The Russian Spy Ring Children
[Guest post by DRJ]
There are 11 members of the alleged Russian spy ring, and 8 of them have 8 children whose lives will never be the same:
“At least two of the children, the toddler and pre-schooler whose parents posed as American Michael Zottoli and Canadian Patricia Mills, will be going to Russia. Federal prosecutors said Friday the couple acknowledged they are Russian citizens and instructed a family friend now caring for the children to contact relatives in Russia to arrange for the youngsters to go there.
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The tot may now find himself learning a new language in a new country, but possibly without his parents as teachers.”
This is just one story of several recounted at the link in which the younger children (and perhaps the older ones, too) had no suspicion about their parents’ alleged activities or backgrounds — and why should they? But if their parents chose to live a lie, this is the terrible consequence of that choice.
— DRJ
Demands for a path to amnesty in three … two … one …
SPQR (26be8b) — 7/2/2010 @ 4:12 pmThis is reality tv gold.
happyfeet (19c1da) — 7/2/2010 @ 4:14 pmWell according to Elian Gonzalez, it’s a super happy thing to be repatriated to a communist country. Castro’s handlers standing nearby not withstanding, Gonzalez said that Cuba was great!
So, you have to think that Putin would make a big deal of these children.
Vivian Louise (643333) — 7/2/2010 @ 4:15 pmBut if their parents chose to live a lie, this is the terrible consequence of that choice.
My oldest uncle went to fight fascists, nazis, and later communists, with two kids in the cradle and one in the belly.
The latest time, my grandmother found his bones in a mountain ravine a year after he was killed.
nk (db4a41) — 7/2/2010 @ 4:27 pmThis is a classic representation of when a child born in the United States is not automatically a citizen;
AD - RtR/OS! (688ffe) — 7/2/2010 @ 4:29 pmfor, who can deny, that these children were not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”?
Just as the children of diplomats, formally posted to the United States, are not considered to be citizens of the U.S.A. if they are born here,
so should the children of spies who are here under deception and fraud….
sort of like “illegal aliens”.
De minimis.
nk (db4a41) — 7/2/2010 @ 4:30 pmI spent a while back in the eighties training to defend my little Army Reserve company from these knuckleheads, and as such have very little patience for them, or their kids. Good riddance to the lot of them.
Bad Science (ae951a) — 7/2/2010 @ 5:04 pmI wonder if the stories, like that in Nelson DeMille’s novel “Charm School” have any truth. In the novel American POWs were used to teach KGB agents American life and culture. I’ve seen a couple of references to something like this over the years. Obviously the POWs would be gone (I suppose) and Russians would have taken their place.
Mike K (82f374) — 7/2/2010 @ 5:20 pmThey are not as I understand it being charged as spys but with illegal entry and id theft so if they want they can game the immigration court system for years.
dunce (3ef93a) — 7/2/2010 @ 6:27 pmMike K…There were American POW’s who were alleged to have been taken to the Soviet Union during the Korean War who were never accounted for at the Armistice.
AD - RtR/OS! (688ffe) — 7/2/2010 @ 6:51 pm#2. Reality tv? They made ths movie already years ago,
Miguelito (f443a7) — 7/2/2010 @ 8:18 pmSounds like they are being raised to be good little
Patricia (160852) — 7/2/2010 @ 8:46 pmCommiesglobal citizens. They should go back to Russia then.