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Kent State to Pay Hanoi Jane $83k for May 4 Commemoration Speech; Ohio Sec. of State Wants Her Yanked, Calls It a 'Disgrace'
PJ Media ^ | 02/19/2020 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 02/19/2020 8:34:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind

It's hard to believe, but May 4, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Kent State University, where Ohio National Guard troops fired on a crowd of students during a massive anti-Vietnam War protest, killing four students and injuring nine.

Witnesses, military and law-enforcement experts, historians, and activists are divided on whether the shooting was justified (that's a discussion for another day), but it appears that Kent State is going all-in on pouring salt in the wounds of America's Vietnam veterans.

In a move that surprised many in the Northeast Ohio area and beyond, Kent State President Todd Diacon announced that actress, activist, and (former?) communist sympathizer Jane Fonda will be one of the speakers at an anniversary commemoration of the shooting on May 3—and she'll be paid a whopping $83,000 to ostensibly reminisce about her anti-war activism.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican and veteran, is not having it.

"The 50th anniversary of one of Ohio’s darkest days has the potential to serve as a moment of unity, understanding & healing in a nation that is deeply divided," LaRose wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. "However, Kent State’s decision to pay Jane Fonda $83,000 to speak at their commemoration event does the very opposite."

LaRose, who served in the 101st Airborn Division and later as a Green Beret, earning a Bronze Star for his service in Iraq, observed that American service members returning from Vietnam "deserved a much better reception than the one they received. They weren’t the politicians who chose which battle to fight -- they were the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines sent into the battle. And we should say one thing to them: Welcome Home."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: agitprop; fundingtheleft; hanoijane; hollywoodreds; janefonda; kentstate; leftismoncampus; nakedcommunist; ohio; traitor
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Jane Fonda, visits anti-aircraft gun position near Hanoi, Vietnam, July 1, 1972.
1 posted on 02/19/2020 8:34:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe they can ship in that anti-aircraft gun from Vietnam so she can recreate her treasonous behavior.


2 posted on 02/19/2020 8:37:47 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican and veteran, is not having it.

That's no way to treat a Vietnam veteran.
3 posted on 02/19/2020 8:40:07 AM PST by stylin19a ((2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever))
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To: SeekAndFind

I note no alleged concern for and high cost of security complaints for Hanoi’s arrival.


4 posted on 02/19/2020 8:42:00 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: stylin19a

Massive Protest!


5 posted on 02/19/2020 8:42:12 AM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: SeekAndFind

NOT FONDA JANE


6 posted on 02/19/2020 8:42:24 AM PST by easternsky
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To: SeekAndFind

Whoever made the decision to bring her to campus needs to be fired—if a committee fire all of them.

Then slash the state funding for the university—that is a message they will understand.


7 posted on 02/19/2020 8:44:37 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?


8 posted on 02/19/2020 8:44:42 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: SeekAndFind

Beeotch!


9 posted on 02/19/2020 8:47:38 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Better, maybe we can ship her to Vietnam....and let her stay there this time.

Can you imagine if she'd done this for Germany or Japan in WWII?

10 posted on 02/19/2020 8:48:40 AM PST by ealgeone
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She would have been tried and convicted and died in prison.


11 posted on 02/19/2020 8:49:45 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

The University hasn’t changed.


12 posted on 02/19/2020 8:50:37 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: SeekAndFind

Show us your tits! Aww never mind you old bag.


13 posted on 02/19/2020 8:50:49 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is a disgrace. Paying this multimillionaire even a nickel would be too much. If she really wants to speak, she can do it on her own dime.


14 posted on 02/19/2020 8:50:53 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Army 4/ Kent State 0


15 posted on 02/19/2020 8:51:16 AM PST by Beagle8U (Did Eric Ciaramella kill Epstein? He didn't kill himself.)
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To: cgbg

Nahhh-Just make sure the students know THEY’RE picking up the tab! (Expenses like this are passed along to them in the way of increased tuition)

Maybe that will give them the cold shower they need and introduce them to the reality of the situation - out here in the grown up world).


16 posted on 02/19/2020 8:51:22 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s pointing to what is missing between her ears.


17 posted on 02/19/2020 8:52:03 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Jane Fonda is a traitor and for Kent State to invite (and pay) her to speak is deeply insulting to all of us.

Shamefully, our government didn't try her for her crimes at the time - it was too busy trying to oust Nixon to bother.

18 posted on 02/19/2020 8:54:11 AM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: SeekAndFind

So that’s how she supports herself, in the country that she hates so much.


19 posted on 02/19/2020 8:55:30 AM PST by I want the USA back (Journalists Take Bits of Reality and Slot them into the Existing Script. -Friedman.)
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