Thursday, April 21, 2005

SEE JANE.SEE JANE GET SPOOGED AT HER BOOK SIGNING

Jane Fonda got a face full at a book signing , a veteran of the Viet Nam war waited in line for an
hour and a half to spit tobacco juice in her face, proclaiming "she has spit in our faces for 37 years". Dude...get the fuck over it already, she opposed the war and in 1972 sat on an enemy anti aircraft gun for pictures in North VN. In 1972...that was a long time ago, and if your'e still bent about it, you need some serious fucking therapy for your displaced anger and guilt.
Jane has apologised for the picture, but not for her opposition to the war. In my opinion, she shouldn't have apologised for anything, because, as it turns out she and the other people actively opposing the VN war were right. I opposed it, I marched against it, as did many thousands of others. We were right. History has proved us out.
Back in the day, veterans were blamed and faced the derision of a country fed up with the bullshit, but now (hopefully) restoration has been made. I was against the war, but I never blamed the people who fought it.
The vets were easy targets initially, until the world woke up and decided to call a spade a spade and realized they were merely pawns. Before that happened, people like Jane made extreme commentary to shed light on an even more extreme injustice. Instead of spitting on her you should have thanked her. If I was the guy in line behind you I would have kicked your ass.
On a related note, there's this radio show I listen to on the way to work in the mornings and one of the commentators ( Sam " I'm an asshole" Cox ) equated being spit on with tobacco juice with having cigar smoke blown in his face and effectively condoned this event with his comments. Sam is an ignorant good ol' boy retired cop who is kind of like a broken clock, in spite of himself, he is right twice a day. He regularly puts his foot in his mouth and is mumbly defiant when he does, but when the other commentators challenged him on this he had nothing...beans. Except a confirmation that he is indeed a redneck asshole.
Who,by the way, needs his ass kicked.

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