Tuesday, July 05, 2005

From The Nature Trumps Nurture Department:

James Taranto and The Best of the Web Today team discovers that stupidity may be genetic.

Rosenberg Family Values

The Associated Press reports on a small protest in New York against the detention of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay:

Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights that has filed lawsuits in federal court challenging the detentions, also addressed the crowd.

The Bush administration "has claimed the power to kidnap men anywhere in the world and hold them, interrogate them, detain them without any process of law," said Meeropol, the granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

At least Meeropol is honoring tradition--specifically, the family tradition of siding with the enemies of America.

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