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http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20060414-110532-6607r.htm
April 15, 2006
DISTRICT
Assault trial date set for immigrant
A trial date has been set for a Vietnamese immigrant accused of punching a high-ranking Vietnamese diplomat visiting the District last summer.
Tuan Phuoc Le, 34, of Atlanta, is scheduled to go on trial July 31 on charges of assaulting a foreign official. He faces up to three years in prison and deportation to Vietnam if found guilty.
Mr. Le is accused of punching the face of Nguyen Quoc Huy, vice chairman of the prime minister's office for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, during a June 21 protest at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, according to filings in U.S. District Court.
Mr. Le, who emigrated to the United States in 1993 and is a legal permanent resident of the U.S., is the son of a black U.S. soldier who was killed in action in Vietnam.
Defense counsel said Mr. Le will plead not guilty to the charge by reason of insanity because communists tortured him in the years after the Vietnam War and the incident was the result of a flashback or post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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Deportation to Viet Nam would be a death sentence for him. He should be given a medal for surviving and only punching one of the people representing the regime that tortured him.
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| LimaCharlie wrote: | | Deportation to Viet Nam would be a death sentence for him. He should be given a medal for surviving and only punching one of the people representing the regime that tortured him. |
Acatually, a license to commit assault for past injustices doesn't fly in our book.
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| LimaCharlie wrote: | | Deportation to Viet Nam would be a death sentence for him. He should be given a medal for surviving and only punching one of the people representing the regime that tortured him. |
AMEN!!!
They ought to give him open season on those sumb**ches.
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LimaCharlie
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| sixdogteam wrote: | | LimaCharlie wrote: | | Deportation to Viet Nam would be a death sentence for him. He should be given a medal for surviving and only punching one of the people representing the regime that tortured him. |
Acatually, a license to commit assault for past injustices doesn't fly in our book. |
I have a good friend who is Cambodian. He was the real life model for one of the characters in the movie, “The Killing Fields.” He tells me the movie only shows about one percent of the actual horror. He lost his mother, father, aunts, uncles, wife, and children. He was tortured and escaped several times before getting to Thailand and then the US. I know it is illegal to retaliate, but I would not blame him if he wanted to nuke all of Southeast Asia.
He has maintained a normal life after all he has gone through and still has a sense of humor. When he comes over to our house, he looks at my wife’s dog and says, “Can I wok your dog?”
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| LimaCharlie wrote: | | “Can I wok your dog?” |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="baldeagle"] | LimaCharlie wrote: | | “Can I wok your dog?” |
methinks what you meant to say was "Can I wok your six dog team?", no?
Deuce
ps Actually SixDog is right, but the punishment of deportation doesn't fit the crime, and that's what we all need to agree on....if he gets 90 days in the slammer, he still may well deserve a medal for loyalty to his father, an American Soldier. Let's see some soldierly support SixDog, how 'bout it?  |
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Stevie
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how do we support him?
deportation seems a bit extreme ! 
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No matter how justified his actions, we can't condone them publicly. We wouldn't want OUR diplomats in foreign nations to be assaulted with impunity, would we? Privately, in our hearts we can applaud him and give him a medal, but after all, we are a nation of laws. I love you guys!! 
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