Remembering the Rosenbergs -- 50 years on

AFP ^ | Wed, Jun 18, 2003

[theDentist]

Oh yeah, I remember them....

[presidio9]

It sucks to lose your parents, but I have not one bit of sympathy for the Rosenbergs. They are proven tratiors.

[blau993]

I remember when Greenglass' book was published in 2001. I have never read it, and I'd be interested in the thoughts of those who have. My reaction was that this was a gesture by an old man trying to square himself with family and friends who have long blamed him for "betraying" the Rosenbergs. I did not find his recantation so many years after the fact believable.

As for Ethel's guilt or innocence, I think it is clear that she was guilty at some level -- if not of espionage itself, certainly of knowledge of her husband's espionage. I refuse to believe that any man who loved his wife (and, by all accounts, Julius loved Ethel) could allow her to go to her death if he believed her to be innocent.

[southland]

I just read the book by Win Ho Lee regarding the witch hunt that the Clintons and fellow travelers persecuted Mr Lee when there was no evidence that he did anything wrong.

I do , however, believe the Rosenbergs were gulty . I lost friends in th cold war that were a direct result of the Communists in our own government. Joseph McCarthy was mostly right about espionage in our government.

Joseph McCarthy exposed a lot of the communists in our own government and he exposed that fact when there was a question about our country falling under the communist banner.
I feel that McCarthy will one day be acknowledged for the good work that he did when our country was in a very perilious situation.

[Inkie]

Wen Ho Lee was guilty. Also, McCarthy was right but his methods were wrong. sadly, he set back anti-communists immensely and set us up forever so it is still easy for the fellow travelers to demonize and demogague today simply by screaming about McCarthyism.

[Redbob]

They weren't "activists", they were SPIES!
They were traitors, and got what all traitors deserve.

The idea that Ehtel was framed by her brother is especially silly.

[southland]

The Judge apologized to Mr Lee.

True, I did not hear the evidence but I know from experience how the sorry legal system we have in the United States works. I personally know people in prison who are only guilty of being poor.
Mr Lee was not poor but he was uninformed in the ways of the worst administration in the history of the United States. I have read some of Mr Lee's defence and I accept some of his statements that the information he was suposed to steal was old. I also have a background in nuclear arms.
Justice is something that can be bought as with X42.

[Redbob]

Ehtel
ETHEL

[GOP_1900AD]

Who are today's Rosenbergs and why are they not on death row?

[GOP_1900AD]

Ping.

[dfwgator]

Why didn't Jonathan Pollard and Aldrich Ames receive the same fate?

[Michael.SF.]

Let's remember Mrs. Rosenberg and they way she may have looked sitting in Old Sparky:

[Mr. Mojo]

There's no doubt they were spies and traitors, and deserved their sentence, but they should've at least been convicted of treason before their execution.

[southland]

Today's Rosenbergs are in high places. They accept money from PRC to fund presidential campaigns and libraries.

I believe that Wen HO Lee's description of the what happened to him is mostly accurate.
Wen Ho Lee is guilty of being from Taiwan.

[headsonpikes]

Perhaps because they didn't attempt to help a world power which was the declared enemy of the American way of life?

What do you think?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

>> As for Ethel's guilt or innocence, I think it is clear that she was guilty at some level -- if not of espionage itself, certainly of knowledge of her husband's espionage.

Ethel typed her husband's notes and was the ideologically more committed of the couple. Ethel also recruited her brother. Without him, they wouldn't have had any intelligence to offer. She was worst than Julius.

[dfwgator]

Perhaps because they didn't attempt to help a world power which was the declared enemy of the American way of life? What do you think?

Ames helped the Soviet Union, and Pollard's intelligence eventually ended up in Chinese hands. In my book that qualifies for execution.