Commie-Free Zone in La-La Land

NewsMax ^ | 4/28/04 | Carl Limbacher

[wagglebee]

Could there really be a no-pinko zone on the Left Coast? Yes, thanks to those who actually know what they're talking about.

"Memories of the Red Menace may be fading in much of America, but they are very much alive in Orange County's Little Saigon," the Los Angeles Times reported.

"In a gesture that says a lot about the uncompromising anger that many Vietnamese emigres feel toward the regime they fled, leaders want to declare a no-Communist zone."

Officials in Garden Grove and Westminster, home to many escapees from Vietnam, want to ban visits by officials from Hanoi.

The Times calls it "the latest salvo in an enduring hatred of communism that rivals that of Miami's Cuban exiles for Fidel Castro."

Ky Ngo, an activist in Garden Grove, said: "We don't accept the communists anywhere. When we fled our homeland, we risked our lives to escape communism …. We want nothing to do with them."

Malibu Barbi Streisand, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon and other members of the Hollywood left are advised to use LAX instead of John Wayne Airport when they jet in from New York or from the film shoots that had to be outsourced to Canada because of their mammoth salaries.

[wagglebee]

Maybe there's hope.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That is just a ways east of where I am.

It is not part of La LA Land.

[onedoug]

Little Saigon. Best pho ga (chicken rice noodle soup) this side of Tam Ky.

[SandRat]

He-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he.....

The mental image of Malibu Barbi Streisand, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon and other members of the Hollywood left seeped in their own self importance ignoring the Vietnamese communities warning and finding out at the John Wayne Airport that they are not welcome.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

The Times calls it "the latest salvo in an enduring hatred of communism that rivals that of Miami's Cuban exiles for Fidel Castro."

Does it ever occur to the airheads who write for the LA Times that maybe the Cubans of Miami and the Vietnamese of Garden Grove might just have good reason for their opposition to communism? Or that they might even know more about communism (having lived under it) than the staff of the LA Times?

I think I know the answer.

[wagglebee]

No the LA Times is made up of commies, they don't understand why anyone doesn't like them. They are gravely offended that there is an airport named after John Wayne and that Reagan still lives there. I'm told the best experience there is is to leave Reagan National in DC and arrive at John Wayne, patriotism all the way.

[socal_parrot]

I live south west of Little Saigon. Fifteen thousand people showed up to protest a video shop owner who had a picture of Ho Chi Mihn on his wall. I also shook George W Bush's hand at a rally there.

Them's good people.

[DumpsterDiver]

Does it ever occur to the airheads who write for the LA Times that maybe the Cubans of Miami and the Vietnamese of Garden Grove might just have good reason for their opposition to communism?

Not much of anything occurs to airheads. Here are the last three paragraphs of the L.A. Times article.

But some observers say the measure is misguided and does more harm than good.

"Vietnam is not a nice society," said Zachary Abuza, a professor at Simmons College in Boston who studies Southeast Asian politics. "But the community needs to understand they are operating in a new social, legal and political environment. They just have to get that ? and they don't.

"There's nothing we can do to stop the representatives of the communist government from traveling there. That's like saying that you're going to make Orange County, a predominantly Republican county, an anti-Democratic zone. It's absurd."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"There's nothing we can do to stop the representatives of the communist government from traveling there. That's like saying that you're going to make Orange County, a predominantly Republican county, an anti-Democratic zone. It's absurd."

Not to me!

[Toidylop]

The Vietnamese community is heavily Republican to boot (according to Assemblyman Ken Maddox). They've been the most solid conservative block of voters in Southern California, unfortunately, they're not as big or powerfull as others.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Little Saigon to declare itself a 'COMMUNIST-Free Zone'

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[GATOR NAVY]

"But the community needs to understand they are operating in a new social, legal and political environment. They just have to get that and they don't.

Interesting quote. I've never heard the lefties say the same about immigrants from Mexico. In their case, we're all just supposed to bow to the joys of multiculturalism.

[DumpsterDiver]

I've never heard the lefties say the same about immigrants from Mexico.

The lefties are afraid that the Vietnamese immigrants are wise to their propaganda.