Michelle is reporting:
Hanoi Jane is scheduled to appear at an anti-war protest at the Navy Memorial this weekend. From the United for Peace website:
10am: Women Say Pull Out! Women’s Convergence for DC Mobilization Join Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey, Rhea Perlman, Eve Ensler, Mimi Kennedy, Q’orianka Kilcher, the Co-founders of CODEPINK and many other amazing women. Other co-sponsors include: National Organization for Women, V-Day, WAND, Feminist Majority, Feminist Peace Network and WATER. Don’t forget your PINK!Where: Navy Memorial, 7th and Pennsylvania NW
When: Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 10am
We will rally at 10am then meet up with the UFPJ rally and march!
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FReepers will be there to counter-protest. Should be interesting.
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Jane Fonda is one of the most intelligent minds of the times. She’s lived her reality unlike most of you posting here. Her autobiogrphay “My Life, So Far” is wonderful.
She owns the passion and mistakes (though they’re weren’t many imo) of her youth and explains her conviction to world peace. Like Vanessa Redgrave the woman has the courage of her convictions. It’s called BEING AMERICAN.
Here is you care to read the truth:
“Jane Fonda is one of the most intelligent minds of the times.”
She may be somewhat intelligent, but she was also treasonous.
Well, this was a good quote fropm a vet on your link Eben:
“As a Vietnam vet (’68-’69), I think “Hanoi Jane” should have been field stripped, tried for treason, convicted, dragged through the streets screaming her North Vietnamese slogans, and buried in the federal prison system for the rest of her sorry-assed life!!!!!”
“It’s called BEING AMERICAN.”
I would like to address this.
There is a stark difference between disagreeing with the governement, protesting and/or standing up for your rights and crossing the line and comitting treason.
I don’t care who you are, comitting treason is not “BEING AN AMERICAN”. This is what Fonda did. She is shameful to the mantle of citizenship of this country, and I take great disgust in catagorizing her as such.
That’s not opposition, it’s treason…
Now Fonda is in the news again. She’s got a book to sell, so she’s trotting out an ‘apology’ that isn’t even an apology. As Michelle Malkin notes in this excellent editorial, writing and saying that you engaged in a ‘betrayal’ and suffered a ‘lapse in judgment’ is not an apology, it’s a confession. Despite her pledge to ‘set the record straight’ in her new book, Bryan Curtis writes in Slate:
Finally, there’s this, from MSNBC:
Let’s sum up, then, lest I be accused of thrashing at a straw man: Fonda admits that her trip was a betrayal, but she doesn’t regret it, nor the broadcasts, nor the use of American POWs who were being tortured as objects to make her political point with. She does regret getting too close to an anti-aircraft gun, though…that’s a relief.
Is what Fonda did unforgivable? That’s not up to you and me…I’ll leave that to the POWs and the Almighty. Fonda’s not asking our forgiveness, though…she’s justifying betrayal because her country, she feels, was betraying its citizens. In other words, two wrongs making a right…pathetic.
It’s entirely possible to come to the conclusion that Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon are war criminals (I’m not saying I agree with that, I’m saying it’s possible to come to that conclusion); Christopher Hitchens has certainly crossed that river – but Hitchens would never conflate his opposition to his nation’s policies with a tacit endorsement of tyranny. I suggest a protest of our own against Fonda, in the most reliable way I know of; just don’t buy her book…
Let’s sum up, then, lest I be accused of thrashing at a straw man: Fonda admits that her trip was a betrayal, but she doesn’t regret it, nor the broadcasts, nor the use of American POWs who were being tortured as objects to make her political point with. She does regret getting too close to an anti-aircraft gun, though…that’s a relief.Is what Fonda did unforgivable? That’s not up to you and me…I’ll leave that to the POWs and the Almighty. Fonda’s not asking our forgiveness, though…she’s justifying betrayal because her country, she feels, was betraying its citizens. In other words, two wrongs making a right…pathetic.It’s entirely possible to come to the conclusion that Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon are war criminals (I’m not saying I agree with that, I’m saying it’s possible to come to that conclusion); – but Hitchens would never conflate his opposition to his nation’s policies with a tacit endorsement of tyranny. I suggest a protest of our own against Fonda, in the most reliable way I know of; just don’t buy her book…
Geat summery Peejz. Something jumped out at me though:
“Is what Fonda did unforgivable? That’s not up to you and me:I’ll leave that to the POWs and the Almighty.”
Before the 2004 Presidental vote, I talked with some of those POW’s about Kerry. That is how I formed my opinion that John Kerry is a traitor.
If we are to follow our religous teaching..there is but one Almighty and he shall decide. Those she spit on can chose to forgive her or not, but it is a sin for us to judge her…by the way…I started my Jane Fonda sinning long before 04′
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Well, I’m not juding if she’s going to hell or not. I’m just saying from the POW’s I interviewed she falls under thre criteria of a traitor.
Something I doubt God is worried about.
Look HANOI JANE is giving the communist clinched fist salute just typical of a member of the hollywood left and i will never ever watchanother hanoi jane movie again:mad:
Gee, why does the left always bring up Vietnam…:roll:
I respect a range of opinions, but I think this needs to be considered in a broader context. I remember those days vividly. (Well, some of it is a little foggy…)
From: “Forms of protest included things like what my father, a civil servant with a moderately high profile, did. He let his sideburns grow long. Other protests included peaceful marches and candlelight vigils. That was nice. The occasional one day student strike put an edge on it for the campuses. But the protests also included near riots, full scale riots, occupation of college or government buildings, burning the occasional police car, and Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi.”
Greg interesting post, but might I remind you that one doesn’t need to break the law, as Kerry and Fonda did during Vietnam protests and the protesters from this past weekend did, in order to get their message out. I think that the politicians knew trouble was brewing, hence you had none at the protest and the protesters that were there looked to be from Forrest Gump. Nothing says over the hill like a person trying to recapture the past.