No, it does not mitigate the damage. There is no justification for treason. Whatever your pet cause is, treason is still deserving of the death penalty. Your hero got off easy, so quit whining about him not getting extra privileges.
“Whatever your pet cause is, treason is still deserving of the death penalty. “
Name the other spies you want the death penalty for.
See. You’re focused on this particular one for a reason. It’s creepy.
Also creepy...your moral equivalency to equate Pollard with Spies of enemy states whose actions resulted in deaths.
I notice that you keep using the word treason in reference, I assume, to the crime that Jonathan Pollard confessed to. I'm wondering: Do you have your own special definition of treason?
Here's what it says in the United States Constitution:
Article III, Section 3. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.Note especially the word only. Please let us know whether you think Polllard levied war against the United States; or if he adhered to one of our enemies; or gave aid and comfort to one of our enemies. Words mean things. Pollard was a spy. He did not commit treason.
ML/NJ