardinal rule".
We do not defend our record, our history has spoke for itself. L.A Times just few days ago called "Vietnamese immigrants story is the most successful story in U.S history".
If the info. provided by some bloggers here are true, i will not be so surprise. I have learned from friends that most of criminals in Canada involving marijuna plantation, estasy labs, and other criminal activities are from the old part of COmmie Vietnam. I guess i do not have to name it, and reader should have an idea what i am talking about.
It is no surprise that EDWIN come to defend of his pack so viciously. Well, BIRDS OF SAME FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER. I do not blame him, he and his father were chased down into CUCHI tunnel ( hiding and instead of fighting but Edwin thought that was heroic acts) in the old days and now they are being chased down anywhere in Canada and USA by the NGUY KIEU again. EDWIN ancestors are wondering when this is going to end in anytime soon? Any suggestion.
EDWIN WROTE:
"I have never come across a bunch of idiot-ology, stupidity and senseless like this bunch of NGUY KIEU! Sorry guys, you are poor as Jo Cao.".
If we are stupid, senseless as you claim, then why you are so defensive? you are taking the same page from your father and forefather, EDWIN. If you them, you like very much. In the old days, the Soviets told you forefather SHIT ARE TASTY, you father would say ' YES, MASTER, TASTY, TASTY". and if they told you father JUMP OFF THE BRIDGE, you forefather say 'JUMP,".
Also in your red culture, if you do not like what they say about you, and if you had the means, you will put the behind the bar and torture them. When you cannot do that, you recite the same old lines to attack your enemy personally in a utmost uncivilized manner.
Well, now you know, if you want to play cat and mouse, you have better came up with a better story. If you are brutal just and acting like an animal like your father and your forefather, we are going to be relentless to deal with you too.
Whatever how stupid you think we are, we are far too smart for you. Your education and training background do not give you the training we have.
We should treat and attack people like EDWIN as criminal elements, and it is more effective and appropriate for a modern day thinking.
Poland's high court had recently cited the COMMIE as a mafia and organized crime unit. They have engaged in ranging from murder, extortion, gambling, kidnapping, illicit trade, smuggling to human trafficking (they are still widely practicing in EDWIN's homeland with the official sanction. Thanks to these money, most of EDWIN's relatives have amassed such wealth and built banks, supermarkets and other telecommunication business in VN.
As recent as last month, they are involving in selling a chemical substance that can produce explosive to the Phillipines. The vessel from EDWIN's family as of today is still in the custody of the Phillipines government. These are the money and fortune enable EDWIN's father to send him him to Canada and from there they will expand their illegal trades. Afterall, it is their culture of criminal values.
Attacking them as a criminal organization is far more effective since they are relevant to what they are actually doing in VN now.
NOW, we know and at least have idea why the EDWIN'S FAMILY TREE does not like the "NGUY KIEU". IT IS SIMPLE, "NGUY KIEU" refused in bed with the culture of criminality.
"NGUY KIEU" have no one to blame but them self. As Edwin claimed, "NGUY KIEU" is senseless since they lack of the common sense that criminal activities are far more profitable than office or factory jobs. AND yet, "NGUY KIEU" has to be very "stupid" for failing to corrupt American politicians and businessmen though they have lived in the USA for more than 3 decades. On the other hands, EDWIN's father and forefather can turn the most decent human beings into a corrupted mind overnight as soon as they land in his home turf. BRAVO for your excellent success, EDWIN THE CRIMINAL FAMILY AND CRIMINAL HOMETOWN.
NOW, their criminal empire will be expanded as more consulates are open up across the American continents. As we can anticipate, none of these criminal or felony profits will be share with the "NGUY KIEU". "NGUY KIEU" WILL EAT dust in this criminal empire. No wonder EDWIN is so excited when the guy in Houston landed with bags after bags of new business opportunity.