Re: Inherit..

“There was no judge, prosecutor or jury in America that could be impartial.  The Rosenbergs were Jews, Communists, New Yorkers and, therefore, in the eyes of most Americans then, and a disturbing number of Truthdig posters today, deserving of nothing better than execution for a trumped-up crime...”

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I agree with you again, including the cruel reality that says little has changed. The worst of it is the failure of the system, (our society) itself, to be able to provide then, (as now) an impartial judge, jury, or prosecutor, BECAUSE the Rosenbergs were Jews, Communists and New Yorkers. THAT’S what totally undermines the system every time. Attach a stereotype..any stereotype will do, and if they’ve got a few to combine, then all the better. Never mind the whole point of a trial, which is to determine the TRUTH. The facts.

And so it becomes of case of ‘who’ they were, and not ‘what’ they did or didn’t do. That’s still the case today. Makes me sick too.

Why the fuss? Show trials like these take place all the time in totalitarian regimes. Someone had to be executed and the Rosenbergs were the someones. Be thankful the evidence wasn’t found in a pumpkin because then you’d know it was Nixon. Again.

Bamba,

I don’t think it helps your case to call people names. Do your best to defend your position, and may the best argument win.

It is interesting to note that the judge and lead prosecutor, in this infamous trial, were all Jewish which goes to prove that if you want to get a Jew use a Jew----works every time!!!!!

Left or Right has nothing to do with it; you either have hate in your heart or you don’t. Prejudice is an equal party provider. And you are right, there are many among us. r

Left or Right has nothing to do with it; you either have hate in your heart or you don’t. Prejudice is an equal party provider. And you are right, there are many among us.

ITW: ....and a disturbing number of Truthdig posters today....

No kidding. There is a hard-core group of Jew-haters habituating the comment sections of Truthdig who (lamely) try to justify their antisemitic bigotry by claiming to be merely “anti-Zionist”.

The really interesting part of this phenomenon is why the David Duke-ites choose to hang out at Truthdig, and why Truthdig tolerates (and even encourages and agitates for) this disgusting outpouring of hate.

That, of course, is the bellweather symptom of the abject moral decline of Left - the creeping disease of scapegoat politics that always shows up first as Jew-hating, but eventually spreads to other ethnic and national groups. The Left is in deep, deep trouble.

The judgement of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has gone down in history as one of the most deadly failures of our cherished Constitutional Rights to protect the accused. The case against Julius was weak at best--he was a machinist who really had no idea what nuclear technology was or how it worked.  It was like saying a Bushman who never saw a car then hot-wired a Corvette.

But the case against Ethel was non-existent.  David Greenglass was faced with Sophie’s Choice--his sister or his wife and chose his wife.  It’s no wonder he’s now a twisted man.

There was no judge, prosecutor or jury in America that could be impartial.  The Rosenbergs were Jews, Communists, New Yorkers and, therefore, in the eyes of most Americans then, and a disturbing number of Truthdig posters today, deserving of nothing better than execution for a trumped-up crime.

The Walkers and Hansen clearly and definitely got people killed but are still alive.  The Rosenbergs were never shown to have gotten anybody killed.

But the Rosenbergs were Jews and Communists and the Walkers and Hansen were Christian and in it for the money.  So they lived and the Rosenbergs died.

Their sons, the Meeropols, grew up without parents as a result.