“History is history, and fact is fact,” the judge allowed. “But this is no time . . . for those things that may have the tendency or effect of sowing dissension . . . and of creating animosity or want of confidence between us and our allies.” As for Goldstein’s loss of personal liberty, the judge told him, “Count yourself lucky that you didn’t commit treason in a country lacking America’s right to a trial by jury. You’d already be dead.”66
