Activists Mark 1953 Rosenberg Execution

Dayton Daily News/Associated Press ^ | 6/17/03 | JIM FITZGERALD

[Lost Highway]

But Meeropol is also suspicious that recently released evidence may be government ``disinformation.''

It must be nice to live in a world where one can simply dismiss any information they don't like as disinformation.

[Hinoki Cypress]

There are 3,700+ subhuman rapist-robber-child molester-murderers on death row, right now. If those scum were executed, we could celebrate for years that their recividism wouldn't occur and society's innocents wouldn't be brutally murdered.

[Britton J Wingfield]

ping :)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Someone needs to be there with a string of firecrackers to set off at just the right moment and holler, "WOOOHOOO! THE COMMIES ARE DEAD!"

[jpl]

Nowadays, the media seems to have shifted tack from "they were innocent victims of McCarthy's witch hunt" to "yeah, they probably gave some stuff to the Russkies, but nothing that they wouldn't have eventually ended up getting anyway, so how much harm was really done?".

As someone who works in the defense indistry, I can testify that it matters not even one iota what I think about the importance of classified information and how it might affect the world's balance of power, period. That is not my decision to make, and it wasn't the Rosenberg's decision to make back then. Something that on its face might look totally harmless can be pieced together with other information that can lead to people getting killed. They got exactly what they deserved, and so does anyone who betrays their oath to their country.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Actually his name was Von Helsing. He changed it to Rosenberg for professional reasons...

[muleskinner]

Hey Susan, just join CPUSA and get over with it.

[weegee]

That's the same crowd that embraced the fraudulent film Bowling For Columbine.

[weegee]

The intent to commit an act of treason in support of an evil dictator was there. Doesn't matter if the secrets they presented were valuable or the missing piece to the puzzle that he needed.

Try to arrange for a hitman to kill somebody. It won't matter if he's successful or just an undercover cop; the caller will still be guilty of attempting to have someone murdered.

[Brian Allen]

<< The execution of the Rosenbergs in the electric chair at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953, ended one of the most sensational cases of the McCarthy era. >>

But didn't come near bringing an end to the era of CPA - Communist Party of America-spawned Soviet/Russian and Chi-Comm agents in government, which continues apace.

Especially in Peter Principle Powell's Alger-Hiss and other bastard offspring of the CPA-descended State Department.

And especially among the lumpen, carefully-cloned-for-their-unintelligence, incompetence and ability to be easily-compromised Foreign[er] Service[ing] lackeys, lickspittles and underlings.

[DPB101]

All we have to do now is execute 364 more commies, and we can celebrate all year round.

Funniest thing I've read in a long time. Hope some liberals are lurking. Comments such as yours cause blood vessels in their brains to burst.

Wish AP would get its headlines right. "Activists" are not at this memorial. Communists are. Communists who supported genocidal maniacs, who hate America, who hate Christians, who hate liberty, who hate everyting good, decent and honest are there. Would AP call a group honoring Hitler's birthday "activists?" There is no moral difference between those fanatics and the Meeropol/Rosenberg RAT admirers.

[HISSKGB]

There is no indication of repentance by these communist activists.

Studs Terkel and Ed Asner are presently among the members of this Rosenberg Advisory Board.

[NormsRevenge]

Mon Jun 16,12:24 PM ET

Robert Meeropol, the youngest son of American communists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, at age 2. The Rosenbergs were executed on June 19, 1953, accused of helping the Soviet Union during World War Two in its race to make the atomic bomb. Meeropol's new book, 'An Execution in the Family, One Son's Journey' will be published on June 19, the 50th anniversary of the executions. (Reuters - Handout)

[wideminded]

I never understood why Greenglass, who actually stole the plans for the implosion lens, did not suffer the same fate as the Rosenbergs.

[jamaksin]

Lest we forget:

In the Spring of 1943 [Yup, 1943 - the Trinity Test had not even happened], via Lend-Lease, tens of tons of nuclear material - including enriched uranium - was sent to the USSR.

The director of the Lend-Lease Program at the time - one Harry "The Hop" Hopkins - FDR's alter ego. Note that Hopkins, via the Venona Project decrypts, has been determined to have been a Soviet agent.

[Vigilantcitizen]

"Someone needs to be there with a string of firecrackers to set off at just the right moment and holler, "WOOOHOOO! THE COMMIES ARE DEAD!"

Bwahaha...What ya drinkin', I'm buying.

[CougarGA7]

Happy Anniversary my friend.

The Rosenburgs were just the first salvo in what became the Cold War. A Rosenburg fund for children strike me the same as "Nazi Youth". How quickly these Hollywood wackos forget what was endured by their grandparents in order for them to spew the psychobable bu!!$#!# that they come up with.

If I am wrong and Rosenburg went the way of Noble then I apologize to those who I offend but in my eyes the Rosenburgs betrayed the country, my country, in ways that cannot be fathomed by the youth of this nation even with the most careful explanation. They created a realm of fear that endured until the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90's.

Personally Sarandon and Belafontass support for this does not surprise me since people like this are only satisfied if there is mass suffering. Only if there is mass suffering, is there a "cause" for them to jump on and only then are they "significant". But to quote the Dixie Chicks "I am ashamed that they are......Americans"

Damn, I think I just misquoted the PIG.

[walford]

One aspect of this that must be considered is how it is framed.

The so-called 'McCarthy Era' is characterized by the Left as the systematic persecution of Communists.

A more apt description: the exposure and prosecution of Soviet agents/sympathizers who were using their positions in the media to spread disinformation/propaganda. Then there were the likes of the Rosenbergs who were actually passing information to the USSR to enable them to more effectively threaten the West.

The first characterization is more favored, because it implies people were being hounded for their idealistic beliefs.

To use the more descriptive appelation would unduly expose the fact that many of the people hated America [not enough to leave of course] and actively worked to weaken her.