[Vnbiz] Tet and unbelievable shocking facts

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear CACC,

If you go to a concert and the concert participants have all kinds of
disorderly conduct like drinking, trashing, fighting, who are you going to
blame?  The disorderly people?  Yes, of course.  But wouldn't
you immediately point the finger at the concert organizer?  The organizer
has a legal duty to make sure that things are safe for concert goers.

Shouldn't the HCMC government, organization agencies for the Test festival,
and the HCMC police be responsible for all the crazy things that amount to
outright stealing and robberies as mentioned by the article.  Obviously this
kind of conduct is not new, it has been repeated year after year, according
to the article and readers' comments.

Why does the press not say anything about the folks in charge of the
festival, i.e., the HCMC government and the HCMC police, instead of whining
about some participants' lousy behavior.  Yes, their behavior is bad and
should be prosecuted, but if the government doesn't know how manage a
festival, such behavior will happen anywhere in the world.   I can see the
potential for that right here in Washington DC, not just in HCMC.

There are two big governance issues here:

1.  The incompetence of city government to conduct a festival that
relatively free of criminal behavior (stealing and robbing are crimes) (I
say "relative" because there are always some criminal activities here and
there) .

2.  The habit of the press to not see the government's responsibility and to
blame the entire population for bad things.   So, generally in many issues,
the blame is that the people is immature and bad, not that the government's
incompetence and irresponsibility are the cause for the people' immaturity.
Does this sound familiar?  The government and the Party don't do wrong
things, only the stupid People does!

Can we try to get out of this oppressive/subvervient mode of thinking and
start to think and act like a modern nation?

If any government official says, "We can't control such a huge crowd,"  I
would respond, "Then why don't you resign so that we can find the people who
can do that to take over the job?"

Come on, brothers and sisters!  We have to be serious about governance.
Don't sit there and whine at the people.  Demand that government officials
either do a good job or resign.

Have a great day!

Hoanh
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On 2/24/07, Tram Dang <tdang2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> True that these acts are nothing to take delight in, but to wave one's
> finger at the entire youth population in HCMC based on these isolated
> incidents is a little unfair, (I think).
> Not that I'm defending these acts, but I think people tend to do stupid
> things that they normally don't at fiestive get-togethers.  Cinco de mayo
> and new years eve riots are not that uncommon.  If I remember correctly,
> there was one in seattle a few years ago.
>
> -Tram
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> On 2/23/07, Dao Xuan Lam - Branch Manager <daoxuanlam at gmail.com > wrote:
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> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> >  Dear all,
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> > Whoever reads the content and or sees the photographs in this article
> > shall feel shame & shock, and if not ashamed at such terrible actions of the
> > local people especially the youths in Vietnam in general and in HCMC
> > particularly nowadays!
> >
> > How can we can address those people? Since they have not got any sense
> > of shame at all and they loose all sense of shame! And finally they loose
> > everything ranging from their behaviours, conduct,..to the Vietnam country'
> > s face! For my part, nothing else I can say abut it.
> >
> > Dao Xuan Lam
> >
> --
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
Washington DC
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