This gives our country a strength in international affairs that other countries cannot match. Wherever you come from in the world , the U. Yes, as a Democrat, I do wish that Vietnamese voters were Democratic β and I fully expect that more of them will be in the future. But we can. And, even if only because what happens in Little Saigon no longer stays in Little Saigon, we must. After all, we can take a detour for a few hundred words and look what we neighbors do when it comes to their brothels.
Blogs are probably more likely than other journalistic outlets to speak the commonly known but unspeakable β such as that Little Saigon has a lot of prostitution and that there seems to be good reason to think that many of the women involved are being held against their will.
Passively and quietly allowing such horrors is not healthy for a society. Our first response to this is, essentially, to shrug. Our second response is to say that we want to fight human trafficking and slavery β but to redefine it into something safer to oppose, such as when we shift concern about big corporate air, ground, and water pollution into a nice easy campaign against individual litterers.
Reasonable people may disagree on the importance of preventing and punishing these sex crimes, but no reasonable person should confuse these activities with the REAL HORRORS of continual rapes of kidnapping victims.
And that brings us back to election fraud. Instead, we seem willing to tolerate it. What should be intolerable is the mis-match: accusations without basis, on the one hand, or corruption without punishment on the other. Normally, the courts would not get involved in this without a prosecution from our feckless OC District Attorney. If serious problems are identified in this election, a local court would probably retain future authority to review processes in Little Saigon β and it would be less likely to happen again.
