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Petition for Ethel Rosenberg; Oppose Trump’s Lawyer, Roy Cohn

by Long Live Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Please sign the petition to Pre. Obama to Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg, framed by Donald Trump’s lawyer and mentor, Roy Cohn (1927-1986). Go to: http://www.rfc.org/ethel
Please sign the petition to Pres. Obama to Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg, framed by Donald Trump’s lawyer and mentor, Roy Cohn (1927-1986). Go to: http://www.rfc.org/ethel

In July 1950, 5 years after the end of World War 2, Democrat Truman framed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell on false and phony charges of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage, so as to, as Julius Rosenberg stated, make Jew, Communist and traitor synonymous to justify fascism at home and the war of anti-communism in Korea, which was seen as a gateway to attack China, which had had a socialist revolution in 1949. As the famous lawyer, Clarence Darrow stated, conspiracy charges should have been thrown out with the thumbscrew and rack as they exact the maximum penalty without proving an overt act. In this case:

1. There was no such thing as an atomic secret;
2. The Soviet Union was an American ally in World War 2, and any assistance American scientists and mechanics gave to the Soviet Union was as an ally, not a spy;
3. Husband and wife, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were taken from their 2 small children, Robert and Michael, ages 3 and 7, and threatened with execution, which took place on June 19, 1953, since the Rosenbergs insisted on defending their innocence, and in so doing, literally broke the back of the Cold War. Their last letter says it all. See http://www.rfc.org/lastletter
4. Since there could be no conspiracy between husband and wife, they had to drag Morton Sobell (born April 11, 1917) into the case. No evidence was produced that he did anything to justify 19 years in prison since he committed no crime and neither did Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He was freed in 1969, having survived Alcatraz, during the height of the protests against the American War in Vietnam, a war of anti-communism which resulted in the end of the draft in 1973 due to a massive anti-draft and anti-war movement during which every single college campus was the site of protests, and in victory to the socialist liberation forces of Vietnam on April 30, 1975 which defeated the mightiest death machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, namely Nazi USA.
5. The charge of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage did not mandate a death sentence. See http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1118
6. The jury was never sequestered (never removed from the daily anti-communist barrage and anti-Semitism that prevailed in the US at the time).
7. The Communist Party was always a legal political organization, despite the hysteria of the Democrat-Republican witchhunters.

More facts may be found at:
http://www.rfc.org/sites/rfc.org/files/rosenberg_case_summary_updated_12.01.15_0.pdf

For those who have no memory of the Cold War, the wars of anti-Communism, and accompanying frame-ups, such as the frame-up of the Rosenbergs and Sobell, were all to promote the war machine so as to maximize the profits of the oil companies and the munitions makers, where the greatest profits are, maximization of profit being the primary goal of the bankrupt social order in which we live, capitalism. Nazi Germany did the same, and when their war of anti-Communism failed, with its ultimate goal being the destruction of the Soviet Union, which had a socialist revolution in 1917, the United States recruited as many Nazis as possible to continue with these wars of anti-Communism. The CIA was founded by 350 German Nazis paid by the Rockefeller and Mellon interests to promote wars of anti-Communism and destroy all workers’ struggles around the world. In 1991, when the United States finally succeeded in destroying the Soviet Union, there was no more pretext for the war machine, so a new one had to be invented. Thus, the US military perpetrated the 9/11 Inside Job, an American Reichstag Fire, blaming Muslims who had nothing to do with it, just as the Nazis blamed Communists for burning down their government building, the Reichstag, which the Nazis did themselves, and blaming Jews for everything. The 9/11 Inside Job became the pretext for endless war to maximize the profits of the capitalist class.

On 12/29/16, Robert Meeropol, a son of the Rosenbergs, described the Roy Cohn connection to the latest Hitler to soon occupy the White House, Donald Trump. See https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/29/sons_of_julius_ethel_rosenberg_ask

Roy Cohn (1927-1986), a Democrat who supported Republicans and one of the vicious, bullying, hoodlum, lying prosecutors of the Rosenbergs, later became an organized crime attorney, which organized crime is part of the construction industry in many parts of the country. Donald Trump and his father are and were in the related real estate industry. Donald Trump is a lifelong Democrat, only recently a Republican, who has given thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation. Trump viewed Cohn as a mentor. THE LESSON WE ALL MUST LEARN IS THAT WE MUST STAND UP TO THE BULLY NO MATTER WHAT TO PUT AN END TO THE TERRORISM OF THE BULLY. We also must be open and proud of our political affiliations as that is how we ended the anti-communist witchhunts of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Please sign the petition from Robert and Michael (Rosenberg) Meeropol to President Obama at http://www.rfc.org/ethel. The text is also below:

Our parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed on June 19, 1953 during the anti-communist hysteria of the Cold War Era. They had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, in what was called “the crime of the century.” We were six and 10 years old when they were killed.
Our mother was not a spy, and her execution was wrongful. Her conviction was based on perjured testimony and prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. The charges against our mother and the threat of the death penalty were meant to intimidate her and our father into cooperating. The U.S. government wanted Julius to falsely confess to passing “the secret of the atomic bomb” to the Soviet Union, and name others involved.
Their trial took place during a time of widespread panic about communism. The sentencing judge went so far as to blame our parents for the Korean War.[1] In denying clemency, President Eisenhower accused them of causing future nuclear wars.[2] These outrageous statements and our parents’ execution helped fuel a dangerous climate of fear and intolerance in our country which permitted political opportunists like Senator Joseph McCarthy to poison our society. Today, we face a similar climate of hatred which targets immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQI individuals and others.
A formal acknowledgement of the wrong done to our mother and our family will help prevent similar injustices in the future. A healthy democracy requires that the government acknowledge and correct its transgressions. The government cannot return our mother to her loving family. But it can admit this miscarriage of justice.
Please, join us in calling on Attorney General Lynch and President Obama to formally exonerate Ethel Rosenberg before they leave office. More than 60 years after her unjust conviction and execution, now is the time to clear her good name.
Why Ethel’s Execution Was Wrongful
The grand jury testimony of a chief prosecution witness against our parents, our mother’s brother, David Greenglass, was made public recently. This material — along with previously released testimony and other records — proves that our mother was prosecuted simply for refusing to turn on our father.
The evidence presented against our mother at her trial consisted of testimony by David, and his wife, Ruth. They stated that Ethel took part in two meetings between the Rosenbergs and Greenglasses in 1945 (including one at which David gave Julius a sketch of a cross-section of the bomb), and that our mother’s participation included typing notes. Our mother’s conviction hinged on these alleged actions of hers.
The record now refutes these claims. David’s grand jury testimony made no mention of Ethel’s presence at either meeting, much less her typing. Instead, responding to questions about spying, David told the grand jury: “My sister has never spoken to me about this subject,” and, “I never spoke to my sister about this at all.”[3]
Despite this testimony, prosecutors developed a plan to use our mother against our father. An assistant attorney general told the F.B.I. that there was “insufficient evidence” to charge Ethel, but that she could be used “as a lever against her husband.”[4] Furthermore, a month before the trial, a prosecutor told a congressional committee: “The case is not too strong against Mrs. Rosenberg. But for the purpose of acting as a deterrent, I think it is very important that she be convicted too, and given a stiff sentence.”[5]
At our parents’ trial, David contradicted his sworn grand jury testimony and suddenly implicated our mother in the alleged spy ring by describing Ethel’s presence at the meetings. Decades later, David admitted on national television that this testimony was a lie.[6] Therefore, Ethel’s conviction – which hinged on this story – was wrongful.
Based on these revelations, on September 28th, 2015 (what would have been our mother’s 100th birthday), 13 Members of the New York City Council and the Manhattan Borough President issued proclamations declaring that our mother was wrongfully executed.[7] This was a step towards acknowledging a terrible injustice. Now, it is time for the federal government to do the same.

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[1] Judge Kaufman's Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs for Atomic Espionage. Digital History ID 1118, Author: Judge Irving Kaufman, Date: 1951. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1118
[2] “Eisenhower Statement on Spies,” New York Times, Feb. 12, 1953; http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_rosenberg_doc_9.html
[3] http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20150714-Rosenberg-spy-case-Greenglass-testimony/
[4] (#151g) Belmont to Ladd, July 17, 1950, JR HQ 188.Quoted in Carmichael, Virginia, Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 73.
[5] File #3201, US Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, February 8, 1951, p.6. AEC Documents. Quoted in Carmichael, Ibid.
[6] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cold-war-colder-brother/, aired December 5, 2001.
[7] Full proclamations at http://www.rfc.org/sites/rfc.org/files/nyc_council_proclamation_text_and_signers_09.28.15.pdf and http://www.rfc.org/sites/rfc.org/files/ethel_rosenberg_day_of_justice_in_the_borough_of_manhattan_text_09.28.15.pdf
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