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."

[KQQL]

[GailA]

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_45_1Infantry.html

http://avoc.info/info/article.php?article=858

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/sns-2004election-kerryprofile,0,53345.story?coll=bal-election-storyutil

Some 150 sweat-soaked members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ended their three-day trek at Valley Forge, Pa., on Sept. 7, 1970. Huddled around a flatbed truck, they listened to remarks by Jane Fonda and a reading from Donald Sutherland.

Between the main acts came a floppy-haired former Navy lieutenant who had won a fistful of medals on the bloody canals of the Mekong Delta. Tall and self-assured, 27-year-old Yale graduate John Kerry read from a rumpled sheaf of papers in the ringing voice that had commanded men on gunships.

Condemning the tactics and morality of the war, Kerry was "brilliant," Fonda says today. He looked like Abe Lincoln and sounded like John F. Kennedy. "He was our ragtag commander at Valley Forge," says veterans organizer Joe Bangert.

Over the next 14 months, Kerry became the VVAW's spokesman and a key leader. With a knack for raising money and organizing people, able to straddle the divide between angry protesters and the nation's uncertain majority, he helped transform the motley band of anti-war veterans into a potent political force. In soaring, eloquent speeches, Kerry channeled the rage of returning soldiers, pled their case before Congress and captured the attention of a war-torn nation.

http://www.tms.tribune.com/htmlmail/consumer/profiles/payne.htm

Kerry and his veterans did not desert but returned home to tell America what they had committed in the false name of national security. "We could be quiet," Kerry testified. "We could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats, but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out."
The prime indictment of the Winter Soldiers was that Vietnam was indeed a war waged under false pretenses. "There is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America," Kerry said. "And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-2004election-kerryprofile,0,4048777.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

Some 150 sweat-soaked members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ended their three-day trek at Valley Forge, Pa., on Sept. 7, 1970. Huddled around a flatbed truck, they listened to remarks by Jane Fonda and a reading from Donald Sutherland.

Between the main acts came a floppy-haired former Navy lieutenant who had won a fistful of medals on the bloody canals of the Mekong Delta. Tall and self-assured, 27-year-old Yale graduate John Kerry read from a rumpled sheaf of papers in the ringing voice that had commanded men on gunships.

Condemning the tactics and morality of the war, Kerry was "brilliant," Fonda says today. He looked like Abe Lincoln and sounded like John F. Kennedy. "He was our ragtag commander at Valley Forge," says veterans organizer Joe Bangert.

Some 150 sweat-soaked members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ended their three-day trek at Valley Forge, Pa., on Sept. 7, 1970. Huddled around a flatbed truck, they listened to remarks by Jane Fonda and a reading from Donald Sutherland.

Between the main acts came a floppy-haired former Navy lieutenant who had won a fistful of medals on the bloody canals of the Mekong Delta. Tall and self-assured, 27-year-old Yale graduate John Kerry read from a rumpled sheaf of papers in the ringing voice that had commanded men on gunships.
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Condemning the tactics and morality of the war, Kerry was "brilliant," Fonda says today. He looked like Abe Lincoln and sounded like John F. Kennedy. "He was our ragtag commander at Valley Forge," says veterans organizer Joe Bangert.

[KQQL]

I have a picture of "Hanoi Jane" and Horseface Kerry. I don't know the procedure to post pictures. If you can reply and tell me, I'll send what I have.

P>S Did you post the pic you had of hanoi Jane and john?

[TejasRose]

I have a picture of "Hanoi Jane" and Horseface Kerry. I don't know the procedure to post pictures. If you can reply and tell me, I'll send what I have.

P>S Did you post the pic you had of hanoi Jane and john?

I haven't seen anything posted by farm gal in a couple of days....considering what she says she has, I hope she's okay!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks !

[Lurking in Kansas]

bookmark

[Gottwnz]

Notice that C.B.F behind the guy, that rocks!

[Toespi]

I sense that a lot of liberals and fence-riding moderates are going to love this image of Kerry. I believe that this will make him appear more credible. He served his country and did not run, which gave him more of a right to protest the war. He is WANTING this fight because his only claim to fame is his Vietnam history. These pictures do nothing but demonstrate his passion and heroism. The Repbulicans must not be sucked into this game and must stay with current events.

[Helms]

The Paranoiac Left Democrats :

"The only thing I can say is that the Democrats could be going paranoid and that is not a good thing................they will need to pull an inside straight if they give up the South. If the Democrats cede the South then Republicans will have no need of marshaling financial resources and they will be able to reserve it for the remaining states".

(Patrick Cadell, Dem. strategist and analyst)

[concerned about politics]

[Happy2BMe]

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

It's going to be a long, long, nine months. . .

J-FK ping!

[luvbach1]

Yea gads!! That's a language?!?

[luvbach1]

Yes, Ramsay Clark is out there slightly to the left of Noam Chomsky.

[luvbach1]

Kerry:Lurch"ing off to war.

[luvbach1]

What name does Rush use on FR? Does he ever post?

[luvbach1]

To the myriad of shallow-minded and short-sighted welfare statists, these votes represent just what they want in a candidate: someone who will distribute what they firmly believe is the government's money.

[Windcatcher]

They know it's our money -- they don't care. More to the point, the money we earn is, in their eyes, not really ours. The real die-hard leftists want total redistribution. We don't have a right to our income; we're in fact working for them and they apparently have the right to take what we make and leave us what they will. It's all under the guise of "fairness", which is what makes Communism more dangerous than Nazism. You can at least readily identify Nazism, but Communism is by its nature insidious.

The crux of the point is this: they're not satisfied with having voluntary communal societies and communal property -- they feel they have the right to force it upon everyone else.

[gobucks]

These posted details are very heartening. W will not have to flex a muscle to cream this guy.

[mikeb704]

SandRat had suggested the VC flag in the middle. Great idea.