Support freedom and democracy in Vietnam!

This is what I love love love about new media: On Sunday, I was chatting with St. Louis blogger Gateway Pundit about how we might drum up publicity for the case of Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Roman Catholic priest and editor of a pro-democracy publication in Vietnam who was recently sentenced to eight years in prison (and not the first time he's sat behind bars for the cause of freedom). An hour later, the People's Democratic Party chairman and I were discussing creating a Web site to get the word out. By last night, the new blog was up and running. I love the Internet age!!

Click over and learn more about Father Ly. The image of guards clapping a hand over his mouth at his trial (as he said "Down with the Communist Party of Vietnam!" after the sham guilty verdict was read) is being widely circulated around the Web, much to the chagrin of the regime. We turned this image into the sidebar bug that you see, and hope as many bloggers as possible will stick it on their sites. We like to call that "igniting a blogstorm" in the name of freedom and democracy!!