Sinclair Letter Turns Out to Be Another Exposé

Los Angeles Times ^ | December 24, 2005 | Jean O. Pasco

[concentric circles]

"... an envelope ... caught his eye... The return address read, "Upton Sinclair..."

"... I am here trying to make plain my own part in the story."

"The story was "Boston," Sinclair's ... condemnation of the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, Italian immigrants accused of killing two men in the robbery of a Massachusetts shoe factory..."

"... Sinclair met with ... the men's attorney..."

"..."I begged him to tell me the full truth," Sinclair wrote. " … He then told me that the men were guilty, and he told me in every detail how he had framed a set of alibis for them...."

"...On Aug. 23, 1927, the day they were executed, 25,000 protested in Boston."

"The men have been viewed as martyrs by the American left ever since..."

"..."I faced the most difficult ethical problem of my life at that point," he wrote..."

"..."My wife is absolutely certain that if I tell what I believe, I will be called a traitor to the movement and may not live to finish the book..."

"..."It is much better copy as a naïve defense of Sacco and Vanzetti because this is what all my foreign readers expect, and they are 90% of my public," he wrote.."

"...Ideale Gambera, whose father was a Boston anarchist in the 1920s, said he could empathize with Sinclair's angst about revealing his doubts."

"Gambera, 80, said there was a strict code of silence to protect the group and hide the nature of their activities. He said his father, Giovanni Gambera, a member of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, told him before he died in 1982 that Sacco was one of the killers."

"They all lied," said Gambera, a retired English professor living in San Rafael. "They did it for the cause."

[concentric circles]

I prefer to not post from the Los Angeles Times, which sought the destruction of Free Republic. In this case I am happy to make an exception in the cause of correcting the overwrought history of the American Left.

[Vaquero]

rot commie bastards...I hope they are frying in hell.

[KAUAIBOUND]

Another cherished myth uncovered - the left is a total fraud, and their journalistic enablers continually strive to protect that fraud - for example, the myths that Joe McCarthy was lying about the infiltration of the U.S. government by Communists and leftist sympathizers, or that the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss were innocent.

[Boundless]

> "The men have been viewed as martyrs by the
> American left ever since..."

Not just American. Bertolucci made an apologist movie
about them, but even it couldn't exonerate them, focusing
on their conviction because the jury overestimated the
phrase "consistent with" in the bullet-to-weapon match.
i.e., not only could it have been them, but it probably was.

However, this deathbed confession will do nothing to
deter the left from continuing to worship these robbers.
Once the icons are beatified, facts are irrelevant.

[AmericanArchConservative]

bookmark.

[Clemenza]

Sacco and Vanzetti were SCUM who deserved the death sentence.

[Darkwolf377]

I wonder how Howard Zinn will react. He has bellowed about the innocence of S&V for decades.

I'm sure he will publish an op-ed showing that there are clues in this letter that prove their innocence without a doubt.

[Redbob]

"Mr. Sacco, Mr. Vanzetti, I'd like you to meet our newest member here in Hell: Mr. Tookie Williams!"

[Vaquero]

rot commie bastards...I hope they are frying in hell. fry in hell with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

[Redbob]

"I wonder how Howard Zinn will react. He has bellowed about the innocence of S&V for decades."

HE'll get to meet them soon enough, then he can decide...

[Darkwolf377]

Why, is Zinn ill, or just old?

[Bernard Marx]

Once the icons are beatified, facts are irrelevant.

An elegant statement; it should be a tag line.

[purpleland]

"rot commie bastards...I hope they are frying in hell."

The REAL and TRUE purpose of forming the ACLU in the '20s was, by using legal machinations and in the guise of civil rights advocacy, to protect anarchists, traitors, communists, spies, union agitators, neurotic antheists, Bolschevik revolutionaries (Emma Goldman, et al) and assassins.

[purpleland]

Another cherished myth uncovered - the left is a total fraud, and their journalistic enablers continually strive to protect that fraud - for example, the myths that Joe McCarthy was lying about the infiltration of the U.S. government by Communists and leftist sympathizers, or that the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss were innocent.

*Add Tookie Williams to the list of criminals who are mythified "martyrs" championed by perverse leftists. Can anyone doubt the absolute pathological disorder of leftists? Their cognitive disease of inversion? Or that they predominate in the MEDIA and academia? Egoistic BRATS!

[purpleland]

Lenin: "and against the opportunism, especially against those who are in favor of working class participation in a war of defence..."

Excerpt, source: http://www.marxists.org

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Published: First published in 1924 in Lenin Miscellany II. Written in English before November 9 (23), 1915. Published according to the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, [197[4]], Moscow, Volume 21, pages 423-428.
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Transcription\Markup: D. Walters and R. Cymbala
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Dear Comrades![1]

We are extremely glad to get your leaflet. Your appeal to the members of the Socialist Party to struggle for a new International, for clear-cut revolutionary socialism as taught by Marx and Engels, and against the opportunism, especially against those who are in favor of working class participation in a war of defence, corresponds fully with the position our party (Social-Democratic Labor Party of Russia, Central Committee) has taken from the beginning of this war and has always taken during more than ten years.

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[Vaquero]

Tail Gunner Joe Mc Carthy was RIGHT...in every permutation of the word......

[kublia khan]

Alger Hiss must have been innocent former railroad worker Don Imus said so.

[purpleland]

Alger Hiss must have been innocent former railroad worker Don Imus said so.

*Don Imus and Larry King are ignorant sycophants. Unfortunately, they give airtime and a broadcast platform to some of the worst politicians, activists and gollywooders. Alger Hiss was guilty as were the Rosenbergs.
It is SOooo bizarre: leftists are congentially and/or ideologically bound to LIE AND DENY, and they are fanatically obligated to Mythifying and Revisionism to obscure TRUTH. It's absolutely pathological. AND, that's why you do NOT want any of them in a position of political power. The insistent leftist/Democrat mantra that Bush is a "liar" for the past 5 years or so is typical psycho-projection. P.S. Because I worked myself out of the benign Christmas spirit, I will conclude with: Elite democrats Unfit John Kerry and Dumber-than-a-Rock Jay Rockefeller are TRAITOROUS!

[kublia khan]

Don't you think it's damn funny that even brilliant Democrats like ole Joe Lieberman have to kiss the ring on Imus' finger? They must retch all the way back to the Limo

[purpleland]

"Don't you think it's damn funny that even brilliant Democrats like ole Joe Lieberman have to kiss the ring on Imus' finger? They must retch all the way back to the Limo"

Imus admitted to his vast radio audience that candidate UNFIT John Kerry was a phony and yet he was voting for Kerry! Not only does Imus look like a cadaver, he is brain-dead.