City - SAN FRANCISCO State - GOLDEN GATE PARK Country - United States
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This was my first encounter with Ms. Fonda at a massive anti war (Vietnam) rally in San Francisco in the summer of 1972. This was right around the time she became "Hanoi Jane" - August 1972. She was such an inspiration for those of us who were always seeking the truth. I had the good fortune to escort her when she was giving a speech at my college a few years later. Not only was she totally open and down to earth but a brilliant woman full of passion, accurate information, and so caring about her country. I remember her saying she was very worried that the country was being taken over by evil charlatans - I remember those words like they were yesterday........
As we now learn, you don't have to do anything as stupid as pose on an enemy anti-aircraft battery to be labeled as a 'traitor'...these days you can just be a U.S. Senator asking the Pentagon for some details on troop withdrawal plans. "Traitor!"
Yeah, "the press" lost the Vietnam war for just like "the press" isn't sufficiently reporting all the GOOD news in Iraq. Utter garbage.
Gotta go, I'm attending an HUGE anti-war rally down at the...Oh, nevermind. Americans are too anesthetized in front of the TV to care about all the death and destruction.
I know that my Father, A Vietnam Vet, would certainly like to meet her. But, I am certain that he would not hold her in such high regard. Thanks for the image. RD
Regarding Truth.....
Albert Einstein: Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Alfred North Whitehead: There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Anais Nin: When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Andre Gide: Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Bertrand Russell: What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Blaise Pascal: There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.
Brad Holland: Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
Buddha: Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. [paraphrased]
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
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