From: nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Christopher Chu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: [SOC] PETITION AGAINST THE BEATING DEATH OF LUYEN PHAN NGUYEN
Keywords: [SOC] PETITION AGAINST THE BEATING DEATH OF LUYEN PHAN NGUYEN
Date: 12 Sep 92 14:19:56 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Denver, Colorado

Dear Netters,

This is the first time that I post about this subject in this newsgroup.
I am sorry for the legth of this article. But please read if you feel that
you are interested in this subject.

| From: nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Christopher Chu)
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,soc.culture.filipino,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.vietnamese
| Subject: Re: [SOC] PETITION FOR LUYEN NGUYEN
| Message-ID: <20279@drutx.ATT.COM>
| Date: 11 Sep 92 21:30:07 GMT
| References: <1992Sep11.034828.4288@news.media.mit.edu| <20269@drutx.ATT.COM>
| Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Denver, Colorado
| 
| Dear Netters,
| 
| During the last few days, I have been building a list of petitioners who
| will share a petition letter against the beating death of Mr. Nguyen Phan
| Nguyen. You name is included in the list only if you have sent me a private
| note using the email address in the signature block below to tell me to do
| so. This petition is a follow-up of my original and individual protest
| letter that was sent to 28 of U.S. officials last week. If you feel that
| the petition that we plan to send should also go to other officials and
| agencies, please provide me with names and addresses and I will send the
| final version of the petition with a separate note to them.
| 
| The 28 officials above included the Governor and Lt. Governor of Florida,
| two Senators from Florida, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State,
| the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, and a major number of
| Congressman and Congresswomen from Florida. The names and addresses of these
| officials were originally posted by Mr/MRS/MS Le Tran <0005008625@mcimail.com>.
| I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr/MRS/MS Le for what he/she
| did. My private email to him/her has bounded after 3 days of wandering
| around the Internet.
| 
| I forwarded a draft troff-version of the complete petition below. This
| version has incorporated the most recent corrective suggestions made by
| Cuong T. Nguyen from Stanford <cuong@haydn.stanford.edu| :-) Attached with
| this letter is the list of all petitioners and my original protest letter
| which may be useful for further reference.
| 
| I will send a slightly modified version of the petition above by Saturday,
| September 19, 1992. This time delay is also necessary for all participants
| to have time to provide me with feedback that they may have. I also need
| this time to locate a number of newspapers, Radio and TV stations in Florida
| to which this petition will also be made known. I would appreciate very much
| if Florida netters, who know these addresses, would post them on the net.
| 
| I want to thank all netters for allowing me this opportunity to raise
| my voice. I sincerely thank those who have participated in this petition
| against the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen. I have been profoundly
| touched with the concerns and care from you, especially from the Chinese,
| Phillipino, Korean, Indian and several other non-Vietnamese netters.
| I am so glad to find these people, most of whom several thousand miles
| away, but who have readily shared the same concern and responsibility for
| our well-being.
| 
| Sincerely Yours,
| 
| Chris
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Christopher Chu		    Voice: (303)538-3714
| AT&T Bell Laboratories	    Fax:   (303)538-3564
| 11900N Pecos Street               Email: nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Internet)
| Denver, Colorado 80234	           att!drutx!nguyen     (UUCP)
| 
| Disclaimer: the above opinions, comments, advices, suggestions, or ideas
| are my own. In this mail, I am NOT representing or speaking on behalf of
| AT&T or the Bell Laboratories.
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------
| .SA 1
| .DS
| 								Christopher Chu
| 								10113 Irving Street
| 								Westminster, CO 80030
| 
| 								September, 12, 1992
| 
| RE: Petition against the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen.
| 
| .DE
| .P
| Last week, I took the opportunity to write to you a letter
| expressing my concern about the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen
| by a group of young college party-goers in Coral Springs, Florida.
| Attachment 2 contains this letter for your reference.
| .P
| Since I sent this letter, a number of my friends and colleagues all over
| the country have also raised their voices to share similar concerns about this
| shocking news. It is my privilege to present to you the follow-up petition
| on behalf of these American citizens. Each of us can be reached individually
| using the corresponding computer electronic mail address included in
| attachment 1.
| .P
| We feel that the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen is a crime of
| federal offense and its order of magnitude is too serious to be ignored.
| We can not accept this barbaric killing and its potential impact that
| will further promote racial hatred and brutality in America.  We believe
| that the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen should be made known to
| all American people, especially to U.S. officials. We long for appropriate
| measures such as legal actions and social education efforts to make our
| society a better place for all of us to live.
| .P
| We stand firmly together on this matter of justice and we plan to make our
| stance known to the media. We respectfully request indictments that charge
| the dangerous individuals who participated in the beating death of Mr. Luyen
| Phan Nguyen with murder for their brutal killing of our innocent and
| honorable American citizen. We strongly believe that a lighter punishment
| for these individuals would encourage further threats of racism and fatal
| brutality in our society.
| .P
| We thank you in advance for your time and consideration. We sincerely hope
| that you will support us to demand justice for the beating death of Mr.
| Luyen Phan Nguyen. We respectfully volunteer our efforts if we can be of any
| help in this fight for justice. We believe that our serious concerns
| and the influence that you will put forth to support our petition will help
| maintain and strengthen justice for all American people.
| .DS
| 
| 								Sincerely Yours,
| 
| 
| 
| 								Christopher Chu
| 								On behalf of all petitioners
| .DE
| .SA 1
| .PH "'Attachment 1'- \\\\nP -''"
| .DS
| .TS
| expand,box,tab(|);
| l s s
| l | l | l.
| List of Petitioners - Against the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen
| _
| Name                     | Electronic Mail Address       | Citizenship
| =
| Chinh Le                 | chinhl@spuds.sps.mot.com      | American *
| Christopher Chu          | nguyen@drutx.att.com          | American
| Cuong T. Nguyen          | cuong@haydn.stanford.edu      | American
| Duc M. Pham              | Duc.M.Pham@Dartmouth.edu      | American
| Fam Com                  | nvt@netcom.com                | American
| Fred Ki                  | fredki@silicon.key.amdahl.com | American
| Garrick Le               | garrick@kpc.com               | American
| Hung Le                  | octela!khe!hung@uunet.UU.NET  | American
| Huong Ho                 | ho@uda.dgcd.doc.ca            | Canadian
| Hy Truong Lam            | hy@alumni.Berkeley.edu        | American
| Jeffrey R. Pych          | attmail!mso30k!pych           | American
| John N. Le               | jnl@ihlpe.att.com             | American
| Jose Ramon G. Albert     | albert@ams.sunysb.edu         | American
| Kelvin Leung             | abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu       | American
| Kenneth Yerro Ilio       | kyig6809@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu     | American
| Kumar Yelubandi          | kumar@ug.cs.dal.ca            | Canadian
| Lam Pham                 | pham@itd.nrl.navy.mil         | American
| Lana L. Vutai-Pham       | vupham@ihlpl.att.com          | American
| Linda Le                 | chau@hao.ucar.edu             | American
| Maria Elena Y. Francisco | mfrancis@brandeis.bitnet      | American
| Mike Shane               | mshane@bldvma.vnet.ibm.com    | American
| Mike T. Do               | mdo@socrates.umd.edu          | American
| Nhon Van Tran            | ntran@danang.East.Sun.COM     | American
| Richard Aronce Torres    | richardt@ifi.uio.no           | Norwegian
| Robert M. Klein	         | rmk@druhi.att.com             | American
| Sauwai Lau               | sl55050@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu      | American
| Thanh Bui                | tkb@genrad.com                | American
| Tien Dang Nguyen         | 0003161562@mcimail.com        | American
| Tien Nguyen, Ph.D.       | tien@nmdhst.cc.nih.gov        | American *
| Tuan Anh Nguyen          | nguyen00%snynewvm.bitnet      | American
| Tuan Cong Hoang          | tuan@pyrmail.mis.pyramid.com  | American
| Tuan Tu, Pharm. D.       | tuantu@unmcvm.unmc.edu        | American
| Van Tran                 | 0005359961@mcimail.com        | American
| Vo Nghi                  | vo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu       | American
| .TE
| 
| Compiled by Christopher Chu <nguyen@drutx.att.com>, September 12, 1992.
| .DE
| .P
| TEMPORARY NOTE: * indicates that this participant has requested to
| explicitly review the petition before his/her name may be included.
| .SA 1
| .PH "'Attachment 2'- \\\\nP -''"
| .DS
| 								Christopher Chu
| 								10113 Irving Street
| 								Westminster, CO 80030
| 
| 								September 4, 1992
| 
| RE: Protest of the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen.
| 
| .DE
| .P
| I have learned about the beating death of a Vietnamese college student,
| Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen, by a group of college party-goers in Coral Springs,
| South Florida, during the last two weeks. I obtained this information
| from several articles written in various newspapers and the USENET computer
| network news. The reference page attached to this letter lists six related
| news articles for your reference. I am writing this letter to express my
| concern about the recorded violence and to call for your attention to this
| justice matter.
| .P
| I have not found any reason to justify the beating death of a human-being
| due to racial hatred that emerged from a college party; I thought that
| college parties are supposed to be joyous. I hardly can find appropriate
| and brief words to express my fright about the brutality exposed by a group
| of college party-goers that beat and killed an innocent student.
| I wonder if I will ever regret, at some point in my life, for allowing my
| young and loved ones to continue to go to their favorite college parties.
| .P
| I think the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen fundamentally exceeds
| the violence demonstrated in Rodney King's beating. It is also beyond the
| crimes committed by drug addicts or serial killers. It is clearly more than
| a simple crime since its essence is about the brutal nature of normal and
| young individuals who could kill completely innocent people due to nothing
| but racial hatred.
| .P
| I believe that allowing any individual among these dangerous people to be
| free on the our street would be a serious mistake. Such forgiveness would
| encourage further serious threats of racism to all American people. If the
| individuals who have participated in the beating death of Mr. Luyen Phan
| Nguyen are not seriously identified and punished by our court, I am certain
| that more public killing and brutality will continue to harm and
| disintegrate our people.
| .P
| I heard some people argue that the racial violence I have described is not
| new and thus, we should not bother. Contrary to these people's belief,
| I would like to emphasize again that this beating death of an innocent
| Vietnamese student by mostly white young men is more serious than racism;
| perhaps, the term "racism" might have been used to alleviate the sickness
| of fatal brutality. If a normal young individual could have killed an innocent
| student in a party because of racial arguments, then he or she can do the
| same thing to anyone else on our street. And if an individual could have
| killed innocent people because of hatred, it would be likely that he
| or she would commit similar criminal acts again for any other reason.
| .SK
| .P
| I want to tell all by-standers that I strongly believe that the beating
| death of Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen is worth the serious attention of each and
| everyone of us. For this justice matter to come to light, it cost the life
| of an intellectually honorable and innocent Vietnamese-American
| college student. I have no doubt in my mind that this brave young man would
| still have a lot to offer America if he were given an opportunity to live.
| If this priceless lesson that taught us about the danger of racism and fatal
| brutality that still exists in our society today is not worth our attention,
| then, please tell me, what would?
| .P
| I sincerely request that you use all the power that you have to fight for
| the justice of this matter. I hope that our justice system will function
| at its best to identify the dangerous individuals in the beating death of
| Mr. Luyen Phan Nguyen. I respectfully request indictments that charge these
| young but dangerous individuals with murder for their killing of our
| intellectually honorable and innocent society member.
| .P
| I thank you in advance for your time and consideration. I sincerely hope
| that you will put your energy into this matter to assure that justice is
| served and social order is respectedly maintained by and for all people.
| I trust that the American votes in the past and your efforts today in this
| justice matter are the representative but fundamental constituents of the
| intrinsic value of our justice system.
| .DS
| 								Sincerely Yours,
| 
| 
| 								Christopher Chu
| .DE
| .SK
| .P
| REFERENCES
| .DS
| 
| .DE
| .AL
| .LI
| "VICTIM WAS 'NICE GUY': LUYEN PHAN NGUYEN BEATEN TO
| DEATH IN CORAL SPRINGS," Larry Kahn, Forum Staff, Forum, Coral
| Springs-Parkland, Vol 23, No.34, Sun Sentinel, Florida,
| August 20, 1992.
| .LI
| "6TH SUSPECTED ARRESTED IN BEATING DEATH," Patti Roth and Ray Lynch,
| news source missing,
| August 21, 1992.
| .LI
| "SLAIN STUDENT'S FRIENDS, RELATIVES SAY FAREWELL IN
| BUDDHIST CEREMONY" by Sallie James, Staff Writer, Coral Springs,
| Sun Sentinel, Florida,
| August 21,1992.
| .LI
| "BAIL DENIED TO SUSPECT IN SLAYING OF VIETNAMESE STUDENT,"
| Fort Lauderdale (AP),
| August 29, 1992.
| .LI
| "ASIAN COMMUNITY RIPS VIOLENCE," Kim Margolis, news source missing,
| August 29, 1992.
| .LI
| "TEEN'S DEATH SHOCKS ASIAN COMMUNITY," Marilyn
| Garateix and Naftali Bendavid, Staff Writer, Miami Herald, Florida,
| August 30, 1992.
| .LE
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