We Do Not Want to Disturb the People, We Desire Only to Protect Public Security
A painted poster in red and grey carries the two-line text 'Do not want to disturb the people; only want to protect public security'. Uniformed police search a covered cart while a civilian looks on, one officer carries a smiling child and another points. The tell is the reassuring wording and the smiling bystanders set beside an inspection, framing a search as service to the public.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-010-224.
Text on the object
-KHÔNG MUỐN PHIỀN NHIỄU NHÂN DÂN -CHỈ MUỐN BẢO VỆ AN-NINH CÔNG CỘNG
- Do not want to disturb the people - Only want to protect public security
