A Rosenberg Takes On the Government, This Time Using the Law as a Means of Protest

NY Times ^ | February 5, 2006 | SAM ROBERTS

[Pharmboy]

A profile of Rachel Meeropol, the lead lawyer for a group of Muslim immigrants suing the United States government, explains why she went to work for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

"Rachel's interest in prisoners' rights work stems from her family's firsthand experience with the destructive impact of the criminal 'justice' system on communities and individuals," the profile explains cryptically, without mentioning the most famous members of her family.

When he was 6, the boy's birth parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953, for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

"I was in first grade, and my teacher asked if any of the kids in the class knew of any holidays that happened in June. And I raised my hand and said, well, on June 19 in New York City people celebrate my grandparents. And the teacher said, 'I'm sorry I've never heard of that holiday.' "

More than 50 years later, it is widely accepted that in the 1940's Julius Rosenberg was, in fact, a Soviet spy. His network passed along military and industrial secrets, most notably details about the atomic bomb, most of which the Russians had obtained from other sources. Legally, Ethel Rosenberg is considered much less culpable: Within the last few years, her brother, David Greenglass, also charged in the conspiracy, acknowledged that he had lied when he delivered the most incriminating evidence against her.

Ms. Meeropol said of her grandparents, "I don't know what they did, but I know they couldn't get a fair trial, that the death penalty was wrong, and that they weren't guilty of what they were convicted of."

Suppose Soviet archives conclusively revealed that her grandfather was a spy?

"It's not something I've spent much time thinking about," she replied.

[bill1952]

I know they couldn't get a fair trial, that the death penalty was wrong, and that they weren't guilty

LOL! Without even been born at the time you know all this?

Wow, what supernatural wisdom and insight you must have!

and just imagine that, I didn't know the death penalty was wrong. Silly me.

[Pharmboy]

Mark--I did not want you to miss this one.

[Doctor Raoul]

Hey Rachel, one of the codenames the Soviets assigned your traitor daddy was "LIBERAL"!!!

[TSchmereL]

True to her roots, Rachel is a Vice President of the New York City chapter of the Communist National Lawyers Guild.

The NLG was founded in 1936 by Communist Party USA (CPUSA) lawyers and liberal fellow-travelers. A watershed moment for the organization occurred in its third year, when its National Executive Board chose not to adopt an amendment to the NLG Constitution condemning dictatorship and supporting democracy - an amendment its Communist organizers called "divisive." It formally defines its mission as an effort "to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jail-house lawyers of America [to] function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests."

If what Ms. Meeropol ALLEGES IN HER COMPLAINT is true, she has probably been communicating with Al Qaeda members.

Rachel's sponsor, the hilariously styled Center for Constitutional Rights, was started by Castro-supporting Communists (including William Kunstler). Today they pride themselves on their whole-hearted support for terrorists and terrorist enablers like Lynne Stewart.

In 1997, a documentary filmmaker interviewed the grandchildren of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Their granddaughter, Rachel Meeropol, the "plaintiff" in this trumped-up New York lawsuit, told the interviewer that being a granddaughter of the Rosenbergs was more of a boon than a burden. She said she was proud of her heritage and it placed her within an international community of support.

[TSchmereL]

True!

Under the direction of the KGB, the Rosenbergs helped pass US atom bomb secrets to the Soviet Union and Julius's KGB nom de guerre was "Liberal."

[Doctor Raoul]

More than 50 years later, it is widely accepted that in the 1940's Julius Rosenberg was, in fact, a Soviet spy.

The liberal bastards at the NYT choke on the fact that they were proven spies. That why the quote above has to many twists and turns with so few words.

[Pharmboy]

LOL on yer tagline, doc...

[CondorFlight]

Had the Rosenbergs and others not helped Stalin get the bomb, the USSR might have been delayed in getting it for another couple of years.

It is very doubtful that Stalin would have permitted the Korean War to start until he had a bomb.

Ergo, the start of the Korean war might either have been postponed a couple of years, or even not occured altogether (Stalin died in March 1953), had it not been for the work of the spies.

The blood of all the dead Koreans in those wars, plus that of all the American casualties, is a fruit of their labors.

For that, they should have been (and were) executed.

[purpleland]

Both Ed Asner and Harry Belafonte are board members of quasi communist front Rosenberg/Meeropol foundations and their anti-death penalty orgs. Wealthy communists! Check out their sources for funding and contributions. This bespeaks of a very exclusively nepotic and self-sustaining generational communism support system. Probably nonprofit, tax exempt communist "altruistic" entities. (!!!) Seems reasonable that treasonous communists, spies and subversives would want to be protected from the Death Penalty mandates. David Horowitz wrote the defining history of the Rosenberg case: THEY WERE GUILTY.
Remember, "lie and deny" is the communist axiom.

[TSchmereL]

I don't own much, but the fact that commies would deny me even the right to own my own home is enough for me to hate them.

[scouse]

"Rachel's interest in prisoners' rights work stems from her family's firsthand experience with the destructive impact of the criminal 'justice'
Within the last few years, her brother, David Greenglass, also charged in the conspiracy, acknowledged that he had lied when he delivered the most incriminating evidence against her.

Seems that trial was more of a breakdown in the family rather than in the Justice system.

[purpleland]

As a bonus, she is defending the people who are currently out to get the jews bigtime. This bad judgement thing appears to run in this family (in spades!).

***Rather ironic, isn't it? However, among the dialectics of psycho-politics, her "bad judgement" is a matter of her selective "perverse opposition."

[Pharmboy]

Not to mention the fact that they would also tell you WHERE to live...

Boy, the older I get and the more I know, the closer Joe McCarthy gets to sainthood.

[TSchmereL]

You just reminded me that my Grandfather, of blessed memory, was paralyzed when the transport plane he was flying was shot down in Korea during the war. I loved him dearly, but I never saw him without his wheel chair and he died much earlier than he should have. He died when I was eleven and today I am thirty-nine. My Grandmother never remarried and I still visit her in the house where they lived. His chair and ottoman have never been moved; they are still in the same place where he would sit and play with me on his paralyzed lap.

He hated commies and he loved Ronald Regan. He lived just long enough to see Ronald Regan elected President. I am not embarrassed to tell you that I am crying now that I realize how happy he must have been to see Ronald Regan sworn in.

[fallujah-nuker]

When he was 6, the boy's birth parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953, for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

1953 was just a year of tragedy for the left.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Imagine what Korea would have looked like in 1950 had the Soviets not been able to detonate their first atomic weapon in 1949 (something made possible by by the Rosenberg's treason in 1945). The Korean Conflict could have ended in a negotiated settlement before it had even begun.

The only regret we should have regarding the Rosenbergs is that Sing Sing Prison's electric chair could only electrocute them once.

[Fudd Fan]

as an American with Jewish blood in me, I can only be so ashamed of these people with whom I share tribal origins

These people are communists, and I don't you have anything in common with them. Be proud of that!

[Fudd Fan]

oooopsie
should be: I don't THINK you have anything in common with them

[blam]

The Venona file points a very serious finger at Robert Oppenheimer too.

I received a msg from my son on thursday asking what I knew about Oppenheimer. There was some kind of 'group' meeting at Caltech to discuss why Oppenheimer lost his security clearance with the US government. I don't know the outcome of that meeting yet.

[blam]

BTW, one of the best books ever written is Witness by Whittaker Chambers.