(Jane Fonda - the most hated traitor of our time)
by John Lofton (Human Events, March 31, 1984)
Reprinted for "educational purposes" under "fair use".
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She's being inconvenienced and harassed. In some cities where she was to have appeared to promote her latest line of exercise clothing, some stores have received threatening anti-Fonda phone calls. So, some stores cancelled her appearance.
But Ms. Fonda's problems are small potatoes when compared to some of the inconvenience and harassment she caused to be inflicted on some of our former prisoners of war in North Vietnam.
For example, here's what an American ex-POW, Navy Lt. Comdr. David Hoffman said happened to him when he refused to meet with Ms. Fonda when she visited North Vietnam in the early 1970's (July, 1972);
"I happened to be in a body cast, from the waist up with my arm out in front of me. I was placed on a table and then on a chair, which was on top of the table. And there was a hook in the ceiling. I think the height of the ceiling was probably 20 feet or so. The rope was strung around my arm, up around the armpit. Then I was placed upon the chair on top of the table, and the table was kicked out from under me. I dropped the length of the rope, so that I would come to a couple of inches off the floor. They would put the table and chair back under me and stick me up there again, and drop me again, until I eventually came very close to passing out."
When stories began to appear detailing this kind of torture of our POW's, Ms. Fonda attacked not the Communists but their torture victims. Calling the Vietnamese 'a gentle people,' she was quoted by one service as saying there was no reason to believe U.S. Air Force officers because they were 'professional killers.'
Taking issue with this report, Ms. Fonda complained in a letter to the Washington Post that what she actually said was that it was not a North Vietnamese 'policy' to torture American POW's. There, now. That should certainly make all our tortured POW's feel better, right?
In an interview on the 'CBS Morning News', Ms. Fonda took issue with those who 'choose continually to dredge up the past,' those who criticize her 'politics.' But she is far too modest, what she has engaged in over the past 3 decades is much more than merely 'politics.'
In November 1970, the Detroit Free Press quoted Ms. Fonda as telling a Michigan State University audience: "I would think that, if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would some day be, Communists."
In one broadcast to American GI's in South Vietnam -- broadcast in English to Europe, Africa and the Mideast -- Ms. Fonda even seemed to encourage dissident U.S. troops to MURDER their officers.
Commenting on 'fragging' -- the throwing of a fragmentation grenade into the tent of a 'gung-ho officer' determined to send his troops against those who are not really the enemy -- she said that in America, however, "we do not support the soldiers who are beginning to think for themselves."
Get it?
And on a 1975 trip to, of all places, the Soviet Union, Ms. Fonda observed that "it's understood throughout the world that the major police states in the world are created by the United States."
Jane Fonda is one of the few people who has the perverse knack of being able to lie while complaining that the truth is not being told.
In a September 7, 1972, appearance on the "Dick Cavett Show" -- while lamenting that "we're not being told the truth" about the Vietnam War - she declared that during the Nixon Administration 40 million South Vietnamese were "killed, injured or made homeless." This figure, at the time, was more than twice the entire population of South Vitnam. On a more recent CBS appearance, Ms. Fonda stated that "hundreds of thousands" of American lives were "lost" in the Vietnam War. Just for the record, the correct number is approximately 55,000.
In that CBS interview, Ms. Fonda - who once characterized herself as "a revolutionary woman ready to support all struggles that are radical" -- said that she planned to continue her tour promoting her exercise clothing because she's not used to "backing down to a few extremists."
Terrific.
And, there are obviously not a few "extremists" who are refusing to forget or forgive the unrepentant extremism of Jane Fonda.
And, I say: "God bless 'em, each and every one!"
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TREASON.
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