Man Who Spit On Jane Fonda Has Charges Dropped

[matcom]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Vietnam veteran who spit tobacco juice at actress Jane Fonda has a disorderly conduct charge dropped by a Kansas City judge.

Michael Dean Smith, 54, was ticketed by police after the April 19 incident.

Fonda was signing copies of her memoir "My Life So Far" after a Kansas City speech when Smith approached and spit tobacco juice in her face.

The municipal charge against Smith has now been dismissed by a judge who promised to do so if Smith stayed out of trouble over the past month.

Smith served as a Marine in Vietnam in 1970. He said the spitting was a show of anger at Fonda for her actions opposing the war -- including her 1972 visit to a North Vietnam anti-aircraft battery.

The day after the spitting, Fonda told police she didn't want to press charges.

The ex-Marine remains unrepentant however, saying he still feels "it was the right thing to do."

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[sui generis]

1. she shoulda had that spit tested

for helobacter pylori or any other number of naturally occurring harmful bacteria that would have qualified his assault as a terrorist using a biological weapon.

If the cops can put a junkie in jail for life for spitting on them under the presumption that everyone with a needle hanging out of their arm has AIDS, whether they do or not, this judge should not have been lenient to that nasty old fuck.