When America Quits: Counting Totals

Hmong Leadership Conference Call and Rolling Thunder

The undercover agent states in his affidavit that at a lunch meeting with Harrison Jack,

“JACK advised me that approximately three weeks prior [to this lunch meeting on March 5, 2007] he organized and attended a conference call for all of the Hmong leadership in the United States. JACK said that they dialed into the call from Hmong Headquarters in Fresno, California. JACK said the meeting focused on strategic planning related to political issues in Laos and that following the conference call the group discussed the situation in Laos JACK said some of the “white folks” present during the meeting were becoming concerned because they could see that the Hmong were not content with only administrative efforts; they were looking at something operational. I understood this to mean that Neo Hom members were discussing the take over of the Laotian government in the presence of non-Neo Hom individuals.” [Emphasis added.]

Elsewhere in the affadavit the agent includes a discussion of attending the Memorial Day “Rolling Thunder” event, at which, according to the affidavit by the agent, “Lo said that all of the leadership of the Hmong community in the United States, i.e., all the clan leaders, were getting together. There was a plan to have a large ‘sit down’ demonstration at the Laotian Embassy in Washington on Memorial Day.”

Based on the work of the Hmong in support of America during the war, their rescuing American soldiers, a demonstration during Rolling Thunder would be understandable.

The Rolling Thunder just held its 20th Rally in Washington DC, in support of POW’s and those who are MIA. One explanation for the name is that one of the organizers said, “It will be the sound of rolling thunder coming across that bridge.”[Memorial Bridge in Washington.] Rolling Thunder was the name of the Strategic Bombing Campaign in Vietnam.

The charges are only allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.