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How Vietnamese lawmakers struck back when L.A. County declared Jane Fonda Day
Cal Matters ^ | 05/13/2024 | RYAN SABALOW

Posted on 05/14/2024 10:01:46 AM PDT by DFG

As Saigon was falling, Janet Nguyen’s uncle – an officer in the South Vietnamese Army – was taken before his village and executed. After the city fell on April 30, 1975, the communists put Nguyen’s father and mother in jail. Their “crime?” They got caught trying to escape the country.

After Saigon fell, Tri Ta’s father spent years in a re-education camp prison. His “crime?” He wrote books critical of communism.

Both Nguyen and Ta eventually made it to California with their families. She became a California state senator and he became a member of the Assembly. The Republicans represent Orange County districts home to the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.

Forty-nine years after the Fall of Saigon, April 30 remains a solemn day for Nguyen and Ta as it is for many of 2.3 million Vietnamese-Americans in the U.S. They call it Black April.

“It’s a day that we mourn,” Nguyen said.

Which is why Ta and Nguyen were outraged when leaders of neighboring Los Angeles County declared April 30 “Jane Fonda Day” to honor the celebrity for her environmental activism. The lawmakers immediately began pressuring officials to rescind the recognition.

(Excerpt) Read more at calmatters.org ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: april30; california; janefonda; vietnam

1 posted on 05/14/2024 10:01:46 AM PDT by DFG
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To: NorthMountain

If those Jackdemocrats want to honor her environmental activities they’d have chosen another day. They thought they couldx sneak one past people and snicker.

If the revolution does come I hope I live long enough to see these Kulaks take their place in front of the sandbags.


3 posted on 05/14/2024 10:15:18 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: DFG

Jane Fonda

SPIT.

5.56mm


4 posted on 05/14/2024 10:16:43 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: DFG

5 posted on 05/14/2024 10:29:11 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: DFG

It is good that crossing the Việt Kiều community is bad politics.


6 posted on 05/14/2024 10:40:58 AM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: Albion Wilde

Jane should stick her head in every part of her wall


7 posted on 05/14/2024 10:48:56 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DFG

How many people are actually dead thanks to that brain-dead woman’s idiocy?

From shutting down nuclear reactor progress to siding with our enemy in Vietnam, she has been on the wrong side of every major issue.

And don’t even get me started on 40-year-old fatties in spandex following her exercise videos...


8 posted on 05/14/2024 11:27:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: butlerweave

Likely, she’s been there and done that! A real Shitite!


9 posted on 05/14/2024 11:52:18 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: DFG

So now we’re making American Traitor Recognition Day?


10 posted on 05/14/2024 11:55:41 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: DFG

a day to glorify a traitor


11 posted on 05/14/2024 11:59:13 AM PDT by coalminersson
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To: DFG

LA country declares communist Skank Day


12 posted on 05/14/2024 1:26:01 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DFG

Ugly old dried up skanky communist bag day


13 posted on 05/14/2024 1:26:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DFG

More here on the blowback against Hanoi Jane and her fanboys...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/la-county-to-change-date-of-jane-fonda-day-after-backlash


14 posted on 05/15/2024 2:54:18 PM PDT by KingofZion
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