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"Thanks for the memories!"
- Bob Hope
"I'm very honored to be a guest in your country, and I
loudly condemn the crimes that have been committed by the U.S.
Government in the name of the American people against your country.
A growing number of people in the United States not only demand
an end to the war, an end to the bombing, a withdrawal of all
U.S. troops, and an end to the support of the Thieu clique,
but we identify with the struggle of your people. We have understood
that we have a common enemy: U.S. imperialism."
- Jane Fonda, 1972
"To the U.S. servicemen who are stationed on the aircraft
carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin, those of you who load the bombs
on the planes should know that those weapons are illegal. And
the use of those bombs or condoning the use of those bombs,
makes one a war criminal."
- Jane Fonda, 1972
"I'm not a pacifist. I understand why the Vietnamese are
fighting . . . against a white man's racist aggression. We know
what U.S. imperialism has done to our country so we know what
lies in store for any third world country that could have the
misfortune of falling into the hands of a country such as the
United States and becoming a colony . . . You know that when
Nixon says the war is winding down, that he's lying. "
- Jane Fonda, six months before Nixon ended the Viet Nam
War
April 26th, 2003
Joie Petitte sends this one, and I pass it along
to you.
HONORING A TRAITOR
This is for all the kids born in the 70's
that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden,
that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had
to bear.
Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100
Women of the Century."
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still
countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not
only the idea of our country but specific men who served and
sacrificed during Vietnam.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name
is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant
of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison - The
"Hanoi Hilton". Dragged from a stinking cesspit of
a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered
to describe for a visiting American "Peace Activist"
the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away.
During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp
Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78,
the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which permanently
ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application
of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the
47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hilton"-
the first three of which he was "missing in action".
His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group,
too, got the cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for
a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the
world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece
of paper, with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When
paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line,
shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets
like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are
you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?"
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Believing this HAD to be an act, they each
palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat.
At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling,
to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the
officer in charge and handed him the little pile of papers.
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan
was almost number four but he survived, which is the only
reason we know about her actions that day.
"I was a civilian economic development
advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese
communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over
5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one
year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a "black
box" in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in
a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried
in the jungle near the Cambodian border."
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"At one time, I was weighing approximately
90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's
'war criminals'."
"When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked
by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing
to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell
her about the real treatment we POWs received different from
the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted
by Jane Fonda, as "humane and lenient." Because of
this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched
arms with a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten
with a bamboo cane till my arms dipped."
"I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple
of hours after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing
to debate me on TV."
"She did not answer me."
"This does not exemplify someone who should be honored
as part of '100 Years of Great Women'."
"Lest we forget - "100 years
of great women" should never include a traitor whose hands
are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few
things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's
participation in blatant treason, is one of them."
This is for the kids. If you know anyone who
served in that war, ask them how anxious they are to see a Jane
Fonda film. The ones I've met are resolved never to see her
on film. - Vikar.
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