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Transcript from Fonda's broadcast from Hanoi: 33 years ago
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Posted on 08/07/2005 8:24:08 AM PDT by Embraer2004

transcript of Jane Fonda's radio address which she had broadcast in North Vietnam. This transcription, dated August 22, 1972 was made from her Hotel Especen broadcast in Hanoi at 7:11 p.m.

The following was submitted in the U.S. Congress House Committee on Internal Security, Travel to Hostile Areas. [HR16742, 19-25 September 1972, page 761]

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[Broadcast]

This 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]


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: citizenarrest; hanoi; hanoijane; nixon; vietnam
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I honestly did not know how far Ms. Fonda had gone in her anti-American activities. Reading from this website has left me in shock...not only Ms. Fonda's deeds but also the realization that we still have the same type of people in 2005 carrying out subversive activities against our President, our country and our troops in the War on Terror.
1 posted on 08/07/2005 8:24:08 AM PDT by Embraer2004
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To: Embraer2004

Not only the same type of people, THE SAME PEOPLE!


2 posted on 08/07/2005 8:27:18 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Embraer2004
these people own their own land,

[sarcasm] I guess they didn't have a Communist government, then.[/sarcasm]

3 posted on 08/07/2005 8:27:40 AM PDT by syriacus (Embryos -- Special enough that researchers want a lot of them; not special enough to deserve to live)
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To: Embraer2004

C***!


4 posted on 08/07/2005 8:32:28 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right, but never in doubt.)
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To: Embraer2004

I'm surprised that this bitch didn't move there after the war.


5 posted on 08/07/2005 8:35:34 AM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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To: Embraer2004
Jane Fondu helped the Soviet Union subjugate the people of Vietnam to 20 years of Soviet rule and helped kill millions in the aftermath of the "revolution". She helped torture and kill thousands of American POWS. Jane f'n Fonda is a murderer.
6 posted on 08/07/2005 8:37:26 AM PDT by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
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To: Embraer2004; ALOHA RONNIE; dalereed; SandRat
I honestly did not know how far Ms. Fonda had gone in her anti-American activities. Reading from this website has left me in shock...not only Ms. Fonda's deeds but also the realization that we still have the same type of people in 2005 carrying out subversive activities against our President, our country and our troops in the War on Terror.

I was in grade school when we were in VietNam. I guess because of the media bias (some things never change), my mom and dad shielded me from the coverage. I do remember Jane Fonda, though. My mom called her everything but a white woman. Very few Hollyweirdos anger me as much as this traitor does.

If anyone has a ping list, pass this on. It would be a great service to broadcast her speech on loudspeakers, everywhere that witch shows up. She's touring next year, and we should extend a rather warm welcome, dontcha think?

7 posted on 08/07/2005 8:44:21 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: Dallas59
Jane Fondu helped the Soviet Union subjugate the people of Vietnam to 20 years of Soviet rule and helped kill millions in the aftermath of the "revolution". She helped torture and kill thousands of American POWS. Jane f'n Fonda is a murderer.

Hanoi Jane is threatening to tour the country next year, in her vegetable oil powered bus. Shall we give her a warm welcome????

8 posted on 08/07/2005 8:58:38 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Tonk,

You may want to add this to your collection of stuff bashing JFK/HanoiJane


9 posted on 08/07/2005 8:58:46 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Dang it, that's what I did wrong with your screen name, Tonkin! I was trying to ping you, too : )


10 posted on 08/07/2005 8:59:56 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Yeah, I can conjure up something warm to throw at her...Just let me eat at Mexican cafe before going to see her show.
11 posted on 08/07/2005 10:23:45 AM PDT by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
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To: Embraer2004

Bump for later


12 posted on 08/07/2005 11:01:09 AM PDT by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: Embraer2004; tet68; Richard Poe; Mia T; reformjoy; JLO; Calpernia

.


In an new time of war...
in a new Century...
with an Enemy that's now...
just around the corner and...
up your street...
with our own Freedom...
directly at stake...
right here at home...

it is so important to understand that it IS indeed the very SAME PEOPLE that were against Freedom long ago...

that are against it now.

Long ago JANE FONDA went to Hanoi and did exactly what the rest of our Enemies within were doing against Freedom right here at home:


WALTER CRONKITE
DAN RATHER
JOHN KERRY
WILLIAM "Bill" CLINTON
DIANE "Hillary" RODHAM
TED KENNEDY


Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965

http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

.



13 posted on 08/07/2005 11:07:32 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Boomer Geezer

Bump & Bookmark


14 posted on 08/07/2005 11:09:03 AM PDT by Boomer Geezer (Sgt. Wanda Dabbs, 22, of the 230th, called out, "That's my president, hooah!" and there were cheers.)
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To: Embraer2004

If the c*** fonda tours thru the denver area on her bio-bus, what is legal to ahhhh, "donate" to her as she passes by? eggs, tomatoes, cow patties?


15 posted on 08/07/2005 11:15:01 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: All
You may as well get ready for it.....I read the other day that she was tired of keeping quiet about Iraq and Afghanistan...she's about to start her anti-American protest again.
16 posted on 08/07/2005 11:18:35 AM PDT by Navydog
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To: Embraer2004; The Sailor; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Defender2; Blue Scourge; ...
Thanks to Nixon
the lies of Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
are being told again.
And our military are being slandered in Gitmo, Iraq and Afghanistan

Hanoi Kerry and War Crimes in Vietnam

Hanoi Kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971
to accuse the United States military
of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam.

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.

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.






17 posted on 08/07/2005 12:09:35 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Never Forget)
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To: Interesting Times

PING!


18 posted on 08/07/2005 12:16:02 PM PDT by The Shrew (www.swiftvets.com & www.wintersoldier.com - The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
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To: Navydog
Jane, this is not the Hippie era and the LSM does not dominate news and information. Jane, get ready for the Anti-Jane movement - if you can handle it you traitorous skag.
19 posted on 08/07/2005 12:17:55 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
I'm surprised that this bitch didn't move there after the war.

With all her rhetoric about the beautiful people of Vietnam, it all boils down to one simple thing: capitalism. America is where she earned her stardom, America is where she was paid millions of dollars for being an actress, America is where her riches accumulate and are spent in pursuit of self, America is where she can buy multi-million dollar properties and multi-million dollar dresses. Why would any self-righteous commie-lovin' snake give THAT up??

20 posted on 08/07/2005 12:23:46 PM PDT by shezza (God Bless Our Troops)
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