Posted on 12/08/2004 5:29:34 PM PST by PjhCPA
MADISON (AP) -- Hmong leaders pleaded for more help from the state to educate Hmong hunters on regulations, as they brainstormed Tuesday on ways to defuse racial tension and help their people earn respect in the aftermath of the North Woods slayings.
The session was held a week after Chai Soua Vang, 36, from St. Paul, Minn., was charged with shooting six white hunters to death and wounding two others Nov. 21 after Vang trespassed on their land in Sawyer County.
Kou Xiong, the state Department of Natural Resources Hmong liaison, told a group appointed by Gov. Jim Doyle to handle Hmong immigration he is the only one in the agency that deals directly with the Hmong and he can't educate the approximately 14,000 Hmong hunters that take to Wisconsin's woods.
"I can't do it alone," he said.
Thai Vue, a task force member and associate executive director of the La Crosse Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, shook his head. He said the DNR has to pump more resources -- especially more bilingual staff -- into educating his people on hunting regulations.
"I'm scared," he said. "You can't reach out to people to this degree."
Doyle appointed the Hmong Resettlement Advisory Task Force earlier this year to help the state absorb about 3,000 new Hmong refugees expected to arrive by spring. The task force's meeting Tuesday was its first since the slayings, which came on the second day of the nine-day gun deer season.
Chai Soua Vang allegedly told police the hunters he killed hurled racial slurs at him and fired a shot after they found him in their tree stand and ordered him off their land. All eight hunters who were shot were white.
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What is it about private property these people don't understand?
That's the freaking solution???
To hire more bilingual staff to educate 'Hmong' hunters? To not massacre people?
Am I missing something?
My thoughts exactly
Have you taken over the pinging for Laydsmith?
How are they obtaining firearms newly arrived in this country???
I understand this particular man has been in the states for quite some time, years in fact. I don't think this is the first time he went hunting, I would imagine that he is well aware of private property and such so I really don't think that education is the problem.
Having said that, why doesn't the Hmong community hold it's own information meetings on issues like the to insure that new comers understand property rights in the USA.
I do know that a Russian immigrant I worked with said to her it is weird, in Russia all places are public, here land along the rivers etc. alot of it is private, she called it strange, and to her it probably is. (tho I do wonder exactly how public the places the 'elites' use are...)
Ladysmith asked me to assist her with the ping list. When I saw your post I thought I would alert folks to it.
My mother hasn't been able to get a good answer on whether private property is really private in the USA. She wonders this every time she pays the property tax. If government can take away your land, it's not really yours is it?
This ticks me off! The only reason why there is any "racial tension" to speak of is because lefties and other enabling scum are fomenting it! What the Hmong should have said from the word "go" and up through now is "This is a horrible tragedy. We don't know what happened. Let's wait and see what the facts show before we make anything racial of this. Six people are dead. Let's not slander them. One man is accused. Let's see how his story holds up. Justice will be done." God I hate these lying racialist scum!!!
Okay, I'll ping you too then
Vang had an outstanding warrant on him for not paying a fine for tresspassing a few years ago. He was turkey hunting at the time.
He understands private property just fine.
He OWNS private hunting property in Minnesota.
I git it. We're gonna teach 'em that huntin' regulations in Wisconsin forbid shootin' people.
Guess they didn't know...
Well at least their leaders are not acting like the leaders of other cultures and marching in support of the criminal even though it obvious that he's wrong.
I'm glad to see that the community is condemning the act and doing something to positive to avoid future incidents.
"This ticks me off! The only reason why there is any "racial tension" to speak of is because lefties and other enabling scum are fomenting it!"
Well said. My thoughts, to the letter!
Why does the media keep saying there is racial tension in WI?
Has there been any hate crimes or vandalism? Where is this coming from?
Hey all you Hmongs out there- read this to get a hunting license:
"fook hunting on private land"
But - you say there's no "fook" in hunting on private land?
EXACTLY!
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