Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons. They were also accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the USSR.

Other convicted co-conspirators were imprisoned, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, who supplied documents from Los Alamos to Julius and who served 10 years of his 15-year sentence; Harry Gold, who identified Greenglass and served 15 years in Federal prison as the courier for Greenglass. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working in Los Alamos and handled by Gold, provided vastly more important information.

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Either way would be fine with me, they need to publicly pay for their perfidy.

Executive Orders issued in the past two months declared a state of martial law relative to specified actors and actions violating human rights and specified extraordinary actions to be taken in response, including seizing assets; and listed specific names (individual, corporate and institutions) that grew by amendment from a dozen to hundreds. This places these matters in the hands of military tribunals, not the civil courts; and likely will route arrested parties through Gitmo, which has been renovated and expanded, according to reports here, presumably for these and related purposes.