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| Cafe Lu waitress CeCe Nguyen fills glasses with tea. Police and government officials are obsessed that Vietnamese-Americans might be enjoying their lives and are cracking down to make sure they are properly "controlled" by the State. |
Racism as Official Government Policy in the People's Republic
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you are a Black American in California just try to put a slot machine in your pizza restaurant. You will go to jail or get heavy fines that could put you out of business. Not to mention that your business will be swarming with cops and Government Drones of every type. The same hold true is your ancestry is from Mexico, Japan or Egypt.
But if you are an American Indian then you are the winner in the Lucky Sperm Club. Because of the accident of your birth the bi-partisan People's Republic of California has selected you as "special" and allows you to have legal gambling.
If you belong to a "non-approved race" such as a Vietnamese-American (see story below) the People's Republic will harass you and try to put you out of business if you dare to try and enjoy your life, make a little money, create jobs and support your family.
In Nevada these Vietnamese-Americans would be considered fine, upstanding citizens. But under the insane Statist laws of the People's Republic they are considered criminals to be beaten down and controlled.
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LITTLE SAIGON, Calif. (AP) - At CafDe Miss Cutie, the windows are tinted but not pitch black. The waitresses are wearing negligees but not naked. And patrons are being urged to smoke outside.
The dimly lit coffeehouse in the heart of Orange County's Little Saigon hopes to get a passing grade when police start enforcing a host of new rules to crack down on illegal gambling and nudity at some cafes starting as soon as this weekend.
The crackdown comes after authorities reported crime was on the rise outside coffeehouses.
"When you're running illegal gaming and further complicating the issue by having a quasi-strip bar ... you're attracting a different crowd than guys just going in there to have a cup of coffee," Garden Grove police spokesman Lt. Jeff Nightengale said.
Orange County is home to the biggest Vietnamese immigrant community in the country, with sizable enclaves in Garden Grove and surrounding cities.
Tucked into strip malls featuring McDonald's and Subway restaurants, the coffeehouses cater to men toting laptops to take advantage of free wireless access, who are meeting business partners or who are getting together with friends to play cards, watch sports and flirt with waitresses who pour iced drinks.
Business has fallen at many of the cafes since police started the crackdown - above all on the arcade games that lured customers off their couches and got them to linger longer at the coffeehouses.
"They say if it's just to drink coffee, then I'll stay home and drink coffee," said Thuy Do, owner of CafDe Chichi in Garden Grove.
On a recent weekday afternoon, a dozen loyal patrons converged at CafDe Miss Cutie to play Chinese chess, watch European soccer on flat screen TVs and sip iced coffee served by a waitress in a see-through lavender negligee.
One of them was Mike Nguyen, a 53-year-old day trader who said he doesn't mind the thick stench of cigarette smoke and wishes authorities would ease up on the coffeehouse that has become his virtual office and escape from the cookie-cutter Southern California suburb where he lives.
"It's a stimulating environment," said Nguyen, of nearby Irvine. "Starbucks is boring."
But authorities in Garden Grove - a city of 170,000 people about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles - said cafes have gotten out of control. What began more than a decade ago with waitresses in skimpy outfits morphed into nudity. Some coffeehouses had six or eight arcade games running, and crime was on the rise, Nightengale said.
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| GOVERNMENT APPROVED RACISM: The People's Republic of California has selected just one ethnic group to be legally allowed to set up gambling. Blacks, Hispanics, Whites and Asians need not apply. |
In March, authorities arrested 23 people at coffeehouses in Garden Grove and Westminster for investigation of illegal gaming and seized more than 180 machines and more than $145,000 in cash, Garden Grove police said.
The Garden Grove City Council recently passed new rules to ban arcade games, darkly tinted windows and nudity at cafes. Coffeehouses will be fined $1,000 for each violation.
At CafDe Miss Cutie, sales have been halved since police began making rounds several months ago, manager Tuyen Tran said.
"We just serve coffee, wear bikinis, like Hooters," Tran said. "I don't know how long we can survive like this - with no money and losing customers."
Do, whose small cafDe is brightly lit, said she relies on loyal, older patrons to stay afloat. But with the new restrictions, she fears her customers may venture over to coffeehouses in nearby cities where there are fewer limits.
"Now it is a little boring to just come and drink coffee and read the paper," she said.
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