[neverdem]

Rachel Meeropol, IIRC, is the granddaughter of the convicted and executed Julius and Ehtel Rosenberg. Pardon me, but this is why the left must be monitored, i.e. reading the NY Times.

[kingu]

The decision is profoundly disturbing because it legitimizes the fact that the Bush administration...

I love how the excerpt places it perfectly. There's their objection. It makes things legitimate. Whoops, sorry, lefties, you lost. But please, don't get over it, keep fighting. It helps.

As to the ruling - what a shocker here. Pretty much has been established law since the founding of the nation, and to overturn it would be to say that most actions since the founding were illegal. You really can't pull that type of thing.

[neverdem]

Pardon me, but that's Ethel Rosenberg.

[gondramB]

>>A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled yesterday that the government has wide latitude under immigration law to detain noncitizens on the basis of religion, race or national origin, and to hold them indefinitely without explanation.<<

If this stands I wonder if this will be reciprocal - will we accept that other countries have the right to hold Americans who violate their visas (or don't have a visa) indefinitely without explanation?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Excellent catch! Of course, the NY Slimes would never give a reader the context or background and motivations of a leftist's opinions....knowing this person's relatives were executed SPIES against America might inform the casual reader of the Slimes.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[TheWasteLand]

Rachel Meeropol, IIRC, is the granddaughter of the convicted and executed Julius and Ehtel Rosenberg.

Nicely spotted!

[Recovering_Democrat]

SHOCKER: Judge Gleeson is a CLINTON appointee!



John Gleeson was appointed as a United States District Judge on September 28,1994, and entered on duty on October 24, 1994. Judge Gleeson went to college at Georgetown University and received his law degree in 1980 from the University of Virginia School of Law. After serving as a law clerk for a year for the Hon. Boyce F. Martin, Jr., United States Circuit Judge in the Sixth Circuit, Judge Gleeson was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1981 to 1985.

Gleeson bio

[tcrlaf]

She's Also head of the Lawyer's Union (new York??) , a COMMUNIST PARTY organization.......

Funny how the NYT will NEVER tell you she's an avowed Communist, eh??

[Rapscallion]

Thank you Judge Gleeson. It is a prudent and reasonable ruling on what the law actually is.

[StACase]

Amendment XIV
1. ... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

[browardchad]

A spokesman for the government, Charles S. Miller, would not respond to those assertions, saying only that the Justice Department was "very pleased that the court upheld the decision to detain plaintiffs, all of whom were illegal aliens, until national security investigations were completed and plaintiffs were removed from the country." He said the government was reviewing the rest of the opinion to decide whether to appeal the rulings Judge Gleeson made to allow the plaintiffs' other claims to proceed.

I'd guess that most of these detainees are claiming they will be tortured if returned to their country of origin, and subsequently it may take years to get rid of them. In the meantime, releasing them with an order to appear for a deportation hearing has not exactly been effective in the past. If just one of them is released and subsequently commits a terrorist act, the media outcry of crocodile tears will have the usual element of amnesia with regard to the indefinite detention issue.

[jmaroneps37]

Okay Nelson, let's hear it : "Ha ha!"

[jmaroneps37]

The rosenbergs: still undermining America, even from the grave.

[thoughtomator]

Hopefully he awarded attorney's fees... with extreme prejudice.

[MrCruncher]

Thanks for that info.

[Suzy Quzy]

OMG!! The granddaughter of Communist spies is active against our CURRENT government!!

That LINK is VERY informative...Thanks!!

[WOSG]

"Rachel Meeropol, IIRC, is the granddaughter of the convicted and executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "

The Meeropol name jumped out at me ... thanks for drawing that connection.
Traitors and enemies have enablers, and she seems happy to play that role.

[ccmay]

convicted and executed Julius and Ehtel Rosenberg

Convicted, executed, and proven indisputably guilty by the Venona transcripts. May they roast in hell. I spit on their graves.

-ccm

[gondramB]

>>Rachel Meeropol, IIRC, is the granddaughter of the convicted and executed Julius and Ehtel Rosenberg. Pardon me, but this is why the left must be monitored, i.e. reading the NY Times.<<

Hey lets be fair. Journalistic integrity requires the NY Times to diclose when someone has an obvious motive.

They printed the same day the faxt that Meeropol is the name that the Rosenberg boys took after their parent's death. Of course you had had to look in another section of the paper and read the bok reviews and then guess that Rachel was the daughter of one of the brother.


BTW, the book review makes it clear that the Rosenbergs were guilty and that the Meerpol's won't accept the obvious.

I guess mentioning that in the same story would have been an "inconvenient truth."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E2D6103BF932A1575AC0A9659C8B63

>>With the collapse of the Soviet Union, former K.G.B. agents began to talk, in particular Alexander Feklisov, who had been Julius Rosenberg's K.G.B. contact, and to whom Rosenberg had supplied classified military and industrial information. What did Meeropol make of that? Why should Feklisov be believed, he wondered; K.G.B. agents were hardly ''paragons of honesty.'' Then, in 1995, the Venona transcripts -- the decryptions of Soviet intelligence telegrams from the 1940's and 50's -- were released. The decrypted material told much of the story of an extensive military and industrial spy ring run by Julius Rosenberg, with Ethel's knowledge if not her participation; and the material confirmed the testimony of Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, about his recruitment by Julius to pass on to Harry Gold, a courier for the Soviets, whatever he could pick up about the atomic bomb from his work at Los Alamos.

Meeropol now had to deal with damaging information from a variety of sources (including old friends of the Rosenbergs). But such is the power of a fixed idea that Meeropol believed it was still possible that all of this evidence was ''no more than the clever creation of mirror images based on the known record.'' Finally, however, he was forced to reflect that innocence wasn't everything: ''Whatever actions'' his parents ''took sprang from their love of humanity,<<

[TChris]

"This decision is a green light to racial profiling..."

Goodness, I hope so.