Michael D. Shaw Feb 22, 2025 @ Mike's Point of View
Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. Julius was a key figure in a major spy ring, set up to pass secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviets. While Ethel was certainly aware of what was going on, her role was limited compared to her husband’s.
Nonetheless, she was indicted to put pressure on Julius, to get him to give up more details of the conspiracy. Indeed, the government was willing to remove the death penalty, only if either of them were to provide more information. They both refused to cooperate. The Rosenbergs were ardent Communists, and believed that they were giving their lives for a great cause.
While the couple maintained their innocence, and were defended at the time by many “useful idiots,” documents from the Venona files, as well as KGB notebooks published by former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev prove their involvement. Again, Ethel’s role was small. Even their sons now acknowledge that Julius was a spy, while their mother was a bit player, but argue that the death penalty was an overreaction.
The point here is that the term “Ethel Rosenberg” can be used to describe such a true believer that—even given the chance to save her life—would prefer to die for the cause, and leave her children orphans. Children, who were only adopted by Commie activist Abel Meeropol, as all her relatives refused to intervene.
The Model UN is a program that brings in students—starting in middle school and through college—“to cultivate skills and enrich their global affairs knowledge. UNA-USA is dedicated to empowering young Americans with tools and experiences that prepare them to be the next generation of global leaders.”
Typically, the program attracts high-achieving individuals, almost universally with a liberal point of view. These Model UN kids tend to be true believers, and for the most part retain their youthful political views forever—life experience be damned.
You can observe both the Ethel Rosenberg and Model UN stereotypes playing out in real time, as DOGE exposes the massive fraud in our federal government. Moreover, it is hard not to conclude that the entire purpose of many government programs is the opportunity to create graft—and what benefit might flow to the supposed recipients is mostly accidental.
- Despite clear evidence of unimaginable fraud in USAID, the best you’ll get from the Ethel Rosenberg/Model UN crowd is a half-hearted acknowledgement of waste (which “always occurs”) but any real efforts to stem this is “fascist,” promoting a “constitutional crisis.”
- Foes on the Left are quick to complain about Elon Musk and his team being “unelected,” while failing to acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of other unelected bureaucrats who have been part of federal government for more than 100 years.
- The ER/MUN cohort does not seem to care a bit about ungodly Treasury outlays, and somehow argue that the Chief Executive should not have access to audit the gigantic cash outflow. They’re cool with the Treasury essentially putting everything on auto pay.
- If these phonies really were concerned with social welfare and their countless causes du jour, they should welcome the audits—as it would free up money for more social causes, right? Only, they’re not. What does that tell you?
We can also use our old friend: Inductive reasoning.
Going back only to LBJ’s Great Society, we observe that trillions of dollars have been spent on myriad social causes, and yet…
- Poverty and malnutrition still exist
- Reading and writing skills have deteriorated, not improved
- Politicians earning $200K per year can have a net worth of $80 million or more
- Despite a virtually unlimited military budget, we have not won a war since 1945
- Untold thousands of NGOs and consultants have flourished on your tax dollars
- In the face of uncontrolled expenditure, America’s health is not great
You get the idea. As to NGOs, the current notion of a “non-governmental organization” is a misnomer these days, since so many of them are completely supported by government money. As to health, WAAAY too much money is going toward what is sardonically called “white man’s welfare,” in the form of pointless grants to academic medicine.
SO…use your best inductive reasoning, and ask yourselves what we got for all these federal expenditures—based on your overtaxed dollars. That’s why DOGE’s forced day of reckoning scares so many corrupt insiders.
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