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Jane Fonda's Vietnam Actions Were Worse Than You Think (F.T.A. retrospective)
National Review ^ | March 3, 2021 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 01/29/2023 4:26:59 PM PST by otness_e

A newly restored documentary spotlights her despicable Team Communism cheerleading. Back around the time Jane Fonda was giving aid and comfort to America’s Communist enemies in North Vietnam, yukking it up with anti-aircraft gunners who shot down our troops — I wonder if there are any laws against that sort of thing — she also headlined an anti-U.S.O. tour. Despising the actual U.S.O. for its policy of giving aid and comfort to American troops, Fonda went on the road with a hippie rebuttal to bolster the chances of the North Vietnamese Stalinists who, after the war turned out the way she wanted it to, forced 300,000 people into prison camps for reeducation. Fonda’s tour was called “F.T.A.,” and in the opening moments of the documentary of the same name, you can see her on stage with her pal and Klute co-star Donald Sutherland screaming out what it stood for: “[censored] the Army.”

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Might as well post this especially after Jane Fonda's F.T.A. documentary somehow got restored. Honestly, dead things should have stayed dead, especially dead things that tried to give comfort to the enemy. Don't know if George Lucas ever knew about it, but considering he modeled the heroes of Star Wars after Vietcong and the "Evil" Empire on us Americans, not to mention Return of the Jedi's ending having a similar climax to that of Walter Teague's propaganda videos about the Vietcong at Alternate U, I won't be surprised if he had watched the program live. Well, I guess the one silver lining is that this CERTAINLY shows her activisim back then did not age well at all.
1 posted on 01/29/2023 4:26:59 PM PST by otness_e
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To: otness_e

SPJNK.


2 posted on 01/29/2023 4:29:26 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: otness_e

Hanoi Jane was bad enough, but I didn’t realize Donald Sutherland was a Commie too.


3 posted on 01/29/2023 4:31:59 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: otness_e

Jane fonda just wanted peace cause the us supporting s vietnam was a provocation and would cause wwiii because you know johnson LITERALLY wanted a nuclear war to usher in a great reset.
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I learned this on fr...


4 posted on 01/29/2023 4:37:39 PM PST by FreshPrince
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To: Carriage Hill

Thoroughly deserving of a grave urination…


5 posted on 01/29/2023 4:38:34 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: FreshPrince

To a hammer, everything is a nail.


6 posted on 01/29/2023 4:39:13 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: EvilCapitalist

Me either. Changes my view of him and his work.


7 posted on 01/29/2023 4:42:46 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Back then, pretending to be a Commie was how you got the loose women. Do it long enough and you become one, like Winston Smith.


8 posted on 01/29/2023 4:43:25 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: otness_e

Jane Fonda wasn’t a hippie, people don’t seem to know what they were and now use the term to mean mostly people who were anything but.

Hippies were not political, they were not the Chicago 7 and Jane Fonda, they were not getting law degrees, and college degrees and becoming politicians or activists.


9 posted on 01/29/2023 4:44:36 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: otness_e

No they weren’t.

I think she should have lost her citizenship and been forced to become Jane Ho for N Viet.


10 posted on 01/29/2023 4:45:21 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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“...but I didn’t realize Donald Sutherland was a Commie too.”

He was a lefty from way back. He supported the Black Panthers in the 1960s before he really became known in 1970 with the movie M.A.S.H.

He and Jane Fonda had an affair in the early 1970s.


11 posted on 01/29/2023 4:46:03 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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“I didn’t realize Donald Sutherland was a Commie too.”

Donald Sutherland’s favorite roles were always maniacal US military officers. That’s just my observation.


12 posted on 01/29/2023 4:47:21 PM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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“During the filming of the Academy Award-winning detective thriller Klute, Sutherland had an intimate relationship with co-star Jane Fonda. Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the anti–Vietnam War documentary F.T.A. (1972), consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with American troops who were then on active service. A follow up to their teaming up in Klute, Sutherland and Fonda performed together in Steelyard Blues (1973), a “freewheeling, Age-of-Aquarius, romp-and-roll caper” from the writer David S. Ward.”

“His second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to Shirley Douglas, daughter of Canadian social democratic politician and the ‘father’ of Canada’s universal healthcare system, Tommy Douglas.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sutherland


13 posted on 01/29/2023 4:48:49 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: NWFree

I think she should have lost her citizenship and been forced to become Jane Ho for N Viet.


I don’t believe there is any mechanism for an American-born citizen to loose citizenship against his or her will.


14 posted on 01/29/2023 4:49:06 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: ansel12

“Hippies were not political, they were not the Chicago 7 and Jane Fonda, they were not getting law degrees, and college degrees and becoming politicians or activists.”

The original “hippies” were basically just non-conformists who wanted to live a Bohemian lifestyle, but without the politics. That changed as soon as the radical left got involved with them.


15 posted on 01/29/2023 4:50:03 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

M.A.S.H. is the only movie I know him from.


16 posted on 01/29/2023 4:52:28 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: ansel12

Fonda should have been executed for what she did, but I bet dear ole democrat daddy saved her commie ass.


17 posted on 01/29/2023 4:53:30 PM PST by Ronald77
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To: ought-six

They didn’t change, those were different people.


18 posted on 01/29/2023 4:57:17 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: NFHale
Thoroughly deserving of a grave urination…

Better get there early. Its going to be a loooong line.

19 posted on 01/29/2023 4:59:07 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Ronald77

Fonda was a hero to the dominant liberal culture and the media, John Wayne was the bad guy to them, they really hated “The Cowboys”.


20 posted on 01/29/2023 4:59:31 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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