Re: [at-l] Say No To Hanoi Jane

[OIdMaster@aol.com]

HikingHope@aol.com writes:
<< Thank you for passing on this information >>
Well, I don't thank him. It's disinformation.
Political spam, no more, no less.
I've seen this post in many forms, just as I've seen posts denying the 
"details".
Sure, the fanatical right wing propagandists have excellent fiction writers 
in their employ, who have added many "details" ( getting a prisoner killed or 
beaten, spitting on prisoners, calling them 'baby killers', ect.) to Fonda's 
time in North Vietnam, but that's no reason to believe everything their hate 
mill churns out. It's also no reason to spam email lists with these 'urban 
legend' posts. What's next? Is someone going post the 'little Timmy is 
terminally ill and wants to get to the record book for getting the most 
emails' one? Judge her if you will, but judge her based on what she did, in 
what context, and not based on what emails you are forwarded.
<A HREF="http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/fonda.html">Jane Fonda, 
broadcast from Hanoi August 22, 1972</A>  
<A HREF="http://www.war-stories.com/Fonda4.htm">Vietnam Veterans' War 
Stories!: Jane Fonda - Radio Hanoi Calling!</A>  
<A HREF="http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/fonda/fonda.html">Jane Fonda in North 
Vietnam</A> <
Jane Fonda-1972 on Hanoi Radio-
"I'm speaking privately to U.S. servicemen who are stationed in the Gulf of 
Tonkin . . . . Seventh Fleet in the Anglico Corps (Marine spotters for naval 
gunfire in the south of Vietnam.) You are very far away, perhaps, and removed 
from the country you're being ordered to shoot shells at and bomb, and the 
use of these bombs, or the condoning of the use of these bombs makes one a 
war criminal. 
The men who are ordering you to use these weapons are war criminals according 
to international law, and in the past in Germany and Japan men who were 
guilty of these kinds of crimes were tried and executed." 
Jane Fonda-16 years later on 20/20-
  "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," she began. "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."
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 You want someone to hate from the Vietnam era?
 Try Johnson, Westmoreland or Nixon.
OldMaster
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