Don't believe in fake “knights”

 Voicing people’s concern is the most effective way to convince listeners. For this reason, disruptive forces are trying to act on behalf of the people to distort, incite and lure our people into their disruptive acts against the Party and the State. Their tricks are very complicated and well-prepared, hence we should stay alert and resolutely counter.

Making the people oppose the government

This is both a target and a dangerous trickery of hostile forces aimed to undermine one of the main relations in the great unity bloc. Their popular trick is to generalise some phenomena of a part of people into the common issue of the whole. They often popularise and exacerbate the discontents of some people on social networks to earn the sympathy of others and make them the common problems of the entire people, then slander the government.

By creating opposition, maximising the contradictions, making up the images of miserable people, exacerbate the limitations in the state governance of authorities at all levels, disruptors condemn that our Party is authoritarian, undemocratic, and our government is weak and corrupted. Particularly, taking advantage of the cases of corruption which have been disciplined and charged, they concluded that it is a common thing, the nature of socialist regime and the result of Party’s leadership. This may result in a disbelief of the people in the Party and the socialist regime.

Yet, however hard they try, they can’t refute the truth that under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, our government is truly the one of the people, by the people and for the people. The relationship between the state and the people is still maintained well. All policies and acts of the government are aimed for the goal of prosperous people, strong, democrat, equal and civilised country. Recently, efforts in administrative reform, building electronic government, digital transformation have improved public services and enhanced people’s satisfaction in the governments. As a result, people are increasingly promoting their democracy, actively respond to movements and drives launched by the government.

Making up the image of “miserable people” and blame it for the government

This is also a popular trick employed by hostile forces as spreading fake news and leading the public opinion in their plots. Accordingly, in their script, our people are suffering in one way or others. First, they resort to legal violators which have been sentenced and call them “the good”, “the heroes”, “prisoners of conscience”, then call for the establishment of “groups” fighting for these people.

Another trick is to make use of people who have complaints with the government to make up the image of “petitioners”. Regardless of whether their lawsuits are right or wrong, on the one hand, hostile forces approach and incite to make them frustrated and continue their protest in large crowds, causing insecurity and social disorder. On the other hand, they use the media to misrepresent and accuse the government of not acting for the people. They also support religious dissidents to create an excuse to call for illegal land claims, create divisions between religions and the government, and incite a portion of the religious population to cause trouble, insecurity, unsafety and disorder in the society. Recently, a number of intellectuals, and students with limited political awareness, being manipulated by hostile forces have spread comments, writings, articles, and video clips promoting their “bourgeois democracy" view, slandering the regime and defaming the leaders of the Party and State on social networks. This has been thoroughly exploited by foreign reactionary radio stations and newspapers to create images of the mass discontent with the country’s regime.

Taking advantage of the economic, cultural and social difficulties in ethnic minority areas, hostile forces spared no trick to paint a gray picture, a future without hope of people there. Along with that, the fertile land of "human rights", "freedom of speech", "freedom of press" is always plowed by hostile forces to plant the "seeds" of the illusion of oppression, injustice of our regime.

They are also very "diligent" as wandering to every corner of society to collect information and pictures of some people with unresolved civil disputes, and people with difficult circumstances. ... to build the model of a "petitioners" with miserable and tragic words, then incite them to fight for their personal rights. When people agree to follow their directions, articles and video clips that distort the truth will appear and be quickly shared on the websites of reactionary and unfaithful organisations and individuals. During the fourth outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the whole political system and the whole people were trying to curb the pandemic and take care of the people's social security, hostile forces, taking advantage of the country's difficult times, tried to launch many tricks to distort the truth and deny the country's achievements in fighting against the pandemic. At this time, slanderous and untrue statements... were widely shared on a number of websites, inciting people to break the isolation barrier and attack the functional forces. Going with the tide, overseas reactionary organisations also tried their best to join in with provocative statements, such as: "people have known how to take to the streets to fight nonviolently", "Whoever has not received support, take to the streets now ”, etc.

Having finished painting the image of miserable people, hostile forces always find ways to distort the truth and try to blame the Party and State, claiming that "they are victims" of the "dictatorship, monopoly", corruption, etc. of our regime. As always, their goal is to damage the Party, State and regime; divide the blood relationship between the Party, the State and the people; undermine the great national unity bloc, etc., in order to remove the Party's leadership role over the whole society. Therefore, we need to raise our vigilance, unveil their plots and tricks, and counter them effectively.

Unveiling their hidden plots

It is not difficult to find articles and video clips with distorted content that hostile forces posted on social networks. When first read or hear those propaganda, people may easily believe that they are showing care for the people and the country, but in fact, they deliberately cover up the reactionary nature behind the distorting and deceptive allegations to make our people distrust the Party and State.

However,  despite their disguise in the name of the people, their hypocritical nature has gradually been unveiled. All their beautiful words of caring for the people and sympathising with the "suffering" of the people are aimed to cover their political purpose of opposing the Party and the State. Their evil nature of "representing the people" has been fully revealed when they exhorted and incited people to "unite" and fight for freedom, democracy, human rights, ... so as to destroy people’s peaceful life and our country’s development.

It has been proven that the thuggish and disobedient nature of the “consensus group" cannot represent the majority of people in Dong Tam commune; or the brazenness of the "petitioners" led by Can Thi Theu cannot be equated with the people who are making right complaints in accordance with legal procedure. The irrefutable evidence and confessions of these "representatives of the people" in court have clearly shown their evil truth. Those who fantasise about their power, exile, and political refugees who follow reactionary organisations abroad are not qualified to represent the interests of Vietnamese people at home and abroad. Poisonous snakes will still be poisonous snakes. Their tricks will become more and more sophisticated and cunning. Therefore, each of us should stay vigilant, alert and conscious to avoid becoming their helping hand, or a "puppet" that is taken advantage of by opponents.