Much Ado On Myanmar, Silence, Largely, On Vietnam

• Watched BBC the other night, forthcoming attraction, several days in Burma aka Myanmar, with a view to the first democratic elections they’ve had in decades.
• Further proof, if more were needed, that the Vietnam War, though lost, was what Reagan said it was, a noble cause, in today’s news.
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  “Those Americans who went to Vietnam fought for freedom, a truly noble cause.”.

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• Vietnam on Friday said it will free more than 18,200 prisoners to mark its independence day celebrations, but political activists will be excluded from the country’s second biggest-ever amnesty…
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• The prisoners to be freed had been sentenced to a range of crimes including murder, drug and people-trafficking and bribery.
• …no one sentenced for “propaganda” against the state or attempting to overthrow the regime — charges frequently used against activists — were among the list to be released.

Internal insurrection to overthrow a nasty communist dictatorship would be a worthy act, but unlikely, since the good Vietnamese have been held in bondage since 1975 and all weaponry is monopolised, in the hands of the regime’s red goon-squads.

Patriots have no hope of outside help, except from their exiled kin abroad, and in Obama’s America, the feds would soon crack down on anyone helping liberation movements in IndoChina.

As for propaganda, that is perhaps easier to undertake, despite the endless shtilling of comsymp oiks in America, and even in Australia….there’s nothing Myanmar has done that Hanoi has not excelled in evil!

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Of course Hanoi’s tyrants outlawed freedom of the press and speech as soon as they came to power. Those basic freedoms, and all others, were just as quickly extinguished in South Vietnam when Saigon fell to the forces of darkness.

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But memories linger of a happier age, and parents will tell their children of how much better things were before the Reds.

That of course is ‘propaganda’ – telling the truth in a despotic land of lies.

So how many protests are being lodged against this decree which frees murderers but keeps democrats in marxist dungeons?

How many UN resolutions, how many EU missions, how many do-gooder delegations are descending on Hanoi?

Damn few, I’d wager!

In sharp contrast to Yangon!

Myanmar gets tons of foreign pressure, and is still a rivetting magnet for media attention too.

Yet Yangon’s rulers are nowhere near as bad, nor as obstinately opposed to freedoms, as the Communists in Vietnam.

Funny that..