The Infamous Hanoi Jane
Jane Fonda, or “Hanoi Jane” is an example of our corrupt justice system. Why was she never charged with treason? Why wasn’t she ever tried in a court? .IF you don’t know who Jane Fonda is, or what she did during the Vietnam war, then prepare to be enlightened. In July 1972 Jane had a nice vacation over in Hanoi Vietnam; Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam. Once there Jane Fonda started the most controversial “campaign” if you will, in recent American history…
After visiting historical attractions, and talking to people “of all walks of life”, Jane Fonda made a radio announcement, aimed to encourage the Vietnamese, and discourage the American troops, and POW’S. Here is the disturbing announcement she made:
Hanoi Jane’s Broadcast from Hanoi,
on August 22, 1972 from the Hotel Especen;
Hanoi-Vietnam
The following public domain information is a transcript from the US Congress House Committee on Internal Security, Travel to Hostile
Areas, HR 16742, 19-25 September, 1972, page 7671. (From the CompuServe Military Veteran’s Forum)
[Radio Hanoi attributes talk on DRV visit to Jane Fonda; from Hanoi in English to American servicemen involved in the Indochina War,
1 PM GMT, 22 August 1972. Text: Here's Jane Fonda telling her impressions at the end of her visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam;
(follows recorded female voice with American accent)
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.
[end of recording]
After making that speech, Ms. Fonda was compared to the likes of Tokyo Rose, and Hanoi Hannah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_Hannah) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose)
I wonder how Henry Fonda felt after hearing this? Henry Fonda was Jane’s father. His political affiliations are nothing like his daughters. Some of his friends were even WWII hero’s(Jimmy Stewart).
Maybe worse than the speech, are the photographs taken of Jane Fonda sitting on an anti aircraft gun, used to shoot down American pilots, or her calling the POW’S liars after they accused the Vietnamese of torture, and starvation. In my opinion we never should have let her back into the country, she’s a waste of American soil. She’s a wannabe communist anyways:“Its my fondest wish, that some day, every American
will get down on their knees and pray to God that some day
they will have the opportunity to live in a Communist Society.”
-Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda did make a public apology:The transcript reads:
Barbara Walters:
“There are still people who . . . I guess, feel you have never apologized. Would you like to just say something to them now?”
Jane Fonda:
“Well . . . it’s not . . . I would like to say something not just to . . . the Vietnam veterans . . . in New England . . . but . . . to . . . to men who were in Vietnam who . . . who I hurt . . . or who’s pain I caused to . . .deepen because of things I said . . . or did . . . I . . . I feel that I owe them an apology . . . my intentions were never to hurt them . . . or to make their situation worse, it was . . . it was the contrary . . . I was trying to help end the war . . . but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I . . . and I am very sorry . . . that I hurt them . . . and I want to apologize to them and to their families . . . “
This was released to the media:
“I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did,” Fonda said. “I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I’m . . . very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.”
You can’t aid in the murder, and torture of hundreds of people, and then make a half assed apology to the public. If Jane really meant what she said; she should have stayed away from the touchy subjects, i.e The Iraq war, or politics in general. Did I mention that after the war Jane went back to Vietnam to attend a special service in honor of her; with her son “Troy” whom she named after the communist hero Nguyen Van Troi. Nguyen Van Troi was executed in South Vietnam for attempting to assassinate Robert McNamara The U.S Secretary of Defense. Hanoi Jane is a traitor, and is still alive and well.
What a bitch!