Anthony Vo
Appearances
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
So I just wanted to go there and support the people that were stuck behind bars, awaiting their trial that they haven't received yet, suffering through, like, God knows what conditions.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
A couple of my heroes were like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, like all these people that had to, you know, flee to like find safety or whatever.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
Yeah, like, I remember, like, of him, like, starting out campaign rally speeches, whatever, with the January 6th prisoners' choir reciting the national anthem.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
Yeah, I remember hearing, like, you know, we're political hostages.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
We're being very unfairly treated by the weaponized justice system, as he has been as well, who would promise to, like, pardon the political prisoners.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
To me, it was like, I guess, light at the end of the tunnel. I was crying happy tears that night and the next few days afterwards.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
When I first got arrested, I kind of knew that this is a thing that's going to be a process. It's going to take a lot of time, a lot of things to happen for the tide to turn. And it was just going to take a lot of patience and a lot of work to be able to overcome it. But I think we're all stronger for it now.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
There's a meme that's been circulating around for probably at least a few months, years now, saying January 6th will go down in history as a day the government staged a riot to cover up the fact that they certified a fraudulent election. And I think that's how history will remember January 6th.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
At the moment, I am currently seeking refuge from the current United States government.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
I am a family of Vietnamese immigrants. They all came over legally from Vietnam.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
We just love this country and, you know, the freedom and everything else that it symbolized for us coming from Vietnam.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
He gave me that persecution complex, which made me start paying attention to him.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
Fakism of being like sexist, racist, all these different things.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
Like, hang on, what's going on? Why is the media like all... seemingly coordinating against Trump with all these like demonstrably false headlines that are all out of context if you just like look into it a little bit more.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
You know, like, oh, new votes came in or whatever. Oh man, there's like a lot of gaming potential with these mail-in ballots. There's a lot of like security gaps. Like Pennsylvania, they illegally changed the voting deadlines. No signature verification was done for these ballots. So many different things like made me suspicious.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
It kind of, like, made me look for some sort of opportunity to do something about it. And I think in, like, December, they were talking about the Stop the Steal rally.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
People are giving out Vietnamese bun mee sandwiches to everyone. It was just like an excited fervor, I would say.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
You would hear booms and every so often you might smell some spice in the air. But like I never saw anything untoward in there.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
I remember my mom and I were just sitting on this bench and we're observing this guy in a colonial regalia. He was playing the flute, Amazing Grace on the flute. People were just like sitting around watching him.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
When I walked in, it felt like a religious experience. The Rotunda Dome, I find out later, is inspired by the same dome in St. Peter's Basilica. And going in, I was just awash with, like, wow, this is glorious.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
I felt like it was a situation where normally you wouldn't be allowed here, but I thought that this was a very special opportunity that we earned to be able to exercise our rights. Like the end of V for Vendetta, obviously normally those people wouldn't be allowed to do what they're doing, like assemble and whatever, in front of their parliament.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
But by massing together peacefully from my eyes, they were able to make their voices heard.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
You know, I see like the first like bits of news coming through my phone, like all the initial headlines, like rioters stormed the Capitol. Yeah. Riders, like, blocked the vote or whatever. And all these things, like, they kind of caught me by surprise.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
So, like, when I was, like, reacting to it with friends on, like, social media, DMs and such, I was basically mocking media about, like, oh, yeah, we stormed the Capitol. It was like, we walk right in. Like, you know, I thought it was, like, just, like, over-the-top embellishment. So I was just, like, having fun with it.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
Yeah. I did think that, uh, people were starting to say like, this is like a big setup or whatever. And, uh, you know, it did seem to like be that way.
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
I think the first thing I said to, like, the officers was, like, ah, you got me. And I remember, like, kind of thinking out loud to the two interviewing agents as I was, like, you know, going through the paperwork and such. I was like, hmm, how can I beat this?
The Daily
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
You know, I was, like, staring at the models of a kangaroo court. But I just felt like I had to go with it anyway.