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Will Nguyen; American arrested in Vietnam

by Jonn Lilyea••73

Reuters reports that Will Nguyen, an American citizen of Vietnamese extraction, has been arrested in Vietnam for participation in protests against the communist government;

The police statement cited the indictment as saying that Nguyen incited people to protest and tried to overturn a police truck in the city, Vietnam’s economic hub.

His lawyer is not immediately available for comment.

Nguyen’s sister, Victoria Nguyen, said in a letter sent to the Department of State earlier this month that her brother was not violent and was a man of integrity.

“I think we all understand that he is being condemned for something that we all know is our universal birth right: freedom of speech and expression,” Victoria Nguyen said.

Yeah, who would have thought that a communist government would arrest people who speak freely?

Nguyen is a grad student at the National University of Singapore, now he’s worried because he is supposed to graduate this month.

From CNN;

Nguyen was arrested after he asked officers to move police vehicles blocking the crowd’s path, authorities said.

When “his request was not met,” Nguyen climbed on a police car urging others to cross through, VNA reported.

He may be book smart, but he’s not street smart.

Of course, it’s Trump’s fault he’ll be standing trial later this week, according to his sister;

While Secretary Pompeo concluded his visit without commenting publicly on this case, Heather Nauert, State Department spokesperson, said in a brief statement Monday that Pompeo discussed the case with Vietnamese leaders.

But the family of Nguyen, an American of Vietnamese descent, worry that may not be enough.

Victoria Nguyen, William’s sister, has spearheaded a social media campaign titled ‘Free Will Nguyen’ in the weeks since her brother’s arrest. She had hoped that Pompeo’s visit would conclude with Nguyen’s release, and she is upset that this was not the case.

“The most important part is that the State Department refused to demand his release,” she told ThinkProgress via Facebook Messenger. “Human rights are blatantly being ignored.”

Oh,no! It’s the first time in human history that a communist government ignored human rights.

The phony Vietnam War veteran, demands that Vietnam release Nguyen;

Nguyen was forced to make a public apology, according to the Washington Post;

On Tuesday, the Agence France-Presse reported that Nguyen confessed on state-controlled television.

“I understand that my acts violated [the law] .?.?. I regret that I caused trouble for people heading to the airport. I blocked traffic and caused trouble to my family and friends,” Nguyen said, according to the report. Vietnamese authorities have been accused by human-rights groups of extracting forced public confessions, the AFP reported.

William and Victoria’s mother, Vicky, fled Saigon four years after Vietnamese communist forces captured the city in 1975 and settled in Houston, Victoria Nguyen said. Their fraught family history inspired William Nguyen to study Vietnam at Yale University and to visit the country numerous times.

Extra dumbass points are awarded for returning to a country his mother fled.

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73 thoughts on “Will Nguyen; American arrested in Vietnam”

  1. “…Will Nguyen, an American citizen of Vietnamese extraction, has been arrested in Vietnam for self-inflicted wounds.”

    Sorry, Sis. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam isn’t real big on “universal birth rights,” a fact they conceal in books.

          1. Seems to me he mentioned once dating a dancer named Dawn – so yeah, he would. And it looks like he has. Literally. (smile)

      1. There should probably be a Warning on those links

        CONTENT NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES ON MY LINKS…not just these links but any link I ever post.

      5. I think I’ve seen the sister before in a knockoff of an oldie Victoria Does Vietnam.

    3. From your link;

      “, Will visited Vietnam, as he often does.”

      Whoops! There goes my last bit of sympathy. Darwin, do your job.

  5. At least he’s doing something stupid in another country? One less person doing stupid stuff here, I guess?

  6. Free speech may be a basic right but without codification under law, is not a right you can count on. There’s a reason we protect the Constitution.

    Extra dumbass points for publicly demonstrating in a communist country!

  7. The lad is a slow learner. I concluded my Vietnam studies in 1971 and when commie tanks roared into Saigon it signaled school was out for the duration. I understand re-education was a bitch.

    1. Reeducation truly was a bitch. I have met and talked with former RVN senior officers who spent years in those “Centers for realigning your thought process.” They all had grim stories to relate. Ong Nguyen is a real dumbass.

  8. Returning to a commie country that his own Momma fled, then trying to start shit while there? That’s some 24K Weapons Grade Stupid!

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

  10. There’s good video of this guy jumping on the hood of a cop car, trying to incite others to protest more loudly. He’s an idiot! What could go wrong here… Vietnam, for its outward appearances witnessed by tourists, is still one of the last five communist governments on the planet. You’re free to make a million $$, but not protest the VN government. The US government needs to let this run its natural course. I lived in VN for almost nine years, and visit 2 to 3 times a year since it opened up, going back to the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia to oust the KR.

    If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

  11. Hey Bub, the L A Watts behavior you learned in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago and other states did not include a free pass to carry on in another country; especially RVN. I suspect the success of a GoFundMe page will further encourage your wish to be the Nelson Mandela of RVN. BTW, stay the hell out of Somalia And North Korea if you decide to continue your rowdiness.

    1. Nah, if he wants to do this in Somalia I’d welcome it. There wouldn’t even be any video of it, or any news about it. He’d just disappear mysteriously.

  12. “Free Will.” I think that was the root of his problem. He’s quite lucky. Several decades ago he would have been shot in the head and that would have been that.

  13. I have no give a shit for Americans that go to these type of countries and are arrested and beaten brain dead.

    Harsh way to learn not everyone gives a shit what you think and will tolerate you screaming it whenever or where ever you want.

    I grew tired of “Sending in the Marines” to rescue these types a long time ago.

    Phuck em

    1. Hack remembers back in the 1990’s when that asshole rich white kid was looking at a public caning in Singapore for vandalism, or what his mother referred to as a “treasure hunt”. A lawyer for the family was on some news show and said we need to send in the Marines to rescue this kid. I would bet Bernath’s last gallon of aviation fuel that if a Marine Recruiter called his home, his mother would scream into the phone that there was no way in hell that these baby killers would get their hands on her precious child.

      1. These clowns are not worth a drop of Warrior blood. I wouldn’t piss up their ass if their guts were on fire.

        I personally never served a heartbeat of my life to defend the likes of these people.

        I get and oddly same type of feeling every time I walk around Walmart.

  16. While I do not agree with the ‘screw him’ lines of thinking, I am pretty sure a lot of Americans do not understand that when they travel that they are subject to that nation’s laws and customs. We hold the Constitution written here dear, but I think that they ‘think’ it still applies to them wherever they are. Sad reality: it does not.

    1. I agree with this. I saw a documentary a few years ago about a gay Westerner (Brit, I think) who took a job in Saudi Arabia. He actually read about their treatment of gays, but once he was there, decided it was ridiculous to be abstinent for his entire stay. So he pursued a romance, got caught, was tortured, but somehow managed to escape with his head still attached.

      Is it atrocious that other countries punish and even kill people for things that are perfectly acceptable in the West? Yes. Is it worth it to use your own body and life as a cudgel to make this point? NOOOOO.

      1. I think you mean ‘Banged Up Abroad’ , or in that dudes case ‘ Banged up the Ass Abroad’

    2. Americans totally think every other country is like the US. That’s why they were offended to hear that a lot of places are shitholes. Clearly, they’ve never been.

  17. Next up on Nguyen’s schedule of thrilling international adventures:

    An extended hiking trip along the Syria-Iraq border, followed by a week of jumping on police cars in downtown Pyongyang.

    Putting that expensive Yale education to good use on the international stage!

    Attaboy!

      1. If he did take Blumenthal to Vietnam for a protest then the bloomsturd can finally say he was there and maybe even in a fight ! instead of his imaginary tour of Connecticut province Republic of Viet-Nam doing the faux heartbreakin’ and life takin’ thang,
        I can’t stand that bastard as well as the fine state of NJ’s of which I reside in, 2 senaturds Menendez & Brooker the crooksters oh yeah can’t forget in neighboring NY the Schumer the king of asinine assholes in the Senate.

        1. I was hoping he’d take Blumenthal along with him to traverse the Syria-Iraq border. And, perhaps he’d care to take Schumer, Gillibrand, Booker, and Menendez with him, too?

      2. Someone start a go fund me for Blumenthal’s plane ticket so we can make it happen.

  18. Whiz Wheel™® says William Nguyen (FRP*)(EDP**) receives the following score: 22 x 9 = 198

    * Full Retard Potato

    ** Extra Dumbass Points

    1. “Nguyen”

      Most common name when I was there.
      Fifty years later and I still can’t pronounce it.

    2. Hmmm, found out from the Tin Cup page that he has a middle name of Anh.

      Add 54 more Whiz Wheel™® points to his score for a grand total of 252.

  19. Maybe the moron should have read up a little about the history of Vietnam under the North Viet Namese after the fall of Saigon. It appears he only went there to kick up a fuss, and got his stupid self arrested for it.

    Don’t nobody send this idiot nothin’, y’hear? He can rot over there. Maybe he’ll grow up some day.

  20. Even in the US, the government can regulate time, place and manner for speech.

    When the police set up a barricade here in the US, people that cross that barricade get arrested. When people start jumping on police cars, they get arrested. When people start inciting others to riot, they get arrested.

    This is not about speech, or the right to protest or anything other than a person thinking they are above the law (both in the country they are in and the US.)

    I save my dollars and sympathy for real victims – not those who create the incident.

    1. “When the police set up a barricade here in the US, people that cross that barricade get arrested. When people start jumping on police cars, they get arrested. When people start inciting others to riot, they get arrested.”… unless they’re Antifa, in a dimmihrat run place like seattle, or berkley…

  22. My sister-in-law Vy, whose parents fled Vietnam in ‘75, saw this and said, “Yeah, why do you think we all left, dipshit?”

  23. What dumbass American goes into another country to protest them? Were they numbed to the fact that only our country allows such nonsense; the waiving of foreign flags at rallies while demanding their acceptance here?

  24. Fake Vietnam Vet Bluementhal says: “he’s been unjustly&brutally detained in Vietnam w/o charge or cause.”

    Good God, he is so stupid it hurts. He wasn’t arrested for nothing. He was jumping on a squad car and inciting people to cross a police barricade. There’s several charges and a whole lot of cause there. How does someone so ugly and so stupid get people to vote for him? Nevermind, I already know…

  25. Well after 8 years of dealing with every left-wing nut going around the globe
    On Obama’s bad door orders and raising hell no surprise somebody
    Fack you

  26. It wasn’t the NORKs but the SORKs. Regardless, it is best not to go poncing around foreign counties and be antisocial in their eyes and expect Liberty as your God given right.

  27. Guess this guy never attended a port brief or liberty brief.

    Something about foreign jails, their laws, shit like that. Yeah, I definitely remember reading about that somewhere.

    1. Had a shipmate arrested in Italy, US Navy got him out, but he was not allowed off the boat and not even on the pier. They don’t play games in other countries.

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