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To: af_vet_1981
He enraged enough people in the INTEL community and the Bush Administration that they manipulated or influenced the judge after the plea agreement.

Considering that this was exactly what Pollard was attempting to do by going to the press, for him to complain about it now smacks of the rankest hypocrisy. Jonathan Pollard opened that particular can of worms all by himself. The fact that it didn't work out quite the way he planned does not cause me to feel a surge of pity for him. Nor does it, I think, among most people.

His sentence should not have been padded because he is an American Jew who spied for Israel, nor should people single him out for scorn and ridicule for the same reason.

Again, you have yet to present anything other than innuendo and speculation to support this contention. Nobody is going to take this charge seriously until that changes - there are plenty of real injustices in the world to worry about without spending time railing against injustices that, so far, appear wholly imaginary.

82 posted on 09/08/2003 9:51:19 AM PDT by general_re (Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?)
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To: general_re
You know exactly what Pollard was attempting to do by going to the press but consider it innuendo and speculation what Weinberger, et. al. were attempting to do by going to the press and the judge.

You yourself admitted that he received an unusually harsh sentence for the crime he was charged and convicted of. The unique aspect of his case, which infuriates certain people to this day, is that he is an American Jew that spied for Israel.

83 posted on 09/08/2003 1:28:11 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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