[UbIwerks]

This link explains the game of chicken the Rosenbergs played with the government. The Government would not back down. If Julius Rosenberg only confessed his part, he would've only served ten years because, as the link explains, that would be how the life sentence worked out. Retrying the Rosenbergs

[backhoe]

Thanks for that very informative link.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Reading what Ethel Rosenberg said ....I just see her as a Susan Sarandon type. Stubborn and trying to get the gov't into martyring her for the *cause*.

Both of them (J & E) seemed to have been so enamored of their political philosophy that they would not confess their crime. According to your link, if they did they would have served and been done with it. Eisenhower and the FBI did what they could (ie, the FBI had an open 24 hr a day phone line with them).

I see this as people who are dumbly hanging onto their political philosophy at all costs. They didn't have to die. They didn't have to have their children orphaned. But they knew they would become martyrs.

So many of the left today have this same idiotic philosophy, and dare I say the muslim suicide bombers have this same philosophy in their head.

It takes brainpower to get unbrainwashed.

[jshermn]

History will show the entire truth of the Rosenbergs when all information is allowed to be released. The government had complete and factual proof that could not be shown into evidence. It was in the country's best interest that the proof was not revealed. The judge was shown the proof and hence the death sentences.

[muir_redwoods]

Many CPUSA mambers of the day dutifully reported to Moscow for execution when ordered to do so by Stalin. People all over the world were victims of the purges and show trials and did nothing to escape their fate. Such true-belivers of such a failed fantasy!

[HISSKGB]

UbIwerks;
You link quotes Prof Ellen Schricker/Schrecker as saying the Rosenbergs exhibited "non-traditional patriotism". It's to her shame that she didn't mention this patriotism was anti-American. Shrecker has also been quoted as saying that the current revelations of commie treachery is only being done "to make the left look bad".

DBP101; The commie left never gives up. Mumia Abul Jemal's defense is almost a word for word copy of your cite. Mumia made one big mistake when he and his supporters claimed for many years the bullet shell casings found at the murder scene did not come from his gun. When Mumia's lawyer finally admitted this was a lie, the left found another lawyer for Mumia.

The NYT' author of this piece cleverly omits the majority of the evidence. The Times slyly tries to brainwash the public into thinking that only the FBI was involved in nailing the Rosenbergs and ignores the findings of countless others including the original military intelligence investigations.