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To: SJackson

No, my point is simply this: Not everyone executed deserved it: Including-
Ethel Rosenberg
Mary Surratt
Alfred Jodl
Saint Paul
Saint Peter
John the Baptist
Anne Bolyen
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Czar Nicholas and his entire family

and last but not least, our Lord.

How do you think He would have punished Ethel Rosenberg?

Is it OK to have an opinion about history and express a view that a certain person was treated harshly? I don’t neccessarily think Ethel was totally innocent. She did refuse to speak about her husband’s activities. I think a prison sentence comparable to what Sobell and Greenglass received would have sufficed for her. As for General Jodl, he was a professional military officer on the German General Staff, most of these men were not executed. I can tell the difference between a ruthless SS executioner and a German staff officer. I think a prison term for General Jodl would have sufficed as well it did for Admirals Raeder and Donitz.


73 posted on 01/16/2009 11:21:56 AM PST by Welcome2thejungle
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To: Welcome2thejungle

Pretty ecclectic list of the execution of innocents, Jodl and Rosenberg, both guilty in my view, Jesus, Saint Paul and Saint Peter. They’ve nothing else in common


78 posted on 01/16/2009 11:39:22 AM PST by SJackson (The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
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To: Welcome2thejungle

BTW, amongst his other crimes Jodl, who you describe as “innocent”, was directly responsible for the murder of uniformed allied military personel. That in itself justifies an death sentence to me. Same with Ethel, she participated, she refused to cooperate, I presume you’re opposed to plea bargains, her execution was not a “trajedy”. And yes, a life prison term can suffice as an alternative to a death sentence. But retroactive comparisons, characterizing the execution of criminals in terms like innocent and tragic, based on the fate of others who committed similar crimes, is faulty reasoning imo.


79 posted on 01/16/2009 11:44:09 AM PST by SJackson (The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
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To: Welcome2thejungle
No, my point is simply this: Not everyone executed deserved it: Including- Ethel Rosenberg

................

and last but not least, our Lord.

You are probably a good catholic,
however you have no understanding of YHvH's salvation.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
82 posted on 01/16/2009 12:00:36 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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