SEEDS OF FIRE ( RE:ISRAELI SPY POLLARD)

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[DreamWeaver]

You wanna bet Pollard will soon be enjoying the luxury of freedom ???

[BrooklynGOP]

Comparison of Pollard's Sentence With Others

Comparison of Pollard's Sentence With Others

The following tables show how grossly disproportionate the life sentence meted out to Jonathan Pollard is when compared with the sentences given to others who commited similar offences by spying for allied nations.

Pollard's life sentence is also disproportionate even when compared to the sentences of those who committed far more serious offences by spying for enemy nations.

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Table I: American Allies

• Jonathan Pollard is the only person in the history of the United States to receive a life sentence for spying for an American ally.
• On November 21, 2001, Pollard entered the 17th year of his life sentence, with no end in sight.
• The maximum sentence today for such an offence is 10 years.
• The median sentence for this offence is 2 to 4 years.

Name	Country Spied For	Sentence/Punishment	Time Served Before Release*
Jonathan Pollard	Israel	Life imprisonment
Michael Schwartz	Saudi Arabia	Discharged from Navy	No time served.
Peter Lee	China	1 year in halfway house	No jail time.
Samuel Morison	Great Britain	2 years	3 months
Phillip Selden	El Salvador	2 years
Steven Baba	South Africa	8 years; reduced to 2 years	5 months
Sharon Scranage	Ghana	5 years; reduced to 2 years	8 months
Jean Baynes	Phillipines	41 months	15 months
Abdul Kader Helmy	Egypt	4 years	2 years
Geneva Jones	Liberia	37 months
Frederick Hamilton	Ecuador	37 months
Joseph Brown	Phillipines	6 years
Michael Allen	Phillipines	8 years
Robert Kim	South Korea	9 years
Thomas Dolce	South Africa	10 years	5.2 years
Steven Lalas	Greece	14 years

* Time served before release is shown where known. Other cases of early release exist.

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Table II: American Enemies

Jonathan Pollard spied for an American ally. This chart shows that Pollard's life sentence is far harsher than most of the sentences received by those who spied for enemies, and thereby committed much more serious offences and treason.

Name	Country Spied For	Sentence	Time Served Before Release*
James Wood	Soviet Union	2 years
Sahag Dedyan	Soviet Union	3 years
Randy Jeffries	Soviet Union	3-9 years
Amarylis Santos	Cuba	3½ years
Joseph Santos	Cuba	4 years
Mariano Faget	Cuba	5 years
Brian Horton	Soviet Union	6 years
Alejandro Alonso	Cuba	7 years
William Bell	Poland	8 years
Alfred Zoho	East Germany	8 years
Nikolay Ogarodnikova	Soviet Union	8 years
Francis X. Pizzo	Soviet Union	10 years
Daniel Richardson	Soviet Union	10 years
Ernst Forbich	East Germany	15 years
William Whalen	Soviet Union	15 years
Edwin Moore	Soviet Union	15 years
Troung Dinh Ung	North Vietnam	15 years
Ronald Humphrey	North Vietnam	15 years
Kurt Alan Stand	East Germany	17½ years
Robert Lipka	Soviet Union	18 years
David Barnett	Soviet Union	18 years
Svetlana Ogarodnikova	Soviet Union	18 years
Albert Sombolay	Iraq & Jordan	19 years
Richard Miller	Soviet Union	20 years	6 years
Theresa Maria Squillacote	East Germany	21.8 years
Sarkis Paskallan	Soviet Union	22 years
Harold Nicholson	Soviet Union	23 years
David Boone	Soviet Union	24 years
Clayton Lonetree	Soviet Union	25 years	9 years
Michael Walker	Soviet Union	25 years	15 years
Bruce Ott	Soviet Union	25 years
Kelly Warren	Hungary & Czechoslovakia	25 years
Earl Pitts	Soviet Union	27 years
H.W. Boachanhaupi	Soviet Union	30 years
Roderick Ramsay	Hungary & Czechoslovakia	36 years
James Hall	Soviet Union & East Germany	40 years
Christopher Boyce	Soviet Union	40 years
William Kampiles	Soviet Union	40 years	19 years
Veldik Enger	Soviet Union	50 years
R.P. Charnyayev	Soviet Union	50 years
Marian Zacharski	Poland	Life	4 years
Aldrich Ames	Soviet Union	Life

* Time served before release is shown where known. Other cases of early release exist.

Aldrich Ames: A Case In Point

Aldrich Ames who spied for an enemy nation (the Soviet Union), committed treason, and was responsible for the deaths of at least 11 American agents, received the same sentence as Jonathan Pollard. Pollard's only indictment was one count of passing classified information to an ally. Pollard spent 7 years in solitary confinement, in the harshest unit of the harshest prison in the Federal system - FCI Marion.

Aldrich Ames' treatment was far more benign, and (except for a relatively short period of time during debriefing) did not include the rigours of long years of solitary; nor was he ever subjected to the harsh conditions of "K" Unit at Marion - even though his offence was far more serious.

See also:
• The Unequal Justice Page
• The Attorneys' Comparative Sentence Chart

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[veronica]

BTTT.

[veronica]

The Abdel Kader Helmy Case

From The House Congressional Record - February 2, 1992

H 212 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE

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[albee]

Why weren't the sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg included in your analysis?

[Seruzawa]

Why weren't the sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg included in your analysis?

C'mon, get with the program. This is how "research" is done these days. Any data that don't support the preconceived outcome are thrown out. Haven't you been following the "research" results of such stellar institutions as the American Charlatan.... er, I mean Psychological Association? Sheesh.

A brutal fact is that every nation spies on every other nation it can. If you get caught then it's just your tough luck. I say execute more of the traitors.

[ASTM366]

Pollard worked for the murderous country who shot up the USS Liberty.

The US Navy Intelligence Service doesn't forget.

Polllard - Rot in prison you pig.

[dennisw]

All this is true but the mention of his name at FR just brings a lot of cursing and foul language.

[SJackson]

All this is true but the mention of his name at FR just brings a lot of cursing and foul language.

LOL oe's that. There's obviously a disparity in the sentences. Personally, I think the problem is the light sentences given out to the rest of Table I.

Haven't been to this site lately. It's funny, people must spent the day looking for an anti-Israel (in their opinion, I don't think this is) sandwiched between Eisenhower's Holocaust,Allied War Crimes And Crimes Against Humanity 1945-1950,Eisenhower's German POW Death Camps - A US Guard's Story ,One Million German POWs Killed After WWII By US And France and A Very Strange Creature Encountered In Villa San Rafael, Chile

This story is a publishers press release. Do you think UPI actually wrote any of this.

[DreamWeaver]

A brutal fact is that every nation spies on every other nation it can.

True, however, the ( spying)nation does not continually put pressure for their spy's release,once they are tried and convicted.

[SJackson]

True, however, the ( spying)nation does not continually put pressure for their spy's release,once they are tried and convicted.

Sure they do, we do the same thing, sometimes successfully.

[BenF]

True, however, the ( spying)nation does not continually put pressure for their spy's release,once they are tried and convicted.

No, they have exchanges of spies. Now, unless you naively believe that the US doesn't spy on Israel or that Israelis are so stupid that they've never caught an American spy, something else is going on.

That being said, I have no problem with Pollard staying in jail the rest of his life. My problem is that, unlike other "patriots" in these threads who are so concerned about America, I refuse to dismiss the concerns of my fellow Americans who feel that the Pollard case is unique for a variety of reasons. I feel that these concerns need to be dealt with to preserve the integrity of American Justice. Evidently, the other "patriots" do not have a problem with our system of Justice being questioned. Some even feel that they have the right to question the loyalty of any American who dares impugn that there was anti-Semitism involved in the Pollard case, but it appears to me that these "patriots" lack the simple courage and faith in our justice system to answer the detractors. They simply dismiss them. To me, that's not patriotism. It's cowardice.

[BenF]

I say execute more of the traitors.

You're not a great believer in law, are you?

[BenF]

Pollard worked for the murderous country who shot up the USS Liberty.

At the risk of hijacking this thread, why did they shoot up the Liberty?

[Blade]

That disgusting slime Pollard should be executed for treason, and the FBI should investigate anyone that advocates his release from prison.

[Blade]

Who put together your spin sheet? They forgot to list Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Interesting.

[BrooklynGOP]

Spin? I merely posted a list of spies.

[Blade]

The list is incomplete and irrelevant. It omits the Rosenbergs, two Jews interestingly enough, and it doesn't say much about the amount of damage caused by these spies, or how that was factored into the length of the sentences.

[dennisw]

This is the website it's from:

http://www.jonathanpollard.org/sentences.htm