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15 Comments to "Operation Pastorius"
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Pol x
April 21st, 2008 at
7:06 am
This almost makes me want to believe in God.
If there was a god then there would be a devil, if there was a devil then there would be a hell.
If there was a hell, then that sick twisted evil mofo Hoover would be burning in the fires for all time.
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* Miss UNIVERSE
April 21st, 2008 at
7:40 am
The two men spent 6 years in prison and were then sent back to Germany.
Only after the true information was leaked did the reluctant President Truman commute their sentences.
They were not welcomed back home and were never allowed back in the USA as they had been promised
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Greg
April 21st, 2008 at
8:52 am
I thought this story was really sad. What is wrong with this country sometimes? How could a thing like this happen? The worst part is that this still going on today. Who knows how much their doing it at Gitmo? Defectors and innocents being held without trial…what does our country stand for?
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Pol x
April 21st, 2008 at
9:45 am
j. Edgar Hoover really was a blight on the USA.
He spoke platitudes to it’s glory out of one side of his mouth while issuing instructions out the other side that went against nearly everything the US is meant to be about.
Appalling that the current holder of Hoovers mantle uses this shameful event as a legel precedent that he thinks validates Gitmo etc etc.
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bean
April 21st, 2008 at
11:45 am
Paranoid rants about Guantanamo Bay aside, this is a neat story. I’m surprised they didn’t at least consider employing Dasch as a double agent, considering his willingness to reveal himself to us.
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Tempscire
April 21st, 2008 at
12:11 pm
However, the story made public by J. Edgar Hoover had nothing about Dasch turning himself in. Hoover credited “The detective work of the century,” and all eight men were convicted by a military tribunal.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ.
And I mean, I could understand reporting a bust while secretly stashing them away from the public eye, but to actually follow through with sentencing them? wtf?
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L
April 21st, 2008 at
1:10 pm
Six were executed? Why?
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oezicomix
April 21st, 2008 at
2:44 pm
when will someone make a movie about this? should be a great story on screen.
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Ali S.
April 21st, 2008 at
2:53 pm
Hoover, was an insane power-monger. Who probably used this to boost his position and took the credit for the “capture” of these guys. Ugh.
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Barbwire
April 21st, 2008 at
11:19 pm
What a travesty! So if the guy selected to pilot the next plane into a building showed up at the Hoover FBI, willing to turn over the plans, he’s be shot summarily or sent forthwith to Guantánamo? J. Edgar must have played a formative role in the development of the characters of Bush, Cheney and friends.
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Larfin Jackarse
April 22nd, 2008 at
3:03 am
And didn’t he wear a dress, was gay yet persecuted gay and made his agents all wear suits? Or is that W?
No, no, no….IT IS A JOKE!
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Pol x
April 22nd, 2008 at
4:58 am
Bean,
what didn’t you understand about Gitmo?
Is it just a wooly liberal idea that incarceration without trial legalistically puts the US on a par with the PRC?
C’mon, the US is meant to better than that.
Live up to the legacy of your forebears.
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Shay
April 22nd, 2008 at
7:56 am
Oh. I was expecting to read about Jaco…
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Miss Cellania
April 22nd, 2008 at
8:01 am
I should write about Jaco! He had the greatest thumbs ever!
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ted
April 22nd, 2008 at
8:57 am
It reminded me of Catiline’s conspiracy in the Roman Republic. The consul Cicero arrested and executed several alleged conspirators without trial “for the good of the republic”.
He was a little ahead of his time; he suffered for this action. Subsequent rulers were able to kill people on a whim.
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