Posted this quote and commentary in a couple places after the publicized tiff with QVC. What people need to grasp is that Jane Fonda commited treason, which for this purpose is defined as “adhering to their [note the plural of the United States] Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort”. Posing with AA guns which could and did kill American pilots, and helping the NVA propaganda effort clearly qualify. 100 years before that she would have been shot or hung, no questions asked, and none needed. Her public statements and publicity photos said it all. Likewise, Bill Ayers would and should have been hung from a tall oak tree, rather than spending a career researching the indoctrination of children.
From Lewis Sorley’s “A Better War”: “[NVA Colonel] Bui Tin testified to the importance the North Vietnamese attached to the antiwar movement in the United States. ‘It was essential to our strategy’, said Tin. ‘Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9am to follow the growth of the American anti-war movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former attorney general Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that WE SHOULD HOLD ON IN THE FACE OF BATTLEFIELD REVERSES [emphasis mine]. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.”
The NVA agrees that she was a key war asset, FOR THEM. She should have been shot as a traitor. I am dead serious about that. Some 58,000 brave Americans, and many times that in Vietnamese died in that war.
I will add, that I have a listing of NVA atrocities, and some context, here: http://www.goodnessmovement.com/Page21.html
The plain and unpleasant reality is that this woman helped facilitate mass torture, murder, and unimaginable misery for millions. This treatment is excessively kind.