War is a psychological endeavor. If you can demoralize your enemy, you can beat him. What Hanoi Jane did in Hanoi was an attempt to demoralize her enemy. She claims that her trip to Hanoi was to protest U.S. policy in Vietnam. That rings a little hollow, however, when you consider that U.S. policy did not have to fly over that anti-aircraft gun; U.S. servicemen did. U.S. policy did not get blown out of the sky by that gun; U.S. servicemen did. U.S. policy did not spend year after miserable year in a filthy prison camp being tortured and starved; U.S. servicemen did. U.S. policy did not have it's name listed on The Wall; U.S. servicemen did.

The place to protest U.S. policy is in Washington. That is where U.S. policy is made. Hanoi is in the wrong hemisphere of the world. North Vietnamese policy was made in Hanoi.The look of pure joy on her face as she sat on that gun, knowing that that particular gun had killed U.S. servicemen, sickens me. Her statement while aiming that gun at "blue-eyed murderers", meaning U.S. servicemen, belies her previous statement about protesting U.S. policy. The picture of her jumping up and down, clapping her hands like a little schoolgirl, makes my skin crawl. The sound of her voice on Radio Hanoi calling us war criminals, encouraging the Communist "Freedom Fighters" makes my blood boil.

Her claim of "youthful indiscretion" seems a little thin when I realize that she was 34 years old at the time. A "youthful indiscretion" is a carload of teenagers mooning the school principal. Treason is not a youthful indiscretion. It is a capital crime.

Her expression of "regret" for having her picture taken is a far cry from an apology.

When I read her words of November 21, 1970, "If you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become Communist", I wonder how she has the unmitigated gall to travel around the country trying to sell her book and movie. I thought salesmanship and entrepeneurship were Capitalist ideals.

On July 18, 1970, the People's World, the West Coast's Communist Party publication, carried a telephone interview with Fonda in which she said: "To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist."

She also said, "I, a Socialist, think that we should strive toward a Socialist society, all the way to Communism". She makes it a little difficult to justify her millions of dollars.

On their return from North Vietnamese prison camps, Sen. John McCain and other brave patriots reported on their abuse and torture. She called them hypocrites and liars. She encouraged the "free thinkers" of the era to spit on us when we came back to the world. Of course, at that time, it was considered to be free speech. I guess times change.

Her claim to conversion to Christianity seems a little too sweet when compared with another recent quote,"I am, after all, an Acadamy Award winning actress".

When Hanoi Jane felt compelled to become an activist, she was applauded by Academia and the Left in general, as well as the Communist world. When I felt compelled to become an activist, the Leftists considered me to be a vile coward, who would dare to actually disrespect one of America's 100 most influential Women. Maybe some of us were influenced in a different way.

Perhaps the best illustration of her true colors lies in the story of Nguyen Van Troi. In the early 1960s, Troi was a very active terrorist in South Vietnam. He and his fellow murderers committed several terrorist bombings on South Vietnamese civilians, killing innocent men, women, and children. They set off bombs in markets, theaters, anyplace they could think of to murder as many people as possible. They weren't much good at standing up and fighting like men, but boy were they tough with women and kids.

Troi's end came when he tried to blow up Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. He screwed it up and the bomb didn't go off. He was caught, and the South Vietnamese put him to death by firing squad in a public stadium.

In the spring of 1974, Hanoi Jane and Tom Hayden went to Vietnam to receive accolades from the Communists for their unwaivering service and loyalty. Imagine Hanoi Jane's surprise when the Communists announced that they were going to hold a christening ceremony for the spawn of these two heroes. Her baby's name? Troy. I'm not sure how one goes about a christening in a Communist country where Christianity is "discouraged", but somehow they managed. I guess if you name your child after a murdering terrorist, the Communist elite will bend the rules just this once.

The ceremony must have been eerily reminiscent of the christening scene from The Godfather. There stands Michael Corleone at the altar. He mouths the words of a sacred ritual of baptism while his minions carry out his carefully laid plan of cold-blooded murder. Blood runs through the streets as he watches his spawn being blessed with holy water.

There stand Fonda and Hayden, watching as the same ritual is performed for their spawn. As the ceremony takes place, the Communists begin their crusade to eliminate Christianity from their midst. Blood soaks into the dust of the trails and the mud of the rice paddys as Vietnamese Christians are "re-educated". Montainyards and Hmungs flee to the jungled mountains to try to escape the mass murder. ( Hmmmm. "Mass murder". A chillingly appropriate term. ) However, the Jihad against Vietnamese Christians continues to this day. Even those who managed to escape into the mountains of Laos and Cambodia are being hunted down by the Communists and returned to Vietnam for "re-education".

Nguyen Van Troi is considered to be a hero in Communist Vietnam, as is Hanoi Jane. Today, Troy O'Donovan Garity Fonda is well on his way to becoming a Hollywood hero.