The European Parliament Resolution on Jonathan Pollard
September 16, 1993

The European Parliament,

1. noting that Jonathan Pollard, then of the US Navy, was convicted in 1985 of passing classified information to Israel concerning the military activities of Iraq, Syria and other Middle Eastern nations,

2. noting also that the information dealt with the chemical, biological and nuclear arms build- up in these countries and that Pollard considered he had a moral duty to warn Israel of the developing massive threat to its security and to the lives of its people,

3. whereas Pollard has expressed remorse for his action,

4. whereas Pollard, who was not accused of treason, or of intending to harm the US, pleaded guilty under a plea bargain, and was thus convicted and sentenced, without a full trial, to life imprisonment, despite the Government’s promise not to seek such a penalty,

5. noting that the sentence imposed on Pollard was grossly disproportionate to those imposed on others by US courts for supplying information to a friendly power (normally from two to four years),

6. shocked that most of Pollard’s eight years in prison should have been spent in solitary confinement and underground,

7. astonished that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, described by one of his Under-Secretaries for Defense as having had ‘an almost visceral dislike of Israel’, should have sent a message to the trial judge, one hour before the sentencing hearing, asking for the stiffest possible sentence commensurate with Pollard’s ‘treasonous’ (sic) behavior,

8. noting however that Mr. Weinberger stated recently that he thought it was time that Mr. Pollard should be released; aware that Christian and Jewish organizations throughout the world have pleaded for the harsh sentence of life imprisonment to be commuted and that Judge Steve Williams wrote, in a dissenting opinion to an appellate court finding, that ‘the government’s conduct in this case resulted in a ‘complete miscarriage of justice’,

1. Urges the US Administration to commute Pollard’s sentence to one of time served and to release him immediately;

2. Calls on EPC to intercede with the US government with this end in view;

3. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, EPC and the Government of the United States.

Voted almost unanimously on 16th September 1993.
See Also:

* Euro-Parliament Adopts British MEP’s Motion Urging Pollard Release
* U.S. City and State Resolutions
* The Calls for Pollard’s Release Page

http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1993/091693.htm

POLLARD’S “SIN”: HE PERMITTED ISRAEL TO ACT IN ITS DEFENSE

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24659
September 26, 2001
Terror in the U.S. and the Jonathan Pollard case

By Larry Dub
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com

“… thanks to Jonathan Pollard, Israel was ready with gas masks and sealed rooms when Iraq attacked her during the Gulf War…

The usual sentence for spying for an ally is 2-4 years…

Indeed, the Government’s own Victim Impact Statement (VIS), which was submitted to the court prior to sentencing indicated that Pollard’s greatest “sin” was that by giving Israel vital security information which permitted the Jewish state to act in its own defense, he had made Israel “too strong” and thus angered America’s “moderate” Arab allies…”

But… but…

It was a Republican’s DOJ that went after these guys. It was a Democrat’s DOJ that dropped the case. It was a Republican’s DOJ that was involved in prosecutorial misconduct regarding Senator Stevens. It was a Democrat’s DOJ that dropped the case and is pointing to the misconduct.

There are lots of good reasons not to vote for Obama… this particular issue doesn’t seem to be one of them.

Over a century ago, in a world less politically correct, a newly appointed New York police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt made no bones about the fact that the New York police force was too Irish and too Catholic. Hence, inevitably, corrupt.

Roosevelt came to be appointed after the Lexow hearings into Police corruption in 1895. The results of the hearings were shocking even to the most cynical and callous New Yorkers. Every policeman on the force from the commissioner to the lowest foot patrolman was implicated. There was not a criminal activity the police were not directly involved in. Gambling, drugs and prostitution were police-run enterprises. So rich were the pickings that candidates for the force paid multiples of their annual salaries to be hired and larger multiples still to be promoted.

Tammany was swept out in the next election and the Dutch and English Protestant elites retook control of the city. Roosevelt was appointed commissioner with a mandate to clean up the police force. He immediately began recruiting Jewish cops. “Strong young Jews of the Macabee type” is what TR said he was looking for.

Papism and Popery are forgotten expressions today but they were common in TR’s time. The Draft Riots of the Civil War, when treasonous Irish Catholics, 70,000 strong, raised Confederate flags over New York and beat, raped, tortured, lynched, burned and mutilated black people in the single worst racial outrage in the nation’s history were still fresh. TR’s prejudices were well founded.

In WWI German Americans, especially German Catholics, sided with the Kaiser, fulminated against the British and did everything they could to keep America out of the war. In WWII, German Americans, almost exclusively Catholic, formed Bunds and wrapped themselves patriotically in the American flag while supporting Hitler and the Nazis. After Pearl Harbor, their leaders were arrested and charged with treason. But the rank and file, alas, weren’t rounded up and put into internment camps like the Japanese. That’s racism.

Search American history and you will not find any record of organized Jewish treason against the United States. Jews don’t belong to secret societies with foreign allegiances like Opus Dai as Robert Hanssen did. They don’t hold Church-based knighthoods like Pat Lang.

I have two suggestions for the counterintelligence community: First, open a dictionary and look up the word “intelligence.” Michael Scheuer doesn’t have any. You don’t have to hear or read Scheuer to know he’s stupid. His crew-cut head, bovine expression and tweedy jacket should be enough. I’ve only seen him on television so I haven’t seen his pipe but I’m sure he smokes one. He’s a textbook behema. A beeve on the hoof.

When someone makes as many mistakes and damages American security as much as David Szady, fire him. The Robert Hanssen mess clearly demonstrated that intelligence isn’t Szady’s strong suit. The Leung mess confirmed it. Give him a medal and show him the door.

Does anybody at the CIA imagine that Americans sleep better at night knowing that the Plames are manning the ramparts? I can see these two fashion plates riding to hounds in the Virginia hunt country. But intelligence? Station chief and ambassador? Ya gotta be kidding.

Hence, my second suggestion: Borrow a page from Teddy Roosevelt’s book. Clean up your ranks. Medieval Knights and members of secret orders beholden to foreign powers can’t be trusted with national secrets.

There is no shortage of American Jews among the CIA’s intelligence analysts. The NSA is the largest employer of mathematicians in the nation, a significant number of them Hebrews. Switch some of these folks into counterintelligence.

Give the American taxpayer some bang for his defense intelligence dollar for a change.

That is why we hear so little about it anymore. The government keeps getting closed out in what was a politically driven sting operation which has long outgrown its press time and legitimacy.

They cant make the charges stick, so now the lawyers earn their pay.

Spindok

To be sure, the gov’t understands that these men were merely conducting business as usual per lobbyists ALL over Washington. However, the ever present anti-Israel forces in Washington seeks myriad ways to weaken Israel, thereby leading them to its most powerful lobbying group.

In this regard, one of the ways to weaken supporters of Israel is to put out before the world media charges of dual loyalty. In other words, anti-semitism has many shapes and forms, one of which is painting Jews incapable of being loyal to their countries of residence.

So, by tarring the two AIPAC officials with charges of espionage etc, they have accomplished their dual goals-weakening Israel through their outspoken supporters, AND laying the foundation for a fresh round of anti-semitic libels.

The nexus between anti-Israel and anti-semitic behavior is absolutely apparent for those willing to see it, courtesy of these seriously specious charges.