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Jane Fonda -- unforgiven:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — 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.
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."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same Jane Fonda that laughed and beamed with the enemy a la victory celebration? Isn't she implicated in taking notes, Social Security numbers, and messages from American POWs and turning them over to the enemy?

She says her life has completely turned around since she became a Christian, but recently after that lifechanging event, went on to star in "The Vagina Monologues."

You be the judge.

UPDATE:
Information from my illustrious colleague, (who pointed me to snopes) has set me straight:

TRUE: During a 1972 trip to North Vietnam, Jane Fonda propagandized on behalf of the North Vietnamese government, declared that American POWs were being treated humanely and condemned U.S. soldiers as "war criminals" and later denounced them as liars for claiming they had been tortured.
FALSE: Jane Fonda handed over to their captors the slips of paper POWs pressed upon her.
TRUE: In 1999, Jane Fonda was profiled in ABC's A Celebration: 100 Years of Great Women.