He’s a traitor to the United States and he can rot right there.
I think the last jew to be put in genpop was Irv Rubin and he committed suicide by launching himself off the upper level onto the floor below at least a 20ft headfirst dive. It was such an ugly scene that an officer described it on one of those NatGeo “locked Up” shows as the worst thing he has witnessed in 20 years. So careful what you wish for this holiday season, which seems to be when the Pollard is a hero threads get posted.
He committed espionage.
It doesn’t matter if he did it for altruistic reasons (i.e. - he wanted to help Israel).
He was in a position of responsibility and chose to betray his nation.
The only reason he’s not doing life in prison (like Aldrich Ames and Richard Hanssen) is because Israel was an ally and the secrets he revealed didn’t rise to level of those Hanssen and Ames gave away.
Pollard should have been executed.
If for no other reason than were the tratorous bachelor’s child dead, we would not have whining articles about ‘poor, ickle, Pollard’ befouling the Internet.
Execute him now - spare my gag reflex.
Pollard got US spies killed
All for a few bucks
He is lucky he is still breathing
This is a game too folks, you HAVE TO show that if you are caught spying it will not be good. You also have to do everything possible (on the other side) to retrieve your caught spies- otherwise no one will be willing to do that kind of work.
Real spies KNOW this and have to be willig to sacrifice their lives for their country. This is why countries willingly ‘trade’ captured spies. they are both anctious to find out what was given over to the other side. Very complex game.
Slimy weasels selling out their countryman for a few buck don’t know this and suffer- and the more the better, I say.
Did you enjoy those fancy vacations and nice home Pollard? Were you happy living there knowing some one may have been tortured to death thanks to you? I hope you rot.
“Terry Anderson, who was put into solitary by Hezbollah in Lebanon for six years. Anderson “felt himself disintegrating”; “
So they are comparing a man who woke up every day wondering if someone would shove a camera in his face and chop his head off to a man that is essentially living at a Motel 6 with every need provided for him including cable tv, three squares a day and a doctor on call 24 hours a day?
“Why is this man still in jail?”
Because he wasn’t executed.
Sympathy card does not seem to have been effective.
Some people hate all spies (except Nathan Hale of course), and insist that all spies should be executed.
Other people confuse spies with traitors (they’ve never read the US Constitution it seems).
Other people still buy Aldrich Ames cover story that Caspar Weinberger fed to the judge in the Pollard case.
Other people hate Jews.
Other people hate Israel because of the 1967 Liberty accident (which they insist was no accident).
Other people say they like Israel, but resent its “control over Congress”.
Other people are covert Muslims (I wonder who?).
Add them all up, and Pollard has drawn the short straw. He’s the whipping boy for all of the above, and some I may have overlooked.
Why is he in jail?
Because that’s what happens to spys.
The dude should be thankful he didn’t get what he deserved....the death penalty.
I am perfectly OK with giving him Bradley Manning as his cellie/prison bitch.
Bunch of morons chiming in to defend Pollard.
I’m calling IBTZ, just in case.
Pollard is a Rorschach test.
He sold some classified US intelligence to Israel. He aided Israel in fighting Israel’s and America’s enemies.
He violated US laws and he was rightfully convicted.
But he has been punished way above what he- and anyone similarly situated- deserved.
Weinberger- ashamed of his Jewish roots- railroaded Pollard. Pollard, in helping Israel, aided American aims. Saved American lives in Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom.
Pollard has served a sufficient time.
He didn’t harm the US.
Any decent person- and that excludes vicious anti Semites- know he has been imprisoned enough.
So I guess you scrubbed the Pollard thread from last night because more than one side was contributing to the “flamewar?”
So I guess you scrubbed the Pollard thread from last night because more than one side was contributing to the “flamewar?”
“Is Pollard Caspar Weinberger’s Revenge on the Jews”
No, just one of Aldrich Ames many crimes against the USA.
Pollard is still luckier than ten of our agents who Ames got killed.