Protests

Jane,

Is this true or just a made up story? I recieved it in an email. Thank You for your response.

Heather

Subject: Jane0(Comunist) Fonda

Subject: SHE REALLY WAS A TRAITOR

Long after she’s dead people will wonder how she did what she did and was never put on trial. Some thought being married to Tom Haydn was punishment enough. Many thought there was no such thing as enough, nor was there anything like justice around. YES SHE WAS A TRAITOR..!!

In Memory of my brother-in-law LT. C. Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton. She really was a Traitor

IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!! She really was a traitor

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA

This is for all the kids born in the 70’s who do not remember, and didn’t have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear.

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the ‘100 Women of the Century.’ , a special by Barbara Walters. Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam

The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot’s name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.

There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Jane Fonda’s participation in what I believe to be blatant treason, is one of them. Part of my conviction comes from the exposure to those who suffered her attentions.

In 1978, the Commandant of the USAF Survival Schoo, a colonel, was a former POW in Ho Lo prison – The Hanoi Hilton. Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ’s, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American ‘Peace Activist’ the “lenient and humane treatment” he’d received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During a subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant’s feet, accidentally pulling the man’s shoe off – which sent that officer berserk. Years later, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant’s frenzied application of a wooden baton.

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E’s). He spent 6 years in the ‘Hanoi Hilton’,,, the first three of which his family only knew he was ‘missing in action’. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed, clothed, routine preparation for a ‘peace delegation’ visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand…

When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man’s hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: ‘Aren’t you sorry you bombed babies?’ and ‘Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?’ Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day. For years after their release, a group of determined former POW’s, including Col. Carrigan, tried to bring Ms. Fonda and others up on charges of treason. I don’t know that they used it, but the charge of “Negligent Homicide due to Depraved Indifference” would also seem appropriate. Her obvious “granting of aid and comfort to the enemy” alone shoud’ve been sufficient for the treason count. However, to date, Jane Fonda has never been formally charged with anything and continues to enjoy the privileged life of the rich and famous.

I, personally, think that this is a shame on us, the American Citizenry. Part of our shortfall is ignorance: Most don’t know such actions ever took place.

There is another account of happenings in Hanoi:

I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.

I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a ‘black box’ in Hanoi . My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in South Vietnam , whom I later buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.

At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.). We were Jane Fonda’s ‘war criminals.’

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received… and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as ‘humane and lenient.’ Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weights placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane every time my arms dipped.

Jane Fonda had the audacity to say that the POWs were lying about our torture and treatment. Now ABC is allowing Barbara Walters to honor Jane Fonda in her feature “100 Years of Great Women”. Shame on the Disney Company!

I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.

After I was released, I was asked what I thought of Jane Fonda and the anti-war movement. I said that I held Joan Baez’s husband in very high regard, for he thought the war was wrong, burned his draft card and went to prison in protest. If the other anti-war protesters took this same route, it would have brought our judicial system to a halt and ended the war much earlier, and there wouldn’t be as many on that somber black granite wall called the Vietnam Memorial. This is democracy. This is the American Way.

Jane Fonda, on the other hand, chose to be a traitor, and went to Hanoi, wore their uniform, propagandized for the communists, and urged American soldiers to desert. As we were being tortured, and some of the POWs murdered, she called us liars. After her heroes – the North Vietnamese communists – took over South Vietnam, they systematically murdered 80,000 South Vietnamese political prisoners. May their souls rest on her head forever.

To add insult to injury, when American POWs finally began to return home (some of them having been held captive for up to nine years) and describe the tortures they had endured at the hands of the North Vietnamese, Jane Fonda quickly told the country that they should “not hail the POWs as heroes, because they are hypocrites and liars.” Fonda said the idea that the POWs she had met in Vietnam had been tortured was “laughable” and that the POWS who said they had been tortured were “exaggerating, probably for their own self-interest”, she asserted. She told audiences that “Never in the history of the US have POWs come home looking like football players. These football players are no more heroes than Custer was. They’re military careerists and professional killers” who are “trying to make themselves look self-righteous, but they are war criminals according to law.”

Were Jane Fonda’s actions treason, or were they the exercise of a private citizen’s right to freedom of speech? At the time, the legal aspects of this question were moot: President Nixon was engaged in trying to wind down American involvement in Vietnam and had to face another election in a few months, so politically he had far more to lose than to gain by making a martyr out of a prominent anti-war activist. (No requirement in either the Constitution or federal law states that the US must be engaged in a declared war, or any war at all, before charges of treason be brought against an individual.)

ABC and Babs Walters will undoubtedly include “Hanoi Jane” in their televised celebration because their black souls are hardened and too imbued with an anti-American sentiment to do anything else. And ultimately, they will all answer for what they have done in their lives. In the meantime, I don’t plan on watching anything that has Jane Fonda’s face anywhere near it. I won’t buy her videos; I won’t rent or go see her movies. As far as I’m concerned, she’s already dead to me.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of ‘100 Years of Great Women.’
Lest we forget…’ 100 Years of Great Women’ should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.

Whether or not you agreed with the war in Vietnam, whether you’re a Vietnam vet or a former member of the protest movement, or whether you’re too young to have been there, the behavior of Jane Fonda towards our own military men is reprehensible beyond belief. All I ask is that you think about these accounts the next time you see her. Let your conscience guide your actions from there.

Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can.
It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget..

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of
Maintenance
DSN: 875-6431
COMM: 883-6343

PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF
ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE

jane,
im doing a vietnam project and im using you as one of my political articles. so i’ve read lots of stuff on you and i was wondering if you could help me out by telling if its real or not. did you really help set up the F.T.A? also are you a socialist? and lastly did you support north vietnam?

i really like you as an actress and i think you’ve made some great movies and your are truely one of the most beautiful women i’ve seen. so i was just wondering if you could help me out.

thanks so much.

Ms. Fonda,

Did you not say in 1969, at Michigan State University:

“I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist.”

Do you now accept the criticism by anti-war activist Joan Baez, for not supporting her and others protesting the Khmer Rouge slaughter in the 1970’s, under communist Pol Pot?

Have you since repudiated your support for communism, acknowledging that it is a failed ideology that enabled the horrors it wrought under the likes of Stalin, Mao, and others?

Did you ever admit how paradoxical it is that you went from being a one time pro-socialist, collectivist, to profiting from a capitalist system that sold your 1980’s workout book and videos? As well as at previously being married to Ted Turner, an avowed capitalist businessman? Have you ever explained your reasons for such a about-face of personal philosophy?

We saw speak back in the 1970’s You are such an inspiration to not only us, but to our grandchildren. We appreiciate all that you do! So keep on rocking in that spandex. We love you!!!!