Jarroc as a Betrayer
Defection is a word which Americans have been taught to fear,
from the days of Joseph McCarthy to Moscow on the Hudson. In our collective
consciousness, we viewed defectors as both fascinating and repellent. Defectors
from outside the
convivial allied sphere of North America and Western Europe--persons from
those Communist places, especially--served a useful purpose because of
what inside knowledge they held, and at the same time frightened us
because they carried the taint of the traitor, and the strange, cold
foreignness of the "other side". The "other side," if not monitored
closely, was coming to bomb us all, and break the world as we knew it.
Defectors from the United States, on the other hand, had no
redeeming qualities. They were those who had sold their own souls,
traitors agreeing to spill the closely guarded secrets which would keep
us safe from the Enemy to the enemies themselves! By the nature of the
act, defection was inexorably intertwined with national betrayal.
(I use the terms "betrayer" and "traitor" interchangeably, since they are
synonymous in meaning. A traitor is one who has betrayed.) American
defectors were the worst possible kinds of criminals, and worthy
recipients of the death penalty.
Yet then, as now and in all times, there are a myriad of contexts
in which any given situation can be considered and defection, like most
things, is a crime to some and an honorable act of conscience to
others.Who is the ultimate judge of such actions? What determines which
context the acts truly fall in? During the Cold War, when a Soviet
defected, it was viewed very differently by officials in his own country
than it was here. In the U.S.S.R, he...
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for nothing," he whispers bitterly. "My home, my family....all for
nothing." (12/30/89) Jarroc commits suicide rather than live with the
pain of this stigma.
Is Jarroc then a hero, or a defector-betrayer? He must necessarily
be both. There is no sidestepping the role in which Romulan history will
pigeonhole him, and no denying the reasons they have to do so. Yet among
those persons in the Federation who knew his true reasons for divulging
the information, he was a man of great courage. As Jarroc himself noted,
'"One world's butcher is another world's hero." The same thing could also
be said of the defector.
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