KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man spit tobacco juice into the face of Jane Fonda after waiting in line to have her sign her new memoir.
Capt. Rich Lockhart of the Kansas City Police Department said Michael A. Smith, 54, was arrested Tuesday night on a municipal charge of disorderly conduct. Smith, a Vietnam veteran, told The Kansas City Star Wednesday that Fonda was a "traitor" and that her protests against the Vietnam War were unforgivable. He said he doesn't 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. "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."
Some readers commented:
"I would like to pay Mr. Smith's bail. He is a true patriot."
"I don't like what [Fonda] did and will never forgive her. If I was on a jury to sentence the tobacco spitter I'd say 'if she deserved the spit, you must acquit.'"
2007-02-02 05:03:31 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
That man will never have to pay for a drink if I am around! Hanoi Jane needs lining up against a wall and shot for a traitor.
2007-02-02 05:10:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 6⤋
I'd say no. Anyone who says yes must also then accept soldiers being spat upon. I may not agree with Ms. Fonda and her actions, but she is afforded a right in our country to speak her piece, no matter how misguided I believe it is.
I have to qualify my answer by stating I'm not a Vietnam vet, so I don't have the same intensity of feelings this man may have. Intense feelings or not, there is no justification for such behavior from either side.
2007-02-02 05:11:28 · answer #2 · answered by Gus K 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Why did we get stuck in vietnam? A false flag event...The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a fabricated encounter used as a pretext to invade Vietnam. So if anything, we should all spit on the neo-con crooks that staged the gulf of tonkin to get us stuck is a lame war that cost the lives of many.....for nothing!
2007-02-02 05:22:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
At the time Fonda was protesting she was "not" protesting the soldier themselves but the whole idea of the war. Why are we here, is it just, how many lives will be lost, is it worth it? I still agree with her stand, whether people understand it or not.
2007-02-02 05:43:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
no... he is a coward.
tough guy spitting in a woman's face.
There is a story that in the South, about 50 years ago, a black man spit in a white woman's face. The black man was summarily tortured with a blow torch and hung.
Probably the spitter's grandfather was in on the lynching. No hypocrisy there.
2007-02-02 05:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by Jack Chedeville 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Though I think that spitting in her face was a bit dramatic...He has a point. I think that she was completely wrong in "outing" the POW that just wanted her to let his family know that he was alive. I ca't understand her motivations for that. And being in a military family I can understand the man's deep sense of treachery for her act. Even as someone with a liberal bend, I cannot imagine doing something so heinous..it was not as if he were trying to pass state secrets, and even if he were...I don't get it. Unfortunately, it is people in her position that refer to themselves as liberal, that give the rest of us a bad name.
*** I do not condone violence, but is spitting violence or just a sign of disrespect? I suppose if you were a carrier of some horrid communicable disease, it could be construed as violence...food for thought.
2007-02-02 05:16:06 · answer #6 · answered by Katie 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Like the man says:
"If I was on a jury to sentence the tobacco spitter I'd say 'if she deserved the spit, you must acquit.'"
What she did in Hanoi was bad enough. Then when she wants to get in "our" good graces for the sake of her career (because she is losing fame and wealth) she "repents", and now this Iraq thing? Oh Pu-leese! give me a break! What a hypocrite she is (by the *real* defiition of the word).
2007-02-02 05:11:23 · answer #7 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 4⤊ 6⤋
Wasn't it she who spit in the face of a prisner back in Nam when he tried to give her a note telling her of the treatment they really received during that war?..
He was a airforce pilot?.. Well one good turn deserves another, and If Jane is going to step off her little porch again to anti war another humanitarian effort by our troops over in Iraq, then she deserved it..
HOOAH !!
2007-02-02 05:15:10 · answer #8 · answered by tiny b 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Here a pic of what was in Jane's face:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:My_Lai_massacre.jpg
2007-02-02 17:50:16 · answer #9 · answered by Pseudo Obscure 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd think he'd have been much more effective tearing a copy of her book in half right before her eyes.
Spitting is gross, but I agree with his sentiment.
Jane Fonda hates america. Henry is rolling in his grave.
2007-02-02 05:22:44 · answer #10 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋