My brother in law is scheduled to vacation in Vietnam soon. I know many people who’ve traveled there, spent good money, and I never quite understood why. There are innumerable places to visit, most of which aren’t home to a place that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of American soldiers. If that isn’t enough for you, how about civil rights?
Do they mean anything to you, or are they simply a convenience for you to invoke, whenever you’re trying to make a drunken partisan statement about politics?
A 37 year old mother/blogger was just sentenced to a decade in a Vietnamese prison cell for ‘anti-state propaganda.’ Hell, if I was blogging in Vietname, I’d be executed on spot.
Source: CNN
Nguyen, also known by her blogging pseudonym, Me Nam — which translates to “Mother Mushroom” — was convicted of “conducting anti-State propaganda.”
The 37-year-old, whose pseudonym originated with her nickname, “Mushroom,” for her daughter, runs a blog which is frequently critical of the government, and covers issues such as land confiscation, freedom of speech and police brutality.
She is famous for using the tagline, “Who will speak if you don’t?”Nguyen also came to the attention of authorities in 2009 for her outspoken views against China’s intervention in her country, including Beijing’s financing of a controversial bauxite mine in the Central Highlands.
She was arrested by the Department of Public Security on October 10, 2016, according to the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA), which referred to her in reports as an “anti-state instigator.”
The US called on Vietnam to release Nguyen and “all other prisoners of conscience immediately.”
Back in 2009, Nguyen was imprisoned for 10 days for “abuse of democratic freedoms and infringing on the national benefit.” In order to get released, she had to agree to give up blogging and post a handwritten letter, describing her love for Vietnam and how her country felt blogging was a poor choice to express her thoughts.
A few months later, Vietnam denied her a passport, so she decided to blog again. Now she’s going to prison for a decade.
“I write another entry on my blog, that I gave up already, but they didn’t leave me alone,” she said. “I have to take the right to say what I think.”
Wonderful country of savages. Enjoy your vacation.
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This faith awaits all those in the West if the pinko marxists, incited by Soros and his filthy zionist tribe, get their way.
Yes, unprovoked, they maimed US soldiers. Lol
yeah, let us bomb them one more time
Because it worked out so good the first time around.
#MAGA!!!!
Spent a couple of weeks there back around 2006 and absolutely loved it. Actually liked it better than Thailand overall. People were friendlier, spoke better English, great beaches and everything was cheap as fuck.
Took a “river boat” cruise – pretty sure it was a converted captured USN PT boat – through the jungles. Got to admit a few scenes from Apocalypse Now entered the noggin. But overall, the place is freaking awesome and I would go back in a heartbeat. Then again I’m not an obnoxious American that thinks other country’s laws don’t apply to me so YMMV.
Department of Public Security called and they said you were sentenced to ten years in absentia for crimes against the state. You are welcome back anytime to serve out your sentence.
So you agree with the 10 year sentence? Or do you think it should have been longer?
What are ‘laws’? Human instinct is to want and pursue freedom. Any government that restricts it does not deserve tourist money.
Fuck their laws. And fuck their country.
Your brother-in-law has good taste. I would hang out with him. Please tell me he didn’t vote for Cheeto Benito.
Oh, you’d love him. Beats the shit out of all the people he arrests. Makes sure he find spots without cameras.
Lol
Is everyone in Vietnam last name Nguyen? Is everyone in India a Patel?
Yes and yes.
I’d rather visit the fucking jungles of Africa than the cesspoll of human sewage called Vietnam.