The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

NewsMax ^ | February 8, 2004 | Staff

[kennedy]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM EST

The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'

Democratic Party officials are hoping that no photographs exist of a well-covered Vietnam War protest where soldier-hating actress Jane Fonda and Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, then and up-and-coming member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, railed against U.S. war policy from the back of the same pick-up truck.

"Scores of newspaper articles about the march" exist, according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley.

Dubbed "Operation RAW" [Rapid American Withdrawal], the Sept. 1970 march featured Fonda, Kerry and a motley band of anti-war vets in an eighty-six mile trek from Morristown, New Jersey and Valley Forge, Pennsylvania - two Revolutionary War sites.

According to "Tour of Duty," Brinkley's book on Kerry's war years, when the protesters reached their destination they were treated to Fonda standing on the bed of a pick-up truck, where she "denounced the Nixon administration as a beehive for cold blooded killers."

"Marijuana was in the air," said Brinkley. "Skinny dippers frolicked in the Delaware River. . . [The group's] long hair, ripped jeans, army surplus store canteens, and toy guns gave the VVAW the look of a ragtag band of Haight-Ashbury refugees. . .

"Along the marching route, veterans would shout out phrases like 'Kill him!' and 'Cut his belly open' for dramatic effect," said Brinkley.

Others who spoke that day proclaimed the U.S. guilty of "genocide" in Southeast Asia.

Kerry followed Fonda's Nixon denunciation with a rousing anti-war address that made him "the new leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War," Brinkley said. "From Valley Forge onward, [Kerry] was a committed anitwar activist. . ."

From there, Kerry went on to Detroit to organize a particularly offensive bit of guerrilla theater dubbed "The Winter Soldier Investigation," where Fonda presided as U.S. war atrocities were chronicled by "soldiers" who some later suspected were impostors.

After Winter Soldier, writes Brinkley, "Fonda personally adopted [Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War] as her leading cause."

[mikeb704]

Maybe something like this will have to do:

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[WVNan]

Looks like a job for Freepers. Start searching those old news papers in the area in question.

[Cicero]

If the photos still exist, no doubt hillary will find them.

[NautiNurse]

If we can't find an original photo, certainly Photoshop can produce a version.

[oceanview]

could there possibly be no photos of this?

[The Energizer]

From NewsMax's lips to God's ears . . .

[cripplecreek]

A bumper sticker like that would get me chased out of town. LOL

[kennedy]

Perfect. You need to post a copy of that on this thread: Kerry/Fonda '04 (Vanity)

[FreedomPoster]

Bump! Let's find this, FReepers!

[RandallFlagg]

If anyone can find this pic, it'll either be a FReeper, Rush or President Bush.

[mikeb704]

A bumper sticker like that would get me chased out of town. LOL

From personal experience, I can tell you that being chased out of town can be a positive experience.

[MaineVoter2002]

I heard that Anti-Vietnam War Kerry somehow (probably not purposely) lead the VC to what resulted in McCain's capture. Is this true? Are there an links to this story?

Adopt a liberal newsgroup

http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalNewsGroups-PC.html

[FreedomPoster]

Hopefully people would get the joke. I'm not sure I'd want to test that, using my car, though. ;-)

[cripplecreek]

In the sense of building the enemy's morale i suppose he did.

[ClintonBeGone]

I'm sure for a price Chris Lehane will provide it.

[cripplecreek]

Naw i got good neighbors, they would most likely adopt me as the village idiot.

[Dan from Michigan]

A bumper sticker like that would get me chased out of town. LOL

In Jackson?

[Verginius Rufus]

Democratic water-carrier Douglas Brinkley was being interviewed a few days ago by Don Imus. He tried to portray Kerry's participation in the "Winter Soldier" business as an act of moral heroism. The media will try to turn this into a plus for Kerry.

[angkor]

Someone ought to head over to the George Washington University library and check out their archive of Quicksilver Times.