Friday, October 13, 2006

Hanoi Jane's 1972 broadcasts on Radio Hanoi

Hanoi Jane
The Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation has just made available the first online collection of Jane Fonda's 1972 broadcasts on Radio Hanoi.
The 19-transcript collection provides fascinating reading for anyone interested in leftist propaganda techniques.

Here are some of Hanoi Jane's classic anti-military / anti U.S. rants:

To American POWs: "Brave heroes of the war would come back from Indochina and I was told that it is we who committed crimes, it is we who burned villages and massacred civilian people and raped the Vietnamese women. It is we who did it and we are sorry, and we want the Amer1can people to know what is being done in their names."
To American pilots: "The men who are ordering you to use these weapons are war criminals according to international law, and in, in the past, in Germany and in Japan, men who were guilty of these kind of crimes were tried and executed."

To South Vietnamese students: "We have understood that we have a common enemy -– U.S. imperialism. We have understood that we have a common struggle and that your victory will be the victory of the American people and all peace-loving people around the world."

On women in the U.S. military: "I heard horrifying stories about the treatment of women in the U.S. military. So many women said to me that one of the first things that happens to them when they enter the service is that they are taken to see the company psychiatrist and they are given a little lecture which is made very clear to them that they are there to service the men."
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3 comments:

Poison Pero said...

Don't forget to salute our Navy's birthday today.

RJay said...

Pero,
Thanks for the reminder.

RJay said...

dtw,
The Military Channel broadcasts one hour shows on the war in Iraq.
If you have cable TV you should be able to get the Military Channel.