Flood the White House with Phone Calls: Free Pollard Now!

Pollard's sentence is an abomination. Pure anti-semitism. Let's be frank, shall we? If Israel wanted to spy on the US, they wouldn't use a Jewish guy. Helllooooo.

This is Pollard's 24th year in prison. The median sentence for the offense Pollard committed - one count of passing classified information to an ally - is 2 to 4 years. Pollard received his life sentence without a trial, as a result of a plea bargain which he honored and the U.S. government violated.

Flood the White House with Phone Calls: Free Pollard Now!

"I'm calling to register a strong request that President  Bush issue an immediate Pardon to Jonathan Pollard."

Flood the White House with Phone Calls: Free Pollard Now!

On Friday Nov 21st Jonathan Pollard will enter his 24th year in prison.
On Sunday Nov 23rd Ehud Olmert will be meeting with President Bush for the
last time.
On Thursday Nov 27th the American people will celebrate the Thanksgiving
Holiday - a holiday traditionally associated with Presidential clemencies.
Now is the time to call upon the President:
Free Jonathan Pollard!
Call: 202-456 -1111 or 202-456-1414
(Monday to Friday 9AM to 5PM - Eastern DST)
Every phone call is important. Everyone is encouraged to start calling the
White House and to call daily, repeatedly, until Jonathan is home in
Jerusalem, alive and well.

Presidential clemencies are traditionally signed precisely at this time and
prisoners are freed in advance of the holiday to go home to their families
for Thanksgiving. What finer gesture could President Bush make to the People
of Israel when he meets with the PM this coming week? Freedom for Jonathan
Pollard!

Mr. Bush has but 2 months left in office. These two months are a time of
grace, when the out-going president traditionally grants clemencies to
prisoners. There is no legal or moral reason that requires the president to
wait until his last day in office to grant clemency. Call the White House
today! Please, Mr. President, send Jonathan Pollard home!

White House telephone lines are manned from 4 PM
To ensure a faster response, follow the instructions
for "Rotary" telephones regardless!]

"I'm calling to register a strong request that President  Bush issue an immediate Pardon to Jonathan Pollard."

Did know the facts of the case

see comparative sentences

read Did You Know? – a review of the facts

learn about the U.S. court case

see the unequal justice pages

see the organizations and individuals supporting Pollard's release

study the "must-read" articles

Comments

[Zero]

Absolutely, free Pollard! I hope you don't mind I quoted this on my site as well. Bush will almost certainly be pardoning a laundry list of people. One of them might as well be worth while.

FountainheadZero
Free Pollard!

[Davod]

Pollard is still in prison for a couple of reasons.

1. I believe the intelligence he supplied to the Israelis was passed to the Soviets by an Israeli mole. People died because of what Pollard did.

2. The main reason Pollard is still in prison is because Israel is an ally of the US. Otherwise Polard would have been traded.

[clyde]

Spies used to be shot. Or traded for other captured spies.

[Zero]

True, but this man has been held for 24 years without being afforded due process of law. If Jihadis in Gitmo are allowed protection under our constitution, this man is certainly deserving.
Don't give me that garbage about spies being shot, either. Who's going to shoot a spy? You? Are you comfortable having somebody ended on account of information that is questionable at best? I like to think that humanity this side of the globe has evolved beyond summary executions.

[2T3MzooK]

Shoot the judges involved.

[Zero]

Pollard went up the river on a plea bargain which he honored, but the US government hasn't. This one appears to go right to the top. Parole laws in this country have changed substantially since his sentencing, changes which would have led to his release. Somehow, he's kept behind bars and I just don't think that judges have an awful lot to do with it.

[clyde]

The fact that Israel had people spying on the very nation that underwrites it is beyond idiocy in the first place.
As far as the jihadis in Guantanamo, the only mistake made with them was taking them to Guantanamo in the first place, instead of handing them off to the French who are far less queasy about forcible interrogation. At this point, I would favor flying them back to the Middle East, except halfway across opening the door and inviting them to step outside. That would end this crap once and for all.

[Zero]

Sigh. Is this progress? Is this how far the race has come? We should be ok with throwing people out of planes? We should be offing on another?
Live by the sword. Die by the sword.

FountainheadZero
Come to the dark side.