From Holly, on Wed, 22 Sep 1999 04:25:26 GMT (in response to: Jane Fonda-an American Heroine)
Hanoi Jane Honored as "100 Years of Great Women" NOT! > > Lest we forget..."100 years of great women" Jane Fonda should never be > considered. > > The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry > Driscoll, a River Rat: > > Folks, > > 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. > > 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-permanently > grounding him-from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of wooden > baton. > > >From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was 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 Air Base or another where "zaps" of Hanoi Jane's @#?$% > face had been applied. > > To whom it may concern: > > I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured > by the North Vietnamese communists in South Viet Nam 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 rebar > 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 heroes-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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