Julius Rosenberg Quotes
I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.
United States District Court, New York (Southern District). Transcript of Record, Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1951, No. 111, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, Petitioners, vs. The United States of America. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952, p. 1198.
While this has been one of the great American principles of political philosophy, in reality we have on many occasions interfered when a people chose an enemy of the United States or made a choice of a government which would seize power and not allow any further free choices. However, from the time JFK made this statement to today, our foreign policy record has become much better on implementing this principle.
Although opposed to monarchy himself, Langdon argued that a people had a right to select monarchical government if they chose. See {634001} for Rev. Dan Foster’s similar argument at in that period.
The Muslim Brotherhood which had been elected after the Arab Sprint deposition of President Mubarak, had then begun to institute their own religious philosophy into what was becoming a theocratic government. Rights of Christians, and other non-Muslims as well as moderate Muslims, together with women, democrats and advocates for human rights and freedom were trampled. 30 million people demonstrated in the streets and the nation was about to have a civil war when the military, under el-Sisi, deposed the Muslim Brotherhood government. When the Brotherhood took to the streets, many with weapons, there was a clash where almost 1000 Brothers were killed as were almost 100 police. The general was addressing the Egyptians and the rest of the world explaining the reason for breaking up the demonstrations.
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass) were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines and valuable nuclear weapon designs (at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons). Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.
