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I read a book a few years back called Crime and Punishment in American History. The author was quite successful in putting our criminal justice system in a different light. Things, like adultery, that in colonial times would have you in the stocks on the town square are not considered public issues today. I'm sure our drug laws will seem similarly absurd. What gets you sainthood in Rome gets you burned at the stake in Burgundy. If Pollard had been nabbed in wartime, he would have been executed for something that would get him the Israeli equivelent of a ticker-tape parade.
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