Armchair Revolutionaries

The post about Jane Fonda being a traitor for some reason sprang into my mind whilst reading about the four Labour members of the House Lords who have been willing to sell the laws of their country to the highest bidder in yet the most recent example of the corruption which grips this current government.

Some have said that because it is not explicitly stated anywhere that Lords should not be paid to amend legislation on behalf of their clients (the rest of the world would call it bribery), then this is somehow OK.

Lord Taylor of Blackburn, one of the scumbag peers named in the Sunday Times investigation, doddered to his noble feet to simper: "If I have done anything that has brought this House into disrepute, I most humbly apologise.

"I feel within my own conscience I followed the rules." To which I say - your concience is deficient for the task you were entrusted with, you have been caught red-handed so kindly resign you old fraud.

Others have said that because the newspapers who discovered this trade had not actually enriched these greedy politicians (beyond their everyday pay at public expense for being Lords) - money had not changed hands - those hands are not dirty and should continue to be raised in our legislature determining the content of our laws and the fate of our land. I say, if the newspapers had paid over the cash, the Lords would all be complaining of entrapment, and anyway, as they are admitting what they have done, and intended to do, the fact the money didn't change hands is neither here nor there.

Some have said this is all very shocking: standards must be maintained, the sanctions available against those who break the rules of the House 'must be reviewed'. 'Something must be done', old boy.

The Lib Dems think that this is a case for the Met. I can't disagree. But I also think Her Majesty has a role to play in all this. She agreed to these sleazy people being Lords, after all.

Is this corruption not a breach of the oath of their office?

"I, ____________, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God."

After all, whatever an act of faithful and true allegiance actually is, I am sure we can all agree that to sell amendments to bills in Parliament cannot be an act of true allegiance to Her Majesty, the Head of State. It is simply an act of allegiance to the biggest cheque-book. Why can't the Queen just remove from public office these thieves of our democracy and subverters of the constitution simply for breaking their oath of office?

In Memory of
my brother -in- law

LT. C.Thomsen Wieland

who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton

IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED
ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!

She really is a traitor

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED
KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA

This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do
not remember, and didn't have to bear the
burden that our fathers, mothers and older
brothers and sisters had to bear.

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the
'100 Women of the Century.'

BY BARBRA WALTERS

Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still
countless others have never known how Ms.
Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country,
but specific men who served and sacrificed
during Vietnam

The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.

The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.

In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF
Survival School was a POW in H o Lo Prison
the 'Hanoi Hilton.'

Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell,
cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, 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 was
dragged away.
During the subsequent beating, he fell forward
on to the camp Commandant 's feet, which
sent that officer berserk.

In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from
double vision (which permanently ended his
flying c areer) from the Commandant's frenzied
app lication of a wooden baton.

From 1963-65, Col.. Larry Carrigan was in the
47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the
'Hanoi Hilton',,, the first three of which his
family only knew he was 'missing in action'.
His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.
His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
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 were alive
an d still survived. Each man secreted a tiny
piece of paper, with his Social Security Number
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 all the little pieces of paper.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
but he survived, which is the only reason we
know of her actions that day.

I was a civilian economic development advisor
in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in
1968, and held prisoner 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 weighed only about 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 her.

I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
treatment we POWs received... and how
different it was from the treatment purported by
the No rth Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
'humane and lenient.'

Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
and beaten with a bamboo cane.

I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
soon after I was released. I asked her
if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
She never did answer me.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify
someone who should be honored as part
of '100 Years of Great Women.'
Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women'
should never include a traitor whose hands are
covered with the blood of so many patriots.

There are few things I have strong visceral
reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in
blatant treason, is one of them.
Please take the time to forward to as many
people as you possibly can.
It will eventually end up on her computer and
she needs to know that we will never forget.

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of
Maintenance
DSN: 875-6431
COMM: 883-6343

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