Missouri Man Spits on Jane Fonda

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Missouri Man Spits on Jane Fonda


KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man spit tobacco juice into the face of actress Jane Fonda after waiting in line to have her sign her new book, police said.

The man ran off but was quickly caught by police Tuesday night and charged with disorderly conduct.

Fonda has been on tour and doing interviews to promote her just-published memoir, ``My Life So Far.'' The thrice-married, two-time Academy Award winner covers a wide array of topics, including her 1972 visit to Hanoi to protest the Vietnam War, during which she was photographed on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. She has apologized for that photo, but not for opposing the war.

Capt. Rich Lockhart of the Kansas City Police Department said that although Fonda did not want to press charges against Michael A. Smith, 54, of Kansas City, he was arrested on a municipal charge of disorderly conduct after off-duty officers caught him just outside Unity Temple, where Fonda was signing books.

Lockhart said Smith was released on bond late Tuesday night and is due to appear in municipal court on May 27.

Smith, a Vietnam veteran, told The Kansas City Star on Wednesday that Fonda was a ``traitor'' and that her protests against the war were unforgivable. He said he normally does not chew tobacco but did so Tuesday solely to spit juice on the actress.

``I consider it a debt of honor,'' he told The Star for a story on its Web site, www.kansascity.com. ``She spit in our faces for 37 years. It was absolutely worth it. There are a lot of veterans who would love to do what I did.''

 

[whm1974]

I consider it a debt of honor,'' he told The Star for a story on its Web site, www.kansascity.com. ``She spit in our faces for 37 years. It was absolutely worth it. There are a lot of veterans who would love to do what I did.''

Amen brother!

-Bill

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Well, I hate to say it being "civilized," but, good for him!

I'm not a veteran, but I'd like to have done that.

 

[Bushido]

LOL i think this guy is my new heroe. lol im 18, never been in the military, i would still wana do that.

 

[Snake Eyes]

Spitting on some one is The High Road???

Socially acceptable??

Morally acceptable??

This thread is on topic???

I swear, some of us are working overtime to make all of us look like backwater apes.

 

[cordex]

I understand his anger and have no love for the woman, but spitting on her is a bit childish. Like those idiots who throw pies at conservative speakers at college campuses.

 

[walking arsenal]

I know it! what a waste of pies.

 

[confed sailor]

well snake eyes,

i wish that we could always take the high road in situations like this, but lets face it. My gut reaction at seeing someone who has done so much to harm our soldiers get a face full off dipspit; it creates a warm spot in my heart.

and though i know that it makes all of us look like hillbilly's, and i personally think chewing is a disgusting habit, i'd chaw a wad just to cover that face with red man.

 

[Bainx]

OK, so let's make it a gun topic. I said the word 'gun' so, there.
Moderator, please keep this thread open!

Hanoi Jane deserves much much worse than spit in the face.

 

[George S.]

It sounds like his protest against Hanoi Jane worked for him in spite of it being childish as mentioned. She probably cleaned herself up and went on with whatever trash she was spitting out herself regarding her "apology".

I don't see myself as a "backwater ape" whatever that is Snake Eyes' profile shows he was born in '64, the year I graduated from High School. About the time Hanoi Jane was sitting in that gunner's chair he was only a few years old so he may not fully comprehend the feelings behind that picture printed in newspapers across the nation, and how those of us who lived thru a year or more "in country" (and for those who did not!) came to see her for what she really is; a TRAITOR.

I just wish my personal protest would be something like being selected to strap the bitch into "Old Sparky" and getting to pull the switch.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Spitting on some one is The High Road???

Socially acceptable??

Morally acceptable??

Oh please.
Compared to what she did??!!


It was almost kissing her.

 

[cropcirclewalker]

Some of us think it may have been impolite (not the high road) to have clammed on her.

Let's see, Treason, to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Hmmmm, I wonder if any of youse would consider treason to be impolite.

I would call it a capital offense.

Call it free speech if you want, In a country that doesn't allow free speech?

I call it treason.

 

[GreenFurniture]

Buy that man a Pabst Blue Ribbon!

And, while we're talking bout "blue ribbons," what is the opinion of the M-16 as used in Vietnam?

 

[one-shot-one]

wow

never thought i would come down on what is preceived as the left hand side of one of these posts but,
1. that was uncalled for, by any human and he is lucky he is is not charged with assault, considerding the things that can be transmitted by spit these days.
2. never liked the womans politics but her right to said politics was/is what all those soliders fought/died for.
3. that kind of action by a male (won't call him a man) toward a woman (won't call her a lady) just is not right.

 

[nico]

Buy that man a Pabst Blue Ribbon!

scratch that! Buy him a good beer!

It may have been (probably was) uncalled for, but spitting in her face is much less than what she did to him and just about every other person who served in Vietnam.

 

[justice4all]

On Topic: The woman is hated for posing on a NVA anti-aircraft GUN.

 

[sumpnz]

disgusting habit, i'd chaw a wad just to cover that face with red man.

Apparently he did just that. According to the article he claimed to not be into chewing tobacco, and bought it specially for the occasion. He also said he had no problem with the jail time, or the disorderly conduct charge and that he considered it a "debt of honor".

 

[nico]

On Topic: The woman is hated for posing on a NVA anti-aircraft GUN.

and for calling POWs liars for saying they were mistreated, calling all soldiers war criminals, etc. The only thing she "apologized" for (I consider an apology to start with "I apologize" or "i'm sorry," which none of hers contained) was the picture.

 

[rufus1]

If I remember my history correctly, didn't a POW american hand her a secret note when they were shaking hands and then Fonda gave that note to a Vietnam General?

 

[1911ONR]

Fonda was on 60 minutes last week. My wife asked "why the hell is she on?" Well, it turns out she used the forum to plug her new book and movie. In the interview she did appologize for her actions on Vietnam. I found them disingenuous and over 30 years late. IMO she should have been charged with sedition.

 

[nico]

If I remember my history correctly, didn't a POW american hand her a secret note when they were shaking hands and then Fonda gave that note to a Vietnam General?

nope, that's a rumor that, according to snopes, has been proven false.

 

[Molon Labe]

No matter what bar he goes into,

he will never have to pay

for another beer

as long as he lives.

 

[kikilee]

I was there; when I came back I was SPAT upon; in part because of the ideology put forth by Fonda. No one was arrested for spitting on me, gee I wonder why?

Fonda's public "apology" for her conduct during the Vietnamese War raises some interesting ethical issues. Treason may be an act, but the perpetrator is a TRAITOR, and while she may be forgiven for the act, she can hardly be so forgiven for what she is. A man may truly be contrite about stealing a loaf of bread, but he can hardly be so for being a man. I don't know if Fonda is really sorry for what she did, but I do know she stands a self-confessed traitor, and any apology she offers is irrelevant.

 

[YankeeRebel]

Michael A. Smith called into a local talk show this morning and he did not sound like a post tramatic syndrom person. He was articulate and very unapologic about what he did. The moderator afterwards was supportive of H J. The incident happened at a book signing on the Plaza area of Kansas City and was sponsored by Rainy Day Books. A person representing herself as the manager of Rainy Day books gushed over H J and how the actions of Mike Smith frightened those at the book signing and how HJ was so courageous in calming down the people. (Anyone barfing yet?) She sounded as if DiFi, Chuckie Scummer and company were her heroes and she were very much a died in the wool liberal. Anyway, I will not trade at Rainy Day Books after this.

 

[Monkeyleg]

Jane Fonda has apologized only for appearing in the photo-op on the North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns.

She stands by her appearance at the Paris summit with the North Vietnamese leadership.

She stands by her work as North Viet Nam's "Tokyo Rose," broadcasting demoralizing messages to US troops.

She stands by everything that she did, but apologizes only for what was captured on camera.

I wasn't there. I waited for the draft to pick me up, but it never did. So, I can't speak for those who served.

It still seems to me, though, that she should be waiting in line with Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, and all the other America-haters on that Big Boat to cross the Atlantic.

As for Jane Fonda the "sex kitten:" my skinny white butt. I was a hormone-driven teen at the time, but I preferred the Godesses of that time to keep their politics to themselves.