lazzarre, A Socialist Democratic example???? I understand that she has spent many nights in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White house during Clinton's Presidency. I suspect that Hillary's socialist philosophy matches Jane's very closely. Shame on you for supporting such scum......remember, the socialists in Germany managed to get Hitler elected without a majority of the popular vote.
Profile of a traitor
Steve Allen
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During World War II, the great poet Ezra Pound could be heard on Italy's shortwave broadcasts to North America, praising Hitler and Mussolini and criticizing the United States. When he flew home to the U.S. at the end of the war, he was arrested in anticipation of a trial for treason -- which never took place, because a panel of psychiatrists decided that he was not responsible for his actions during the war.
Whether Pound was actually mad, or the psychiatrists declared him insane only to save his life, is a question that has never been settled. But at least Pound paid a price for his support of tyranny; he spent almost 13 years at St. Elizabeth's, a mental hospital that later became known as the home-away-from-home of John Hinckley. In 1958, Pound was released from St. Elizabeth's on condition that he leave the country, and he spent the rest of his life in exile in Italy.
Twelve years after Pound's death, an event in Washington underscored how tolerant this nation had become to propagandists for the enemy.
It was a 1984 party at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners building, a fundraiser for the Democratic Party's congressional candidates. Jane Fonda and her then-husband Tom Hayden (co-founder of the militia front group Students for a Democratic Society) auctioned themselves off -- $225 for a half-hour jog with Jane, $250 for a jog with Tom, $765 for a group breakfast with both, $155 for an autographed copy of one of Jane's exercise records. Auctioneer Jane herself spent $550 for a drawing by Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad. Altogether, the party raised about $20,000.
As the Washington Post reported, "Out of the adoring crowd someone yelled, 'If the Democrats had six more like her, we wouldn't be in such trouble.' Fonda, in her best 'Make it burn!' voice, said, 'We're not in trouble. We're going to win!' . . . And the Fonda-lovers were ecstatic."
Of course, Jane Fonda's support didn't guarantee success. The Black Panther Party, which was trying to start a race war, did not survive long after Fonda endorsed it. The Reverend Jim Jones of the People's Temple and his followers committed suicide within a year after she told an interviewer that "the church I relate to most is called the People's Temple [which offers] a sense of what life is all about." And she was never able to push Tom Hayden any higher than the California state legislature; recently, after their divorce, he ran a weak race for mayor of Los Angeles.
Still, the Fonda endorsement did not seem to damage the communist cause in Southeast Asia.
In 1972, she was photographed sitting in the gunpointer's seat on a Russian aircraft cannon used to shoot down American pilots. On Radio Hanoi she declared, "We have a common enemy -- U.S. imperialism" and asked U.S. servicemen, "How does it feel to be used as pawns?" She expressed her solidarity with the North Vietnamese militia. "I cherish the memory of the blushing militia girls on the roof of their factory, encouraging one of their sisters as she sang a song praising the blue sky of Vietnam -- these women, who are so gentle and poetic, whose voices are so beautiful, but who, when American planes are bombing their city, become such good fighters."
President Nixon, she noted, was "a true killer" who, she predicted, would "never be able to turn Vietnam, north and south, into a neo-colony of the United States by bombing, by invading, by attacking in any way."
She described how she and a farmer's daughter huddled "wrapped in each other's arms, cheek to cheek" in a bomb shelter "while U.S. bombs fell nearby." It was quite a story, considering that the village was in an area that was not bombed while she was there. Fonda concluded by advising Nixon to read Vietnamese poetry, "particularly the poetry written by [North Vietnamese dictator] Ho Chi Minh."
Back in the USA, she described Air Force officers as "professional killers" and claimed that American POWs were treated kindly by their captors. She financially supported front groups for the radical left such as the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. When the prisoners returned home and told how they had been tortured, Fonda called them "hypocrites and liars." Fonda promoted conspiracy theories about U.S. forces using nerve gas, while ignoring the mass murders committed by her allies.
When the communists won the war, activists from Hayden and Fonda's Indochina Peace Campaign celebrated: "Ho Chi Minh, Madame Binh, PRG is marching in!" they chanted. (Binh was a top communist, and PRG was the Provisional Revolutionary Government.) The united Vietnam quickly became a police state of slave-labor and "re-education" camps. Meanwhile, the Fonda-backed Khmer Rouge slaughtered countless people who showed such signs of anti-communism as the wearing of eyeglasses. More Indochinese were killed in the first two years of "peace" than had been killed by all sides in the previous 13 years of war.
In 1975, Fonda named her son Troy, after communist hero Nguyen Van Troi, who had tried to assassinate of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
In 1979, when singer and fellow "anti-war" activist Joan Baez asked Fonda to join her in denouncing human rights violations by the communists, she indignantly refused. Baez, Fonda suggested, was a tool of the CIA.
In the years since the war, Fonda became one of the nation's most honored entertainers. She produced propaganda films such as "The China Syndrome," which helped cause the near-death of the nuclear power industry (consequently extending America's dependence on so-called fossil fuels). The political machine she and Hayden put together, the Campaign for Economic Democracy, was treated with respect by the media, scored a number of electoral victories, and got money not only from her exercise programs and movies but from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the U.S. government under President Carter. Later, Fonda married a billionaire, media mogul Ted Turner, which immunized her from criticism in the establishment media. Who wanted to be blacklisted by Ted Turner of CNN (later Time-Warner/CNN)?
[Ironically, Fonda is not respected by former comrades such as Bernardine Dohrn, the terrorist turned Democratic Party activist. Chicago magazine reported in 1993 that Dohrn kept two newspaper photos taped side-by-side behind her desk, "one of Jane Fonda and one of [feminist] Germaine Greer. Dohrn said that she was struggling to come to terms with being 51. The newspaper pictures are to remind her to let herself age like Greer and not opt for plastic surgery like Fonda."]
Fonda is now active in the"population control" movement, which seeks to reduce the numbers of certain kinds of people in the world. To that effort, she brings a unique perspective. Despite her world travels, she seems to know little about the grinding poverty of the socialist Third World. In April, she told a United Nations forum that the state of Georgia, where she lives with Turner, is similar to "some developing nations." "In the northern part of Georgia, children are starving to death. People live in tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing, and so forth." Georgia Governor Zell Miller (D), a sometime ally of Fonda, called her comment "ridiculous," adding, "Maybe the view from your penthouse window is not as clear as it needs to be." Congressman Nathan Deal (R-Georgia) wondered aloud why Fonda's husband is giving $1 billion to the United Nations if there are children starving on the couple's doorstep.
In her recent remarks at the National Press Club, she was asked about population control programs in Red China, where women who try to give birth without government permission are held down screaming while their unborn children are killed. She said that people have to understand the situation in China. "They're having to import grain for the first -- well, I think in the last couple of years it was the beginning. You know what it means for China to have to import grain? Their needs are greater than everything that the United States could possibly give away. It's a very complicated issue."
Over the years, people have given up on their efforts to hold Fonda accountable for her actions against the people of Southeast Asia and the United States. She is another O.J. Everybody knows she is guilty, but there isn't much anyone could do about it.
In a sense, it is a measure of the greatness of America, that Americans do not fear a Jane Fonda. We are confident that, in the free marketplace of ideas, truth and reason eventually defeat fear and violence and hatred. But that does not mean we must show her the kind of respect we would show a decent person.
Psychiatrist Robert Coles noted that "a human being can be intellectually accomplished, talented as an artist or writer, and also be a moral and political dimwit." Yet those who use their gifts to support oppression may not be excused on the ground that they didn't know any better. Elie Wiesel, the expert on the Jewish tradition, said of Ezra Pound: "If you have the gifts, you have the responsibilities. The responsibility to be moral. . . . It is too easy to say that Pound did not mean it when he made his radio broadcasts. What do they mean, 'He didn't mean it'? He was on the side of the darkest forces."
If the Vietnam War were like World War II, and if Fonda, like Pound, had been deemed an artistic treasure that must be saved at all costs, she would have gotten out of St. Elizabeth's in 1985 or so. Upon her release, she would have been put on a plane to Vietnam, where she would have had plenty of time to consider the wisdom of her words. But then, if the Vietnam War were like World War II, Vietnam would be free; millions of Southeast Asians who have been murdered would be alive; and, instead of holding great power, those who supported a communist victory in the Vietnam War would count themselves blessed that they escaped the hangman's noose.
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