California city becomes 1st U.S. "no Communist zone".(Insider Report)

Garden Grove, California, a city known as "Little Saigon" due to its large Vietnamese population, has become the first U.S. city to declare itself a "no Communist zone."

Garden Grove's city council passed, by unanimous vote, a resolution on May 11 declaring it "does not welcome, or sanction high-profile visits, drive-bys or stopovers by members or officials of the Vietnamese Communist government." The resolution also denounces "the current dictatorial rule of the Vietnamese Communist Party," instructs city employees and officials to refrain from "initiating engagements with or facilitating" visits by Vietnamese Communists and directs the police chief to require a minimum 14-day notice from any agency or jurisdiction requesting security assistance in connection with any such visit.

In April, the U.S. State Department was forced to cancel a visit to Garden Grove by a delegation of Communist officials from the Vietnamese regime because police and local officials said the federal government's 24-hour notice was not sufficient to provide adequate security. Garden Grove, about 30 miles south of Los Angeles, is the nucleus of Orange County's Vietnamese population, which numbers about 100,000. Most of the Vietnamese residents are themselves "boat people," or are the children of refugees who ...