Is it true Jane Fonda never meant to suggest she was against U.S. soldiers fighting in Vietnam?
Is it true Jane Fonda is sorry she gave that false impression by her actions?
That’s the stuff Lady Barbarella is selling again – the latest at an appearance in Maryland, where she was picketed by dozens of Vietnam vets who know better.
She swears she was never anti-soldier.
“It hurts me, and it will to my grave, that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers,” she said
Not only do the soldiers know better. I know better, too – as a former bodyguard for Fonda.
Let’s forget for a moment the famous picture of her sitting atop a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft emplacement while laughing and mock sighting U.S. warplanes for attack. That’s old news.
Let’s forget for a moment that she was used by the North Vietnamese to interview POWs who were tortured for not providing her the answers her friends in Hanoi were looking for.
Let’s forget all the propaganda she did in North Vietnam and elsewhere in the midst of that war.
Instead, let me tell you about something you probably don’t know about Jane Fonda’s anti-soldier activity.
It’s stunning.
It’s unbelievable.
But I can attest to it as a personal witness – someone who worked with Fonda and Tom Hayden during their so-called “Indochina Peace Campaign” activities.
Let me tell you about the FTA campaign. Ever hear of it? It was about as anti-military as any campaign could me. The revisionists like to say the FTA campaign stood for “free the Army.” Let me suggest the F-word was not free.
Fonda and Jack Bauer’s dad, Donald Sutherland, organized the FTA campaign in 1970. It wasn’t just a road show. It was an organization that preached subversion inside the U.S. military, sabotage inside the U.S. military and even fragging inside the U.S. military.
I never could figure out how this little, well-documented Fonda enterprise ever really stuck. Maybe it’s because the media couldn’t even use the first word in FTA in polite company.
I also could never figure out why Jane Fonda got the brunt of the criticism over her unforgettably hideous escapades in Vietnam while no one ever protested Sutherland. It’s just like he was not there right next to her in North Vietnam and in leading the FTA campaign. But he was! He went on with his career without a blemish. No one ever mentions he did everything Fonda did, yet I’m not aware of a single protest of Donald Sutherland in the last 40 years.
How did he manage that? Better PR people?
I’m not going to give you the whole sordid story of the FTA movement – and, believe me, it is sordid. Unlike the “peaceniks” who told American boys to avoid the draft, the FTA movement encouraged them to join and subvert the military from the inside – by any means necessary.
I remember, because I actually thought about doing this as a misguided 18-year-old facing the possibility of being drafted in the last year of the Vietnam era. If you doubt me, spend a little time Googling the FTA movement spearheaded by Fonda and Sutherland. You might even find some films of their antics.
Ask yourself if Fonda’s suggestion that she was not “against the soldiers” makes any sense in light of her leadership of the FTA movement. Remember, it wasn’t about “freeing” the Army. It was another F-word there altogether.
Did you know about the FTA movement?
Did you know she was the leader of a specifically anti-U.S. Army campaign – a remarkably subversive, one might even say treasonous, organization?
And does anyone know how Sutherland escaped all this subversion unscathed?
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