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“BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. – A day after reporting his four young children were missing, a shrimp fisherman broke down and confessed that he threw them off an 80-foot-high bridge to their deaths, authorities said Wednesday. Lam Luong, 37, was charged with four counts of capital murder, and divers searched the murky waters for the bodies of the youngsters, who ranged in age from a few months to 3 years. Luong had a drug habit and had argued with his wife, Ngoc Phan, before taking the children, said Phan’s brother-in-law, Kam Phengsisomboun. Luong’s girlfriend, who was living in a hotel in nearby Gulfport, Miss., was a factor in the couple’s argument on Sunday and Monday morning, family members and police said…Luong came to Alabama from Vietnam in 1984 and worked as a shrimper, Phengsisomboun said. The couple lived with Phan’s mother at Bayou La Batre, a fishing village 20 miles southwest of Mobile with a large Southeast Asian community.”
When I heard this, I was just disgusted and saddened. I also had heard of a blog today, Disgrasian - “You’re as disgrace. To the race.” Lam Luong certainly is certainly a disgrace…and a criminal.
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girl714 - kam ouen / thank you.
I couldn't have said it any better.
I was quite involved with the Vietnamese club in high school, and am therefore aware of the discrimination that Amerasians have suffered in Viet Nam and here in the States, it's a disgrace on both sides. While it was a terrible act Luong did, it seems many people are unaware of the circumstances that brought it on, at least partially. I asked on another website about Amerasians with American mothers and Vietnamese fathers and got a lot of nonsense about it, that there is no such thing, but there have to be some, as some American women were involved in the conflict as well. (usually as nurses, as depicted in the show China Beach) .. do you have any sources that could help me with this project?
girl714 - kam ouen / thank you.
I couldn't have said it any better.
I was quite involved with the Vietnamese club in high school, and am therefore aware of the discrimination that Amerasians have suffered in Viet Nam and here in the States, it's a disgrace on both sides. While it was a terrible act Luong did, it seems many people are unaware of the circumstances that brought it on, at least partially. I asked on another website about Amerasians with American mothers and Vietnamese fathers and got a lot of nonsense about it, that there is no such thing, but there have to be some, as some American women were involved in the conflict as well. (usually as nurses, as depicted in the show China Beach) .. do you have any sources that could help me with this project?
DO YOU PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THE MAN HAD A DRUG HABIT FOR YEARS? How many crackhead/junkies you know are in the right state of mind? Give me a freaking BREAK!
And as for the stupid "disgrace" bullish....If you look closely, Lam Luong is not full Vietnamese. He is half. (most likely half black) and probably was a product of the u00e2u0080u009cwaru00e2u0080u009d due to his age. A lot of people donu00e2u0080u0099t understand the persecution that half Vietnamese war babies go through. They are USED by their distant family members as a way to get to this country. (After the influx of the u00e2u0080u009cboatu00e2u0080u009d people), there were several ways to come to the US from Vietnam. One was through the u00e2u0080u009cVien Con Laiu00e2u0080u009d which roughly translates to Agency for Amerasians/Half Vietnamese and you could bring your other family members with you. Once these people came to America, these Amerasianu00e2u0080u0099s u00e2u0080u009cfamily membersu00e2u0080u009d leave them high and dry. These people abandoned these kids because they donu00e2u0080u0099t want any other Vietnamese people to know that their daughter/sister/aunt had a child some foreign war soldier. These u00e2u0080u009cwar babiesu00e2u0080u009d are EVERYWHERE, especially in the Midwest and Southern parts of the United States. Many of them barely making any money, and these people see themselves as Vietnamese, but a lot of Vietnamese people donu00e2u0080u0099t accept them as being Vietnamese. They are not accepted as Whites, Blacks, Latinos (whatever their other ethnic half might be) because they grew up Vietnamese with a Vietnamese name.
Iu00e2u0080u0099m not saying what Lam Luong did was right, but the man had a long driven drug addiction. He did not do it in the right mental state. As him being a disgrace, he should be a disgrace to the human race, not to Vietnamese people. GET FREAKING OVER IT PEOPLE. If you want to play the race card, play the full hand, would you? Take the good AND the bad with the all around knowledge. Not just see a Vietnamese name and feel disgraced. GEESH~!
DO YOU PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THE MAN HAD A DRUG HABIT FOR YEARS? How many crackhead/junkies you know are in the right state of mind? Give me a freaking BREAK!
And as for the stupid "disgrace" bullish....If you look closely, Lam Luong is not full Vietnamese. He is half. (most likely half black) and probably was a product of the u00e2u0080u009cwaru00e2u0080u009d due to his age. A lot of people donu00e2u0080u0099t understand the persecution that half Vietnamese war babies go through. They are USED by their distant family members as a way to get to this country. (After the influx of the u00e2u0080u009cboatu00e2u0080u009d people), there were several ways to come to the US from Vietnam. One was through the u00e2u0080u009cVien Con Laiu00e2u0080u009d which roughly translates to Agency for Amerasians/Half Vietnamese and you could bring your other family members with you. Once these people came to America, these Amerasianu00e2u0080u0099s u00e2u0080u009cfamily membersu00e2u0080u009d leave them high and dry. These people abandoned these kids because they donu00e2u0080u0099t want any other Vietnamese people to know that their daughter/sister/aunt had a child some foreign war soldier. These u00e2u0080u009cwar babiesu00e2u0080u009d are EVERYWHERE, especially in the Midwest and Southern parts of the United States. Many of them barely making any money, and these people see themselves as Vietnamese, but a lot of Vietnamese people donu00e2u0080u0099t accept them as being Vietnamese. They are not accepted as Whites, Blacks, Latinos (whatever their other ethnic half might be) because they grew up Vietnamese with a Vietnamese name.
Iu00e2u0080u0099m not saying what Lam Luong did was right, but the man had a long driven drug addiction. He did not do it in the right mental state. As him being a disgrace, he should be a disgrace to the human race, not to Vietnamese people. GET FREAKING OVER IT PEOPLE. If you want to play the race card, play the full hand, would you? Take the good AND the bad with the all around knowledge. Not just see a Vietnamese name and feel disgraced. GEESH~!
No, the death penalty is letting him off way to easily. Let him rot in jail and get beatened the way he deserves.
No, the death penalty is letting him off way to easily. Let him rot in jail and get beatened the way he deserves.
If there was ever a justification for the death penalty, it would be this case. These children were innocent victims, did nothing to deserve the fate handed to them by someone they loved and trusted. He finally breaks down and confesses, speaks to an attorney and then recants. He isn't a man, he's a coward and he deserves everything that he has coming to him.
If there was ever a justification for the death penalty, it would be this case. These children were innocent victims, did nothing to deserve the fate handed to them by someone they loved and trusted. He finally breaks down and confesses, speaks to an attorney and then recants. He isn't a man, he's a coward and he deserves everything that he has coming to him.
There is no justification for his inhuman deed. He's disgrace to human being. He should be removed from human society. I feel so sorry for those helpless kids.
There is no justification for his inhuman deed. He's disgrace to human being. He should be removed from human society. I feel so sorry for those helpless kids.
Akrypti--
Regardless of the photo finesse of his mugshot, what he did was a horrible despicable crime and the actions of a heartless and inhumane degenerate. Who throws not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 of his own kids off a bridge. I don't care how high or angry or whatever he might have been....he's a MONSTER!
Akrypti--
Regardless of the photo finesse of his mugshot, what he did was a horrible despicable crime and the actions of a heartless and inhumane degenerate. Who throws not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 of his own kids off a bridge. I don't care how high or angry or whatever he might have been....he's a MONSTER!
This is a total digression from the content of this post, but the mug shot of him just reminded me of this incident. A few years back when someone broke into my apartment, wreaked havoc, the cops came, and photos were taken, yellow tape and all that fun stuff, me still in my jammies because it was 3 AM in the morning, the police needed to take my picture, since I was "the victim."
I was smiling at first, because I'm a twit and whenever someone says "time to take a pic," I smile.I was grinning ear to ear in that same plastered "I'm a dumb-butt" grin I always have on my face in every single photo when the cop lowered his camera, frowned at me and said, "You're a victim here. This photo will be passed around to the jury. Look more victimized." So I stopped smiling, he took the pic of me not smiling, and said, "Perfect!" I was being photo-opped for a mugshot. That's the SJ PD for ya.
What little point I had: I wonder how "arranged" that mugshot of the perpetrator is. Maybe in real life he doesn't look that mean. Maybe he's very jolly in real life but the photo just makes him LOOK mean.
Not that his actions were excusable, but I wonder what his reasoning was for doing what he did.
This is a total digression from the content of this post, but the mug shot of him just reminded me of this incident. A few years back when someone broke into my apartment, wreaked havoc, the cops came, and photos were taken, yellow tape and all that fun stuff, me still in my jammies because it was 3 AM in the morning, the police needed to take my picture, since I was "the victim."
I was smiling at first, because I'm a twit and whenever someone says "time to take a pic," I smile.I was grinning ear to ear in that same plastered "I'm a dumb-butt" grin I always have on my face in every single photo when the cop lowered his camera, frowned at me and said, "You're a victim here. This photo will be passed around to the jury. Look more victimized." So I stopped smiling, he took the pic of me not smiling, and said, "Perfect!" I was being photo-opped for a mugshot. That's the SJ PD for ya.
What little point I had: I wonder how "arranged" that mugshot of the perpetrator is. Maybe in real life he doesn't look that mean. Maybe he's very jolly in real life but the photo just makes him LOOK mean.
Not that his actions were excusable, but I wonder what his reasoning was for doing what he did.
im vietnamese, this guy give us a bad rep. he's not viet.
im vietnamese, this guy give us a bad rep. he's not viet.
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