Rosenberg Documentary Debuts at Sundance (More Nausea from Leftdance Film Fest!)

AP via Yahoo ^ | Jan 21, 2004 | DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

[sphinx]

Because she was a committed communist, and she cared more about becoming a martyr for the Cause than she did for her children.

Julius and Ethel were committed communists, conceived of themselves as soldiers in the Cause, and followed the Party's orders to the end. It would be interesting to know what they privately thought, and it is still (barely) possible that some ex-communist will surface with relevant information.

History does throw up interesting questions. We have here spies for Uncle Joe (Ethel was fully complicit in what Julius was doing, even if she -- a homemaker -- didn't personally steal the secrets), who had the courage to die for their beliefs. They belong on the same moral plane as the SS men who died in the last ditch for Hitler.

[aegiscg47]

At least you don't have to live out here where they're showing the films. Every year, right on schedule, every channel is filled with Hollywood's most leftist wackos as they come into town. Then, you have to listen to their rants and idiotic interviews.

[Grampa Dave]

Get a dish satellite and don't look at the local channels and the Sundance channel during this time period.

It works great!

[Grampa Dave]

Get a dish satellite and don't look at the local channels and the Sundance channel during this time period.

It works great!

[Grampa Dave]

Get a dish satellite and don't look at the local channels and the Sundance channel during this time period.

It works great!

[Grampa Dave]

Get a dish satellite and don't look at the local channels and the Sundance channel during this time period.

It works great!

[JmyBryan]

If they would have talked, they would have lived.

[Outraged]

Grampa, you are repeating yourself...:)

[DoctorMichael]

".......chronicles her effort to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her father's parents, executed as traitors in 1953 after being accused of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets......."

SHOULD READ............

".......chronicles her effort to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her father's parents, executed as traitors in 1953 after being CONVICTED of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets........."

.....among others. This whole article is riddled with stuff like this.

Propaganda written about Propaganda.

[Grampa Dave]

I repeated myself 3 times past my original reply.

John Rob must be tinkering with the server's reply program.

[cynicom]

I have zero sympathy for them. Once a communist always a communist. These red apples did not fall far from the communist tree.

[babble-on]

2 executed and guilty Rosenbergs vs. 100,000,000 executed and innocent Russians, and all the tears are for the Rosenbergs.

On the other hand, as a personal statement I can see making this film. What an odd thing to grow up with, knowing your parents were executed and what for and being told that it was a phony government conspiracy and then finding out that it was not. That is pretty dramatic stuff. The voyeur value of learning more about what the heck that was like would be worth something. But no pity for Julius and Ethel. Bad things happen to traitors. Sux for the kids. Think about that BEFORE you commit treason.

[risk]

I wish I could have thrown the switch myself.

[Grampa Dave]

They put the entire population of the world in danger then and now.

[dfwgator]

I only wish Pollard and Aldrich Ames had earned the same fate as the Rosenbergs.

[risk]

All because they thought they knew best.

[Hon]

"Straight outta the "How To Be A Liberal" Hnadbook."

"Liberal" was the KGB's code name for Julius Rosenberg.

[Grampa Dave]

Actually, it was worse than that. They hated America and most Americans, and they gave away our nuclear secrets to put us in a terrible position.

Now with the potential of some Islamokazi getting a nuclear weapon, we are in danger again.

[risk]

I wonder who the current Rosenbergs are...

[Hon]