Much has been written on YWN about the three Bochrim sitting in a Japan jail facing harsh sentences R%u201DL. The following article appears in this weeks Jewish Press, and was reprinted with their permission:
Much has been written on YWN about the three Bochrim sitting in a Japan jail facing harsh sentences R%u201DL. The following article appears in this weeks Jewish Press, and was reprinted with their permission:
We signed the "SAVE THE JEWISH BOYS JAILED IN JAPAN" petition!
# 354:
1:19 pm PST, Feb 23,Elana Simon, California
Please think of their hearts and souls. They made honest mistakes. Do not crush their spirits by your programs. Release them to their homes and families. Thank you.
# 353:
1:18 pm PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, New York
# 352:
1:04 pm PST, Feb 23,Izzy Kahan, Canada
# 351:
12:22 pm PST, Feb 23,Ari Bromberg, New York
# 350:
12:21 pm PST, Feb 23,Sarah Spaulding, California
# 349:
11:58 am PST, Feb 23,Fran Blaustein, New York
Justice!
# 347:
10:44 am PST, Feb 23,Debs Friedman, New York
# 346:
10:36 am PST, Feb 23,Lisa Butler, New York
# 345:
10:13 am PST, Feb 23,Marc Mendelsohn, New York
# 344:
9:57 am PST, Feb 23,Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 343:
9:33 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, Israel
# 342:
9:27 am PST, Feb 23,Marina Linderman, Canada
Marina Linderman
# 341:
8:44 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, New York
# 340:
8:35 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 339:
8:29 am PST, Feb 23,Oliver Pearl, California
For more impact, add a personal comment here
# 338:
8:21 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 337:
8:18 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, New York
Have mercy on innnocent children!
# 336:
8:09 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, New York
I visit Japan very often, and i honestly see no acheivment with your petition. This petition can ONLY harm the case and harm the 3 boys jailed, so if you care som much about them PLEASE take off theis petition immediatly. The Japanese will NOT get budged a bit with these kind of petitions. they only cause damage. we dont wantto pressurise them.
# 335:
6:56 am PST, Feb 23,Sandy Weinbaum, United Kingdom
# 334:
6:48 am PST, Feb 23,Abe Swovsky, Canada
# 333:
6:05 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 332:
6:00 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, New Jersey
Really?! Anyone can see the truth in this case.
# 331:
5:44 am PST, Feb 23,Lynda Harding, United Kingdom
# 330:
4:50 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Release the innocent boys now!!!!!!!!
# 329:
4:35 am PST, Feb 23,Chaya Bolel, South Africa
These boys are innocent and should be released. They are unsuspecting young boys who would never imagine that someone would do this shocking crime to them. They have grown up in sheltered environmnents and clearly were clueless as to what was really being asked of them when travelling. The Man responsible for sending them should be hunted down and given sentence. Why must they suffer for this wicked mans deeds? Why punish 3 unsuspecting individuals for one mans wickedness and crime?
# 328:
3:13 am PST, Feb 23,Name not displayed, Israel
# 327:
9:19 pm PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, Maryland
Please let these young and naive boys be let out, because they are innocent of the knowledge of what they did!
# 326:
8:32 pm PST, Feb 22,M Kras, Canada
Noone should be punished for innocence and naivete. Please save these souls from being punished for a crime they didnt commit. Please Please do your part, whatever it is, to exonerate these young boys and may the real criminal suffer the deserved consequences.
# 325:
8:10 pm PST, Feb 22,Toyba Pevzner, New York
# 324:
7:56 pm PST, Feb 22,Mariana Fradman, New York
# 323:
7:52 pm PST, Feb 22,Sara Lavut, New York
let our people go
# 322:
7:34 pm PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, Kansas
The Japanese system of deterrence is understandable, when the accused are guilty of the crime. But the Japanese courts must take into consideration the boy's backgrounds and should try to understand how antithetical these actions are to their lifestyle, and that they would not have agreed to participate in any illegal activities. We beg the Japanese courts for understanding and mercy.
# 321:
7:09 pm PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, New York
# 320:
7:04 pm PST, Feb 22,Abe Stern, New York
Innocent boys,
# 319:
7:01 pm PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, New York
Please help save these innocent boys!
# 318:
6:52 pm PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, Florida
# 317:
6:10 pm PST, Feb 22,Douglas J. Miller, Michigan
Please have mercy
# 316:
3:41 pm PST, Feb 22,Shifra Kopstick, Canada
# 315:
3:38 pm PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, New York
# 314:
1:36 pm PST, Feb 22,S B, California
They didn't know what they were carrying. They thought it was antiques. Please let these innocent boys go home
# 313:
12:32 pm PST, Feb 22,J Oberlander, New York
# 312:
11:50 am PST, Feb 22,Nuchem Wosner, Canada
# 311:
11:21 am PST, Feb 22,Tzivy Mintz, New York
please help free these prisoners as soon as possible!
# 310:
11:10 am PST, Feb 22,Kristine Webb, Indiana
# 309:
10:28 am PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, Canada
# 308:
10:24 am PST, Feb 22,Joel Grunhut, Canada
I would ask you to understand the role you are mandated to.
It’s to punish the guilty so other should take a lesson by not committing such crime. There’s absolutely nothing that this 3 unfortunate boys could have done differently and there is nothing that any other person could have done or would do differently if you will in the end deice to sentence them.
These boys where honest and kind people, trying to help there fellow men, who carelessly put them in this mess.
Please think about it from an over all and comprehensive perspective of what benefit any punishment would bring to society at large.
# 307:
10:16 am PST, Feb 22,Natalia Rodriguez, Dominican Republic
# 306:
8:59 am PST, Feb 22,Sol Schwartz, New York
they where innocent small children, please. they where unaware of what they are putting themselves into
# 305:
8:50 am PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, New York
Please do something about it. These boys are very young and can still live many fruitful lives.
# 304:
8:44 am PST, Feb 22,Lemon Grosz, United Kingdom
Dear Sirs
I heard a lot about this dear children, I am sure they suffered more then enough, please let them go home and start a new life.
Thanks
# 303:
8:28 am PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, Canada
Please have mercy and understand that this is an extra exceptional situation and those boys are totally innocent, if you get to know only a little the Jewish community and and there philosophy and upbringing, and by the way can promise you that as this story was spread to the Jews all over the world and new guidelines has been set from all the rabbis and leaders of the Jews that such stories wont repeat ever ever, so please do the kind of your life and free those 3 kids and get the blessing of GOD!
# 302:
8:24 am PST, Feb 22,Name not displayed, Canada
please!please!late the boy's free
# 301:
8:00 am PST, Feb 22,Mordechai Beck, Canada
Dear Ambassador.
Tough drug laws in Japan are designed to combat drug offenders. Not naive young boys who have lead a sheltered life for their entire existence. Laws are all consuming, and are addressing the aggregate. When innocent people get caught up, it is extremely difficult to get disentangled.
Inflexible application of the law can sometimes result in innocent people being wrongly convicted, or to being set as an example to deter others. You would surely agree that both fall well below your standards of morality and Justice.
Power mandates responsibility. It is within your power to either destroy three innocent lives, or help them resurrect their lives. Please do the right thing.