2nd part
The Whitewashed Response To Action
Concerning the Montagnard People:
Thank you for e-mailing the US President.
Your ideas and comments are very important to him.
Unfortunately, because of the large volume of e-mails received,
the President cannot personally respond to each message.
from: White House E-Correspondent
I got this EARLY in 2003, as far as diplomacy is concerned I was meant to feel whitewashed but not in the least surprised.
This response I got from the Whitehouse e-mail, kind of reminded me of another situation that was replied in similar vein a few years back. Around the time discussions were being made about nations being responsible for the amount of waste they contribute in gas form there was a proposal in Japan called the Kyoto protocol which could make things better but was refused by the most gaseous and wasteful nation the US. And it was this refusal to the protocol that inflamed citizens the world over to protest and petition as thousands. Many did make their voice heard partly though the net as I also did. Now it bears saying that the petitions for the Kyoto were all of the same focus and within the timeframe of a Global meeting discussing the issue back in '97. Called Earth Summit. Unlike the particular case of which I undertook as an individual but both still bore the same results, no effect as can be read above.
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I must say that my eventual reaction to this ignorant-“robotic reflex” of a response further led me to take down some vital information on the exact resolutions with which the USCRIF mentioned were in breach by the government-officials and advocates of the horrendous crimes within the region of Dak Lak Vietnam for their political purposes. Not very far I suppose from the US equivalent the C.I.A. only I stress that these acts done, were done -within- the national region, and more pushed on its own people.
I tried to discuss this matter with ICC representatives. The vice-president of that NGO told me that they -The Vietnamese Government- to whom this petition is directed against do not as practice follow these lines of international order found in several UN resolutions, namely the Article 18 of Human Rights. But I on the other hand mentioned that we -us Civil-Christians who are here- do not know what the details of these laws and the spirit behind them are, and still do not till this day. Meaning that what charities aimed at reaching and achieving was in the dark to those who can act and not just say-so, that are the Christians in religiously tolerant societies if we are after all who these NGO's target to act.
I further took down the fundaments of various “illegal-acts” behind United States Council on International Religious Freedom’s policies in order to spread what was in breach. I intended to send it to church first as this issue was centred around Article 18, which is for the behalf of religious and belief freedoms, then I tried to send it to other social venues like libraries and college notice-boards. I will not mention the depth to which I was replied to these measures that I took, I will not because I can not really, as the discussion over the awareness of these laws and the notice of this crime was responded in the very meaning of the word “surface level feedback." I received no more than passing sympathies which was not what I was after from the library to church, actually I remember getting thrown out of a particular “Laurence-house” Town Hall London’s Library with the mention that the information I was spreading was not government approved, little did the Security know what the spirit behind this act was for, but then again how can he?
In the spirit of samizdat or self-publishing in simple terms this was what I made on the awareness of religious freedom international laws, and October 2002 issue :
That musnt be. As the more aware a group become of why their situation is the way it is, the more they may see what outer mechanisms political or economic make things stay this way for them and worse.
A report on the treatment and attitudes to religion in Vietnam.
..."my duty and my conscience"...
A priest named Van Ly talks about his experience and reason to remain in prison.
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