...great link, cisco. :clap:
...it's a long one, but worth it. A couple of tid bits....
Chubby Jane Fonda went to an exclusive high school in New York State where she was known for eating and purging, but became very close to her stepmother, Susan Blanchard, who became influential with the adolescent Jane. But Henry was soon falling in love with another and this marriage also ended with a divorce in 1955. Jane went to Vassar in Poughkeepsie, New York where she was known for her rebelliousness, cutting classes, flunking, drinking and sexual escapades. She discussed the ideal way she had lost her virginity to an older, more sexually experienced man. Jane was allowed to go to France in her sophomore year to "find herself" by attending the Sorbonne.
In 1963 she went to France and cavorted with, primarily, Roger Vadim, whom she first met, and disliked, in 1954. But she ultimately married him in 1965 and continued to throw herself into the fads of the 1960s, drugs and sex, along with her husband in this highly irregular marriage. Her daughter Vanessa was born in 1968 and this, allegedly, compelled her to change her focus in life. Her brother Peter obtained a psychiatric deferment from the draft during the war in Vietnam, a war she admits she knew nothing about. But she met some GI deserters being harbored by a friend who gave her the first glimmerings of what she soon was to condemn vigorously. She then went to India and saw the misery there; shocked, she was convinced change was needed. Upon her return to Beverly Hills she recalls seeing a magazine at a newsstand with an American Indian featured, proclaiming "Red Power", and she realized that the U.S. also has its Indians. She quickly went to Alcatraz where the Indians were holding the island. She soon became embroiled in every left wing cause available, Huey Newton for Congress, Chicanos, Feminists--all attracted her, but the war in Vietnam most of all. She began appearing on or near military bases trying to persuade soldiers not to take part in the war.
...and...
She was quoted in the Detroit Free Press of November 22, 1970 as having told a student audience 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 communists."
...and...
Major General Gaetano (Guy) Russo...adds that Jane Fonda asked our POWs to cooperate with the North Vietnamese so things would go well with them. Senator John McCain refused and both his arms were broken after she left. She calls McCain a liar!
...and....
By 1968 she fell under the spell of two dedicated communists, Roger and Elisabeth Vailland, her first political gurus. While living in Paris she was introduced to the NLF representatives and actress Vanessa Redgrave, a radical Trotskyite and ardent supporter of the PLO. In 1969 she hailed her movie, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" as a "very forceful condemnation of the capitalist system." Later that year she bought into an idea by then boyfriend Fred Gardner, an ouspoken Marxist and screenwiter, to radicalize GIs through performances at coffeehouses. In 1970 she became the champion of the BP party, particularly Huey Newton. Although he was a violent alcoholic, chronic drug abuser and extortionist, she said "He's the only man I ever met who approaches sainthood." Newton, the Vaillands and Angela Davis became her private Marxist tutors. In defending Soldedad brother George Jackson she told a rally; "If you strip away the face and false sense of freedom and social justice and comfort that lulls the white middle class into thinking they're safe, you can see the system for what it is--racist, oppressive, totalitarian and monstrous..." "This is not Los Angeles in 1970, it is Berlin in 1936, and we are all Jews...Kent State and the Chicago trial showed us all, I think, we are niggers to this system." Roger Vadim said "I feel as if I were babysitting for Lenin." When Newton was released on bail he was greeted by Mark Lane, Jane, and her current boyfriend Donald Sutherland as he railed against fascist America. To her, elections were meaningless; "I do not vote. I've become cynical--the answer is revolution." She wanted to "change the American system through socialism. Of course I am a socialist." And what was the ideal? Castro's Cuba as a near-Utopian society. By 1975 she was back in Moscow, thanking them "for sending assistance which the Soviet people are sending to Vietnam." In 1971 she organized the FTA--**** The Army--to undermine morale and radicalize the armed forces.
When the POWs returned she added "I think that one of the only ways that we are going to redeem ourselves as a country for what we have done there is not to hail the POWs as heroes, because they are hypocrites and liars....History will judge them severely."
...and...well, check out the link.
