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17. How about some comparison?

Reply to maximillian1974 (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 26, 2013, 01:42 PM

Dec 2013

Both Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen were sentenced to life. Just like Pollard.

They spied for an enemy - the Soviet Union - while Pollard spied for a friend, Israel (DU definition of this friendship notwithstanding).

And Ames and Hanssen compromised our operations in the Soviet Union, resulting in executing of our agents.

No one was executed because of Pollard.

Somehow it was a personal vendetta by Caspar Weinberger.

Either way, if Ames and Hanssen were sentenced to life, than Pollard has long paid his dues.

We do believe in releasing people after they've paid their dues, don't we?

Obama recently commuted the sentence of individuals who were sentenced to harsh prison terms for using crack cocaine - and many of us accept the fact that it is disproportionately harsh, compared to "just" smoking cocaine.

The same rationale holds here.

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um....probably because he was found guilty of spying.... maximillian1974 Dec 2013 #1

Yeah... "Spying allegations?" There was a conviction, it's not allegations Scootaloo Dec 2013 #2

He pleaded guilty! alcibiades_mystery Dec 2013 #8

Perhaps billhicks76 Dec 2013 #3

Actually, they traded much of that information to the Soviet Union rpannier Dec 2013 #11

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If Israel is our friend.. sendero Dec 2013 #23

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Blather away.. sendero Dec 2013 #29

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Pollard is up for parole in 2015. Israel gave the info to Russia so it ended up in the same place okaawhatever Dec 2013 #24

And you know this, how? question everything Dec 2013 #28

A couple of excerpts from his history: okaawhatever Dec 2013 #36

Israel isn't a friend anasv Dec 2013 #38

The usual grandstanding to create great noise ... BlueMTexpat Dec 2013 #4

the reign of Raygun the Irreproachable.! lunatica Dec 2013 #16

Its more than just being eligible for parole grantcart Dec 2013 #18

Pollard is extremely lucky that he wasn't executed as a traitor LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #5

Will you hold the same opinion about Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen? question everything Dec 2013 #19

I question whether Israel is really a friend nt LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #20

This is obvious. Which means you are incapable of posting balanced opinion on this matter (nt) question everything Dec 2013 #21

So you can call yourself "question everything" LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #22

Pollard is still a traitor. hrmjustin Dec 2013 #34

As long as you want to execute traitors question everything Dec 2013 #31

Let's be accurate here LiberalEsto Dec 2013 #33

Snowden and Manning are heroes anasv Dec 2013 #39

The article states thast Pollard is an Israeli prisoner azurnoir Dec 2013 #6

Fuck him sideways alcibiades_mystery Dec 2013 #7

Maybe he'll get paroled in 2015. Thirty years is a long time. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 #9

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Let's trade him.......... 4bucksagallon Dec 2013 #25

The president won't and should not pardon him. Let him take his chances with parole. hrmjustin Dec 2013 #26

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So are they letting Mordechai Vanunu leave Israel? 24601 Dec 2013 #37