An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged [Jane Fonda]

Frontpagemagazine ^ | 6-10-05 | Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer

[CDHart]

Excellent article - bttt for further reading.

Carolyn

[R. Scott]

A long read – and sickening, particularly her version of the American POWs held by the North. Hanoi Jane and her famous cohort Hanoi John are two of the reasons I favor an actual Declaration of War, and not just congressional approval of the funding. It makes it far easier - even mandatory – to bring charges against those who commit treason and/or sedition.

[Neoliberalnot]

Even with the help of her handlers and the stinking liberal Old Media, she has not fooled most people. Some people cover for her by suggesting she was a stupid kid when she pulled these treasonous acts, but in fact she was well into her 30s.

[sgtbono2002]

Hanoi Jane is unfit to breathe the same air as Americans. She should be banned from the country. Those who support her by buying her book or her excercise videos should be ashamed.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I hope I live long enough to locate and urinate on her headstone.

[Redbob]

"...her nearly 600 page book—which spans about seventy years of her life..."

LOL!

[Neoliberalnot]

She commits treason and what is her punishment?? One guy spits in her face and the media labels the veteran the bad guy. Go figure.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Well done report.

[Calpernia]

ping

[Calpernia]

>>>>The man she was intent upon pleasing then – who actually sent her to North Vietnam -- was antiwar activist, pro-Vietnamese Communist and self-styled anti-American “revolutionary” Tom Hayden. Hayden had previously traveled to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia with an SDS delegation to meet with the Vietnamese Communists and counsel them on how to conduct psychological warfare against the United States.


SDS/Weatherman

Weatherman or Weather Underground Organization, is a "revolutionary organization of communist men and women" formed by members of the Students for a Democratic Society or SDS. They were originally called the Revolutionary Youth Movement. They advocated the overthrow of our government and capitalism. They carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots in 1969-1976.

The group derived their name from Bob Dylan's song lyrics from "Subterranean Homesick Blues", which were, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", I use to see that quote at the bottom of their periodical, New Left Notes, when I use to work at a periodical distribution company.

Their first event, in 1969, was the "Days of Rage" in Chicago. They blew up a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. They announced at a convention that they supported Charles Manson. The rally failed to draw as many participants (300) as they had hoped. They did lead a riot through Chicago's business district, smashing windows and cars. 6 were shot and 70 arrested. The conflict went on for a few days.

1970, after the shooting by police of Black Panther Fred Hampton, the group issued a Declaration of War against the United States government, changing its name to the "weather underground organization", adopting fake IDs, and pursuing covert activities only. These initially included plans for a bombing of a US military noncommissioned officers' dance at Fort Dix. But when three Underground members died in an accidental explosion while preparing the bomb in a Greenwich Village, New York City safe house, other cells re-evaluated their plans and decided to pursue only non-lethal projects.

This group released a number of manifestos and declarations, while conducting a series of bombings. These attacked the U.S. Capitol, The Pentagon, police and prison buildings, and the rebuilt Haymarket statue again, among other targets. The group took measures to avoid any loss of life as a result of these bombings, issuing warnings to evacuate the building ahead of time via phone. They also took a $25,000 payment from a drugs group called The Brotherhood of Eternal Love to break LSD advocate Timothy Leary out of prison, transporting him to Algeria. They remained largely successful at avoiding the police and the FBI.

In the mid-to-late 1970s, the group began dissolving, as many members turned themselves in to the police, and others moved onto other armed revolutionary groups. Very few served prison sentences, since the evidence gathered against them, by the FBI's COINTELPRO program, was inadmissable in court, due to the illegal methods used to obtain it.

Famous members of the Weather Underground include Kathy Boudin, Mark Rudd, Terry Robbins, David Gilbert, and the still-married couple Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.

Many former Weathermen have re-integrated into society, without necessarily repudiating their original intent. Bill Ayers, now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, said in a September 11, 2001 New York Times profile "I don't regret setting bombs. I believe we didn't do enough."

[Mind-numbed Robot]

One guy spits in her face and the media labels the veteran the bad guy.

Not out of character. The media spit in our faces daily.

[Neoliberalnot]

And I would ask how many liberals spit on our soldiers returning from Vietnam? I can tell you it was not uncommon for I remember all too well. I expect it to happen again if the liberals have their way and the war on terrorism doesn't end tomorrow.

[BIGLOOK]

BTTT

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Too bad that because Nixon failed to uphold the law,
we are still stuck with Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry.

If Nixon hadn't caved into the minority anti-war crowd
and listened to the Silent Majority
Hanoi Jane AND Hanoi Kerry
would have been prosecuted for their treason in the 70's,
while Nixon was still President.

Keep in mind that Nixon was directly involved in Viet Nam,
as Vice President, going back to at least 1955.

So Hanoi Jane AND Hanoi Kerry keep a high profile,
and always watch your yellow backs.
Nixon is NOT HERE to protect you.
You are on your own.

26 Sep 1945 - The first death of an American serviceman in Vietnam occurred.
OSS (Office of Special Operations) Major (Lieutenant Colonel) A. Peter Dewey
was killed in action by the Communist Vietminh near Hanoi.
May 1950 President Harry S Truman authorised $10 million in aid to the French for their war in Viet Nam.
By January 1951, $150 million had been given in aid.
1953-61 Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th US President
1953-61 Richard M. Nixon Vice President
1953 - The US is supporting the French in the amount of $1 billion per year--
33% of all US foreign aid--which is 80% of the total cost to the
. US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles (under Eisenhower) first voices the 'Domino Theory':
if one country in Southeast Asia falls to the Communists, they will all fall, one by one.

12 Feb 55 - President Eisenhower's administration sends 1st 350 U.S. advisers to South Vietnam
to train the South Vietnamese Army

8 Jun 56 - The first American of record to die in Vietnam
was Air Force Tech Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.
His son, Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, died in Vietnam Sep 7, 1965.
8 Jun 56 Has been formally recognized by the Pentagon as the first American officially to die in that war.

5 Sep 56 - President Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are
"involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina" 1956 The US believed in that Ho Chi Minh would have won any election held in Viet Nam and used their influence over the government of the State of Viet Nam to ensure that the election was not held



From a Must Visit Site
Vipers Vietnam Veterans Page, A Vietnam Veteran & Proud Web Site
About Vietnam

The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history.
1st American advisor was killed on June 08, 1956,
and the last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,991 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia.

Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said: "ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"
The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran.  For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers.  And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

[Calpernia]

Did you see this thread yet?

[JarheadFromFlorida]

I would love to be the one to spit a mouthful of tobacco juice on Hanoi John Kerry.

[sandydipper]

This should be included in history books - so that future generations of American patriots can despise Jane Fonda as much as me.

[SupplySider]

Why did Jane Fonda travel to Hanoi during her country’s war with North Vietnam? While no one can know for certain...

I agree with the author's psychological analysis of Jane Fonda, but I think it can be stated more simply. I think that she, like a large and growing faction of the antiwar movement at the time, believed in communism and hated capitalism. She almost certainly thought Mao was the good guy, and dreamed of a revolution in the United States. She wanted the US to lose the war to the communists, plain and simple.

I'm ashamed to say that at age seventeen and eighteen I foolishly participated in many of the same demonstrations and marches as Jane Fonda, and saw her speaking and walking in the crowds. I remember John Kerry as well.

I was there, and I can tell you that the rhetoric, the leaflets, and the talk was mostly about a communist victory in Vietnam and a communist revolution at home.

[Calpernia]

>>>>and growing faction of the antiwar movement at the time, believed in communism and hated capitalism.

At that time? They are still alive and well. This crowd has served as president, senators, lawyer for Saddam Hussein, Sheik Rahman's lawyer, and now they are trying to impeach our President. They have even called in a press release for detention of our officials if they leave our borders.