tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post7034718757021608331..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: Case ClosedGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-81957135218030051702008-09-18T00:38:00.000-04:002008-09-18T00:38:00.000-04:0056638I remember the trial and executions growing u...56638I remember the trial and executions growing up in a strongly FDR Keynesian household. My family was 'middle way' both anti Communist and anti Fascist. I clearly remember thinking that the Rosenbergs were probably guilty at the time, and was not surprised by either the info that came out from the Soviet files or from this confession. At the same time there was real fear of the guilt by association that resulted from the excesses of McCarthyism. I recall my father saying he was glad he never joined any organization that turned out to be communist fronts. (Easy to in NYC in the 30s) And I later met a relative of the Rosenbergs my own age who grew up in fear in a small town where his father had gone to hide the family association. That said, in retrospect the real damage the excesses of McCarthyism caused was giving cover to flawed or discredited Marxist thinking in academia that survives today as political correctness and post colonialism. This subversion of education, was also a deliberate soviet strategy that worked and considerably cripples our ability to fight Islamofascism because the Marxists have taken to seeing this reactionary religious group as the prolitariat. In the US the Marxist roots of this kind of thinking has been so buried by McCarthyism that Marx is almost never mentioned. Here in Australia Marxist ideas are labeled as such. In the US it is mostly the right that uses the name Marx while the left walks around thinking Marxist thoughts without even knowing it. It's like all the psych majors weren't allowed to know about Freud.lgudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12774491337993415578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-14710687843208042032008-09-17T22:44:00.000-04:002008-09-17T22:44:00.000-04:00Storm 24Verona is correct. Also I am happy to see...Storm 24<BR/><BR/>Verona is correct. <BR/><BR/>Also I am happy to see Sobell coming clean, and I give him credit for doing that. It's better than going to the USSR/Russia and living the rest of you life in a drunken stupor trying to reassure yourself you did the right thing as other turncoats have done.Corky Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16363812378536729410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-37995156983976138062008-09-17T22:02:00.000-04:002008-09-17T22:02:00.000-04:00Corky.... Did you mean, "Verona" decrypts?Point as...Corky.... Did you mean, "Verona" decrypts?<BR/><BR/>Point aside - it surprises me that the LA Times published this piece at all... Very much against the mainstream.Storms24https://www.blogger.com/profile/14360242925876169578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-7679425829794529282008-09-17T15:26:00.000-04:002008-09-17T15:26:00.000-04:00Do you think Jonathan Pollard, Lawrence Franklin a...Do you think Jonathan Pollard, Lawrence Franklin and Ariel Weinman received appropriate penalties?Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15308567394308330867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-61014874368478866162008-09-17T14:40:00.000-04:002008-09-17T14:40:00.000-04:00Ethel was a co-conspirator and an accomplice deser...Ethel was a co-conspirator and an accomplice deserving of the same punishment as her husband. The information they transmitted to the Soviets was the most sensitive of any operational information we held at the time.<BR/><BR/>The Soviets duplicated the Fat Man/Trinity weapon for their first test from the detailed drawings they provided. Even without duplicating it, it provided them with all the details for a successful weapons test.<BR/><BR/>The Sobell confession is totally unneeded. The Venona decrypts and KGB files that were opened up to us in the 1990s confirmed the Rosenbergs' involvment. It's just icing on the cake.<BR/><BR/>Both are traitors of the worst order, selling out their own country for the utopian dream of a better Soviet society. That society was a brutal Stalinist dictatorship intent on destroying the freedoms of the USA.Corky Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16363812378536729410noreply@blogger.com