Fonda is recorded on videotape during a 1972 interview with Phil Donahue. During the interview, Fonda said, "I am not a Communist." However, she stated that this assertion is based on her concerns over the Viet Nam War and President Nixon's alleged bugging of political rivals. This is a non sequitur. Furthermore, at a rally at the University of Michigan two years earlier, Fonda told students, “If you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that one day we would become Communist.” After the Donahue interview, Fonda told students at Duke University, "I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism. " This would at the least open the door to charges of purjury, had Fonda ever been brought before the Senate Judiciary Committee on UnAmerican Activities.
Fonda began her participation in anti-war activities around 1967, allegedly after meeting with Communists while in France and with American citizens who were revolutionaries. Her activities included active participation in demonstrations, rallies, radio broadcasts and plays.Fonda also helped in the organization of a production group called the F.T.A. (F*** The Army). This group helped to set up coffee houses near military bases where they would perform anti-war derogatory-type sketches for the visiting soldiers. The coffee-house sketches were intended to counterpoint the U.S.O. shows, such as Bob Hope and other U.S.O. sponsored performers whose performances increased morale and gave positive support to American soldiers. Some of the F.T.A. coffee house employees would mingle with the soldiers to help them to "relax and unwind", while encouraging the soldiers to desert. Some soldiers alleged that they were promised jobs and money by the F.T.A. if they deserted.
The Vietnam Veterans Against the War Organization received major financial support from Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda's F.T.A. coffee houses helped in recruiting soldiers and veterans for the Vietnam Veterans Against The War Organization. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War Organization membership was approximately 7,000 at it's highest. The Organization's membership number was comparatively low, when you consider that more than 2 1/2 million Americans served during the Vietnam war. Fonda personally sought out returning American soldiers from Vietnam to solicit them to publicly speak out against American atrocities against Vietnamese women and children during her broadcasts. North Vietnamese officials based in Canada coordinated her broadcasts.
Fonda did a lot more in that 1972 visit to North Vietnam than demonstrate her solidarity with those who were shooting down American pilots. At her request, she made at least 10 broadcasts on Radio Hanoi that included calling American pilots war criminals and urging them to stop bombing North Vietnam. In a propaganda gesture heavily publicized by Hanoi, she also met with a group of coerced American prisoners of war to demonstrate, as the North Vietnamese intended, that the POWs were receiving "humane" treatment. In fact, as we know now, nearly all American POWs in North Vietnam were brutally tortured until 1969, when Hanoi's policy changed to more selective mistreatment. One American POW was strung up from a ceiling by his broken arm until he agreed to listen to Fonda's assertions that the prisoners were being well treated.
In 1975, after the fall of the South Vietnam Government, Jane Fonda returned to Hanoi with her newborn son Troy for a celebration in her honor for the work she had done for North Vietnam. During the celebration, her son was christened after a Viet Cong hero, Nguyen Van Troi, who had attempted to assassinate Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara while on his visit to South Vietnam in 1963. The South Vietnam Government executed Troi for this attempted assassination.This visit, which demonstrates an unrepentant spirit, has never been publicly addressed by Fonda.
To date, Fonda has never apologized for her crimes against the American People. She has stated in various phrasings that her activities reflected a lack of judgement on her part. However, she remains unrepentant.
RECOMMENDATION: Fonda must be arrested and tried for treason. The traditional punishment for traitors should be considered; preferably the medieval English penalty for treason.
