Déjà Vu All Over Again…?
A bit of news about Vietnam and what is going on today: protests against government censorship of speech and the increase in cybersecurity software for communications are underway.
50 years and 6 months after the Tet Offensive, there is turmoil again in Vietnam. The peasants are unhappy. They are protesting the government’s use of new spy software in electronic comm systems. Also, some government officials don’t believe that there is any need for more foreign investment since they already have free trade agreements with China, the USA and the European Union.
Reposted from Cherries Writer:
In Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, as well as Da Nang, Hanoi and others, the general populace is expressing its displeasure at this new cybersecurity binge by the Vietnamese government. The punishment for speaking out against the government is stiff – beatings, imprisonment, etc. (Listen up, antifas, because this can happen to you, you morons)
I’m guessing that Saigon was renamed because the Communist Vietnamese government was pissed off about the theatrical musical “Miss Saigon”. Or not. I never saw that, but it’s still Saigon to me, and likely Saigon to others who were there in the 1960s. and 1970s.
Thanks and hat tip to pdoggbiker over there at Cherries Writer. You in-country vets might want to drop by there and give him a nod.
Category: WTF?
It’s because they’re not doing Communism correctly. It works, we just have to trust the new generation of socialists to implement it correctly. Isn’t that the mantra?
Oh, come on! Beatings and torture aren’t enough?
Maybe it’s their brainwashing techniques that are at fault?
Stalin had it down pat. Build residential units with double walls so that the KGB/NKVD can come out of the walls in the middle of the night and you just disappear. Will they never learn? /sarc
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
They simply must contact the all knowing unnamed one from that west coast institute of higher learning who can show them the proper way for that style of government to work.
Oh Yeh? The beatings and torture will continue until morale improves!! 😉
I didn’t copy Casey…HONEST! I post and it takes quite awhile before they show up here….?
Speaking of the new generation of socialists, I’ll just leave this here.
‘David Hogg says he plans to run for Congress when he’s 25’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/20/david-hogg-says-plans-to-run-for-congress-when-hes-25.html
‘David Hogg, the 18-year-old school shooting survivor turned gun-control activist, says he’s gearing up to run for Congress when he’s constitutionally eligible.
Speaking to New York Magazine, Hogg described his ideal seven-year plan, which culminates with him running for the House of Representatives when he’s 25.
“I think I’ve come to that conclusion,” he told the magazine. “I want to be at least part of the change in Congress.”
Hogg has protested Republicans including his home state senator, Marco Rubio — but he complained to the magazine, “Older Democrats just won’t move the f— off the plate and let us take control. [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi is old.”
Hogg graduated high school in May and is taking a gap year before enrolling in college. But he says he plans to go to college in 2019 and “read a s–tload of books.”
He also said he hopes to work on a presidential campaign in 2020, and claims some potential candidates have already approached him. Hogg has been a fierce critic of President Trump, and says in the magazine he hung up when the White House invited him to a listening session.
Hogg became one of the most recognizable faces after February’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when 17 people were killed.
Since the shooting, Hogg has amassed more than 800,000 followers – and his share of critics — on Twitter through frequent cable news appearances and his online anti-gun activism.
Speaking to New York Magazine, Hogg expressed high hopes for his future.
“We really only remember a few hundred people, if that many, out of the billions that have ever lived,” Hogg told the magazine. “Is that what I was destined to become?”’
First, little assfish Hogg SAYS he’s “taking a gap year”, maybe that’s because he can’t get accepted to the college he wants and has he said even jack shit about the Gun Violence in Chicago?
Gee, he said Nanny Pelosi is ‘old’?
Doesn’t he know it’s going to happen to him some day? It won’t be too long before he’s 30, and then he’ll be 40, and then – omigod! 60!!!
Crap ph…keep going, you don’t know what old is yet! lol
Davey’s parents were seen inquiring into placing him up for adoption. They tried the Safe Haven baby box at the local FD but he was too big.
Look “Bony Eared Assfish” up on youtube and tell me it doesn’t remind you of David Hogg!
No
The bony eared assfish seems more useful, intelligent, and coherent.
There is no truth to the rumor that his parents changed the locks in July while he was “on tour.”
He plans to run for Congress… okay, just what credentials does he actually have besides attention whore, constant use of vulgarity in public, and an inflated opinion of himself?
His are the same as that genderbender blondieboy, whatshisname (DO NOT use or say it) who ran and lost.
They belong together. Between them, the IQ level is between +/- 6.
Unless things have changed, rabble rousing episodes don’t count as quals for any office, and Hogg’s public appeal is eroding as things move on.
Earloftaint.com/2018/08/20/political-toy-plans-to-run-for-congress-when-hes-big/
Spew alert. Sit. Remove solids and liquids from hands, mouth, and vicinity. You have been warned.
That’s when his I.Q. reaches 25!! lol Not likely to happen 😉 Someone enlist that little shyt and let boot camp help him become a man…how a Marine Corps? No, that wouldn’t work, he doesn’t have the balls!
Creating that “New Socialist Man” is tough. It’s going to take a few generations. They just need a little more time. Be patient. Ignore that growling stomach.
PJ O’Rourke visited Vietnam a few years back, and from what he said nearly everyone still calls it Saigon; forget what the signs say.
He said the Russians were not fondly remembered there. Many folks called them “Americans without dollars.”
Now that’s funny!!!
Like Cape Canaveral?
Don’t Fear The Commie!
Do you think any of this current generation of Vietnamese know anything about Uncle Ho or his best buddy, Giap?
Just askin’ because I think they probably blow those two off the way these idjits now blow off Kennedy and Johnson.