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I got this from an email and while we've all received hoax-mail before, I think the spirit, if not the letter of the following is true. It concerns that woman who went along with the governments of China and Russia, both of whom were backers of North Vietnam, and murderers of between 20 million and 30 million of their own people by starvation and executions. I've not researched all of the following (I'm just too lazy)--if you care to, then you're welcome to it. 

The older I get, the less I'm inclined to think my opinion  matters in the big scheme. And while I'm well acquainted with anger, I feel that dynamic is evaporating with the passing of years. I don't hate Ms Hanoi Jane.

Anyone wanting to know my political bias should know that I'm more liberal than the liberals; more conservative than the conservations (clowns to the left of me--jokers to the...what was that? Oh yeah. Get on with it...). I've been let down by both ends of the shitty pole of human nature. But by appearance sake at least, this whole Hanoi Jane thing smacks of being baked in conservative's ovens; it is prepared for the pallet of those who haven't made up their minds yet. For the super-liberal mindset, it doesn't matter--that artist's brush is irredeemably bent.

As I've said before--the United States may really be stupid in backing corrupt governments, but at least the policy gets the broad strokes correct--communism is, was, and always will be evil--its utopianism presupposes that people will feed one another and denies that the poor are robbed--in contrast to the United States which, at the least, steals from its poor out in the open.  

The act of honoring dishonor is dishonorable, not very symmetric, and not very smart.

We who voted for Barack had to have known that revenge was afoot--karma catching up. I don't fight it--I'm too tired to squeal, "I'm innocent!"

Because I'm not that innocent.  

(By the way--I'm also not a member of the 'Tea-Party' movement.)

Here it is:

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED
>KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
>
>
>This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do
>not remember, and didn't have to bear the
>burden that our fathers, mothers and older
>brothers and sisters had to bear.
>
>Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the
>'100 Women of the Century.'
>
>BY BARBRA WALTERS
>
>Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still
>countless others have never known how Ms.
>Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country,
>but specific men who served and sacrificed
>during Vietnam
>
>The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.
>
>The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.
>
>In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF
>Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison
>the ' Hanoi Hilton.'
>
>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
>an d 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.
>
>I was a civilian economic development advisor
>in Vietnam, and was captured by the North
>Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in
>1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
>
>I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one
>year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year
>in a 'black box' in Hanoi
>My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
>poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
>nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South
>Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the
>Cambodian border.
>At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
>(My normal weight is 170 lbs)
>
>We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals.'
>
>When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by
>the camp communist political officer if I would
>be willing to meet with her.
>
>I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
>treatment we POWs received... and how
>different it was from the treatment purported by
>the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
>'humane and lenient.'
>
>Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
>floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
>with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
>and beaten with a bamboo cane.
>
>I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
>soon after I was released. I asked her
>if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
>She never did answer me.
>
>These first-hand experiences do not exemplify
>someone who should be honored as part
>of '100 Years of Great Women.'
>Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women'
>should never include a traitor whose hands are
>covered with the blood of so many patriots.
>
>There are few things I have strong visceral
>reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in
>blatant treason, is one of them.
>Please take the time to forward to as many
>people as you possibly can.
>It will eventually end up on her computer and
>she needs to know that we will never forget.
>
>RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF

--Snopes says that Ms Fonda did not collect the slips of paper and turn them in--I have no trouble in believing Ms Fonda would do such a thing. I respect Snopes for making an effort to separate the twist of jumbled email propaganda out there; I do not though, see Snopes as the final gospel.

I wonder what happened to the man who spat tobacco juice into Ms Fonda's mug. 

Here's lookin' at you, Ms Fonda.

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