{We publish from time to time things that are of historical and patriotic interest. While this article considers the treasonous role of Jane Fonda  during the Vietnam war; it is also an accurate profile of the entire hollywood community, who have repeatedly stood alongside America's enemies, regardless of who they are or were. The caption beneath the picture above could just as easily have read, 'She really is a traitor.'  The picture is of actress Jane Fonda taken during her defiant trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam war in 1972. The original account of C. Thomsen Wieland  on which this article is based is available at SNOPES. - Ed. }

                             In Memory of  my brother -in- law 
                                  LT. C. Thomsen Wieland
                           (who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton)

"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."

"David Hoffman, a former POW who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1971, said that he had been tortured because of Fonda's visit to Hanoi.  "The torture resulted in a permanent injury that plagues me to this day," says Hoffman, who suffers a disfigured arm inflicted by brutal communist guards at the POW camp known as the "Zoo"

   Photo: Fonda at Vietnamese Antiaircraft Gunsight

"When Jane Fonda turned up, she asked that some of us come out and talk with her," he recalled bitterly.  "No one wanted to.  The guards got very upset, because they sensed the propaganda value of a famous American war protestor proving how well they were treating us." 

"Using her wealth and influence, she managed to garner support from American college campuses, advocating communism and encouraging rebellion and anarchy against the U.S. government.  In a speech to Duke University students in 1970, Fonda told the gathering, "If you understood what Communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday become Communist." - U.S. Veteran Dispatch

   Photo: Jane Fonda in Hanoi

Thus reads the introduction in the life of America's own 'Hanoi Jane'.  Of course, it has been denied by her sypporters that Ms.  Fonda caused further hardships on U.S.  servicemen captured during the war and held in Hanoi and other strategic Vietnam locations.  But, the U.S. Veteran Dispatch accurately recounts the aid and comfort given to America's enemies at the expense of our POWs.

There is no doubt as to the immense progaganda value of her visit to a country at war with the United States, an act of treason in itself.   And, in her own words, the enemies of the people she befriends are in fact her own countrymen.  An excerpt from one of her Vietnam broadcasts:

   Photo: Fonda in Wartime Vietnam

"This is Jane Fonda. During my two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, I've had the opportunity to visit a great many places and speak to a large number of people from all walks of life- workers, peasants, students, artists and dancers, historians, journalists, film actresses, soldiers, militia girls, members of the women's union, writers.

I visited the (Dam Xuac) agricultural coop, where the silk worms are also raised and thread is made. I visited a textile factory, a kindergarten in Hanoi. The beautiful Temple of Literature was where I saw traditional dances and heard songs of resistance. I also saw unforgettable ballet about the guerrillas training bees in the south to attack enemy soldiers. The bees were danced by women, and they did their job well".

   Photo: Fonda anong Vietnamese Soldiers             

Ms. Fonda is not unusual among the Hollywood jet set who more often than not side with America's enemies. Celebrities such as Ed Asner (That Girl), Ossie Davis (Evening Shade), Rob Reiner (All in the Family) and Tony Randall (Odd Couple) were all Vietnam war protestors.

Fonda and her screen actor guild friends are strangely silent on the atrocities and mass murders committed by communists world wide, from 'Pol Pot', to Mao Tse Tung to Cuba's Castro. There is not a word raised in anguish about the torture of U.S. Servicemen by enemy combatants. Ms. Fonda and her hollywood peers have no problem with the torture of Americans by their Vietnamese captors, as if somehow, they were entitled to do so, because America is fundamentally evil.

The film clips of Castro's firing squads shooting the remnants of the Batista regime as they stood in front of the ditches that would become their graves, evoked no outrage by the 'moral' majority' of the Hollywood elite.

The movie industry has consistently portrayed America as the 'world's villain' in their films from Apolyclyse Now to 'Born on the Fourth of July to 'Natural Born Killers.'  All, the while ignoring the cruelty and human rights violations of America's enemies.  The irony and hypocrisy of the hollywood crowd is simply breathtaking.  Even politicians and future political candidates have lept on the 'hate America' bandwagon.

Presidential candidate John Kerry also attended the same 1970 anti-war rally as Jane Fonda - (Snopes.) Former President Bill Clinton successfully eluded the draft during the Viernam war.

The same people who unabashedly 'gobble up' the prosperity that the country offers in its rich opportunities, decry the benefits garnered by individual effort. After all, it is only the state that must profit from the labor of its citizens. As French socialist Pierre Proudhon has noted, Property [ownership] is theft from the state.

Yes, the Hollywood group has likewise betrayed the people who have labored from generation to generation to build a better life for themselves and their families in portraying their sons and daughters as unfit human beings and murderers. The Hollywood crowd, like Jane Fonda, should be well remembered for their treasonous role in denigrating America.