Vietnamese Community Curtails Some Freedoms
Re “Welcome to Our Cities, Unless You’re Communist,” April 28: Shame on Garden Grove City Council member Van Tran, Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach and the rest of the rabidly anti-communist Vietnamese community. As with the 1999 incident involving Truong Van Tran [who touched off protests in Westminster by hanging the Communist Vietnam flag in his shop], the Vietnamese exiles have shown that they believe in freedom of speech only when it dovetails with their own. On issues that truly affect the local community like, say, the Westminster School District’s potential loss of state funds, where were Quach and the Vietnamese community?
The war is over and South Vietnam lost. Officially recognizing the flag of a nonexistent regime will not bring it back; neither will trampling on the Constitution. It’s time to move on and focus on issues that truly affect us in our adopted home.
Quan Nguyen
Westminster
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