Oh, please. He ran Emma Goldman out of the country and all of the Sacco-Vanzetti gang of Boston murderers and thugs. Emma’s boyfriend nearly stabbed Frick to death. There is not one silent comedy film made during this period that doesn’t have a joke about anarchist bombs! I just wish our modern attorney generals had the balls of Mr. Palmer!
But “it could never happen here”. It already has before...
Ping
"Red scare" was bad.
Yeah, mm-hmm, sure, right.
All leftists are liars, all the time, including the words "the" and "and".
Bkmk
Sound okay until you read the Leftist story, which is just another hit piece against Conservatives by the media.
It’s interesting to see that’s where J. Edgar Hoover got his start.
I saw that your thread on this was pulled as a duplicate. Apparently Free Republic has multiple people with good eyes for relevant history!
Interesting. Speaking of the Palmer deportations:
To: neverdem
The Red Scare was justified. Leon Czolgosz was inspired to murder President McKinley by one of those Palmer deportedEmma Goldman.We now know from the Soviet archives John Reed was one of five Americans who received over $1,000,000 from Lenin to foment a revolution in America . Big bucks at that time. Reed was stopped in Finland. The other money got here (and probably lots more, the Bolsheviks laundered the property they stole in, among other places, NYC). We know the code names of those involved but not their actual identities (a good guess however would be some of the founders of the ACLU which had been created as a reaction to the so-called Red Scare).
12 posted on 11/24/2009, 11:27:30 PM by Brugmansian
We are doing something like this, minus the round up portion, today:
CNN Journalist Governments Pay Us To Fake News, Shocking Exposé
https://newspunch.com/cnn-journalist-governments-pay-us-to-fake-stories-shocking-expose/
Progressives never want to hear of this history.
1920s Woodrow Wilson / anarchists / communists / progressive ping
The dems/commies are A-OK with no due process red flag laws and the wholesale disarming of Americans and calling for troops to arrest those that dont surrender them.
Progressivism Ping..................
What a mess it was, wrongheadedness on both sides.
The old question: How do we virtuously fight those that fight dirty?
Importantly, Wilson was on the “internationalist progressive” side of the progressive split just before the turn of the century. The “nationalist progressive” leader was Teddy Roosevelt.
Conservatives did not back either side, though leaned towards nationalism.
The split happened at the same time in Europe, with the nationalist progressives eventually backing the Nazis and the internationalist progressives backing the communists.
Yet once again, conservatives wanted nothing to do with either side, but also leaned towards nationalism.
The real radicals of the time were revolutionary anarchists, many of whom came as immigrants from the protracted Italian unification and the Balkans. Since they could not easily obtain guns, their weapons of choice were bombs, much like the Russian Bolsheviks.
Good post!
“Though 556 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer’s efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor...”
Early Deep State pinkos.
Now do FDR.
Thanks for posting this scary time in our history.
Too many of today’s conservatives have a zero sense of how the rights of Americans were violated, even a hundred years ago.