Posted on 03/24/2005 7:35:43 AM PST by wesley_windam-price
(1) Who Pollard was spying for is irrelevant.
(2) Whether he's Jewish, Rastafarian, or a follower of Voodo is irrelevant.
(3) When you take a position such as his you are told up front what the penalties are for releasing the information in your custody to someone not cleared for it.
(4) You sign a paper detailing them. For compartmented information you sign a separate piece of paper for each program.
(5) There is no doubt, no possibility that Pollard did not know what he was doing.
(6) He released the information knowingly and deliberately. IT DOES NOT MATTER TO WHOM.
(7) He got caught. He goes to prison. End of story.
I sympathize with Mrs. Pollard and admire her loyalty to her husband. Had Pollard not betrayed his country things might have worked out better for them both.
I'm another Jew who thinks he should rot. What he did was treason in my book. Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time.
You only like half of the truth. The other half is none of other spies, even those who spied for the enemy, received punishment even close to what Pollard got. But this is OK. And I am not a Pollard supporter.
If you can't do the time, DON'T DO THE CRIME!
And quit whining. You are lucky you weren't executed.
I know just as much as you do, I would bet.
And he got what he got; I don't care what anybody else got; he deserves to be right where he is. Forever.
I could never understand that people argued he should have less of a sentence because other people got less jail time. Surely it would be better to shoot the lot of them, that way they can all be equally dead, traitorous scum. I bet he would not be crying out for fair play if the rest of them had gotten what they deserved.
"...if the rest of them had gotten what they deserved".
Thing is they did not and nevr will, end of story. That's why singling out Pollard out of the entire "traitorous scum" crows seems odd. This is the reason I am trying to understand this phenomenon.
The question should not be why release Pollard but why not re-sentence the other traitors. Peopele are forced time and time again to reiterate the fact of his treason because people keep on caliming that he was acting in good faith, being discriminated gainst blah blah blah.
If people started doing this about Taliban Lindh or those spies from the 80's then they would get the same response. The sentences should be INCREASED not DECREASED. If people can be imprisoned for life for three strikes or for drink driving then treason should be as well.
Why would anyone call for this scum to get a lesser sentence because some other pond life did? They should be calling for a greater and far harsher sentence. So he got stripped naked and treated badly, so do the terrorists and traitors at Gitmo.
Still don't get why he got special treatment while others escaped. But I guess I will never know that.
I always explain my position this way:
I could care less who you spy FOR, you were sentenced for spying AGAINST the UNITED STATES.
Nothing like a little perpective.
Wrong-o.
Sounds like Moral Relativism. A spy is a traitor and should not see the light fo day. Pollard was not forthcoming about his activities. The extent of his treason is huge. Maybe he got harsher treatment because he committede a greater breach of security than any other spy in modern history?
aybe because the information he sold caused huge damage and expense to the security of the US?
Need there be any other reason?
"Rather than try to come up with some nefarious plot against jews.."
Is this what it's all about?
"Rather than try to come up with some nefarious plot against jews.."
Is this what it's all about?
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Yes Israel's greatest ally and supporter did not punish Pollard for treason and selling secrets of national security at all or because he exposed US spies, communication systems etc etc but they actually imprisoned him because he was Jewish.
"Need there be any other reason?"
What reasons, there are only questions.
Do you think Robert Hansson caused more or less damage?
Till then, he sits in cold storage. Naked, apparently, if we believe his defenders.
Do you think Hansson should have recieved the piddling sentence he got?
I don't.
If you were arguing for an increase in his sentence I would agree with you but it seems you are saying that traitors should only recieve a decade or so behind bars for betraying and damaging their country.
The damage both these men did should not be rewarded with early release or compassion of any kind.
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