How did Attorney General Palmer try to deal with communists and anarchist?
He framed people, imprisoned some and deported others, arranged for the assassination of others, etc. Basically, Palmer used police-state tactics to get rid of dissidents, including anarchists and communists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raid... "On May 28, 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union published a report entitled Report of the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice which carefully documented unlawful Departmental authorization of the arrests of suspected radicals, illegal entrapment by agent provocateurs and unlawful incommunicado detention. The report was signed by prominent lawyers and law professors, including Felix Frankfurter, Roscoe Pound and Ernst Freund. Palmer was called before the House Rules Committee and strongly defended his actions and that of his department, saying "I apologize for nothing that the Department of Justice has done in this matter. I glory in it."[13][14] "In June 1920, Judge George Anderson effectively ended the raids when he ordered the discharge of twenty aliens, and denounced Department of Justice actions. The discovery of trumped-up charges and the Daugherty-Burns scandal turned public opinion against further large-scale arrests and searches, though subsequent bomb attacks and public clamor to punish the radicals believed responsible did not subside.[15][16] Palmer, once seen as a likely presidential candidate, lost the nomination.[13] For their part, the Galleanists continued their violent bombing campaign, which would last another twelve years.[17]" For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWW#Governm... "In Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919, IWW member and army veteran Wesley Everest was turned over to the lynch mob [an American Legion unit] by jail guards, had his teeth smashed with a rifle butt, was castrated, lynched three times in three separate locations, and then his corpse was riddled with bullets before it was disposed of in an unmarked grave.[11] The official coroner's report listed the victim's cause of death as "suicide.""
Fear in government question for history essay?
Hi, I am writing an essay for history and having a bit of difficulty gathering my thoughts and knowing what to write about. Can someone help me? Here's the topic: The Red Scare of the 1920s is an important illustration of "fear" based politics. Based on documents and current events do you think fear is an appropriate form of persuasion in a democracy? Can someone help me write this please? :)
What is the difference between liberals and radicals?
Radicals are those that favor extreme/disruptive change. It can be applied to anything, democrats, republicans, progressives, regressives, liberals, conservatives.Liberals are those that favor both equality and change small or large in so far as it is about improving the existing system/environment/situation.The republican echo chamber has been redefining Liberalism since the 1980s in order to shepherd their minions into a group belief that liberals are gullible, lack wisdom, lead with emotions, and worship idols. This is far from the reality which has made it easy for republicans to manipulate their minions into voting against their interests because liberals have become their boogie man.
Special government office established by attorney general palmer to gather information on radical activities w?
The General Intelligence Divison. J.Edgar Hoover was put in charge.
After world war 1, how did the justice department under A. Mitchell Palmer respond to the possible communism?
The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Though more than 500 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the US Department of Labor who had responsibility for deportations and who objected to Palmer's methods and disrespect for the legal process. The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare, the term given to American fear of and reaction against political radicals in the years immediately following World War I
Discussion on the palmer raids?
I need a brief discussion 2-5 minute discussion on the palmer raids.can only one help, i would like if yall would chip in a hand and write something about it.thanks.
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? BEST ANSWER?
He was Attorney-General in USA 1919-1921. He aithorized a series of government raids between November 1919 and January 1920 to round up and deport foreigners seen as too politically radical.Anarchists in particular were targetted,especially the movement's perceived leadership in the US. His most important act was to put one J.Edgar Hoover in charge of the new Bureau of Investigation to help carry out the raids.Hoover started as he meant to continue when his department grew into the FBI in later years - many of those arrested were severely beaten during interrogation,and were deliberately not informed of their rights under the law when initially arrested.
Why do so many Americans and others remain clueless about all the differences between totalitarian communism and social democracies?
What makes you think we are? Just because we don’t want either one of them in our country?We totally get the difference. There are some radicals on the far-right of American politics who either don’t know the difference, or more likely, do know the difference and just lump all socialistic systems together in order to get people to vote for right-wing politicians and policies.Communism is Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Brezhnev and closer to home, Fidel Castro. It’s a totalitarian form of Socialism that the people of the country have no choice but to accept, unless they want to go to prison or worse. Social democracy is what they have in most of Europe. It’s a Socialist system that the people have chosen in free and open elections, and if the leaders are voted out of office, they leave, even if they’re replaced by a non-Socialist regime. It’s not dictatorial, it’s just a system of government where the state is allowed to provide more services than in a country that isn’t using some form of Socialist governance.We don’t want any form of Socialism in the United States not because we don’t know the difference between Communism and Social Democracy. It has more to do with a commonly told joke in the United States, which usually goes something like: “If you put the U.S. government in charge of the Pacific Ocean, in five years you’d have a shortage of water.”We simply don’t trust our government enough to entrust it to provide extensive services on a national level, and we believe that the resources needed to provide such services are better left to the private sector and to state and local governments, both because they can manage the resources more efficiently, and also because we don’t want the already bloated national government expanding further.