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Pollard, Jonathan
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Who is Jonathan Pollard?
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Why is Pollard still in prison?
- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: FREE POLLARD NOW!
TIME TO END THE ABUSE AND INJUSTICE
By Bernard J. Shapiro
The Freeman Center for Strategic StudiesAt this time I am not going to review the whole Pollard case. I would just like to clarify a few issues and raise a few questions. About twice a month I receive an envelope from Jonathan Pollard (prisoner #09185-016) direct from his cell at a federal prison in North Carolina. In it are copies of all the letters and articles written about his case in last few weeks. I have been getting these letters for about 5 years and my file now contains more than 1000 documents.
What has become obvious to me as I study the case, is that there are significant changes in the reason for keeping Pollard in prison. In the beginning there was rage on the part of then Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger. His plan to keep vital security information from Israel had been thwarted by a loyal American Jew who could not stomach another Holocaust. Then Pollard was kept in prison to prevent him from telling the American people the truth about his actions and about the torture he suffered at the hands of his cruel jailers.
Today, there is a new obstacle to Pollard's release. I believe, there are people in the State Department and the White House who are literally holding Pollard hostage to force concessions from Israel during the final status talks with Arafat. Arafat is reported to have told Clinton, during one of their private conversations, that Pollard should not be released until the Israelis agree to a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Pollard was guilty of violating U.S. law, for which he has spent more time in jail than anyone else guilty of a similar crime. His human rights were brutally violated and he was tortured in a psychiatric facility for nine months (against U.S. law). He has now become a political prisoner and hostage. Enough is enough, the Freeman Center respectfully pleads: FREE POLLARD NOW!
- POLITICAL PRISONERS WASHINGTON STYLE
It appears that there is a double standard present in our Justice system. Simply put, you can avoid life imprisonment for spying for our former cold war adversary, the Russians(Soviet Union) if you plea bargain with the U.S. attorney and the government at their desecration declares the stolen information not top secret. However if you spy for an American ally(Israel), and if there is a deep rooted hatred by Government officials for Jews you get life. Unfortunately these Jew haters can get away with it as they know that other Jews in the Government get to be in the employ of Washington by acquiescence and feelings of insecurity if they act too Jewish. Eleven years ago Judge Audrey Robinson, at the urging of our then Secretary of Defense, Casper Wineberger whispered some poison cloaked in the pretense of security into Judge Robinson's ears that broke the U.S Attorneys plea bargain with Johnathan Pollard. Let me make it clear, Pollard deserved a stiff sentence as befits anyone who breaks our country's espionage laws deserve. Usually the sentence is mitigated if the accused is spying for a non adversary. This was the case of an Egyptian engineer who was sentenced for stealing rocket/missile secrets for the Egyptian government. The engineer was sentenced to 8 years, which means he's already out on parole. Wineberger noted for his intense dislike of Israel (self loathing? as he had a Jewish Grandfather), for the illegal drugs for arms deal in Nicaragua, and for his gross negligence in the Marine deployment in Lebanon that resulted in the slaughter of over 400 marines in the Beirut fiasco, knew he had a ready ally with Robinson a Afro-American judge. The story about Israel's secret military cooperation with South Africa had broke just before the sentencing date so the Judge's mood & race is relevant to the facts. For those of you that missed this travesty, Casper had perjured himself before Congress on the Iran-Contra deal and was about to be indicted in 1992(Bush pardoned him). It would seem in retrospect that a judicial intervention by a known perjurer & liar should be enough evidence to have the judge retroactively recuse him self from the case. Therefore re sentencing by another judge is in order.
Lets zoom to the present. On 1 March, 1997, former FBI Earl Pitts avoids life imprisonment for spying for Russia. The assistant US attorney said Pitts had given the Ruskies only' secret' information or that's what FBI investigators said(why was the FBI allowed to investigate one of their own buddies and not an independent group?) This claimed the mealy mouthed US Attorney is valid as this calls for more lenient punishment under federal sentencing guidelines. Please note this supposed sentencing correlation between selling secret versus top secret information. Because a few days later(march 3rd) the government completely contradicted itself when a former CIA headmaster, Harold J. Nicholson, called a "patriot" by his defense attorney, pleaded guilty to selling "TOP SECRET", files to Russia in front of Judge James Cacheris. This plea bargain was arranged by US Attorney Helen Fahey who apparently though working in the same office as the Earl Pitts US attorney doesn't read the same office guidelines. She recommended 23 years and a fine. THIS FLAGRANT CONTRADICTION OF IT'S SUPPOSED SENTENCING GUIDELINES SHOWS THE HYPOCRISY OF THE US GOVERNMENT ON THIS ISSUE.
The only sentencing guideline is whether the defendant is Jewish period!!!!!!!! For the sake of even handed justice FREE Jonathan Pollard now. Tell your President "pres@whitehouse.gov" to do it.
Why is the Jewish community relatively silent on this issue?
- Last, but certainly not least, is the Pollard affair and the
failure of American Jews to recognize that what they were witnessing,
100 years after the Dreyfus affair, was America's pillorying of a Jew
because he is Jewish.
The apparent embarrassment and desire to dissociate from Jonathan Pollard that was apparent among American Jews, testifies to the basic insecurity that is still felt by them; moreover, the fact that the American Jewish community protested neither America's failure to fill its commitment to convey needed information to Israel, nor the disproportionate and unprecedented punishment meted out to Pollard, indicate, sadly, that Jewish "Uncle Tom"ism is widely operative.
Insecurity, however, is not entirely an intrapersonal problem, for it often becomes manifest as a lack of self-confidence - a lack of confidence that is sufficiently obvious to be detrimental in interactions with others in the social, economic, and international arenas.
- from The Ultimate Enemy - Jews Against Jews, by Netta Cohen Dor-Shav, at the Ariel Center for Policy Research
- RELATED SECTIONS:
Democracy, Antisemitism, Galut Mentality, Zionism, Israel
- WWW RESOURCES:
- BOOKS & PRINTED MATERIAL:
- Pollard: The Spy's Story, by Bernard R. Henderson
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case, by Elliot Goldenberg, Alan M. Dershowitz
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - Miscarriage of Justice: The Jonathan Pollard Story, by Mark Shaw
[VIEW BOOK HERE] - The Spy Who Knew Too Much: The Government Plot to Silence Jonathan Pollard, by Elliot Goldenberg
[VIEW BOOK HERE]
- Pollard: The Spy's Story, by Bernard R. Henderson
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