I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong... No VietCong Ever Called Me ******
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:03 pm
"When the world meekly protested against the dying and killing of an unworthy war …. Jane Fonda was the first person of notoriety to stand up and say, “I hear you!†She was the first Vietnam-era Hero. Perhaps the only one. Without her contribution the war might still be raging on."
http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/gener ... oco-2.html, post #11
Fonda visited Hanoi in July 1972.
Years prior to that event:
"On August 23, 1966, Muhammad Ali embarked on the biggest "fight" of his life when he applied with the Selective Service for conscientious objector status on religious grounds (as a minister with the Nation of Islam). In what became an extensive legal, political, professional, and personal battle, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, stripped of his boxing title, and became a lightning rod — and a voice — for opinions on the Vietnam War. Muhammad Ali's willingness to speak out against racism in the United States, and the affect it had on domestic and foreign policy, earned him many supporters and detractors. In 1971, nearly five years after it began, Ali's legal battle finally culminated with a unanimous decision (8-0 with Thurgood Marshall abstaining) by the United States Supreme Court overturning his draft conviction."
Muhammad Ali
"On June 20, 1967, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years. He stayed out of prison as his case was appealed and returned to the ring on October 26, 1970, knocking out Jerry Quarry in Atlanta in the third round."
Muhammad Ali refuses Army induction — History.com This Day in History — 4/28/1967
Pardon the Pun, but the doings of a movie star Pale in comparison to a true American hero & anti-Vietnam War Activist, Muhammad Ali. This man risked it ALL & almost lost ALL, including freedom.
Some bloviators, still entranced by the tits & ass they saw in their youth in Barbarella have lost all sense of what the true history actually was, will write in oversized Bold letters to Bully others while trying to convince themselves they were right; then turn on the truth, seeing their own outrageous opinions as facts that they cannot be dissuaded from, seeing other views as attacks & distractions.
Or maybe some bloviators are just getting Old. Whatever, Muhammad Ali's contributions should not take a back seat to a Princess of Hollywood Royalty. He came up the hard way & should be the inspiration of what it is like to "Risk it All."
http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/gener ... oco-2.html, post #11
Fonda visited Hanoi in July 1972.
Years prior to that event:
"On August 23, 1966, Muhammad Ali embarked on the biggest "fight" of his life when he applied with the Selective Service for conscientious objector status on religious grounds (as a minister with the Nation of Islam). In what became an extensive legal, political, professional, and personal battle, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, stripped of his boxing title, and became a lightning rod — and a voice — for opinions on the Vietnam War. Muhammad Ali's willingness to speak out against racism in the United States, and the affect it had on domestic and foreign policy, earned him many supporters and detractors. In 1971, nearly five years after it began, Ali's legal battle finally culminated with a unanimous decision (8-0 with Thurgood Marshall abstaining) by the United States Supreme Court overturning his draft conviction."
Muhammad Ali
"On June 20, 1967, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years. He stayed out of prison as his case was appealed and returned to the ring on October 26, 1970, knocking out Jerry Quarry in Atlanta in the third round."
Muhammad Ali refuses Army induction — History.com This Day in History — 4/28/1967
Pardon the Pun, but the doings of a movie star Pale in comparison to a true American hero & anti-Vietnam War Activist, Muhammad Ali. This man risked it ALL & almost lost ALL, including freedom.
Some bloviators, still entranced by the tits & ass they saw in their youth in Barbarella have lost all sense of what the true history actually was, will write in oversized Bold letters to Bully others while trying to convince themselves they were right; then turn on the truth, seeing their own outrageous opinions as facts that they cannot be dissuaded from, seeing other views as attacks & distractions.
Or maybe some bloviators are just getting Old. Whatever, Muhammad Ali's contributions should not take a back seat to a Princess of Hollywood Royalty. He came up the hard way & should be the inspiration of what it is like to "Risk it All."