United States | News & Politics

7452 readers

472 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg (www.thenation.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 4 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

This is fantastic. Also, any surviving Rosenberg kin should be allowed to bulldoze the Marcus family mausoleum.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I see The Nation is hard at work on topical issues of our time.

Next up: Mary Magdalene was not a whore and the Pilgrims knew it all along.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It is topical, you would know that if you read the article as declassified files were released in 2024, that showed Ethel was not a spy, no one is arguing her husband wasn't a spy, so yes it is relevant to ask for a posthumous pardon after evidence was revealed this year that she had nothing to do with it and the government at the time knew that, but chose to execute her anyways.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/declassified-memo-proves-ethel-rosenberg-was-not-soviet-spy

An NSA codebreaker’s 1950 assessment reveals Ethel Rosenberg knew of her husband’s espionage but ‘did not engage in the work herself’ — despite this, the US sent her to die in the electric chair, writes ANDREW TUCKER

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I know... I'm not saying it's not important. In fact, it's supremely important to expose the truth about our dysfunctional state agencies, even three quarters of a century after the fact.

I know...

But really, Trump v2 and the fast unrolling of the American Reich really puts the Rosenbergs on the back burner. We have much more grave and pressing problems right now and this is not helping.