A Vietnamese dissident was tried on Thursday and sentenced today - stories HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.
He was convicted of "spreading propaganda against the communist state." IOW: For exercising one of his inalienable, universal human rights - his right to make Free Speech.
Besides being a Free Speech advocate and a democracy activist, the "perp' - Nguyen Van Ly - is a Roman Catholic priest.
He's already served 15 years for similar "offenses" against the state. Now he will have to serve another 8.
That fat ugly insane leftist Rosie O'donnell - who thinks "Bush = Hitler" because of the Patriot Act - is silent.
So are McCain and Kerry who campaigned for years for normalization of the Marxist thug tyranny in Hanoi. (BTW: What is it about McCain that makes hi so love to cuddle up to the worst lefties in the Senate - like Kerry and Feingold!?)
And the ACLU is silent. As are Amnesty International and HRW.
WHY THE SILENCE?! They are silent because the perp's are leftists - LIKE THEM! Fellow travelers never criticize one of their own - they're like birds of a feather who flock together.
Besides, the American Left LOVES Vietnam - (because "they taught the USA a lesson!") - and therefore the American left could never bring themselves to accuse the Vietnamese commies of being tyrants because to do that they would have to admit that THEY WERE WRONG ABOUT HO CHI MINH AND THE WAR!
Proof of this can be found in Vietnam's neighborhood: The American Left finds it easy to criticize Myanmar - because calling the tyrants there "tyrants" does NOT cause cognitive dissonance.
(Some Leftists excuse the Vietnamese tyranny because, after all, they do "give" their "citizens" "free healthcare.")
UPDATE: Commenter David from Florida notes that AI and HRW have both issued statements attacking and condemning the Vietnamese gov't's actions. BRAVO! Now if they would only call a presser and keep as much heat on the Vietnamese tyrants as they do the Bush Administration! After all: there are really, honestly, truthfully 65 MILLION political prisoners in Vietnam! (IOW: they are NOT silent on the event, but only whispering their dismay -- whreas they SCREEAM BLOODY HELL when it's the USA they're bashing!)
AND THAT'S RIGHT: In Vietnam, there are 65 MILLION political prisoners living without liberty and in poverty - ALL COURTESY of the doves of the Democrat Party.
BTW: These Democrat doves (many of whom are the very same people: Byrd, Kennedy, Kerry, et al) are back in control of the party and they want to do the same thing to the Iraqis.
He was convicted of "spreading propaganda against the communist state." IOW: For exercising one of his inalienable, universal human rights - his right to make Free Speech.
Besides being a Free Speech advocate and a democracy activist, the "perp' - Nguyen Van Ly - is a Roman Catholic priest.
He's already served 15 years for similar "offenses" against the state. Now he will have to serve another 8.
That fat ugly insane leftist Rosie O'donnell - who thinks "Bush = Hitler" because of the Patriot Act - is silent.
So are McCain and Kerry who campaigned for years for normalization of the Marxist thug tyranny in Hanoi. (BTW: What is it about McCain that makes hi so love to cuddle up to the worst lefties in the Senate - like Kerry and Feingold!?)
And the ACLU is silent. As are Amnesty International and HRW.
WHY THE SILENCE?! They are silent because the perp's are leftists - LIKE THEM! Fellow travelers never criticize one of their own - they're like birds of a feather who flock together.
Besides, the American Left LOVES Vietnam - (because "they taught the USA a lesson!") - and therefore the American left could never bring themselves to accuse the Vietnamese commies of being tyrants because to do that they would have to admit that THEY WERE WRONG ABOUT HO CHI MINH AND THE WAR!
Proof of this can be found in Vietnam's neighborhood: The American Left finds it easy to criticize Myanmar - because calling the tyrants there "tyrants" does NOT cause cognitive dissonance.
(Some Leftists excuse the Vietnamese tyranny because, after all, they do "give" their "citizens" "free healthcare.")
UPDATE: Commenter David from Florida notes that AI and HRW have both issued statements attacking and condemning the Vietnamese gov't's actions. BRAVO! Now if they would only call a presser and keep as much heat on the Vietnamese tyrants as they do the Bush Administration! After all: there are really, honestly, truthfully 65 MILLION political prisoners in Vietnam! (IOW: they are NOT silent on the event, but only whispering their dismay -- whreas they SCREEAM BLOODY HELL when it's the USA they're bashing!)
AND THAT'S RIGHT: In Vietnam, there are 65 MILLION political prisoners living without liberty and in poverty - ALL COURTESY of the doves of the Democrat Party.
BTW: These Democrat doves (many of whom are the very same people: Byrd, Kennedy, Kerry, et al) are back in control of the party and they want to do the same thing to the Iraqis.
