<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Pugliese</b> <<a href="mailto:michael.098762001@gmail.com">michael.098762001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>In 1979, he and another group signed another advertisement in the Times<br>(June 24) which stated that "Vietnam now enjoys human rights as it has<br>never known in its history..." and approvingly quoted a resolution of the
<br>National Lawyers Guild that "clearly recognizes...that the<br>reeducation program for [a half-million] former Saigon personnel carried<br>out by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was absolutely necessary...".
<br>What a great civil libertarian!<br><br>David Blank</blockquote><div><br><br> </div></div>What should have been done to the "Saigon personnel"? Mind you I think that the best thing that could have done to the "personnel" of the Slavocracy after the
U.S. Civil War was to ship them all to Alaska and to make sure that all of the former slaves were heavily armed and formed in militias. A non-sequitor perhaps. But the former Saigon personnel were in some part responsible for murder of millions of people. Maybe a truth and reconciliation commission woutd have been better. And when did Vietnam ever enjoy more human rights than after Saigon fell? I can't think of a time.
<br><br>Sorry for being snide but as Ed Herman once pointed out there was a greater "bloodbath" after the fall of Vichy than after the fall of Saigon. I think given the torture the country went through the "reeducation camps" ( read concentraion camps and prisons) were surprisingly less bloody and torturous than we might have expected. Still, something needed to be done with at least some of the murderers who ran Saigon. I only wish something could have been done with the Henry Kissingers and Richard Nixons who ran the murder operations from our country.
<br><br>Sorry, for being bloody-minded but this is a sore spot. Take this as unedited anger; anger not at you, but at the people who don't know that our main duty toward Vietnam is to provide the appropriate reparations so that we can begin to appologize for the millions of people we murdered.
<br><br>Jerry<br><br><br>