Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:20:24 EST
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From:         Son Nguyen <nguyen@AIRMICS.GATECH.EDU>
Subject:      [SOC/POL] Re: Prime ../Children

 "Many of them are also being used by many special interest groups that
 would do anything to get back the power their have lost in 1975."

 > > Dear Mr. Thi.nh N. Nguye^~n,
 >
 > > Could you please provide some information to clarify what you stated above?
 >
 > > Thank you very much.
 >
 > > So+n Nguye^~n

Mr. Thi.nh Nguye^~n,

The reason I asked you the above question is as far as I know, there is
no such special interest group trying to get back the power they lost
in 1975.

Whoever in power at that time either they ran away and made their new
lives if they're just concerned about their own happiness.  Also,
whoever in power at that time, if they are trying to fight against the
VC, I am sure that all they want is the freedom for Vietnamese people,
not for themselves as you indicated.

Why do I say so?  As far as far I know, only those who would risk their
lives to fight for freedom and democracy for VN, such as Ly' To^'ng and
Vo~ DDa.i To^n, etc., already suffered a lot not because for their own
interest, but for all the Vietnamese people, except the VC and their
followers, of course.  Do they hope to be president if they can topple
the VC government? Maybe that is what you think they want to be, but
that's not what they want.

I believe that those Vietnamese who are political refugees, including
myself, left VN because they could not live with the Communist, and,
therefore, they have to support those freedom fighters, not to stab
behind their back.

As one of them, I would not keep silent while seeing you make such
GROUNDLESS and IRRESPONSIBLE statement above.

Anyway, I don't want to push too hard on this issue.  I just want to
discuss two other interesting points that you've mentioned below:

 > Dear So+n:
 >
 > Thank you for paying attention to my posting. Sorry if I am a little late
 > in with my response, things have been very hectic laterly. I'll be glad
 > to clarify my statement for you but you are asking me to walk into a land
 > mine here. It's not that I am afraid of anyone but I have better things to
 > do than making enemies with these people. Let me try to explain my remark
 > to you without upseting those who think that anyone who disagrees with them
 > must works for VCs.
 >
 > What I meant in my statement is that there are many people who always claim
 > that lifting the trade embargo and helping the poors in Vietnam would
 > strengthen the communist government and should not be done at all. By
 > aiming at the communist government of Vietnam but hurting the Vietnamese,
 > these over-zealous individuals also being the perfect pawns for those former
 > leaders of SVN who are jokeying for position if the communist fall. Off the
 > record, I may be able to tell you more, but I suggest that you find out for
 > yourself who are REALLY behind those organizations that demand the overthrow
 > of the communist government at any cost. There are there basic reasons why
 > someone is taking this position:
 >
 >         - Really care about Vietnamese and want to replace an oppressive
 regime
 >         with a better one.
 >         - Hoping for a chance to play small-time politic once the communists
 >         are gone.
 >         - Have some personal hatred toward the VCs and want revenge.
 >
 > Why don't you take a close look at these people to see if any of them really
 >  care
 > about the Vietnamese who are starving all over the country. If you find any,
 I'd
 > bet that you can seat all of them in a Yugo and still have room for luggages.
 >  Don't
 > get me wrong though, at the lower levels in these organizations you still can
 > see many good people with sincere desire to help Vietnamese.
 >
 > The idea of overthrow the communist government is very tempting and sound
 very
 > attractive to all of us refugees but just remove them is not the answer.I
 have
 > some problems with helping anyone who involved in the SVN government back
 into
 > power because since they never admited the mistakes they had made in SVN, I
 > strongly believe that if they are in position to rule Vietnam one day, they
 will
 > do the same thing all over again. Listen to these guys and you will see.
 While
 > most of them took part in corruptions that totally destroyed SVN, they are
 > talking about corruptions today in VN as if they were invented by the
 >  communists.

Corruption is one point.

I don't mean to pick on you, because you're not the first one stating
that the SVN governemnt was corrupting.  Tell me, any of you who've
said so, which Vietnamese government is "clean", not corrupted?

Are you sure when you criticize that the SVN government was corrupted,
you know what you're talking about?

Any of you going home wouldn't pay the VC Customs at Tan Son Nhat
airport twenty or thirty bucks, just to save your time?  Remember, you
don't have to bribe, you have a choice not to.

Put you in the situation of a boat person, who failed the screening
process at a refugee camp, would you pay $1000 to past, if you know for
sure?

Would you pay $3000 if you can afford in order to enter the US, given
that if you don't do so, you will be sent back to VN?

I am sure most if not all of us will pay.

Therefore, before you criticize that the SVN government was corrupted,
first, make sure that there is no corruption is your blood, in your
family, relatives, and second, make sure you know what you talk about.

I don't mean to support corruption, but I mean that we need to
understand corruption before we would make any comments on it.

I saw many of you criticizing about the SVN government, but any of you
know how to handle the VN society if you are in their position???

I challenge all of you to answer the question.

 > They always promise that once the communists is gone, they will be able to
 make
 > Vietnam into another Japan. Nothing can be further from the truth. I didn't
 > know there are many magic wands and these former US beggars have them all.
 > To trust these thieves to perform economic miracles is like asking a kid
 > who lives on parents' allowance to run General Motors.
 >
 > They always talk about all the atrocities done by the VCs by never admitted
 > the things that the SVN government and US done to Vietnam and her people.
 Only

What have the SVN government and the US done to Vietnam and her people???

 > when we stop denial these facts that we can learn to win the support of the
 > majority of Vietnamese. We will also learn that using the US might to rule
 > Vietnamese will never work in Vietnam.
 >
 > To those of us who still looking toward our homeland everyday, we can not go
 > back home with guns or money. The true passage to our homeland can only be
 > found with love - love for our country and her people. May our common love
 > for Vietnam bring us together to work for the welfare of all Vietnamese.
 >
 > Thi.nh n. Nguye^~n
 >

The second point is I think you don't believe that the VN Communist
government is the main cause of the devastating situation in VN.  If
so, why are you here for?  Why don't you go back VN to bring your love
to Vietnamese people and do whatever you can to help "rebuild" the
country.  Why "have to rebuild"?  Many people have said that, but they
don't know why they've said so.  Why didn't anyone mention about
"rebuild" right after April 1975?  Why do they have to wait until now,
after more than 15 years of Communist rule?

Now you and the Communist blame on the trade embargo that the US has
imposed on VN.  Why did the Communist isolate the whole country (the
so-called iron/bamboo curtain) since April 75, and since July 54 for
the North VN?  Maybe you're too young to realize what the "bamboo
curtain" means, but look at the boat people, and look at how much
they've suffered in order to get out the country, to break throught the
curtain, you might understand a little bit about it.

I'm sure that you and many others who're eager to go home to support
the VN Communist government already forgot why you're here.  I wouldn't
want to give you any lecture.  Let you find out by yourself in a hard
way.

Good day and good luck!

So+n Nguye^~n
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