Honoring a traitor...............

http://bohography.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/barbera-walters-to-honor-an-americ...


Another here:
http://www.redcounty.com/national/2008/05/governor-picks-hollywood-trait/


Governor Picks Hollywood Traitor Over Heroes: Jane Fonda is in Hall of Fame

Posted by: Mike Spence | 05/28/2008 9:05 PM

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The Governor in his announcement of California Hall of Fame inductees wanted to recognize..."Californians, whose achievements are legendary..."

So he picks who... Jane Fonda?

For what Barbarella?

By picking a left wing liberal, the Governor is doing the politically correct thing. But this is not just any left wing liberal. This "legendary" pick actually went to Communist Vietnam and fired an anti-aircraft gun at American planes. Fonda never apologized for making propaganda broadcasts for the Communist Vietnamese. Jane Fonda aided and abetted an enemy of the United States.

Now she is in the California Hall of Fame?

Governor if are looking for achievements to pick. I have a few.

Richard A Anderson, Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, 2d Platoon, Company F, 2d Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division. He was born in Los Angeles.
Pfc Anderson was advancing in the jungles of the Quang Tri Province on a rescue mission. His platoon came under attack by Jane Fonda's buddies from the North. Several men were wounded. A grenade landed in the middle of them right next to where Anderson was taking cover. He reached out pulled the grenade to his chest and absorbed the blast. For this sacrifice he received the Medal of Honor.

Or Governor what about Robert L. Leisy, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Infantry, Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. 2nd Lt. Leisy was born in Oakland. In the Phuc Long Province a superior force of some of Jane Fonda's buddies attacked his platoon. In the process of deploying his men and attempting to rescue one of his patrols he moved with his radio operator to the front. There he spotted a sniper firing a rocket propelled grenade at his position. He shielded his radio operator and other men by taking the brunt of the explosion. He then refused medical attention and continued to direct fire until he died of his wounds. For this sacrifice he received the Medal of Honor.

Or how about Edward A DeVore Jr.,Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division. Born in Torrance, Sp4c DeVore raced through a hail of fire during an attack near Saigon to help withdraw wounded soldiers. During the recovery mission his unit was pinned down. DeVore drew enemy fire and assaulted Jane Fonda's buddies. He was wounded and then got up and assaulted the enemy position again. He was killed, but his attack allowed the rest of the unit to withdraw. He received the Medal of Honor.

The Governor has done some shameful things. He has broken many promises, betrayed many who supported him. But picking a Hollywood Anti-American activist over real heroes is a disgrace.

Medal of honor information that helped me honor these men is here.

This was cross posted on FlashReport.org

And one more;

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050410/news_mz1e10caldwl.html


She's still 'Hanoi Jane'

By Robert J. Caldwell
April 10, 2005


NIHON DENPA NEWS
Jane Fonda was photographed in July, 1972 as she sat on the gunner's seat of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun near Hanoi.
The most famous – make that infamous – image of Jane Fonda from her years protesting the Vietnam War was a photograph taken during her wartime visit to North Vietnam in 1972. In the photo, Fonda is sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun clasping her hands, singing, a rapturous smile on her face, a North Vietnamese helmet on her head, surrounded by grinning North Vietnamese soldiers.

Fonda, out promoting her autobiography these days, now says she regrets that particular "betrayal," and that is her word. In an interview with Leslie Stahl on CBS's "60 Minutes," Fonda said: "I will go to my grave regretting that ... It was the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."

She expressed similar regrets in an interview in 1988 and again in 2000, when she called posing on the enemy's anti-aircraft gun "thoughtless."

Careful readers will note that "thoughtless" and "lapse of judgment" and even "betrayal" are not apologies. In truth, Jane Fonda has never apologized for eagerly lending herself and her celebrity to the wartime propaganda of an enemy state, a Stalinist dictatorship no less, that killed 58,000 Americans.

And she's not apologizing today.

Fonda did a lot more in that 1972 visit to North Vietnam than demonstrate her solidarity with those who were shooting down American pilots.

At her request, she made at least 10 broadcasts on Radio Hanoi that included calling American pilots war criminals and urging them to stop bombing North Vietnam. In a propaganda gesture heavily publicized by Hanoi, she also met with a group of coerced American prisoners of war to demonstrate, as the North Vietnamese intended, that the POWs were receiving "humane" treatment.

In fact, as we know now, nearly all American POWs in North Vietnam were brutally tortured until 1969, when Hanoi's policy changed to more selective mistreatment. One American POW was strung up from a ceiling by his broken arm until he agreed to listen to Fonda's assertions that the prisoners were being well treated.

When the POWs returned from North Vietnam in 1973 and told of their torture, Jane Fonda declared, "the POWs are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American prisoners." For good measure, she also suggested that their recollections of torture were products of "racism" toward the Vietnamese.

Does Fonda regret her propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi or her role in trying to persuade the world that tortured, brutalized American POWs were receiving humane treatment? Not a bit. Is she apologizing? No.

Here's what she told Leslie Stahl on "60 Minutes":

"I don't think there was anything wrong with it. It's not something that I will apologize for ... we'd been saying to Richard Nixon, 'stop this'... it needed what looks now to be unbelievably controversial things. That's what I felt was needed."

During World War II, two equally deluded American women, dubbed by U.S. servicemen Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally, made propaganda broadcasts from the capitals of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Both were prosecuted for treason after the war, convicted and sent to federal prison.

Fonda escaped that fate partly, one assumes, because of the ultimate unpopularity of the Vietnam War and partly because a prosecution for treason would require that a formally declared state of war had existed between the United States and North Vietnam.

Nonetheless, Fonda's treasonous folly speaks to larger truths about a war that inflicted grievous wounds on the American psyche. For millions of Americans, and for millions of America's South Vietnamese allies, those wounds have yet to heal completely, and perhaps never will.

The anti-war movement of the 1960s and early 1970s was, in fact, two parallel movements. The majority of anti-

war protesters simply believed that American participation in the war was wrong. Their objective was American withdrawal from Vietnam. But a hard-core, hard-left minority in the anti-war coalition favored a communist victory by the Viet Cong and North Vietnam.

However witlessly, Jane Fonda lent herself to that latter goal, a communist triumph in Vietnam.

When the Soviet-armed North Vietnamese army overran South Vietnam in 1975, Fonda's then-husband, the left-wing radical Tom Hayden, expressed his relief and approval. When the North Vietnamese, quite predictably, imposed their totalitarian system on South Vietnam – complete with concentration camps that imprisoned hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese and the extinguishing of all civil and political liberties – Jane Fonda said she couldn't object because the evidence of oppression was unproven.

When, by United Nations estimate, a quarter of a million South Vietnamese boat people perished at sea escaping their supposed liberators in the 1970s and 1980s, Jane Fonda was silent. When 2 million Cambodians were murdered or died of privation at the hands of the communist Khmer Rouge (originally Hanoi's allies), Jane Fonda had nothing to say. When the people of reunified Vietnam were denied basic human rights and continue to suffer today under Hanoi's one-party dictatorship, Jane Fonda apparently was too busy with her personal life to comment.

That's a lot to answer for, Hanoi Jane.

Caldwell, a Vietnam veteran, is editor of the Insight