One of the beautiful things about America is that people have the right to protest things that they personally do not agree with. Hence I have no problem with Jane Fonda having thought 'Nam was a sham and all that. It was well within her rights to do so. However, she changed the ballgame when she flew over to 'Nam and basically became a propaganda piece for our enemies. She recorded radio messages for them, and posed for photographs (including the famous one where she was seated on an AA site used to shoot down USAF planes). She basically became a propaganda piece for the enemy.
There is a huge difference between being against a war, and becoming propaganda/ammo for the enemy.
And I still think that the spittle of that vet who spat on her was wasted on a person like Jane Fonda. She is not even worth the dust off his boots.
Again, it is ok to protest a war. There is freedom of speech and thought in this great nation. However that doesn't mean that one should go overseas and literally help the enemy form a propaganda piece. And even though one doesn't support a war that does not mean they should be acerbic towards the soldiers (guess which people were among the main recipients of J.Fonda's pictures and radio messages ....POWs were. American prisoners of war who were made to believe that their country ahd abandoned them, especially when 'proof' was given in the form of Fonda's radio snippets and showed JFonda in all her glory sitting on AA pads).
She was a traitor. And saying that she was 'young and dumb' doesn't absolve that (in the same way that Johnny 'American Taliban' Walker cannot absolve his criminal and traitorous actions by saying he was 'young and naive').
Young and dumb, hell, she was older than most of the grunts serving in Vietnam and they knew what they were doing.
Spetz,
It has been proven that what hanoi jane fonda and hanoi john kerry did prolonged the war and the incarceration of our POW's. The commies knew that if they held on long enough that the radical left would win the war in the streets of America for them. Hanoi john kerry and hanoi jand fonda were both field generals commanding the radical left that were fighting against their own country.
What she did violated the Constitution:
Article III Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
There was no backbone to prosecute those who fought against this nation in Vietnam (protestors, agitators, draft dodgers...). Put this in the past. Except here we are and one of those turkeys came awfully close to taking the top office in the nation.
He still has not signed the form to release his military records.
Well put. Thanks.