Here we go again...

Quick thought this morning about an article I read in the news. It seems that the Georgia Senate is the latest battleground in an old war.

See the article here.

Good old Hanoi Jane is rearing her botoxed head again, without actually being around. She has a talent for making controversy everywhere she goes, and even some places she doesn’t go. Former WXIA reporter turned Democratic Senator Steen Miles introduced a resolution to the senate floor honoring Hanoi Jane (Fonda) for her work with several charities around the metro Atlanta area.

This, of course, caused a bit of blowback from some of the other senators, most notably John Douglas, a republican. After several speeches from Douglas and others, Senator Miles tearfully withdrew the resolution from the floor. Miles said that she wasn’t thinking in terms of Fonda being a political figure, but a woman in the Atlanta community who is helping those around her. She further rebuked the senators for implying that she was anti-war or anti-military herself, sighting that her ex-husband and brother both fought in Vietnam.

The unfortunate part of this situation is that Steen Miles chose the one figure in public and political circles who, no matter how much good she does for others, will always be controversial. I don’t find fault with Senator Miles wanting to lift up those women who go out of their way to help others, it’s wonderful when good people get recognition.

That being said, I think she should have thought a bit more about who she was lifting up. There are few names that draw the ire of people in America like Jane Fonda. For about 5% of the country that name conjures images of spandex clad workout routines. For the other 95% it opens old wounds and brings back her sad betrayal. In any other country in this world (or this country up until 1955) Jane Fonda would have been tried and possibly executed for her actions in Vietnam. What she did was not only seditious, but brazen and in complete disregard for her country and those fighting and dying for it.

Say what you will about Vietnam, the reasons, the rhymes, nothing you can say would justify what Hanoi Jane did. Her actions were more damaging and far reaching than her drug hazed little mind could have conceived. The part that still angers me and millions in this country is that she’s completely unrepentant about her actions. She still tours the country, blasting our leaders, our soldiers, and America’s attempts to give others freedom.

And so scenes like this will continue to play themselves out around the country. Jane Fonda is a marked woman. She has been since she stepped up on that anti-aircraft gun to mug for North Vietnamese cameras. She will carry this mark long after she’s dead and gone. The majority of the people in this country will never see her as anything but a traitor, a liar, and a brainless propagandist. This is fine with me. She needs this constant reminder of what she did until she has the courage and wisdom to stand up and apologize to the American public for the things she did.

I count today’s events as a victory. It shows the Fondas, the Sarandons, the Clooneys, and their ilk that though they may have a public forum for their simple minded socialist vomit, they don’t quite have the audience. I hope more people both inside and outside the government will take a stand against these threats to our country, our constitution, and our freedom.

Besides, that movie Barbarella really sucked.

Cheers,


Capt.