Posted on 12/13/2013 9:56:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Cicero said it best:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Pollard shouldn’t be treated any differently than other spies. They should all get life sentences (or a rope).
Obviously you miss the point. It was about bias and discrimination, as well as the destination for the material secrets.
Jews and Israel = triple time and still running.
Anybody/Anywhere else = 6 years.
This is a mental and conceptual pathology, not becoming to America, toward the Jews, for harder punishment.
No, you missed my point. Spies are spies, period. A spy from a foreign nation is bad enough. An American spying for a foreign country is both a spy and a traitor. All should be subject to the fullest punishment.
No reason Pollard should get a break because he was working for Israel. Ask anyone who was on the Liberty in 1967 how they feel about it.
Ask anyone who liberated Auschwitz how they feel about Bobby Ray Inman unilaterally withholding information from Israel that was theirs by treaty in retaliation for the destruction of the Osirak facility.
Addendum to my post #2.
Far too many State Department trough feeders are treasonous Arabists and should have been tried and executed.
his only chance of early release is through a Presidential grant of clemency.
Sounds like a carrot, looks like a carrot, maybe
J F’n K offered it to Israel?
This Pollard BS comes up here every once in a blue moon.
He was not simply spying for Israel. He sold info to South Africa and also attempted to see his info to Pakistan.
The information he was selling was some of the most acute information, including the top secret warfighting codes used by the United States.
Manipulating this as a Jewish discrimination issue is infantile and no better than Obama counting on the ignorance of the electorate.
Find that quote, buster. It isn’t there from any keyboard of mine.
The article addresses discrimination in punishment against Jews compared to all others. So did I. I didn’t like it. It stinks. Comprende?
Bump.
Compare, instead of empty posturing. How many Soviet spies got the treatment that Pollard received? How many Soviet/Cuban agents of influence have been jailed? Our institutions have been taken over by overt Communists and useful idiots. it’s been happening since the 1930s.
Pollard deserved a prison sentence, but 28 years, and still no end in sight, is completely unjust.
Let him go, Barack, even though you hate Israel and Jews, do the right thing.
According to their article, Pollard is eligible for parole in 23 months.
I agree! So, if the average prison term meted out to other spies runs from four to seven years, and the average time served in prison is two to four years, why is Pollard still in prison? The point is NOT what is a fair sentencing for someone found out to be spying, but being consistent when sentencing different individuals.
Source?
Allies spy on each other all the time and when caught usually get a slap on the wrist. Pollard's extremely disproportionate sentence is for no other reason than to make him an example for all Jews and their dreaded "dual loyalty."
Jews and Israel = triple time and still running.
Anybody/Anywhere else = 6 years.
This is a mental and conceptual pathology, not becoming to America, toward the Jews, for harder punishment.
You get it. Thank you.
Ask anyone who was on the Liberty in 1967 how they feel about it.
Ask anyone who liberated Auschwitz how they feel about Bobby Ray Inman unilaterally withholding information from Israel that was theirs by treaty in retaliation for the destruction of the Osirak facility.
YES!!!
Unfortunately Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians. I think it was Buchenwald that was liberated by us.
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