The Different Ways People Conspire With The Enemy.

My mother actually is the one who pointed his out. When I was still in high school I think. Back in the past, when US citizens conspired with our enemies and did things like sell them our sensitive secrets, it was for ideology and principle. I want to say the last people who did that, or one of the last, where Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage in New York, in 1953. After that, it is was usually for money and profit. And sometimes things like sex. With female KGB agents, for example.

Both are bad, and both endanger lives and internal security. But are they equally bad? Some people might say both equally wrong, selling secrets for reasons of ideology/principle, or profit. But, at least when you do it for things like ideology, you're doing it for the right reasons.

Thoughts?

 

The old saying, Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

 

These two got the electric chair for doing far far less with less evidence than what Emperor Orange has done. Think about that. It's truly frightening.

Espionage Act of 1917,[33] which provides that anyone convicted of transmitting or attempting to transmit to a foreign government "information relating to the national defense" may be imprisoned for life or put to death........