Posted on 07/28/2005 1:19:30 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Jane Fonda's second coming
Cal Thomas
July 28, 2005
We've all seen them: aging athletes, beyond their prime, trying to squeeze out one more fight, or one more season, but failing to bring back their glory days.
That seems an appropriate analogy for the return of Jane Fonda to the political stage. Having made her first movie in many years ("Monster-in-Law") that was a box office success, Fonda apparently thinks her new visibility gives her a certain credibility to comment on the Iraq war.
She has announced plans for an anti-war bus tour next March. Why is she waiting so long? The war might be over by then. The bus will run on vegetable oil. How 1960s! Will the riders grow their hair long, smoke pot, dress in tie-dyed T-shirts and sing "Blowin' in the Wind"? Fonda says she will be joined by her daughter and some families of Iraq War veterans. She says veterans came up to her during her book tour, encouraging her to protest the war.
In her memoir, "My Life So Far," and on numerous interview shows, Fonda has repeatedly apologized for going to North Vietnam in 1972 where she sat on an anti-aircraft gun and said things critical of her country that encouraged the enemy to fight on.
The North Vietnamese used her comments as propaganda in an effort to demoralize American troops and diminish the resolve of prisoners of war. Just what does she think will be the result of her forthcoming bus tour if not to encourage the terrorists and insurgents now fighting Americans and Iraqis in Iraq?
With high privilege also goes increased responsibility. If youthful indiscretion is an excuse she has used to explain her anti-war activities more than 30 years ago, what explanation will she have in her now mature years - temporary insanity?
"I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam," Fonda was quoted as saying. "I carry a lot of baggage from that." She certainly does, which makes it all the more perplexing why she is intent on adding even more baggage. It's peculiar that Fonda only protests what Americans do to resist evil, but she led no protests against Saddam Hussein's murderous regime that practiced evil. Why is that?
Jane Fonda might be described as one who is "always learning, but never able to acknowledge the truth," as the Bible she once read and claimed to believe says about people of shifting convictions and allegiances (see 2 Timothy 3:7). Except that she does not learn, much less arrive at any truth.
When Fonda announced she had been born again by accepting Christ as her savior, I investigated and concluded she was genuinely serious about her new faith. I wrote a column urging people not to judge or condemn her. Sadly, I must now write that by her own words, Jane Fonda has moved away from that initial faith into a universalism in which she says there are many ways to God and Jesus is not the only path. She has denied the essence of Christianity. One cannot truly be called a Christian unless one believes the uniqueness of the life, atoning death and resurrection of Christ.
When Jane Fonda protested the Vietnam War there were just three television networks and few media outlets for those who opposed her actions. We are now in a new media environment. While the major networks may practice their usual celebrity suck-up, cable television and talk radio are not about to give her a free pass. Look for Vietnam veterans still angry at "Hanoi Jane" to turn out along the bus route to protest her protest, then and now. It could get ugly.
Jane Fonda has every right to freedom of speech, but so do those who believe she caused enough harm in the Vietnam War that they will not allow her to escape accountability or undermine America's efforts in this one. America survived its pullout from Vietnam. It cannot survive a similar outcome in this war. That's the big difference that Jane Fonda doesn't understand.
©2005 Tribune Media Services
Absolutely true, else I would be in deep dodo. I think Billy just made a mistake, in trying to be PC with Larry King, but it is an idea that is gaining strength.
Joh 5:39* Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
I must disagree. I have no idea how old you are, but as a teen and young adult, I watched this despicably pocrap with her commie buddies tear apart our country, our military and our war effort.
Her/their actions went completely unchallenged as patriots went to war and attended funerals of our fallen heroes. We had no idea how to react to these wild animals that had taken to the streets. I witnessed the outcome of their treasonous actions. I will not sit back and let them do it again.
One of Jihad Jane's buddies from the old days, Gael Murphy, is still a professional protester and heads up Code-Pink. This commie group sets up every Friday night at the GATE to Walter Reed, hanging their anti-war banner on the fence of WR and holding signs that say "Maimed for a Lie". Until the DC Chapter of FR started counter-protesting these creeps got away with it. For the past several weeks FReepers have outnumbered them. As our numbers go up, their numbers are going down.
Soldiers and their families stop to thank us for being there and supporting our troops. Horns honk continuously to show support for AMERICA as they pass us. Last week the pink-o's were down to 3, and we were 18 strong. One soldier had just had surgery and told his visiting wife to go out and check on the FReepers.
Ignore her ......... HELL NO - not again!
It should also be remembered that her movies were being shown at military bases in the US and overseas at the same time she was in N. Vietnam.
I saw BABARELLA playing at bothMarch AFB and Little Rock AFB and Kadina, Okinawa. 1968
Well then, at least hold up a "SAT JANE" sign.
MWT, Sr. was in Vietnam circa 1963 to 1971
MWT, Jr. was a kid.
NEVER FORGET
As always,Justanobody,you prove you are far more than your screen-name.
And as always,FRegards
God help us, probably John McCain.
I'll believe that for myself when I actually hear Billy Graham say that one can reach God through any other source than Jesus Christ. If you can produce the quote, date, etc., I would listen for myself. But until I hear him say that, I will not believe it.
Kerry and many surviving Viet Cong.
We had a thread about Jane accepting Christ a while back. I'm glad she cleared things up.
I think I might join the freepers protesting along her route.
bet ya she doesn't even go through with it.
What does "SAT Jane" stand for?
BTW, I believe part of the problem is we have ignored "these people/things" for far to long. One is in the US Senate, one is legal council for Saddam, others have set up communist front groups like ANSWER and Code-Pink. The names of these people all go back to the 60's and 70's.
They were ignored, much like the terrorist activities that were perpetrated toward our country for more than 20 years. They both were able to gain support and gin up their activities unnoticed by the masses.
Still a good excuse to have a party.
Look Ouuuuuuuuuuuuut !
Is this accurate? I thought she apologized for having her picture taken, but not for going to North Vietnam in the first place. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
You're right. That hag never apologized for what she did. She's nothing but a liberal slut. I look forward to her tour because there are MILLION of us Nam vets(and families) out there that are likely to give her a piece of their minds.
Cal thomas and Jane fonda.
One old fogey has-been talking about and even bigger old fogey has-been
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