Which Vietnamese Flag should be up at University of Southern California

1. Vietnamese communists were a bunch of parasites, thieves and robbers who took advantage of the patriotism of the Vietnamese in their fights against the French colonialists and later the Americans, to get themselves in positions of power. Once firmly in power, these parasites, thieves and robbers treated the populace with contempt and iron hands. The communist officials have never been truly elected by the people. They use terror and corruption to perpetuate their rule. Because of the communists, about three million Vietnamese are living in diasporas all over the world. These overseas Vietnamese do not and will not accept the rule of Communism. Their brethren in Vietnam don't accept the Communist rule either but they are muzzled and suppressed brutally, hence their dissatisfaction and protests don't receive wide coverage in international media.

2. Whenever I see the VC flag, I feel nauseous and angry because it is a symbol of tyranny and ineptitude. Most people in the world don't know the Vietnamese Communists are ceding Vietnamese land and sea to China. Many students and intellectuals rose in protests over this selling of ancestral territories. They were brutally put down and now languish in prisons. This fact needs to be brought to the attention of the world.

3. South Vietnamese flag represented a much better life when there were essential human rights and when the educational and health care systems were much sounder and free of intolerable practices such as bribing teachers and health care providers in the nominal public schools and hospitals in order to receive some teaching and medical care. So, the poor in Vietnam, and they are the majority, don't have a chance to get ahead, no matter how bright they are. Contrary to the myth of classless society, in Communist rule in Vietnam, there are three
classes: the ruling class with all the privileges, the working class who toil day and night to secure a living, and the poor who live in abject poverty with no help and attention from the government.

4. The USC should display the South Vietnam flag because it is the flag of democracy and decency. And USC should side with democracy and decency because in the end democracy and decency will triumph.

5. USC should not be known as an institution that identifies with totalitarianism, lies, and indecency.

6. Out of ignorance, USC is displaying the flag of the Communists, not knowing that it is the symbol that a great majority of the Vietnamese in the States despise and hate. Most Vietnamese students in the disapora would not attend USC if the Communist flag is displayed. These students are more numerous than the ones came from Vietnam.

7. Through dissemination of information of how the community has viewed the Viet Cong flag with hatred and revulsion.

Wissai

From: Christine Trang <ctrang@usc.edu>Subject: Co Viet Cong at USCTo: anmai39@yahoo. comDate: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 5:52 PM

Here is a list of the questions I have for you. Please feel free to write as much as you would like, in either Vietnamese or English. I am planning on starting the article Wednesday, Dec. 2, so please send me the answers by Monday, Nov. 30 or Tuesday, Dec. 1. I greatly appreciate your time and attention!1) How did the actions of Vietnamese communists affect you personally? For example, what happened to you, your family or your friends?2) What are your thoughts, feelings or emotions when you see the Vietnamese communist flag? Why do you think or feel those things?3) What does the South Vietnamese flag mean to you and the Vietnamese community?4) Why do you think USC should display the South Vietnamese flag?5) Why do you think USC should not display the Vietnamese communist flag?6) Why do you think USC chose to display the Vietnamese communist flag? Do you think there is an economic reason for that? For example, there are a lot of students who come to USC from Vietnam. Do you think USC chose to display the Vietnamese communist flag to satisfy the government in Vietnam, so that the government there will continue to send more students to USC?7) What do you think the Vietnamese community should do to convince USC to display the South Vietnamese flag?If you have any questions, please feel free to call me on my cell phone at (310) 748-2342.Cam on bac!Regards, Christine Trang