The Orange County Register probes the recent and ongoing protests against the Westminster-based Nguoi Viet Daily News. The Vietnamese-language paper recently sued the protesters, saying the group – or mob, depending on your point of view – threatened its employees and customers. The Register article looks at the genesis of the dispute – i.e., the protesters, mostly South Vietnamese, consider the paper pro-communist – and ponders its affect on free speech rights. Pretty heady:
Anti-communist protests and demonstrations have come to be a way of life in Little Saigon, whose residents are mostly refugees who fled the communist regime after the fall of Saigon in April 1975. This area is home to the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.
But the recent wave of protests against Vietnamese publications such as the eight-month protest outside Viet Weekly in Garden Grove and the weeks-long demonstration outside Nguoi Viet Daily News in Little Saigon — as well as the threat of protests against Irvine Valley College over an campus flag exhibit that included the flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam — has led to debates about a clash of freedoms.
- Dan Evans
omg.. good work, man