Posted on 06/19/2003 4:59:41 PM PDT by DPB101
Thursday, June 19 @ 8pm ET/PT
David Greenglass: Twice a Traitor
On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for passing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In their trial, the primary witness against Ethel was her brother, David Greenglass. Greenglass was also convicted of spying and sentenced to prison, but he was released in 1960. Now, he's finally telling his side of the story.
This is David Greenglass's extraordinary story, including the shocking revelation that he lied on the stand and sent his own sister to the electric chair! TV G
While you do hang enemy spies during wartime -- because we had never declared a war on the Soviets, but had in fact fought the most recent "official" war alongside of them, they wre not our *official* enemy.
You seem to be arguing from a legalistic standpoint. The Soviets were an extremely dangerous enemy, far more than Al Qaeda for example. Why did the Soviets want the A-bomb? They were behind the North Korean invasion, whose army killed lots of our troops. Then there was Vietnam a decade later. They put nukes in Cuba and blockaded Berlin. Your argument is absurd.
What in the world are you talking about? Since when does the Constitution have to explicitly confer a right to execute anyone for crimes short of treason? Does it explicitly confer a right to imprison or fine someone for crimes short of treason or for treason itself for that matter? The Constitution doesn't explicitly permit a particular punishment for any particular crime.
I saw something on TV also, and I can't remember what the reason was either.
Okay, from what you've been posting, it is quite clear that you are a fringer; a fringer who hates the governement, laws, and the execution of those laws.Just because you feel this way, doesn't mean that you are right and everyone else on this thread is wrong. You've been showered with indesputable facts, none of which have you even remotely bothered to reply to/ attempt to refute with fact ... just your emotional opinions.
Please at least try to be objective and read ( or reread ) this entire thread and the FACTS posted to it, with a nonbiased mind.
Second Congress Sess. I. Ch.7.Probably a lot more death penalty offenses. Search the U.S. Congress from 1789 to 1875 here
1792Sec. 15 And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall rob any carrier of the mail of the United States, of such mail, or if any person shall rob the mail, in which letters are sent to be conveyed by post, of any letter or packet, or shall steal such mail, or shall steal and take from or out of the same, or from or out of any post-office, any letter or packet, such offender or offenders shall, on conviction thereof suffer death.
Now, can you find more executions, during peace time, of spies and traitors, for bvw ? PLEASE ? :-)
That's not exactly true. We have enjoyed periods of "agents" British, French, Spanish, German and Mexican prior to 1911.
Like West Pointers keep trying to vindicate Custer's actions at the Little Big Horn, the liberals keep trying to vindicate the Rosenburgs. They were traitors who got what they deserved! The Clintons are just as bad.
Oh, reach up over your head, grab your ears and pull your head out of your ass! Playing the race card is pathetic and totally wrong! They died for their commissar. Get over it!
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