- A while back Jane Fonda found a new ally in her battle
with being a decaying cutie-pie. Injections, face lifts, dye, flaky philosophy,
and many hours a day of aerobics were no longer enough to hang on to even
an out-of-focus resemblance to the poochy-lipped mannequin of Roger Vadim's
Barbarella.
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- Jane found Jesus. Not just any Jesus, but America's Jesus,
the one who lets you be "born again," becoming a child again,
a strong sales point where adults are obsessed with youth and living forever.
Jane effectively committed herself to spending eternity with the likes
of Franklin Graham, Tammy Faye, and George Bush - punishment enough I should
think for far more than all her past errors.
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- Jane may have thought that embracing America's Jesus
would earn her some forgiveness from those who still hate her for opposing
the War in Vietnam, but she should have known better. America's Jesus is
especially important during the country's many invasions of far-off places
because He cheers the boys on and lets the folks back home feel good while
cluster bombs are dropped on civilians. And Jane should have remembered
that poor woman on death row in Texas who had been born again awaiting
her execution and received only a sneering comment from Governor Bush before
being processed and sent to the morgue.
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- I suppose, being married to the very wealthy Ted Turner
- an inexplicable event in a strange life - Jane expected to be counted
as one of America's Christian Elites, but Turner once described Christianity
as "a religion for losers," a comment that brought no threatening
criticism to Ted because as important as America's Jesus is, He is always
trumped by big money. The couple were amicably divorced shortly after Jane's
miraculous conversion.
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- Now Jane, in the course of a television interview promoting
a new book, has said it was "betrayal" to go to North Vietnam
and be photographed with anti-aircraft guns.
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- Those guns with which Jane posed were aimed at American
pilots, and America's strutting, killing-feels-good types have never forgiven
her, a number having demanded she be tried for treason. Treason? Imagine
a trial for treason over opposition to a war based entirely on lies? The
files of every branch of the U.S. government bulged with embarrassing evidence.
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- I don't know why Jane would think you could ever apologize
to people who used their jets to napalm villages, drop millions of pounds
of high explosives into cities and towns, strafe farms with rapid-fire
canon, and dump tons of poisonous Agent Orange over pristine jungles. If
there are apologies owing in this world, theirs is the truly outstanding
missing one.
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- Let's throw in the colorful detail of Senator John McCain's
claim that he received extra abuse from his captors for refusing to meet
her at the time as other prisoners did. This is same heroic McCain who
literally crawled around on his belly last year helping George Bush get
re-elected. The same McCain who caught hell in 2000 for ridiculing the
role in politics of American fundamentalists and who has done nothing but
backpedal from the only brave and honest words uttered in his entire political
career.
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- Jane always has had a tendency for doing things in an
over-the-top way, including the way she handled her opposition to the War
in Vietnam. But that's how America likes things done. It just doesn't respond
to rational forms of argument. Look at the Terri Schiavo fiasco, ending
near the time of Jane's television appearance. Iraq is soaked with the
blood of innocent people slaughtered by Americans, and all America can
talk and pray about is the merciful end of one woman brain-dead for fifteen
years. Surely, God must run screaming from such prayers.
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- Comment
- From Jim Mortellaro
- 4-4-5
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- This commentary is not meant to denigrate Fonda's own
truth. She may very well have turned the corner and 'found religion.' I
for one however, don't give a damn. Jane Fonda did what she did then and
now for reasons I can only guess. However only God may forgive what Jane
Fonda did to our troops and to this country. Fonda may be honestly saying
her truth regarding her religious faith. But even that does not matter.
Her crimes burn hot in the minds of Patriots. Her crimes against our soldiers,
suffering torture and deprivation, exacerbated their suffering.
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- Hanoi Jane's crimes have nothing to do with the war in
Viet Nam. They have nothing to do with her newfound 'salvation.' Rather,
they have to do with something this nation appears to enjoy these days
even more than previously. Her crime has to do with using her influence
as a popular actress to use as a powerful tool. It's the same today. And
it's about power.
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- Hollywood uses its power to influence elections. To influence
is a mild word. I would prefer indoctrinate. Indoctrinate US to THEIR point
of view. And that, people, is evil. It is influence peddling. And it is
wrong.
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- Ever since Fonda did her dirty deed, I never once saw
any of her films, interviews or whatever. I want nothing to do with her.
The same is true of our present day power and influence peddlers. I want
nothing whatever to do with their talent, their songs, their movies, whatever.
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- And it's damned good thing Bob Dylan has stayed out of
the fray. For if I had to give up my Dylan, life would not be worth living.
As for the others, "Their idiots, Babe. And it's a wonder that they
still know how to breathe."
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- God bless America.
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- Jim
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