The Rosenbergs

[question everything]

60 Minutes had a lengthy report about how the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg want Obama, before he leaves office, to exonerate Ethel.

The reports that they found showed that Ethel was arrested and, yes, executed to put pressure on Julius. But, mainly, that the secrets that Julius provided the Soviets were not of the atomic bomb but of fighter bombers (or something). For this he should not have been executed, only sent to long term imprisonment.

And, of course, Roy Cohn was really a piece of work. I remember his character on TV show of Angels in America, but don't remember exactly for what. Did he die of AIDS?

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Cohn was a homophobic Anti-Semite despite his being a gay Jew.

And yes, he did die of AIDS-related complications, which he denied to his dying day.

The Rosenberg trial was mired in anti-Semitism, something many like to "forget." Obama should exonerate Ethel and apologize on behalf of a corrupt system which led to her death.

[question everything]

2. Thank you. Was not sure

That "Angels in America" was very powerful. Yes, on TV, but it took its time.

Some 20 years ago I talked to someone at a bookstore, one topic led to another, to Jonathan Pollard, and that person said that this was the worst that this country behaved to a Jew. My response was that I thought it was the Rosenbergs trial.

[MosheFeingold]

3. Pollard

Was a crook and spied for money.

His punishment was out of line, however, and almost certainly worse because he was Jewish.