[Vnbiz] Tet and unbelievable shocking facts

Sun Feb 25 16:46:07 PST 2007

Totally agreed.
Excellent comment and right to the core anh Hoanh.

Have a nice day.

Thanh

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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:
[ Vietnam Business Forum ]

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

On 2/23/07, Dao Xuan Lam - Branch Manager <daoxuanlam at gmail.com > wrote:
[ Vietnam Business Forum ]

Dear all,

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
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Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
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