Kim Philby is my main role model. What a guy. What is your opinion on traitors? Should prison sentances be given to double agents?
2006-08-05 11:26:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
How fuckin' hardcore would you have to be to do that?
2006-08-05 11:33:01 · update #1
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2006-08-05 11:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by pontiac61231 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Traitors in my opinion they deserve the firing squad. Sentences; the firing squad just like they gave those poor conscientious objectors during the Great War and WW2. I think no more ought be said on such a complicated issue. After all the buck had to stop somewhere. Just as the buck stopped with Lord Prufumo when he was implicated in the Christine Keeler scandal. He was an innocent man that was used as a scapegoat to cover up the misdemeanours of others.
2006-08-05 11:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm - more questions here than I know what to do with. Is more like a dissertation title!!!! Not sure why you have Mr Philby as your main role model however, there is no doubt that many of his qualities were incredibly admirable.
My problem is your next question - opinion on traitors - that is so emotive and not entirely specific to Mr Philby and his merry band who I myself have many questions as to who in the end they were really working for as I dont believe for one moment everything is out in the open. My personal views on this make me question the appropriatness of the term traitor.
Further more, many double agents back then were in fact not even stopping there but working under highly secret cover under threat from one or more government. So its not really a simple question. And i dont think I have answered it!!
2006-08-05 11:33:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually liked the Soviet Union when I was a kid. There was a kind of thrill being supportive of the Communists and their battle with the US. (Good guy, Bad guy kind of thing).
Communism in its' purest form looks very ideal, and has lofty goals and I think Philby as an intellectual, was attracted to this.
As I grew older, I realised that Communism was just that, something nice on paper, but impractical and incompatible with the modern world. Many people suffered tremendously under the yoke of communist rule, not just in the Soviet Union, but even today, in China, North Korea and Cuba.
I don't think being a traitor to your country, can be described in any for other than, an act of complete betrayal. You may not like certain things your country does, perhaps sometimes you suffered some injustices, but you should never use that as an excuse, to support other nations or organisations bent on destroying the very fabric of your nation.
Do not mistake this betrayal with the fight for liberty and freedom over a corrupt and oppressive rule, as in the case of apartheid in South Africa or even today's Iraq. (Saddam was butcher, WMD or no).
For Philby to sell out his country (on certain issues), to an enemy sworn to destroy and compel the British Isles to communist rule, was an act of utmost treachery.
In one fell swoop, he undid all the good he had acheived.
The penalty for treason varies, death should never be ruled out, but a life behind bars should be the gneral standard.
2006-08-05 14:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It amazes me that someone could live inside MI6 as a foreign agent, for years. Talk about icewater in his veins!!
Remember the 50s show "I Led Three Lives"?
2006-08-05 11:31:01 · answer #5 · answered by helixburger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who? If he is a traitor, he should be in prison, at least.
2006-08-05 11:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hang the muthas
2006-08-05 11:30:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah....definitely. Treason should also be a crime punishable by death.
2006-08-05 11:52:59 · answer #8 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋