[siddude]

I hope this portend to better things to come.

[Cementjungle]

This ought to tick off Kerry and Jane Fonda.

[TASMANIANRED]

They know how to take care of that foolishness, Just kill them like before.

[Prime Choice]

Vietnamese authorities are increasingly concerned over growing support for a new dissident group known as Bloc 8406, which issued an impassioned plea for democratic reform to the ruling Communist Party earlier this year.

Not a problem for them. All they'll need to do is send in some tanks and slaughter the entire movement and the U.S. Government will step in and give them Most Favored Nation trading status.

Hey...it's what we did with China in 1989.

[ThanhPhero]

ping

[Popocatapetl]

This actually presents a paradox in Vietnam. Since most activities are legal except political ones, the typical Vietnamese on the street is not vehemently opposed to the government.

So all it really takes is for the current government to realize that if there is democratic change, the end result will most likely be, of all things, the status quo.

Then all they will have to do is split the current government in half, with very similar platforms, and the powerful remain in power, the public is contented, the radicals of all types are still annoyed, change is incremental and pleasantly slow, and the business of Vietnam returns to being business. Everybody wins.

A similar situation existed in Saudi Arabia. They were terrified of the radical nature of democracy until they tried just a little of it at a low level. The public shocked the government by voting for what the government wanted, the status quo, in a dull election. If anything, the public were a tad more conservative than the government. The end result was that the government was thrilled, and have a new confidence that their next baby step towards democracy won't cause chaos, arson and riots in the streets.

So if Vietnam allows just an experiment, at a low level, they too might be pleasantly surprised.

In China, however, even though the concept of voting has spread everywhere, the government is so caught up in the fear that they may not be able to learn the easy way.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Fall of Democracy =


Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts


And it could all happen here.


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[stylin19a]

saddle up ! looks like the seed that was planted years ago is starting to germinate.

I wonder if they'll look to the U.S. for help ?

[MWS]

I only hope, fourty years from now, I don't have to read the following headline:

"Iraq Nervous Over Emerging Pro-Democracy Voices"

The liberals are dead bent on turning Iraq into another Vietnam. We can't let 'em.