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Comments by Bruce Herschensohn: Former deputy special assistant to President Nixon
Hanoi Jane: 100 Greatest Women of the Century
Transcription of Jane's Radio Hanoi Broadcast
My
Comments:
I was too young to serve in Vietnam
and therefore have no personal recollection of the exploits of Hanoi Jane Fonda.
I did serve 22 years in the world's greatest Navy and learned first
hand the hatred informed Veterans hold for Hanoi Jane. This page will be used to gather and advertise information about
this treasonous bitch who shouldn't be granted the honor of even residing in our
great country. Please spread the word to boycott her movies, her exercise
tapes and books. - Tim
Comments by Bruce Herschensohn: Former deputy special assistant to President Nixon
Americans are in a hurry to be done with the past and go on to tomorrow. As a clear example of that, pick up the July-August 2000 edition of "O: The Oprah Magazine." That magazine includes an interview with Jane Fonda with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey. Ms. Winfrey writes that Jane Fonda is "the same Jane who protested the Vietnam War and made some Americans so angry that they labeled her a communist and slapped her with the nickname of Hanoi Jane." Either Ms. Winfrey doesn't remember or didn't know that the reason "some Americans" thought she was a communist came from direct statements of Ms. Fonda.
On Nov. 21, 1970 she told a University of Michigan
audience of some 2,000 students, "If you understood what communism was, you
would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become
communist." At Duke University in North Carolina she repeated what she had
said in Michigan, adding "I, a socialist, think that we should strive
toward a socialist society, all the way to communism."
She didn't merely protest the Vietnam War, as Oprah Winfrey wrote. Jane Fonda took the side of the North Vietnamese. In that recently published interview Jane Fonda states, "I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an antiaircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. That had nothing to do with the context that photograph was taken in. But it hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless. I wasn't thinking. I was just so bowled over by the whole experience that I didn't realize what it would look like."
It appears to me as though Jane Fonda is sorry about the photo, but she is not apologizing for her actions that led to the photo since "the context" of which she speaks is by far worse than the photograph. That photo was taken when she went to North Vietnam in July of 1972 where she not only posed for a photo, but also recorded propaganda broadcasts for the North Vietnamese. Among her statements are these precise quotes:
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"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
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"I want to publicly accuse Nixon of being a
new-type Hitler whose crimes are being unveiled. I want to publicly charge that
while waging the war of aggression in Vietnam he has betrayed everything the
American people have at heart. The tragedy is for the United States and not for
the Vietnamese people, because the Vietnamese people will soon regain their
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"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." |
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"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." |
Within six months our military involvement was over. I was working for President Nixon at the White House when our men returned from being prisoners of war and I talked with many of them. For refusing to meet with her a naval commander was beaten daily while in a three-foot by five-foot windowless cell, held there for four months. A lieutenant commander was hung by his broken arm attached to a rope, then dropped by the end of the rope time after time as the table he stood on was kicked out from under him. A captain was hung under his elbows from rounded hooks on his cell wall and beaten into unconsciousness with bamboo sticks. Here are a few of the direct quotes that I saved from those days:
After the U.S. prisoners of war returned and had landed at Clark Field in the Philippines in 1973, Jane Fonda publicly said that they were "hypocrites and liars and history will judge them severely." Jane Fonda has now apologized for a photograph, but she speaks about some unexplained context. The context is the crime. The photograph is merely the visual evidence of the crime.
(Bruce Herschensohn is a former deputy special assistant to President Nixon and a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute. )
Recently seen bumper sticker: "I'll forgive Jane Fonda when the Jews forgive Hitler"<
Jane Fonda: 100 Greatest Women of the Century
Looks like Hanoi Jane may be honored as one of the "100 Greatest Women of the Century". JANE FONDA remembered? Unfortunately many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not
only the idea of our "country" but the men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Jane Fonda's participation in what I believe to be blatant treason, is one of them. Part of my conviction comes from exposure to those who suffered her attentions.The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a former POW in Ho Lo Prison-the "Hanoi Hilton". Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, 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, accidentally pulling the man's shoe off-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 wooden baton.
From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was the 347FW/DO (F-4Es). 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?" 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.
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four. For years after their release, a group of determined former POWs Including Col. Carrigan, tried to bring Ms. Fonda and others up on charges of treason. I don't know that they used it, but the charge of "Negligent Homicide due to Depraved Indifference" would also seem appropriate. Her obvious "granting of aid and comfort to the enemy", alone, should've been sufficient for the treason count. However, to date, Jane Fonda has never been formally charged with anything and continues to enjoy the privileged life of the rich and famous.
I, personally, think that this is shame on us, the American Citizenry. Part of our shortfall is ignorance: most don't know such actions ever took place. Thought you might appreciate the knowledge. Most of you've probably already seen this by now... only addition I might add to these sentiments is to remember the satisfaction of relieving myself into the urinal at some airbase or another where "zaps" of Hanoi Jane's face had been applied.
To whom it may concern: I was a civilian economic
development advisor in Viet Nam, and was captured by the North
Vietnamese communists in South Viet Nam 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. 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 were receiving, which was far 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 piece of steel placed on
my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane every time 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; her former husband, Tom Hayden, answered for her. She was
mind controlled by her husband. This does not exemplify someone who should be
honored as "100 Years of Great Women." After I was released, I was asked what I thought
of Jane Fonda and the anti-war movement. I said that I held Joan Baez's
husband in very high regard, for he thought the war was wrong, burned
his draft card and went to prison in protest. If the other anti-war
protesters took this same route, it would have brought our judicial system
to a halt and ended the war much earlier, and there wouldn't be as
many on that somber black granite wall called the Vietnam Memorial. This is
democracy. This is the American way.
Jane Fonda, on the other hand, chose to be a traitor, and went to Hanoi, wore their uniform, propagandized for the communists, and urged American soldiers to desert. As we were being tortured, and some of the POWs murdered, she called us liars. After her heroes-the North Vietnamese communists-took over South Vietnam, they systematically murdered 80,000 South Vietnamese political prisoners. May their souls rest on her head forever. Shame! Shame! (History is a heavy sword in the hands of those who refuse to forget it. Think of this the next time you see Ms. Fonda-Turner at a Braves game). Please take the time to read and forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that "we will never forget". Lest we forget...
"100 years of great women" Jane Fonda should never be considered.
Transcription of Jane's Radio Hanoi Broadcast
19:11 Hotel Especen; Hanoi-Vietnam :: 7 APR 95
The following public domain information is a transcript from the US Congress House Committee on Internal Security, Travel to Hostile Areas, HR 16742, 19-25 September, 1972, page 7671. From the CompuServe Military Veteran's Forum.)
[Radio Hanoi attributes talk on DRV visit to Jane Fonda; from Hanoi in English to American servicemen involved in the Indochina War, 1 PM GMT, 22 August 1972. Text: Here's Jane Fonda telling her impressions at the end of her visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; (follows recorded female voice with American accent);]
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is Jane Fonda. During my two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,
I've had the opportunity to visit a great many places and speak to a large
number of people from all walks of life-workers, peasants, students, artists and
dancers, historians, journalists, film actresses, soldiers, militia girls,
members of the women's union, writers.
I visited the (Dam Xuac) agricultural coop, where the silk worms are also raised and thread is made. I visited a textile factory, a kindergarten in Hanoi. The beautiful Temple of Literature was where I saw traditional dances and heard songs of resistance. I also saw unforgettable ballet about the guerrillas training bees in the south to attack enemy soldiers. The bees were danced by women, and they did their job well.
In the shadow of the Temple of Literature I saw Vietnamese actors and actresses perform the second act of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, and this was very moving to me-the fact that artists here are translating and performing American plays while US imperialists are bombing their country.
I cherish the memory of the blushing militia girls on the roof of their factory, encouraging one of their sisters as she sang a song praising the blue sky of Vietnam-these women, who are so gentle and poetic, whose voices are so beautiful, but who, when American planes are bombing their city, become such good fighters.
I cherish the way a farmer evacuated from Hanoi, without hesitation, offered me, an American, their best individual bomb shelter while US bombs fell near by. The daughter and I, in fact, shared the shelter wrapped in each others arms, cheek against cheek. It was on the road back from Nam Dinh, where I had witnessed the systematic destruction of civilian targets-schools, hospitals, pagodas, the factories, houses, and the dike system.
As I left the United States two weeks ago, Nixon was again telling the American people that he was winding down the war, but in the rubble-strewn streets of Nam Dinh, his words echoed with sinister (words indistinct) of a true killer. And like the young Vietnamese woman I held in my arms clinging to me tightly-and I pressed my cheek against hers-I thought, this is a war against Vietnam perhaps, but the tragedy is America's.
One thing that I have learned beyond a shadow of a doubt since I've been in this country is that Nixon will never be able to break the spirit of these people; he'll never be able to turn Vietnam, north and south, into a neo-colony of the United States by bombing, by invading, by attacking in any way. One has only to go into the countryside and listen to the peasants describe the lives they led before the revolution to understand why every bomb that is dropped only strengthens their determination to resist.
I've spoken to many peasants who talked about the days when their parents had to sell themselves to landlords as virtually slaves, when there were very few schools and much illiteracy, inadequate medical care, when they were not masters of their own lives.
But now, despite the bombs, despite the crimes being created-being committed against them by Richard Nixon, these people own their own land, build their own schools-the children learning, literacy- illiteracy is being wiped out, there is no more prostitution as there was during the time when this was a French colony. In other words, the people have taken power into their own hands, and they are controlling their own lives.
And after 4,000 years of struggling against nature and foreign invaders-and the last 25 years, prior to the revolution, of struggling against French colonialism-I don't think that the people of Vietnam are about to compromise in any way, shape or form about the freedom and independence of their country, and I think Richard Nixon would do well to read Vietnamese history, particularly their poetry, and particularly the poetry written by Ho Chi Minh.
[recording ends]
Jane Fonda strikes again
ACTRESS JANE Fonda thought she drew fire nearly 30 years ago when she posed for pictures sitting in a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun pointed at U.S. pilots and denounced America's involvement in the Vietnam War on enemy soil.
But that shameful incident didn't prepare her for the flak she received this week from Georgia Gov. Zell Miller.
Last Wednesday in New York, Ms. Fonda -- who lives part of the year in Atlanta with husband Ted Turner -- told the United Nations Population Fund that Georgia has ''special problems'' and in some ways is like a Third World nation. For instance, she said, in the northern part of the state ''children are starving to death'' and people live in ''tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing.''
Not since Neil Young sang of ''tall white mansions and little shacks'' and ''bullwhips cracking'' in his 1972 song ''Southern Man'' has a celebrity's dig at the South evoked such indignation.
Gov. Miller, who happens to hail from north Georgia, fired off a blistering letter to Ms. Fonda. He called her statements ''personally offensive'' and ''simply ridiculous'' and said they reflect ''a prejudice I am shocked to learn you hold.'' He closed by saying he personally felt ''used and betrayed'' because in the past he had bent over backward to work with her, ''sometimes to my detriment.''
Let's not kid around. There are poor people who live in north Georgia, although it's doubtful there are children starving to death. But that doesn't make the state ''special.'' Every state in the union has pockets of poverty, both rural and urban. Is the abject poverty and violence found in Chicago's Cabrini Green public housing project less a problem than Ms. Fonda's ''tar-paper shacks'' of north Georgia?
Ms. Fonda treated her international audience to a collection of ignorant, hoary Southern stereotypes the region has worked hard for decades to eliminate. Yes, we do wear shoes down here. Yes, we have running water. No, we don't all marry our first cousins.
To her credit, Ms. Fonda quickly apologized for her faux pas, a lot sooner than she ever did for her trip to North Vietnam. Her timing may have improved, but her judgment remains questionable.