Just at the time people in Vietnam are experiencing a governement "crackdown" and even imprisonment for expressing their views in their own country, foreign Vietnamese students  actively participate in antiwar demonstrations in San Francisco wearing the Communist flag and painting the yellow star on their banners.

Is it possible these students are appreciating the freedom of the USA where they can protest the government without fear of arrest?  Or are they following the orders of the Vietnam regime to disrupt just as the Communists among the antiwar demonstrators of the 1960s and 1970s deliberately did?  There is no doubt in my mind as someone who was in the Bay Area during the Vietnam War as an adult that this disruption was Communist-led and designed to provoke violence at peaceful protest gatherings. 

Three photos  taken  at a rally in San Francisco in September 2005  are attached.  My question: are these Vietnamese foreign students?  Is the leader wearing a Viet Cong flag t-shirt a school employee?

Thank you Golden Pen of anh duong online for calling this photo essay to our attention in your journal.  And thank you, zombie of www.zombietime.com --for allowing these photos to be posted. 

Jean Libby, editor
VietAm Review