< This was, all in all, a win-win result.
First, when one considers what an appropriate punishment should be for
building weapons for a terrorist state, a few months in solitary
confinement seems about right. Already, according to Amy Goodman,
several
top scientists are considering quitting Los Alamos in protest.
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That's pretty tough.
Imagine Dreyfus, instead of Lee. Was 10 years on Devil's Island appropriate for being a cadre in the armed might of a capitalist, bourgeois state?
If not, maybe 9 months, until J'accuse! is published?
Or, considering that Dr. Lee was employed to develop not just weapons, but nuclear weapons, far worse than just being a captain in the French army, perhaps 10 years on Devil's Island should be right instead of 9 months in solitary confinement?
Just what is the appropriate punishment, someplace between 9 months and 10 years?
Somehow, it seems to me that a serious wrong was done to Dr. Lee, and I don't see much good in that.
-- John K. Taber