[SJackson]

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[F16Fighter]

Arlene Peck: "Might they [the Hollywood left] possibly want to film a television show about the disgraceful imprisonment of Johnathon Pollard?

You're right Arlene -- mere "imprisonment" is disgraceful. Pollard ought to have been executed as a spy against the United States of America, and thus a TRAITOR...

There is NO such thing as "dual citizenship."

[Sparta]

Pollard shouldn't be in prison, he should be swinging from an oak tree by his neck.

[LarryM]

This one really brought out the Hitler crowd. Pollard was never charged with espionage or treason--just passing classified documents to an ally. This charge usually results in sentances from no jail time to three years maximum. Because Pollard is a Jew who exposed US Government perfidity in supplying Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons--he is the object of Nazi-like hatred.

[Carry_Okie]

I wonder when the mental institutions will be opening their doors and letting the loonies roam free.

It's already been done. I literally thought that this article would be about "mainstreaming" the mentally ill. During the 1960s, liberal activists sued the State of California for retaining certain classes of the mentally ill in institutions. A judge (I don't recall if it was State or Federal) ordered them released and then Governor Reagan had to do it. The left then blamed him mercilessly for "throwing them out of the institutions and onto the street" to this day.

That class of people is the primary source of the homeless problem today.

[Stavka2]

I used to tell them that they had to be products of mixed marriages.

Ok, now that's a damned racist statement.

[JeeperFreeper]

And the reason that many on the left don't want to open the asylums anymore than they have is the liberals don't want the inmates to compete with them for party and elected positions.

[tictoc]

Posting a Pollard article on FreeRepublic is tantamount to a death wish :-)

Certainly he shouldn't be executed, not when far worse spies like Aldrich Ames are still breathing air.

But I find it difficult to work up much enthusiasm for seeing him as a martyr. After all, he took money for violating his oath of secrecy.