Bùi Ánh

Bùi Ánh
3rd President of H-Town Tejas
In office April 27, 1939 to January 25, 1940
Political party	Democratic Solidarity Front
Vice President	Sugiura Souta
Preceded by	Robert Hall
Succeeded by	Alejo Suárez Trejo
3rd Chairman of the Democratic Solidarity Front
In office July 4, 1935 to January 25, 1980
Preceded by	José Võ
Succeeded by	Sugiura Souta
Born	February 4, 1896 Santa Miguela, Great Swamp State, Republic of Texas
Died	January 25, 1980 (age 83) Võ City, Dallas State, Social Republic of Texas (DSF-controlled free zone)
Spouse	Tạ Thị Hoa (deceased)
Children	Bùi Tạ Đồng (deceased), Bùi Tạ Khiêm (age 57)
Profession	Labor leader, politician
Religion	Cao Đài (raised Methodist)
Languages Spoken	English, Spanish, Vietnamese

Bùi Ánh was the third President of H-Town Tejas and the third leader of the Democratic Solidarity Front. He was also its first-ever Asian head of state of the country. After leading mass riots ousting the minority regime of Robert Hall, Ánh took the reins of a woefully unstable country. With most of the former military up in arms against him, Ánh, who was no skilled politician, ruled for a year, after which he was ousted by General Alejo Suárez Trejo. He continued to lead the DSF in its actions agains the fascist regime of Brigadier General Aurelius Adolf Christensen until his death in 1980.

Early Life

Bùi Ánh was born to Bùi Đức Dũng and Lý Thị Cam in Santa Miguela, Great Swamp State (now two states, Sawa and Teraoka), the youngest of nine children. His was a family of collaborationists, who actively worked with the minority regimes of Alois Almstedt and Robert Hall; as a result, they were alienated from their families and the non-white community. His parents alienated Ánh as well, who became known as the rebel of the family. He fell in with the gangs of his city, where he met Billy Meyers-Ball, who would later become the first leader of the Democratic Solidarity Front.

The DSF

The two of them "went straight" independently of each other, and fell out of contact, both working in factories. Meyers-Ball became involved in the suppressed worker's rights movement, and formed the Democratic Solidarity Front in 1911. He was assassinated by Robert Hall's secret police in 1912, but not before he had convinced Ánh to join and put him in charge of the DSF Youth League. José Võ took charge of the movement, and took a liking to the young Ánh. When he became too old to be a "youth," Võ gave him a fairly high-up position within the adult DSF's ranks.

Under Võ, the DSF grew, and, by the '30s, was actively protesting in Tejas's cities. Võ was assassinated by an increasingly desperate Hall in 1935, and Ánh, by then a Vice Chairman, took command of the movement. While not half the leader Võ was, Ánh didn't have to do much with what his predecessor had built. On April 27, 1939, Hall was overthrown, and Ánh took his place.

In Power

Ánh could not, however, effectively lead Tejas. He never left Austin after taking power, as there was too much risk involved. The military fell almost completely out of his hands, and he had nothing but a hastily constructed, poorly trained and equipped force to fend off the formidable troops of Hall's military. Democratic reforms, non-white rights, and worker's rights would have progressed greatly under Ánh, had he been able to effectively implement them around the country. Eventually, he was ousted by the most important, trusted man in his military: Alejo Suárez Trejo. He fled Austin into the countryside, where he guarded by forces who remained loyal to him. Suárez was ousted soon after by Brigadier General Aurelius Christensen. By the end of this day, when Ánh was living in a small canvas tent in the swamp, he was quoted as saying, "Well, that sucked."

As DSF Leader

Ánh proved better, if not that much better, at leading the resistance movement. For a long time, he governed his movement out of that very canvas tent in the swamp, until he managed to capture a small town in the Dallas Exclave in 1957, named, "Glorious Day of January 25, 1940 City." He renamed it Võ City, and built it up, with the foreign powers assisting him, as a spread-out, fortified guerilla encampment, complete with radio, radar, air defense, and even a small airstrip for the DSF's few airplanes. As the DSF conducted its campaign of resistance against Christensen, it captured progressively larger cities, peaking with San Ismael, but Ánh stayed in Võ City, saying that he preferred its climate.

Ánh became known as more corrupt as the years went by, on one occasion building a mansion with money given to him by foreign powers (the DSF denies that these allegations, but current President Josefa Phạm, a former DSF fighter, says, "It was there. I've seen it."). He married Tạ Thị Hoa, and had two children with her, Bùi Tạ Đồng and Bùi Tạ Khiêm. Allegations have surfaced, propagated by the Christensen regime's state media, but also made by other, more credible sources, that Ánh was in fact homosexual and had affairs with other men. He denied this until his death day.

Death

Ánh died from prostate cancer on January 25, 1980, the 40th anniversary of his ouster. When President Aurelius Christensen heard the news, he promptly spent over a third of the Social Republic of Texas's government budget on the already extravagant Social Republic Day Parade in Aurelia, D.C.

Tejanos are divided on his legacy, but most believe that he was an incompetent ruler who gave way to fascism in Tejas. The DSF and some other Tejanos maintain that he stood as a bastion against fascism until he died. The DSF respects him, but not nearly as much as they do his predecessor, Võ. There is a small DSF base in Estado Sawa named after him.