Wednesday, 14 March 2007
 

Gathering Storm

March At The Wall
Vietnam Vets & The New Protestors
By Thomas P. Evans. (Helmet tip: Smash)

March 13, 2007 -- MENTION Jane Fonda to any 10 Vietnam veterans, and at least seven of them will have some sort of conniption right on the spot. Spread the rumor that Hanoi Jane will be leading the anti-war protest march from the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the Pentagon on Saturday, and a battalion of 60-year-old Vietnam veterans is ready to do battle again.

Rumors are flying over the Internet.

The Vietnam Wall is sacred ground, how dare they stage their march in front of it? Didn't anti-war protestors recently spray-paint graffiti on the Capitol steps? We'll form a human wall in front of the Wall to protect it.

Cops should body-search every protestor, looking for spray-paint cans and chisels. Have the bail bondsmen ready.

We might be white-heads and chrome domes with bellies bigger than B-52 thousand pound bombs, but we know how to deal with people who protest policies set forth by our duly elected government officials.

And who's going to guard the Korean War and World War II Memorials? Our brothers from those wars are too old to do it. We have to organize like this is a military operation.

And on and on, the e-mails go.

St. Patrick's Day marks the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, and the 40th anniversary of the massive Vietnam era anti-war march on the Pentagon. Where were we on March 17, 1967?  ...

We tend to remember only dates that were significant to us - the battles, the first impressions, the funny moments. All the other dates blend together. So it's hard to say exactly where we were or what my platoon was doing on March 17, 1967. Perhaps we were out on patrol in a rice paddy or a jungle - "beating the bush," as we called it. Perhaps we were on one of the firebases near the DMZ, a respite from the constant patrols - cleaning gear, getting a hot meal or a haircut or writing a letter home.

Not many Vietnam veterans were around for that march on the Pentagon 40 years ago. We were in a different world, a world few anti-war protesters could even imagine. Maybe because we missed all that four decades ago, we want to be there this time. ...

EAGLES UP!

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Re: Gathering Storm
By Greyhawk  

Smash, that quote from the Vietnam vets preparing to make a stand reminds me of Philip Caputo's account of an Iwo Jima veteran's "visit" to Northwestern University in the wake of the Kent State shootings:

The scene could have been lifted from a Delacroix painting of the French revolution. A young man stood atop a barricade of furniture and cars and saw-horses, his long hair tousled by the Lake Michigan wind, one hand grasping a pole flying a red flag and an upside-down American flag (a distress signal) as he exhorted some twenty-five hundred students massed behind him to "Strike! Strike!"

Suddenly, he was interrupted by a burly, black-haired, middle-age man dressed in a workingman's khaki trousers and a flannel shirt. Mounting the barricade, he tried to wrest the flag pole from the student. "That's my flag!" he yelled. "I fought for it. You have no right to it." ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 14, 2007 at 11:32 PM in Caring about our troops, Gathering of Eagles, Hanoi Jane, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Moonbat Madness, The American Warrior, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 01 March 2007
 

Help request

Anyone know where Boomer can buy a sticker like this? Let me know and I'll pass on your message.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 1, 2007 at 10:28 PM in Hanoi Jane | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Sunday, 28 January 2007
 

Jihad Jane
Contributed by J D Pendry

I wrote this in 2005, when Jihad (formerly Hanoi) Jane was hawking her book and promising us that she was coming out for her next anti-America tour.  Well, it’s two years late, but here she is in all of her America and Soldier-Hating glory.  Instead of writing something new, I thought I’d repost this with some minor edits.  If Americans stand by once again and allow Fonda and her cohorts to demoralize American Soldiers and demonize our Country, then Americans deserve what that brings with it.  During these times when our enemies can and will strike at America, we cannot afford to have the same beaten down, demoralized Military that we had Post-Vietnam.  That is what we now face.

"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter...sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal...the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine," – Jane Fonda on 60 Minutes April 3, 2005.

In the United States in August of 1972 if you flipped on the AM radio, which in those days still played popular music, you'd likely hear Gilbert O'Sullivan singing Alone Again (Naturally), the Three Dog Night singing Black and White or Mac Davis’ Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me.

A 19-year-old Soldier lucky enough to have down time from patrolling the jungle, sitting in his sandbag reinforced hooch way inside the concertina wire somewhere in South Vietnam, might have heard this coming from Radio Hanoi:

Read the rest.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 28, 2007 at 08:07 PM in Hanoi Jane, Moonbat Madness, Viet Nam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

We won't forget, Jane

After yesterday's moonbat convergence in DC Russ Vaughn wrote to suggest it might be a good time to republish something he sent me last spring. This was previously posted here. (I'm sorry to say the site has fallen into a state of disrepair since I abandoned it to start Old War Dogs and this site).

Forever Green

Jane Fonda seeks exoneration,
Forgiveness from her traitored nation.
What say you warriors fought that war?
Is forgiveness due that wartime whore?
So rich, so smart, she thought she knew
Much more than us, we bloodied few.
So smug, self-serving, seeking fame,
The rich bitch played her seditious game.

A game that cost me many friends,
Many, thanks to Jane, came to bad ends.
I’ve borne scars forty years or more,
From lies laid on me by this whore.
Self-serving now she sells her tale,
This traitor who should be in jail.
Is it within our souls to grant her grace?
Our souls shout, “No… spit in her face!”

So self assured, she played high stakes,
Telling American prisoners, “That’s the breaks.”
She accused brave men of heinous crimes,
Which were disproved in future times.
And now our country knows the truth
Jane Fonda betrayed us in our youth.
She asks us now to read her book,
Americans, the folks this bitch forsook.

So now she crawls, her conscience bare,
To tell us she screwed up back there.
Well, hell, we knew that way back then,
This Hanoi Jane who helped them win.
It was glory then for this airhead star,
But forever now she’ll bear the scar
A scarlet letter she’ll now wear,
A stench forever in her hair.

So Jane, dear, you must realize,
You’re the devil in a helmet in our eyes.
When Vietnam vets raise up their toasts
It’s to damn your soul, to salute our ghosts.
We swear, we living, to our long-dead brave,
We’ll live to piss upon your grave.
So Jane, good fortune, unforeseen,
Your traitor’s grave will be forever green.

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

Click here to see an alphabetical index to my/our extensive Russ Vaughn collection. I'll be reviving more Hanoi Jane and Jean Fraud Kerry things in the next few days but you're welcome to "read ahead."

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 28, 2007 at 01:52 AM in Hanoi Jane, Moonbat Madness, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, 26 January 2007
 

The moonbats are coming
Michelle Malkin

A few days ago, I noted Jane Fonda's scheduled appearance tomorrow at a Navy Memorial protest. She'll be joined by legions of others coming to Washington, D.C. this weekend:

Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Washington, D.C., this weekend for a major anti-war rally — the first of several events designed to pressure Congress to end the war in Iraq.

Hollywood stars known for their opposition to the war, including actors Susan Sarandon, Jane Fonda, Tim Robbins and Danny Glover, plan on joining the protest on the National Mall this Saturday. Speakers also include the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio; Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; and Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.

Keep an eye out for how the MSM treats these protesters versus the tens of thousands of pro-life marchers who came last weekend. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 26, 2007 at 08:09 PM in Hanoi Jane, Moonbat Madness | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, 13 October 2006
 

Finally, after so many misses

They Dare Call It Treason (Finally)
By Henry Mark Holzer

In a stunning reversal of United States policy that has been in place since the end of World War II, turncoat citizen Adam Gadahn has been indicted for the constitutional crime of treason. (The second count of the indictment charges him with the crime of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.)

Eight treason indictments and convictions of Americans came out of World War II. One resulted from mistreatment of prisoners of war held in Japan. Two arose from spying activities in the United States. Four, including a case against the infamous Axis Sally, were for making propaganda broadcasts on behalf of the Nazis. The fifth was for similar broadcasts by the equally infamous Tokyo Rose.

All eight indictments and convictions were based on Article III, Section 3, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution of the United States: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or, in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

The "aid and comfort" prong of treason has been interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States to require proof of four elements:

1. an intent to betray the United States (which can be inferred from);
2. an overt act;
3. witnessed by two people; and
4. that provides aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States.

After World War II, a notorious example of treason was Jane Fonda’s 1972 trip to Hanoi. As Erika Holzer and I proved conclusively in our "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, Hanoi Jane was indictable for, and could have been convicted of, treason because of her activities. Regrettably, Fonda was not indicted because of political calculations made at the highest level of the Nixon administration—just as other kinds of political reasons since 1972 prevented treason charges from being brought against a host of other traitors since then. For example, charges other than treason were brought against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Navy spies in the Walker family, renegade CIA and FBI agents Aldrich and Miller, and Taliban John Walker. And, as of today at least, no charges of any kind have been leveled against The New York Times and other newspapers for their treasonous exposure of three highly secret government programs that served as integral parts of America’s war against Islamic terrorists.

The October 11th indictment of Gadahn in the federal District Court for the Central District of California, however, suggests that political considerations no longer trump the loud dictates of justice. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on October 13, 2006 at 02:07 PM in Hanoi Jane, Islamism Delenda Est, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

John Fraud Kerry: World's Slowest Learner?

The latest Winter Soldier newsletter. Since it's available free to anyone who wants to sign up and contains multiple links to things they hope you'll read I'm assuming they won't mind if I post the whole thing:

October 12, 2006 -- Senator Kerry appears to be gearing up for another presidential bid. This follows on the heels of Kerry's recent bellicose pronouncement that he is prepared to kick the asses of the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth "from one end of the country to the other."

No doubt there are people who take John Kerry seriously. We, however, are not among them.

October 4, 2006 -- The newest addition to our Special Features section is Godspeed and Welcome Home. Former Army criminal investigator James Reilley reports on a unique ceremony in which veterans of earlier conflicts pay respect to American troops as they transit to and from the combat zones.

Reilley is also the author of an earlier WS.com feature, Army Investigator: Kerry Lied About War Crimes.

September 28, 2006 -- 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."

August 26, 2006 -- Scott Swett's recent article Still Slandering the Troops has been republished by FrontPageMagazine.com and by The New Media Journal.

Contributed by Bill Faith on October 13, 2006 at 12:59 PM in Hanoi Jane, Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack