Robert Meeropol: Julian Assange, My Parents and the Espionage Act of 1917
Meerpol is the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ..
The 1917 Act has a notorious history. It originally served to squelch opposition to World War I. It criminalized criticism of the war effort, and sent hundreds of dissenters to jail just for voicing their opinions. It transformed dissent into treason. Many who attacked the law noted that the framers of the Constitution had specifically limited what constituted treason by writing it into the Constituton
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