Hmong-Americans

Meanwhile, 3,000 Hmong-Americans demonstrated outside the courthouse, calling for all charges to be dropped.

Roger Warner: When "Terrorism" Becomes Farce: How the DOJ Blew a Case, Ripped Off Taxpayers, and Violated National Security Policy Roger Warner 2010

Mr. TANG: When the incident happened, it was around Thanksgiving and it really shook not only the hunting world and also the rural communities, but also in urban areas like St. Paul, Minneapolis, where we have the largest urban concentration of Hmong-Americans.

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Some of the Hmong-Americans were conning the gullible Harrison Jack, a retired California National Guard lieutenant colonel, about the real size of the Hmong resistance.

Roger Warner: When "Terrorism" Becomes Farce: How the DOJ Blew a Case, Ripped Off Taxpayers, and Violated National Security Policy Roger Warner 2010

So why not work amicably with Hmong-Americans, without arresting anyone, get those satellite phone numbers -- and try to work out an amnesty deal with the government of Laos?

Roger Warner: When "Terrorism" Becomes Farce: How the DOJ Blew a Case, Ripped Off Taxpayers, and Violated National Security Policy Roger Warner 2010

If we ask Saudi Arabia not to allow its citizens to support al-Qaeda, we can't let Hmong-Americans support their armed relatives in Laos.

Roger Warner: When "Terrorism" Becomes Farce: How the DOJ Blew a Case, Ripped Off Taxpayers, and Violated National Security Policy Roger Warner 2010

Vang Pao's lead negotiator, a Californian named Charlie Waters, says Hmong-Americans are not seeking financial gain from the farm co-op and that he will set it up in whatever way works best once the startup capital can be found.

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Vang Pao's gambit could easily fail - disrupted by angry Hmong-Americans, or by hard-line elements within the Laotian regime.

Roger Warner: No Thanks to the State Department, the Last Remnant of the Vietnam War May Be About to End 2009

Other Hmong-Americans not connected to this initiative say the U.S. embassy in Laos has a reputation for being anti-Hmong, and for giving a chilly reception to outside ideas.

Roger Warner: No Thanks to the State Department, the Last Remnant of the Vietnam War May Be About to End 2009

A few Hmong in Laos are still fighting -- a third of a century after the war was supposed to have ended -- and a few Hmong-Americans support them, sometimes by sending money, more often by encouraging them to stay and fight.

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The symptoms included widespread illegal fundraising in America to support the resistance, young Hmong-Americans traveling to Laos to fight, and a persistent myth of Vang Pao's inevitable return at the head of great invading army.

Roger Warner: No Thanks to the State Department, the Last Remnant of the Vietnam War May Be About to End 2009