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Bring Back the Palmer Raids
Chuck Morse Speaks ^ | April 23, 2013 | Chuck Morse

Posted on 04/23/2013 9:40:39 AM PDT by Chuckmorse

In the aftermath of the radical Islamo-Communist terror bombing of Boston, and a subsequent spate of near misses and evacuations across the country, it is appropriate to look back and consider the measures that were taken in similar circumstances in 1919 by A. Mitchell Palmer, the liberal Democratic Quaker Pacifist Attorney General who served in the liberal Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson.

Following the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia, pro-Soviet anarchists launched a campaign of bombing and assassination against American officials, judges, and prominent citizens. On August 20, 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin issued a fatwa against the United States of America in his “Letter to American Workers.” Lenin called on his American sleeper cells to “play an exceptionally important role as uncompromising enemies of American imperialism” by launching a “civil war against the bourgeoisie.”

April 28, 1919, a Bolshevik bomb was dismantled at the home of Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson. The next day, a Bolshevik bomb ripped the hands off of an employee of Georgia Senator Thomas Hardwick and severely burned his wife. A few days later, on May Day, 1919, 34 bombs were intercepted before reaching their targets which included such leading figures as Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, North Carolina Senator Lee S. Overman, Utah Senator William H. King, Postmaster General Albert Berlson, and John D. Rockefeller. On that same day, coordinated violent and seditious riots were launched in several American cities including Boston. The next day a bomb ripped through a municipal building in Brownsville Pennsylvania.

On June 2, 1919 eight American cities were bombed simultaneously by Soviet sympathizing anarchists. Bombs exploded at the homes of Boston Judge A. F. Hayden and at the Newton, Massachusetts, home of State Representative Leland Powers. A bomb was defused at the office of Cleveland Mayor Harry L. Davis and two bombs exploded in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, one next to the home of Federal Judge J. Thomson and the other next to the home of immigration official W.W. Sibray. In New York City, the home of Judge Charles C. Nott was bombed killing night patrolman William Goshner and an unidentified man in what the New York Times referred to as an “infernal killing machine.” In Philadelphia, the Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church and the Frankfort Arsenal were bombed. On that day bombs exploded at the homes of prominent citizens in Patterson and East Orange New Jersey.

Most significantly from a political standpoint, a huge bomb ripped through the front of the Georgetown home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. The terrorist planting the bomb was killed when he tripped running from the scene. Palmer and his young family were not hurt in the assassination attempt. The massive explosion caused windows to shatter at the neighboring home of Palmer’s close friend and political associate, Under Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who ran out to help.

Palmer acted swiftly by establishing a special unit to investigate the terrorists and he put 24-year-old liberal Democrat J. Edgar Hoover in charge. The special unit, which would become the FBI, proceeded to round up more than 10,000 suspected alien terrorists over the next seven months. By January 1920, 247 alien terrorists had been deported. Those who could not be deported due to insufficient evidence were released.

Nine months later, September 1920, pro-Soviet anarchists bombed Wall Street killing 40 commuters and injuring more than 400 in an explosion that would make the Boston Marathon bombing look like a fire-cracker in comparison. The street was littered with dismembered corpses and puddles of blood. The pro-Soviet jihadists were secular radicals, most of who had recently emigrated from Europe, who were trying to destabilize America with a new kind of warfare. They called their terrorist acts the “propaganda of the deed.” Their garden of Allah was socialism and anarchy.

The Wilson administration broke the back of the terrorist infrastructure and the result was relative peace and security for several generations. Contrary to the propaganda of the terrorist sympathizers, this was accomplished lawfully and with an impressive degree of restraint. Alien terrorists and their alien enablers were deported, the threat was suppressed, and civil liberties were preserved.

The Wilson administration response to the emergency went a long way toward sparing this country from the type of chaos and violence that plagued Europe at the time, violence and chaos that contributed to the enthronement of National Socialism in Germany. President Wilson articulated his counterterrorism policy in his December 1919 message to Congress: “Let us be frank about this solemn matter, the evidences of the world-wide unrest which manifest themselves in violence throughout the world bid us pause and consider the means to be found to stop the spread of this contagious thing before it saps the very vitality of the nation itself.”

The Islamo-Communists of today are more dangerous than were the Anarchist- Communists of 1919-1920 because of their indiscriminate terror tactics. Rather than targeting specific people for murder, as did the Anarchist-Communists, the Islamo- Communists kill as many Americans as they possibly can as was the case at the Boston Marathon. Wilson recognized the subversive threat the alien anarchists posed to America and he chose to crush the conspiracy in an entirely lawful manner. No alien has a right to reside in the United States, or in any sovereign state according to norms of international law and custom. Like the FBI of 1919-1920, the FBI today should roundup aliens suspected of involvement in the terrorist conspiracy and, after a process of determining the nature of the involvement, those found to have been involved in aiding or abetting terrorism should be swiftly deported.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: anarchist; blogpimp; communist; palmer; terrorism

1 posted on 04/23/2013 9:40:39 AM PDT by Chuckmorse
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To: Chuckmorse

Great, an unexcerpted blog! Thanks, Chuck, for another one we won’t hear about on ABCNNBCBS.


2 posted on 04/23/2013 9:46:48 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Chuckmorse
Those . . . were . . . the days, my friend
we thought they'd never end . . .
3 posted on 04/23/2013 9:50:07 AM PDT by YHAOS
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To: Chuckmorse

All schoolchildren today remember about America’s Red Terror, if they remember anything at all, is the executions (richly, richly deserved executions) of poor Sacco and Vanzetti, and how unjust they were.


4 posted on 04/23/2013 9:55:10 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Chuckmorse

Bfl


5 posted on 04/23/2013 9:58:30 AM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: Chuckmorse

Bookmarking for the history, I have regularly proposed that Communism should be a crime, and being able to recite this in public to a “progressive” DemoRat should be loads of fun.


6 posted on 04/23/2013 10:00:45 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Chuckmorse

Good history report!


7 posted on 04/23/2013 10:05:42 AM PDT by veracious
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To: Chuckmorse

Thanks. I’d forgotten about this. It was the one good thing Wilson did as President.


8 posted on 04/23/2013 10:09:19 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Chuckmorse

“...those found to have been involved in aiding or abetting terrorism should be swiftly deported.”

...to Antarctica.
...without coats.

Otherwise, hang ‘em in the public square.


9 posted on 04/23/2013 10:17:27 AM PDT by spankalib (The downside of liberty is the need to tolerate those who despise it.)
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To: Chuckmorse; Travis McGee; Kenny Bunk; Alamo-Girl
This what 'amnesty' and coddling the invaders amounts to:

Someone sneaks in my house while I'm out cutting the lawn. when I get back in the house and find the squatter feeding himself from my fridge, I confront him and call the cops. The police arrive and take my statement, then they bring in an interpreter and take the statement of the home invader. THEN these same police call the relatives of the invader and bring them into my house to help eat the remainign food in my fridge and empty my pantry and medicine cabinet before they walk freely out my door and start the process at my neighbor's house.

What the gang of eight and democrips, along with scum and villainy like upChuck Schumer are ordering you to do is open your house and be invaded ... to make you stronger? It would be to laugh were it not so obviously demonic!

The government oligarchs are commanding We The People to be suurped by non-citizens who invade our homeland and can give vote empowerment to the democrips. Yes, these oligarchs are commanding you to step aside and like being pushed right out of your home and give up your Constitutionally defined God given rights, or else they will settle up with YOU just as they handled Boston and the burbs thereat.

10 posted on 04/23/2013 10:19:23 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: JimRed

Wilson’s clampdowns on civil liberties such as invasion of privacy and a right to a fair trial with little evidence of illegal activity would be impossible today. The execution would be even more of a nightmare of poor communications, planning, and intelligence than the original version.


11 posted on 04/23/2013 10:21:33 AM PDT by erlayman
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To: JimRed; Chuckmorse
+1 on the thanks for the unexcerpted blog.

Come to think of it I think I'll just go have a look at the original. :)

12 posted on 04/23/2013 10:22:46 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: MHGinTN

Thanks for the ping!


13 posted on 04/23/2013 10:49:27 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Chuckmorse

I’m sure Mayor Bloomberg agrees.


14 posted on 04/23/2013 11:33:08 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: Chuckmorse

That, of course, was before the US was infected with Political correctness that forbids calling a spade a spade.


15 posted on 04/23/2013 12:16:48 PM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Chuckster
That, of course, was before the US was infected with Political correctness that forbids calling a spade a spade.

No, the "Political correctness" you refer to dates from 1783. It was called "The Constitution" back then. Wilson openly spit on it and I guess you do too.

16 posted on 04/23/2013 2:30:48 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

“No, the “Political correctness” you refer to dates from 1783. It was called “The Constitution” back then. Wilson openly spit on it and I guess you do too.”

To be fair, if mainestategop is to be believed, even the Founding Fathers “spat” on it when dealing with the French Revolutionaries, especially when they started peddling their crap on our shores, and even advocated we should go back to that bit. If anything, that was one of the few things Wilson did that actually WAS in line with the Founding Fathers.


17 posted on 08/31/2018 12:27:48 PM PDT by otness_e
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To: otness_e

And in case anyone was wondering, this is the mainstategop comment I was referring to: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3510047/posts?page=4


18 posted on 11/04/2019 8:34:55 AM PST by otness_e
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To: Chuckmorse

Bring back these raids now and who will the Democrats use them to round up when they’re in the White House again?


19 posted on 11/04/2019 8:39:35 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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