Hoot
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 8, 2004
- Messages
- 1,686
- Reaction score
- 18
- Location
- State of Confusion
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Slightly Liberal
I'm not a big fan of Jane Fonda, but the Vietnam Vet who spit on her at a book signing was a coward.
It's to Janes credit that she didn't press charges and kept her composure, and stayed to finish signing her book for those fans that waited patiently.
I don't approve of what Jane Fonda did when she sat on that anti-aircraft gun for photos, and I don't approve of her accepting a ring made from the metal of a downed US plane when she visited North Vietnam.
I find that repugnant...maybe there was a dead pilot as a result of that ring? I think she was young and foolish.
Afterall, the U.S. has certainly been good to her...she's not hurting for money or anything else in her life.
I also would never burn a US flag, but I do recognize that our Constitution guarantees rights that some Americans find distasteful.
We have the right to protest the actions of our government...we have the right to question the actions of our leaders...even during time of war, hopefully, without being labeled unpatriotic.
Jane stepped over the line when she visited the enemy, and she has apologized for this...perhaps 30 years too late, but she refuses to apologize for protesting the Vietnam war...that's her right as an American.
Of course I have no interest in reading her book.
But being spit on can be very dangerous these days with all the STD's.
I prefer the people that throw pies at public figures.
It's to Janes credit that she didn't press charges and kept her composure, and stayed to finish signing her book for those fans that waited patiently.
I don't approve of what Jane Fonda did when she sat on that anti-aircraft gun for photos, and I don't approve of her accepting a ring made from the metal of a downed US plane when she visited North Vietnam.
I find that repugnant...maybe there was a dead pilot as a result of that ring? I think she was young and foolish.
Afterall, the U.S. has certainly been good to her...she's not hurting for money or anything else in her life.
I also would never burn a US flag, but I do recognize that our Constitution guarantees rights that some Americans find distasteful.
We have the right to protest the actions of our government...we have the right to question the actions of our leaders...even during time of war, hopefully, without being labeled unpatriotic.
Jane stepped over the line when she visited the enemy, and she has apologized for this...perhaps 30 years too late, but she refuses to apologize for protesting the Vietnam war...that's her right as an American.
Of course I have no interest in reading her book.
But being spit on can be very dangerous these days with all the STD's.
I prefer the people that throw pies at public figures.