“They should have already responded”
Exactly. What the hell are they waiting for? On Day One Arnold should have been hauled in and given a tune-up, Sipowitz style.
And Fonda, openly threatening to kidnap the Presidents son. Im remembering how in Japan, the commie students (after wwii) would just imprison anyone they considered to be a spy for the reactionaries, as if they were the law. They were quite surprisingly hysterical.