Hoo haa!! Send him all our best wishes!
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]
A while back, a Vietnam Vet Marine did something that a LOT of us would love to do... he went to one of her booksignings, got in line with a copy of her book, then let her have it in the face with a mouthful of tobacco juice... He was arrested, of course, but was out on $100.00 bail, then went to court recently. Here is an email that was forwarded to me after the court date:
I am happy to report that former CAP Marine Mike Smith's trial for spitting in the face of that great patriot, Jane Fonda, went well this morning. The judge said that he was going to hold things until 25 August, and if by that time Mike hasn't spit in the face of Jane Fonda again, the case WILL BE DISMISSED!!! Mike is home free. He doesn't even have to appear on 25 August -- provided he doesn't spit in Jane's face again.
On behalf of Mike, and Tom Moore (the focal point for the collection of donated funds for Mike) please permit me to thank you one and all for your support.
Wayne, I would appreciate your putting this word out to the gang.
God bless you all.
Semper Fi
Dunc
.... Note from dcwusmc: I called retired Marine Major Duncan (Dunc) and he verified the story to me over the phone... He was Smith's CO in Vietnam.... BTW, a CAP Marine was part of a Civic Action Platoon, detachments of which lived in the Ville with the south Vietnamese, ate and slept just like their hosts, and provided training to the Popular Force militiamen of that ville and assisted in its defense if Charlie or the NVA came to visit. IIRC, there were NO CAP-protected villages that were overrun by the enemy...
Ping to post 41
Thanks for the great update!
that New Yorker article deserves it's own post - it is wicked!
you gonna do it or shall I?
A 20+ year soldier is saluting you Mike!
Better than spitting on her face, let's just arrest her for treason, using the constitutional powers of Citizens Arrest.
Commie, traitor bitch.
I think you should do it - you have much more say.
http://www.restoringamerica.org/archive/veterans/hanoi_jane_aid_comfort.html
No new news here.
ALOHA RONNIE and 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub have been saying this for a very long time!
I just agree.
Spread the word, bitt!
JLO
Bump!
(dcwusmc - let me know by private FReepmail if I should add you to my little ping list, ok?)
And if you have one, add me, will ya? Thanks.
Hoo haa!! Send him all our best wishes!
I'd bet her anti-fans (like us) can deter - LOL!
Bump!
Bump/ping.
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