Joseph Cao: “Their intention is about cracking down on democracy activism, on religious freedom activism.”

It is just a another terrible indication of what dictatorship is all about.

The passage of the Vietnam Human Rights Act through the House speaks very loudly of where we are as a government.

When you deprive people their rights to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives--when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

What transpired in Vietnam after the Communist takeover could only be described by analogously linking the tragedy of Vietnam to such unconscionable events in human history as the Holocaust, the Killing Fields and the Great Purge.