Posted on 12/27/2004 5:36:00 AM PST by miltonim
Keep in prayer for the Vietnam Human Rights Bill. It is presently in the Senate after passing by a wide margin in the House. |
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12/26/2004 Vietnam Picture 3 of a Vietnamese Re-Education Camp |
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12/25/2004 Vietnam Picture 2 of A Vietnamese Re-Education Camp |
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12/24/2004 Vietnam Picture 1 of A Vietnamese Re-Education Camp |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, Everybody...
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http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
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NEVER ever FORGET...
...those who were on the side of our Terrorist Enemy Communist North Vietnam during our Fight for Freedom in South Vietnam:
HILLARY RODHAM
BILL CLINTON
JOHN KERRY
DAN RATHER
WALTER CRONKITE
TOM HAYDEN
JANE FONDA
..et al.
And nothing has changed since.
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I dunno' Judy, it worked for me.
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CLARITY is...
...as CLARITY does, perhaps..?
Troops leave 'JON CARRY Stuck in Irak' mess hall.
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758827/posts
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People are essentially arrested because they are Christians but the phenomenon is in decline. Actually people who are Protestant Christians are arrested for doing or saying things that would not get other folks arrested, or at least not so soon. Protestants are a fairly new phenomenon in Viet Nam and Protestantism is considered a foreign thing, a Western thing. Catholics have been a substantial element of the population for several centuries and Catholicism is "Vietnamese." Actually, following Reunification the VCs
(that's what the locals call government people and government fans) attempted to ban religion altogether. The Buddhists, at least in the South, pretty much just stopped- went home and drank tea. The country was sliding rapidly toward the cliff when the VCs decided well okay, Buddhism is a Cultural Vietnamese institution. Right then the border war with China was on and the VCs discovered that they were Vietnamese, not undifferentiated Communists. It took a few years longer to determine that Catholicism is also Culturally Vietnamese but the Catholics were becoming the business class pretty rapidly because they were not permitted to work for the government or in any of the government enterprises, so they got into trading and services and making stuff to sell. The economy was more and more depending on them. The major social disabilities finally came off in the last year.Protestant conversion has happened much too recently and much too fast and the VCs do not understand it and simply don't have any idea how to deal with it. To the VCs it is some sort of foreign invasion. Moreover it has happened mainly among the mountain people- the minorities. The VCs, and to some extent, the Kinh (the ethnic Viets) see it much the same way that our own establishment viewed the Ghost Dance phenomenon that swept the Great Plains Indians in the late 1880s. In our case that led to Wounded Knee and lots of other untoward action. We got over it finally, but not without some egregious killing and imprisonments. The analogy is apt, in part because the folks we call Montagnards are to Viet Nam very much what the plains Indians were to America ca. 1885-1920. There are even reservations from which the Moi and the Hmong depart from time to go hunting or just because it is the season to go somewhere else. The VCs will get over it and US pressure is a great factor in the speed with which they get do over it. Viet Nam desires to be protected by America and desires to NOT be the Chinese Riviera. Viet Nam is thus much more responsive to American pressure than, say, China. The real holdup is that the VCs, while wanting to make all the changes necessary are trying to do it in such a way as to also keep their jobs. Ultimately they will fail to keep their jobs.
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ThanhPhero:
Your brilliant sharing of CLARITY in Post No. 486,
...as our U.S. 7th Cavalry Commanding Officer Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE kept telling his men while completely surrounded by 1,000's of North Vietnamese Communist Army Regulars in that Valley of Death known as the IA DRANG Valley of November 1965,
.."Is just OUTSTANDING"..!!!
http://www.lzxray.com
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com
Thank you for the ping to ThanhPhero's post.
GOOD links, Ronnie. Thanks.
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NEVER FORGET
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Thank you to...
...all those who have CARED enough to contribute their very best to the over 23,000 viewings of this most important Thead of CLARITY.
Especially in a new time of war with our own Freedom directly at stake here at home.
Perhaps the greatest value of such CLARITY may well be in our NEVER AGAIN repeating this same kind of tragic 'Cut & Run' History,
...and the mass suffering of so many Free souls it always produces..?
NEVER ever AGAIN.
"ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
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Oh & a Happy New Year.
...to you & yours. ;^)
I agree wholeheartedly.
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As always...
...I appreciate your CLARITY, Aquamarine.
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Happy New Year Greetings!!
May 2007 be a WONDERFUL Year!!
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NEVER FORGET
The same Sen. TED KENNEDY who pushed Congress into cutting off all funding for the then Free South Vietnamese to fight for the own Freedom with against invading Communist Terrorists from the North,
...went on to do this against our own Freedom with the Communist Soviet Union:
Text of KGB Letter on Sen. TED KENNEDY
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760564/posts
NEVER FORGET
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NEVER FORGET
BTTT
Have a Happy New Year.
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Bless your Heart, Aquamarine, & thank you for your continous support of CLARITY.
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NEVER ever FORGET
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NEVER FORGET
Lessons of Vietnam - How to avoid a repeat, and why it's crucial to do so.
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761355/posts
NEVER FORGET
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