[Cachelot]

we don't normally have the foreign entitities who benefitted from the spy's treachery so shamelessly lobbying the U.S. government on the convicted spy's behalf

Of course we have. How do you think the not uncommon exchanges of jailed spies come about? By telepathy?

What is rather uncommon in the Pollard case is the sort of strange verbiage you just engaged in: "shamelessly lobbying" and similar.

[wimpycat]

It's not "strange" verbiage. I don't mince words. You're shameless in your support of a convicted spy who betrayed the U.S. The conduct is worthy of shame, and yet you apparently don't care.

I'm an American, and I don't take kindly to those who sell my country down the river...or to those who defend those who sell my country down the river. I don't care who it is, I don't care how many people didn't die, I don't care how "harmless" some people seem to believe it is.

I'm confident that most Americans and most FReepers see it my way rather than your way. Which is why I always like to remind St. Pollard's accolytes of a few certain facts. Pollard will die in his U.S. prison cell because the American people would flay alive any U.S. President who did anything to change that outcome. Even Clinton knew better than to cross that line, as tempting as it may have been for him at the time. You don't have to like it. But if you don't realize that that's the way it's going to be, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.