TRUTH ABOUT RAISING FUNDS FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS

Next Tuesday, November 22, 2005 a cultural show organized by a pro-communist group will take place at the Amphitheater of the Ronald Reagan Building & Trade Center on Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C.

Around 100 talented artists selected from the rank and file of the communist party of Vietnam (CPV) are sent to the USA to do the performance. The artists come from different branches: folklore, classical & modern songs and music etc. They are members of the CPV Propaganda Department. The group is camouflaged under the name of a private commercial company entitled M&M Entertainment Company whose headquarters is at the Ho Chi Minh City. They planned to stay in the USA for 3 months and will do shows throughout the USA.

The first show will be done in Washington D.C. The declared purpose of the performance is to raise funds to support victims of Hurricane Katrina in the USA and Storm #7 that wept throughout 3 provinces in North Vietnam a few weeks ago.

What is behind the scheme?
Is doing charities work a real purpose? Financially, it is not justifiable. Expenses for each artist would include a Saigon - Washington round trip air ticket $1,000. Food and shelter in the USA for three months would be $80/day for 90 days = $7,200; travel expenses in the USA would be $2,000 etc An estimated cost for each of them is $10,200. Expenses for the whole team would be: $ 1,020,000. This does not include costs of organizing of local shows: publicity, rent of sites for performances, labor to do related odd jobs, salaries to be paid to local organizers, etc.

What is an expected income that the shows would bring in?
None. Why? The “company” issues tickets of which the face values would be $ 30.00 or so per ticket. The CPV cells in the USA will distribute them free to those who have done businesses in Vietnam, those who have some types of connections with the CPV and their fellow travelers or those who would be targets of recruitment to work for the CPV. This was a case the CPV did it in Australia in October 2005, when 92 communist artists came and did performances under the name of “Charm of Vietnam Show” in Canberra, Sydney, Bankstown and Melbourne. The tickets ‘sold’ in Australia were not transferable to prevent strangers from coming in.

Why do the CPV pay such a high price for the project and what is their real scheme?
Before analyzing the case, we need to mention one of many programs prescribed by the CPV’s PolitBuro Resolution # 36, issued on March 26, 2004 entitled ‘Dealing With Vietnamese Overseas.’ The resolution directs major ministries of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Information and Culture, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Security etc. and Cities where a large number of Vietnamese expatriates have frequented to conduct cultural activities abroad to convince them to support SRV in building the country i.e. socialism.

The resolution covers an over-all effort as to how to deal with Vietnamese overseas who strongly oppose the CPV’s monopoly of powers, who demand democracy to be implemented for the Vietnamese people, who lobby for freedom of religion and for respect for human rights, including putting a stop on trafficking in virgin teen-aged girls and women: selling them to South East Asian countries.

First of all, the price paid by the CPV is not a matter. This is not a profit- making project as Americans think of. It is merely carried out for its political purposes. Money used for this kind of projects comes for taxes paid by the Vietnamese people. And at least, some of the assistance by Western countries would be funneled to this project.

The CPV is not required to account for it to any one. No one dare to challenge it. Second, doing charities work is a good deed or a good cause. Working against it is an inhuman act. Because of this, the CPV somehow is successful in dividing Vietnamese expatriates in the USA. If some one knows their scheme, and opposes or denounces it, communist agents would publicly accuse him/her of being an extremist doing an inhuman act. A strong wave of propaganda on it will be launched in order to isolate him/her. This is one way to divide Vietnamese communities overseas and recruit sympathizers for the CPV, then use them against others. Briefly, the CPV uses even charities work as a means to achieve its political goals. Americans have never been aware of it.

Third, raising funds among Vietnamese communities in the USA by the CPV to support victims of Katrina is a not a good reason. It is not appropriate for them to do so at this point in time, because the event occurred over two months and a half ago. The situation in the states where heavy damages were caused by Katrina has been stabilized. Bear in mind that the SVR donated to the US government on this matter only $100,000 while Vietnamese refugees living in the USA have raised some $4,000,000 for them. All the money raised has been sent through the American Red Cross.

As for raising funds to support Storm # 7 victims in Vietnam, we don’t know why the CPV leaders have not given them even a cent. Though being proletarians when joining the so-called proletarian revolution, they have become billionaires (in US dollars). Do Muoi, a former secretary general of the CPV few years ago gave 1 million US dollars to an education fund. They are required to support the unfortunate victims from their own money, instead of trying to collect money from refugees in the USA, if they have a real intention to do charities work. Moreover, in this case, the victims are used as a means for CPV to achieve their undisclosed goals. It is immoral!

In summary, the CPV’s ultimate goal is to control Vietnamese communities in the USA through members of a cell posing as diplomats in diplomatic missions to conduct these activities against Vietnamese abroad as prescribed by Res. 36. As a consequence, Vietnamese Americans should oppose this immoral scheme.