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here is something that was sent to me to stick in your pipe!

From Jake Kave, on Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:58:16 GMT (in response to: Jane Fonda is cool you loser!)

Looks like Hanoi Jane may be honored as one of the "100 Women of the 
    Century". JANE FONDA  remembered?  Unfortunately many have forgotten 
    and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not
    only 
    the idea of our "country" but the men who served and sacrificed during
    Vietnam.  There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to,
    but 
    Jane 
    Fonda's participation in what I believe to be blatant treason, is one
    of 
    them. 
    Part of my conviction comes from exposure to those who suffered her 
    attentions. 
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    The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.  The pilot's name is 
    JerryDriscoll, a River Rat.   In 1978, the Commandant of the USAF
    Survival 
    School was a former POW in Ho Lo Prison-the "Hanoi Hilton". Dragged
    from a 
    stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, 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
    dragged 
    away.   During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp 
    Commandant's feet, accidentally pulling the man's shoe off-which sent
    that 
    officer berserk.   In '78, the AF Col still suffered from double
    vision 
    (which permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col's 
    frenzied application of wooden baton. 
    -------------------------------------------------------------- 
    From 1983-85, Col Larry Carrigan was the 347FW/DO (F-4Es).   He'd
    spent 6 
    years in the "Hilton"-the first three of which he was "missing in
    action". 
    His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.  His group, too, got 
    the cleaned/fed/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 still survived.  Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper,
    with 
    his 
    SSN 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 the little pile.  Three men
    died 
    from the subsequent beatings.  Col Carrigan was almost number four. 
    For years after their release, a group of determined former POWs
    Including 
    Col Carrigan, tried to bring Ms. Fonda and others up on charges of
    treason. 
    I don't know that they used it, but the charge of "Negligent Homicide
    due 
    to 
    Depraved Indifference" would also seem appropriate. Her obvious
    "granting 
    of 
    aid and comfort to the enemy", alone, should've been sufficient for
    the 
    treason count.  However, to date, Jane Fonda has never been formally 
    charged 
    with anything and continues to enjoy the privileged life of the rich
    and 
    famous. 
    I, personally, think that this is shame on us, the American Citizenry.
    Part 
    of our shortfall is ignorance: most don't know such actions ever took 
    place. 
    Thought you might appreciate the knowledge.  Most of you've probably 
    already 
    seen this by now...  only addition I might add to these sentiments is
    to 
    remember the satisfaction of relieving myself into the urinal at some 
    airbase or another where  "zaps" of Hanoi Jane's face had been
    applied. 
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    To whom it may concern: 
    I was a civilian economic development advisor in Viet Nam, and was
    captured 
    by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held
    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 was weighing approximately 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 Jane Fonda.  I said yes, for I
    would 
    like 
    to tell her about the real treatment we POWs were receiving, which was
    far 
    different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and 
    parroted 
    by Jane Fonda, as "humane and lenient." 
    Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with 
    outstretched arms with a piece of steel placed on my hands, and beaten
    with 
    a bamboo cane every time my arms dipped. 
    I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours
    after I 
    was released.  I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on
    TV.  She 
    did not answer me, her husband, Tom Hayden, answered for her.  She was
    mind 
    controlled by her husband.  This does not exemplify someone who should
    be 
    honored as "100 Years of Great Women." 
    After I was released, I was asked what I thought of Jane Fonda and the
    anti-war movement.  I said that I held Joan Baez's husband in very
    high 
    regard, for he thought the war was wrong, burned his draft card and 
    went to prison in protest.  If the other anti-war protesters took this
    same 
    route, it would have brought our judicial system to a halt and ended
    the 
    war 
    much earlier, and there wouldn't be as many on that somber black 
    granite wall called the Vietnam Memorial.  This is democracy.  This is
    the 
    American way.  Jane Fonda, on the other hand, chose to be a traitor,
    and 
    went to Hanoi, wore their uniform, propagandized for the communists,
    and 
    urged American soldiers to desert.  As we were being tortured, and
    some of 
    the POWs murdered, she called us liars.  After her heros-the North 
    Vietnamese communists-took over South Vietnam, they systematically
    murdered 
    80,000 South Vietnamese political prisoners. May their souls rest on
    her 
    head 
    forever. Shame! Shame!  ( History is a heavy sword in the hands of
    those 
    who 
    refuse to forget  it.  Think of this the next time you see Ms.
    Fonda-Turner 
    at a Braves game). 

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