What happened is an affront to our values
What happened on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 is an affront to democracy. Sadly, among those domestic terrorists, there were some misguided Vietnamese immigrants trying to stop elected officials from performing their duties as prescribed by the Constitution while raising the flag of the old Republic of Vietnam — the flag over which more than 50,000 Americans and generations of Vietnamese people died fighting for what it stood for.
To my fellow Americans, those immigrants do not speak for me, and I can speak for most of us to say that we value this democratic way of life — the one that we lost when our country fell to the North Vietnam communists’ hands and that we regained when we landed on this soil, the birthplace of the Constitution that many countries have tried to imitate but never equaled. They have desecrated our collective history and heritage by flying that flag alongside other symbols of hate and bigotry.
As long as I live, the Stars and Stripes and my historical flag will proudly fly together at my house as the symbols of hope for other people who lost the privileges that we are currently enjoying. I will be standing by to defend both of them and ask you to be there with me to defend what they represent, the true meaning of democracy.
To those misguided Vietnamese immigrants who took the misguided action on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., and everywhere else to support Donald Trump, the only president hell-bent on destroying America, have you forgotten the time you stood in front of a federal magistrate, when you swore to become American and pledged your allegiance not to a president but to America? At the behest of a failed candidate, you betrayed that pledge and took actions to support feudalism and self-appointed King Trump.
I firmly believe in the Constitution, like the religions you believe in, and I feel like it was a personal attack to my core when you attacked the Capitol. I equate that to someone who desecrates your religious holy site. Your actions demonstrate that while living in the U.S., you still think you are better off living as subjects of a king. Along with your cohort, you pushed America to the brink of destruction. If there is any courage left in you, you should renounce your U.S. citizenship and go back to Vietnam where you will be re-educated by the communists on the meaning of the word liberty.
On Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Trump proved to be unfit to lead America, and you have proved unfit to enjoy the freedom this country is giving you. I am no longer your compatriot.
America, I bow my head in apology for the actions of the spoiled immigrants who took part in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.