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The thought of Jane Fonda being honored as one of the "Century's 100
Most Influential Women" is repugnant to me--unless she is cited for
being the most honored traitor in America. The story of her July
1972 visit to Hanoi, where she aided and abetted the enemy, is well
known. Why, then, did someone find it necessary to publish A
TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED where two out of the three stories in
the e-mail are reported to be a hoax. Check it out with
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ or TruthOrFiction.com.
According to TruthOrFiction.com, Jerry Driscoll says that the
accounts about him in the e-mail are ". . . the product of a very
vivid imagination," and he request that people please stop passing
it on to others. The same website reports that Mike McGrath,
President of NAM-POW's, says that the Larry Carrigan events never
happened either, and he doesn't want to be associated with the
hoax. He does say that the Hoffman story is true.
The unfortunate thing about this e-mail is that a little leaven
leavens the whole lump (Mt. 13:33; 1 Cor. 5:6; Gal. 5:9). In the
Bible, leaven is symbolic of corruption and sin. Like leaven, these
false stories ruin the integrity of an otherwise factual
story--Fonda is a traitor!
Postmodernists are already saying that Christianity is not based on
fact but on a culturally driven belief system. Are Christians
careless with facts? I'm afraid that they are if the story sounds
good.
Before you send another one of those e-mails that urges you to send
it on to your entire mailing list, please check it out with
Hoaxbusters and TruthOrFiction. I don't want any more leaven in my
e-mail.
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