Hanoi Jane is riding her tank into battle for one last confrontation with authority. The film star Jane Fonda got her nickname opposing the Vietnam War , but she has reached further back into history for the rebirth of the Committee for the First Amendment.

The free speech organisation was founded by her father, Henry Fonda, and other actors in 1947 when Senator Joseph McCarthy began rooting out alleged Communists and “cancelling” them, today’s word for an old idea. Thousands of people in the film industry, the federal government and other sectors were purged.

The reds under the beds of that era have become “the enemy within” in Donald Trump’s America . Republicans are salivating at the prospect of carrying out mass firings and agency closures while the federal government is shut

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