I received a forwarded message today. As with all forwarded messages it was complete with plenty of exclamation points and pieces written in all CAPS. One part of the message, however, caught my eye. I always thought of Jane Fonda as a peace activist, but I never thought she would have deliberately done anything to put her fellow Americans in harm's way. I can understand someone who wishes that our country would do something besides getting into one ridiculous war after another for some rather questionable reasons. Instead of blaming war protesters for the deaths of thousands of American servicemen and women, the blame should be squarely placed upon the US government for engaging in such an activity to begin with.
As with many of our other bogus wars, Vietnam was escalated due to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. This has now been declared by our own corrupt government as being false. The North Vietnamese never attacked us. Where is the outrage about this? Maybe the rage is gone because our press has become little more than corporate propaganda and few in America even realize this to be the situation.
That being said and my views of war being clearly defined, I still do not believe Miss Fonda should ever have placed American soldiers in harm's way. They did not cause the war. They were used by our government just like the rest of us were lied to. I believe we should continue to protest war and reinvent ourselves as peaceful farmers and traders; rather than warriors. I do however strongly object to deliberately placing another individual into harm's way. This is the snippet that I found disturbing:
"The first part of this is from an F-4E
pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American 'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane treatment' he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward
on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
>From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the 'Hanoi Hilton',,, the first three of which his family only knew he was 'missing in action'. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a 'peace delegation' visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand.
When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?' Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her, their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper.
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day."
Obama is supposed to list her as one of the one hundred great American women. Maybe they should find individuals first of all who are not just actors and entertainers. Second of all they should not list someone who deliberately endangered the lives of others.
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