From Oregon, Mr. Julien Bui’s Response
From: Julien Bui <buijulien15@gmail.com>
To: Julien Bui <buijulien15@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 11:11 PM
Subject: Faye Stewart
MY TURN NOW, MR. SUPER HUMBUG
By Joseph-Julien Nguyen
I doubt that Faye Stewart, a current US Senate GOP candidate and Lane County Commissioner, has ever adequately grown up. Because, if he has, he would not excrete from his smelly mouth, in the March 10 forum at George Fox University, such asinine calumny against Vietnamese refugees living in Oregon and around the nation. There, he arbitrarily labeled them as (1) dog and cat stealers and eaters, and (2) ignorant immigrants who couldn’t know how to heat their homes, etc. In fact, asked to voice his opinion about prospective Syrian refugees, in the context of national security concerns, I guess, he skipped the Syrian refugee issue, in order to play safe, and began insulting, instead, the poor Vietnamese immigrants, with no reason, no justification. No slightest provocation whatsoever by those peaceful Vietnamese who never heard or knew about an obscure and arch-fool moron named Faye Stewart II from a tree-cutter family in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Why was he that stupid? The answer seems to be very simple. He is:
The bad: Stewart has a bad and foul mouth, big enough to eject the above abracadabra about Vietnamese refugees –one of the most admirable and successful ethnic minority groups in Portland or elsewhere– and thus, against the truth, for sure. He did so, simply to attract the attention of, and collect the votes from, some humdrum gangs of brainless racists, xenophobes, cynics –camouflaged behind cunning masks such as Supremacists, or Supremos, or Ultranationalists, or Chauvinists, or Klansmen, you name it. As a candidate, he adopted the dirt-cheap tactic à la Trump, yes, our dear Trump, that foul-mouthed, scandal-addict and anti-immigrant GOP controversial candidate.
On the opposite side, Stewart also reminds me of the worst dumbasses, Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, George McGovern and Co, who in 1975, have said “no” to the Vietnamese refugees. Did those bad boys, then, and Faye Stewart, now, have the smallest idea about the reason why Vietnamese refugees had to flee their beloved country and come here? Of course, they came here not to “harvest people’s dogs and cats, their pets” for food, nor to “start a fire in the middle of their living room in an apartment complex” to heat their home, as accused by Stewart The Bad. They came here, betrayed and abandoned by two sordid so-called “allies” Nixon and Kissinger, and other politicos, equally brazen, equally contemptible, equally dastard from right to left. They came here, with nothing but a past heavily loaded with tears, grief, despair, uncertainty, and at the same time a ferocious determination to rebuild their life. Then, after four decades, through hard work and quick adaptation to a new culture and lifestyle, they all became US citizens and paid back their adoptive fatherland by a fresh generation of MDs, PhDs, university professors, school teachers, military officers and generals, pilots, scientists, astronauts, engineers... The list is long. All that, thanks to the generosity, compassion, kindness of the American people. Their success must have made Stewart and Co blush for shame and enviousness.
The Ugly: Eating dogs, or cats, is, culturally speaking, common practice in some Asian countries while eating horses is also part of European culture. In the huge American melting pot, you must not criticize any culture, even if you don’t like it. However, I don’t think Vietnamese refugees in America have ever eaten dogs and cats, or worse, stolen and eaten people’s dogs and cats. Therefore, Stewart’s absurd statements were just rhetorical garbage and archaic silly stereotype one may read only in 3¢ garage-sale fiction books.
I dare Stewart and his accomplices, like Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy (who, after his 3/10 speech, praised him as “a straightforward, fair and kind person”), to show to the public an official document or proof about the (criminal) case of a Vietnamese refugee stealing dogs and cats for food. If not, Stewart, this lumbering bozo, would be an odious liar and slanderer.
The Idiot: Any idiot of the village, like Faye Stewart, who wants to run for national office, must be aware that Oregon is the land of Democrats, and most of Vietnamese are GOP grassroots. So, what use to infuriate them? What candidate does not need minority votes? Will Stewart expect to see, in July, the rednecks and chauvinists fly to his rescue? I wonder.
Recently, he sent, via ipad, to the Vietnamese Americans’ leaders a presumed “apology” which was viewed so arrogant, so haughty, that, instead of appeasing them, it only enraged them more. In that mail, indeed, he said he felt sorry for any harm he had caused to the Vietnamese Communities. That’s not enough, for all that he needs to do is retracting, as soon as possible, his dead wrong statements.
When would Stewart be willing and ready to open his eyes and face the pure truth, the sole truth, the naked truth about the Vietnamese?
Joseph-Julien Nguyen,
Republican, SE Portland, Captain of the (now defunct) Republic of South Vietnamese Army
Thư Xin Lỗi Chính Thức của ông Faye Stewart
[B]Vẫn c̣n ngụy biện rằng câu nói của ông ta bị cắt xén, sửa đổi!!![/B]
April9, 2016
CONG DONG VIET NAM OREGON
Vietnamese Community of Oregon
Lana Co, President ofVNCO
P.O. Box 5541,6
Portiand Oregon 97 238-54t6
RE: Formal Apology
Honorable Lana Co,
Please accept my sincere apology for the comments I made on March 10,
2016 during an Oregon U.S. Senate candidate forum at George Fox University when
asked to express my thoughts on the Syrian Refugee Crisis. My response was never
intended to harm or offend members of the Vietnamese, Asian and Pacific Islander
communities. i was attempting to articulate some of the challenges involved in
supporting successful cultural integration efforts.
My extreme examples were a disservice to the members of your community
at the risk of perpetuating stereotypes. There is no justification for my comments
and I'm very sorry that I made them. I continue to struggle with the portrayal of my
comments and the way in which my words were manipulated and edited in such a
manner to remove the original context and thought.
My words were not well chosen and I regret any harm or disrespect that they
may have caused you and the members of the Vietnamese, Asian and Pacific Islander
communities.
Sincerely,
Faye H. Stewart II
Candidate for Oregon U.S. Senate
