PARIS HILTON SHARES JAIL CELL WITH HMONG ELDER!!!!

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

I am taking time out tonight ot write about the plight of the Hmong people being persecuted by rape, torture, and murder by the Laotian armed forces. Recently, General Vang Pao and several other Hmong leaders, veterans of the "Secret War in Laos from 1961 to 1975, were arrested for attempting to recruit mercenaries for the overthrow of the Laotian government. Several of these brave men now reside in Sacramento County Jail on federal charges. Once again, we, the government AND the people of the USA, have betrayed the Hmong people.

For decades, the activist corps of the Hmong community in the United states has petitioned the US government and the United Nations to sanction Laos for the continued repression of the Hmong people remaining in their mountain homeland, to no avail.

This is a travesty of justice if there ever was one! Once upon a time, the Hmong were the most feared warriors in Southeast Asia, and served the CIA during the secret war with valor the likes of which are legend. Upon the retreat of the USA from Vietnam, the Hmong people were abandoned and left to the depredations of the Kmer Rouge and the Communist government that followed. Those that escaped had to flee on foot hundreds of miles to the squalor of refugee camps in Thailand, and then made their way to the USA. But many were unable to flee, and are still subject to the most horrible retribution from the Laotian government even now, 30 years later.

General Vang Pao has been fignting for 50 years for the good of the Hmong people and has trusted the USA to finally make good on their promise to the Hmong "We will win or lose, together."

Now he sits in jail, for love of his country. He has been betrayed most grievously by every government apparatus and entity, and his people are crying for justice!

From Sacbee.com:

"The hopes, dreams, achievements and fears of America's Hmong surfaced at a Sacramento banquet Thursday night -- along with a sense that the U.S. government, their greatest benefactor, had betrayed them again.

The man who guided the Hmong journey from the mountains and jungles of Laos to a new life of opportunity in America, Gen. Vang Pao, sits in the Sacramento County jail on charges of plotting a violent overthrow of communist Laos.

Vang, 77, is one of 10 men arrested and charged in Sacramento federal court last week with plotting a full-scale coup against Laos that would have included AK-47 assault rifles, ground-to-air Stinger missiles, anti-tank weapons and a mercenary army. The older members of the alleged conspiracy include Hmong men -- Laotian mountain tribesmen -- who followed Vang Pao as he waged war under the CIA's direction against Southeast Asian communists between 1961 and 1975.

Vang, 77, has survived a stroke and heart bypass surgery in recent years and suffers from diabetes and high cholesterol. But many still consider him the heart and soul of America's 250,000 Hmong and the thousands of others still trapped in Thailand and the jungles of Laos, where Amnesty International reports they have been assaulted and murdered by the Laotian military."


Read more here: Hmong sense new betrayal

[Warren DeMontague]

1. That's HOT!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[Bluebear]

2. Nyoob Zoo!

that's all i know.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

3. This was posted at 10:41pm Sunday night.

56 views by 10:48pm Sunday night.

[Bluebear]

4. (?)

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

5. DU - Depraved, Uninterested.

[Garbo 2004]

6. It's late. Not everyone is in the Pacifc time zone. DU is less active on weekends & late night. n/t

[KT2000]

7. No - I am interested

but this is something that makes me sad. They have been abandoned and their leader taken into custody likely, because there is something about the current leadership this administration must like - as in they are useful somehow and must be preserved. That has been the script.

What can I say - America has lost its way. Who should trust us and what we (current administration) say?

[MatrixEscape]

8. This type of thing has been par for the course

for American policies all along the way. Why do we continue to support the propaganda that has tended to convince us that the powers that control our country, (not necessarily we as The People) have always acted in a self-interested way? Historically, American power and even its seemingly altruistic foreign aid has followed the predominant corporate model of vested self-interest at every juncture. Does anyone remember the lessons of East Timor? When their is something in it for the profit and power of this country, we get involved, act, and either gain power, control, resources, or whatever. If there is nothing in it for us as the US, it is inconsequential and kept sequestered from the public eye. That's the way it is and has been.

Any dreamy, idealistic notions of propaganda-influenced patriotism stand in contest and contrast to the facts involved and being informed is what differentiates naive "believers" and die-hard supporters from open-minded, serious seekers of truth here. This is not about emotion and feelings about one's identification with one's country of origin because, the corporate entities that now have almost total control of our lives, desires, and political process are multi-national and have absolutely no weepy, heart-felt sentiments about honor, flag, country, or altruistic affiliations. They are dedicated to the profit and the control it enables, plain and simple.

These days, a dedication to corporately outmoded sentiments of naive patriotism spells the end of anything one might have been honestly patriotic about. Hopefully, that will serve to dispel any sentimental and obsolete reactions to such a bold and sweeping statement about the state of our union.

The time has come for Americans to update their own perspective to the same degree that the movers and shakers and profit-motivated companies have already changed the bigger picture that is carefully and expertly hidden from view from the masses. Any further grasps at naivety and sentiment can only serve to promote the large-scale attack on the values that they represent.

http://www.sensiblyeclectic.com/news/index.php?/archives/5507-On-Becoming-Comfortably-Unplugged.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I can't work it out - do you think the charges are trumped up?

Or do you think the US should be allowing, or even supporting, a mercenary army with ground-to-air missiles etc.?

I know the US does support some people like that, but that doesn't make it right to support any of them.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

10. This attempt at a coup is a sign of desperation.

For more than 30 years, the Hmong have been petitioning every possible government entity they can find to do something about those left behind when the US fled SE Asia. General Vang Pao has been the leader in this effort ust as he has been the leader of the Hmong people for the last 60 years. He has spent his life in the pursuit of justice, but the corrupt, cravenly self-serving US government has, once again, turned its back on the people who served it with their very lives.