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FullMetalPatriot on Obama Photobombs History
What’s the punishment for treason?
Hrmm. Used to be, those who committed treason were executed.
Nowdays, apparently the punishment is to be given lucrative book deals.
Jane Fonda, aka Hanoi Jane, is making the rounds on talk shows, trying to push her new autobiography. I was stunned to see her dried-up old self on Letterman last night. Man, the years have NOT been kind (which is great, seeing as how I obviously don’t like her). Personally, I’m appalled that she was never arrested for committing treason against the United States.
The U.S. Constitution defines treason this way: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or, in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
Well, if going over to a country with whom we are at war, meeting with its soldiers and becoming a propaganda tool AGAINST the United States isn’t treason, I don’t know what is!
I did some research on this, not wanting to fall prey to the rumors so commonly bandied about on the web. Snopes.com (well-known debunker of urban myths) has a well-written account of her actions, and of her so-called apology.
She didn’t go to North Vietnam to try to bring about peace or to reconcile the two warring sides or to stop American boys from being killed; she went there as an active show of support for the North Vietnamese cause. She lauded the North Vietnamese military and citizens while she denounced American soldiers as “war criminals” and urged them to stop fighting, she lobbied to cut off all American economic aid to the South Vietnamese government even after the Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, and she publicly thanked the Soviets for providing assistance to the North Vietnamese. And she did all this not as a reckless youth who rashly spouted ill-considered opinions now best forgotten, but as a 34-year-old adult who should be expected to bear full responsibility for her actions.
In 1988, sixteen years after denouncing American soldiers as war criminals and tortured POWs as possessed of overactive imaginations, Fonda met with Vietnam veterans to apologize for her actions. It’s interesting to note that this nationally-televised apology (during which she attempted to minimize her actions by characterizing them as “thoughtless and careless”) came at a time when New England vets were successfully disrupting a film project she was working on. It’s also interesting that not only was this apology delivered sixteen years after the fact, but it has not been offered again since. More than a few have read a huge dollop of self-interest into Fonda’s 1988 apology. (Finally, in an interview in 2000, almost thirty years after the fact, Fonda admitted: “I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.”)
Regret, hurt, hostility, horrible, thoughtless. But no mention of the word WRONG or SORRY. No apology whatsoever. Well holy shit, she regrets going over there and doing something that got her into trouble. Imagine that! Notice she never regrets what it did to American servicemen and POWs. There’s no telling how many men may have died due to her traitorous acts, or how much torture was endured by American POWs due to her presence in Vietnam. Typical irresponsible attitude: I’m not sorry for what I did, I’m sorry I got caught for what I did.
Forgive and forget, you say? Sure, right after she’s punished for her actions.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
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