Will they call me Jane Fonda?

[vetwife]

There is a Veterans Radio Broadcast who wants to start airing shows
to Take it Back from this administration.....This show streams on the internet and is a Veterans Broadcast. I can do a show there and it gets played Worldwide including Baghdad. I would never do anything but inform the people that this administration is not for the soldier or the Vet. Whatcha think if I do it and its all volunteer.....Will I be deemed Jane Fonda? Need some input here!

[vetwife]

1. Kick for comment !

[vetwife]

15. Thanks..I tell you..My vet husband said This would be right That

Truth shown brightly always is right..Popularity? Ha ! I threw that out the window a long time ago and there will be some who accept it as truth and some koolaid drinkers but at least they will be told !

[LiberalTechie1337]

2. Go for it

You should never worry about what you will be called if you do the right thing. Besides, if the rightwingers don't hate you, you're not working hard enough :)

[BOHICA06]

3. If your information is solid

then go ahead. You'll be Baghdad Betty to most - but to some you bring comfort that they are not alone.

[vetwife]

6. They got all truth on the CD this will just be updated and ongoing

I always document ! I don't worry about what people say but Man they hate me already !

[gratuitous]

4. Only you can determine what you can face

My standing advice is do what you believe in, but know what you believe in before you do it. How do you feel about what happened to Jane Fonda? You're not a celebrity (I presume), but what if the same tactics used against her, fair and unfair, were used against you?

Going against the prevailing wisdom and speaking uncomfortable truths to the power masters is not an easy path. Be sure to measure out your own tolerances before you begin.

[trof]

7. A reasoned answer, if I ever heard one.

You think good.
;-)

[gratuitous]

8. Oops, sorry about that

I wonder how I came make such a post? That's so unlike me.

Ahhhh, that's better!

:hi:

[trof]

12. Yeah, totally out of character.

Nice to see you back to your old self.
;-)

[duhneece]

13. What a great response.

Since you, vetwife, mentioned you document, all I can do is add a few quotations I especially like:
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society: Vaclav Havel:


Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander: Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

I'll be hoping to hear how it goes.
I'll

[trof]

5. They will probably call you worse than that.

Baghdad Bertha.
Kabul Karla.
Screw 'em and just do it.
You GO, girl!
:thumbsup:

[prodigal_green]

9. no, but if you

put out an exercise video that starts a fitness craze, then marry a liberal billionaire you might.

Do what your heart tells you. If the soldiers don't like it or don't want to hear it, they don't have to log on.

[vetwife]

10. All good advice..What most do not know..I have acess to and media

is not telling them. Good example..Many will be categorized into 7 or 8 categories...some will have only 2 years unless they are service connected and won't be able to utilize the VA. Service connection is tricky...Mission accomplished said a lot..They will pay if injured during Major Hostilities...Ha ! Guess who ended Major Hostilities ...I got all this info straight down from VA Headquarters. Whose telling the Vet?

[vetwife]

11. I would read that straight from the VA Book

[anarchy1999]

14. Go, dearest, and go Fast and Hard!

Don't ever back down! You have lots of people across this country that will be at your back if anyone dares to ever come after you or your family. Of that I am sure.

[vetwife]

16. I don't back down.....so I will let my voice ring from

CNN, when I slapped Old Katy around in front of Wolf, C-Span, where I won that contest and got an interview, keep promoting that CD, keep tallking to legislators, working with the vet organizations , keep talking on the Guy James show and now I will go for the Gusto and air my show on The Veterans Broadcast Net......Will give you all a link soon.........It is already up and running. Been taking it to the streets for over three years now ..from Bartcop, to The Guy James Show, to MMOB. They already know who I am ! I am their nightmare !
Amanda

[Cleita]

17. To tell the truth I like Jane Fonda.

Tom Hayden was my Congressman for years and Jane lived in my town Santa Monica. The thing she did was to go to Hanoi (the enemy) and she was photographed in a helmet climbing in and out of an enemy tank. In the meantime our guys were dying and the ones that didn't die were spit upon when they returned to the USA. The PR was very bad.

Now I know many of us bleeding heart liberals feel bad for the enemy especially when they are civilian women and children and when our military is misused to commit acts of aggression and misery on these civilian populations. If you can keep that separate, I think you will be fine. Jane, in her idealism, didn't realize that you just don't join up with the enemy no matter how much you sympathize with their plight. Many consider it treason.