Call To Arms

EDIT: Three have been released, but four are still being held ille­gally by the Viet­namese government.

I don’t usu­ally ask my read­ers to do much, but please go to FreeThem­Now and sign the petition.

I don’t think it’s made Amer­i­can main­stream news, but on Novem­ber 17^th, the Viet­namese gov­ern­ment cap­tured seven peo­ple who were orga­niz­ing peace­ful pro-​democracy ral­lies in Viet Nam. Three were Viet­namese cit­i­zens, one was a Thai cit­i­zen, one was an Aus­tralian cit­i­zen, one was a French cit­i­zen, and two were Amer­i­can cit­i­zens. All of them are heroes to me. I’ve met sev­eral of them per­son­ally, and a cou­ple of them are fam­ily friends.

One of the Viet­namese cit­i­zens has been released, but the other five are still being held with­out habeus cor­pus. One of the Amer­i­can cit­i­zens is actu­ally hid­den at the moment… the Viet­namese gov­ern­ment will not even dis­close where they are hold­ing him prisoner.

Tags: America, Family, Friends, Viet, Will N