San Jose, California – 06/07/2007. The installation of the billboard “Speak up for Father Nguyen Van Ly” on Freeway 101 between McKee Ave. and 13th St., San Jose, California, on June 7-2007 is one of the initial efforts of the campaign.  The billboard shows the photo of Father Nguyen Van Ly's mouth was physically muzzled by Vietnamese communist police at Kangaroo "People's Court" in his home city of Hue, communist Vietnam on March 30, 2007

Being a Catholic priest, Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a long-time opponent of the nation's one-party communist rule, has been sentenced to eight years in prison by a Kangaroo Commie "People's Court" in his home city of Hue.  Father Ly, founder of Bloc 8406, had published an underground newspaper Tu Do Ngon Luan (Freedom of Expression) and helped found the Vietnam Progression Party as an alternative to the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party.

During the VC Kangaroo trial, Father Ly's mouth was physically muzzled after he recited four lines of his own poetry: "Communist trial of Vietnam has been a lewd comedy for years. Jurors are a bunch of baboons and servants of dictators.  Who are you to judge?" The rest of his poem may go something like this. "You can cover our mouths, blind our eyes, but we will still speak up, and see your rotten ideology is at an end. Your cruelty is the sign of weakness. Change is coming! Change is coming! And we, the people, will be free."