Posted on 08/06/2006 12:36:10 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
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(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
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From Louisiana's Daily Comet website:
August 06. 2006 6:15PM
Schwarzenegger: South Vietnamese flag can fly on state buildings
The Associated Press
State parks and buildings now have the governor's blessing to fly the former flag of South Vietnam on holidays and special occasions.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a largely symbolic measure Saturday that gives the flag the state's official recognition. About 10 states and more than a dozen California cities and counties already have done
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Most Vietnamese immigrants who live in Orange County's Little Saigon and elsewhere fled their country after the communists' victory and don't accept the country's current red flag.
Vietnamese leaders have pushed for the traditional flag's recognition for years, said Assemblyman Van Tran, R-Westminster.
The move gained momentum last month when Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher, R-Fullerton, who is running for state Senate in the district covering Little Saigon, appealed to the governor for help.
Both Schwarzenegger and Tran endorsed Daucher in her bid.
Among registered Vietnamese-born voters in Orange County, Republicans outnumber Democrats 2-to-1.
Orange County has about 133,000 people of Vietnamese descent, according to 2002 Census data.
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Information from: The Orange County Register,
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Please see Posts No. 20 & 21...
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http://gov.ca.gov/index.php/press-release/3162/
Nice picture at this link! ;)
You look really good behind
that bouquet of flowers!
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Thanks, reformjoy, but your Freeper Red, White and Blue flowers lovingly wraped around a hand held American Flag still beats'em all,
...GOD Bless ya.
No cities or states are opposed to the OFFICIAL Vietnam's flag, the red flag with the centered yellow star. The whole world recognizes this flag as the ONLY flag that represents the country and the peoples of Vietnam. This same flag is flying high and proud on the United Nations building, side by side with the rest of the flags of the world.
By recognizing the former Republic of South Vietnam's flag as the one that represents the Vietnamese communities in California, the governor shows that he knows absolutely nothing about this flag and its history. Can he, or anyone, as a matter of fact, tell us which battle against foreign invasion that this flag was flown in? This flag always stood side-by-side with foreign aggressors against the country and the peoples of Vietnam. When the French wanted to regain its control of Vietnam (and Southeast Asia) in 1954, they negotiated for South Vietnam and set up a pro-France government in the South (in the hope of retaining the control on its colony). Guess what flag was flown there: the yellow flag with 3 stripes. It was the red flag with the yellow star that fought so hard for Vietnam's independence against the French as evidenced by the victory at Dien Bien Phu. It was that red flag that many Vietnamese patriots died for at this famous battle and as a result, it was that red flag that was raised at the victory of Dien Bien Phu battle. Where was the yellow flag then?!!!
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Just like our own American Flag of Freedom we fought for our own Freedom with long ago,
...the then Free People of South Vietnam fought for theirs under their own Freedom Flag of the Republic of South Vietnam, golden yellow with 3 horizontal red strips, during the Vietnam War.
HO CHI MINH came back from his Paris, France college student days during the 1920's as a fully indoctrinated Communist bent on Communizing all of South East Asia.
To this end HO CHI MINH told the North Vietnamese People that things would get much better in the North and the South of Vietnam once they were both unified under Communism.
There are many, many former North Vietnamese families now living in a Free America because they saw just how deeply they had been lied to all along by HO CHI MINH ..and thus fled Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon. For everything had gotten much worse for both North and South Vietnam under Communism, so very contrary to what HO CHI MINH had said would happen.
All the Free Vietnamese People living in America now want is the return of Human Rights to their still Communist enslaved homeland Vietnam ..with Liberty and Justice for all.
Just like our own Pledge of Allegiance has always lovingly proclaimed..?
Thus, in California ..it's...
http://gov.ca.gov/index.php/press-release/3162/
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A major positive.
meow
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Thank you for your CLARITY, Calpernia
AR
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Since you seem to love the Commies so much, get the hell out of here and move there.
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NEVER FORGET
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Here's your answer, ThomasThomas:
From the Communist Party of Vietnam's own Official Website..!!
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***Vietnam in foreigner's eyes***
***I saw the freedom in Vietnam***
Updated
on 8/5/2005 at 17:43
Arriving in Vietnam at the beginning of August, Speaker pro Tempore of the California State Assembly Leland Yee (Democrat) witnessed with his own eyes a Vietnam of freedom.
"I enjoyed the freedom when I visited Hanoi. The freedom in Vietnam and the US are the same. Vietnamese people are free to do what they want. It's rare to see an armed force or security force on Hanoi streets. The freedom of the press is the same as it is in other countries", he said.
Being a Chinese-American, Leland Yee has Asian stature and his thought is very close to it of Vietnamese people. While in Vietnam, he visited Ha Long Bay. He plans to travel to Nha Trang after leaving Hanoi.
Leland Yee hopes that he will find opportunities to introduce Vietnamese enterprises to US investors and encourage them to invest in Vietnam after a series of working sessions with appropriate authorities and economic bases in Vietnam. Through economic co-operation, relations between Vietnam and California will be strengthened.
He said that he would take this occasion to discuss a plan of organising of Vietnam's cultural Day in San Francisco at the beginning of next year with related-agencies of Vietnam.
With his full sympathy for Vietnam, Leland Yee strongly opposes the hanging of the flag of the former Saigon puppet government in California. He affirmed that the US Government only recognises the red flag with a five pointed gold star in the middle of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
He added that "two days before taking a flight to Vietnam, I informed some people of this decision. Many of them advised me to cancel it because of the historical issues. However, I frankly answered that 1975 belonged to history. Vietnam and the US experienced their war, but now they need to shake their hands, co-operate and become reliable partners so as not to let another the war happen".
Copyright by Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper
Head office:
275 Doi Can st
Ba Dinh dist
Hanoi, Vietnam
NOTE:
Gov. ARNOLD signed an Executive Order recognizing the Freedom & Heritage Flag of Vietnam because California State Assembly Democrat Speaker Pro Temore Leland Yee (after a trip to Communist Vietnam) blocked a Concurrent Resolution from going to the Floor for a vote that would have done so.
A Concurrent Resolution that had already passed through the California State Senate without a single NO vote
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Please see Post No. 35 above,
JC
Thank you very much,
AR
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Gov. ARNOLD's excellent archived Little Saigon Photo Essay:
http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/photos/3165/
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