The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 during the First Red Scare by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. The raids targeted suspected leftists and labor activists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants, especially if they were anarchists or communists, and generally sought to deport them from the United States.
The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with more than 3,000 arrested. Though 556 people were deported, including many prominent leftist leaders like Emma Goldman, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to methods.
On this day in 1920, the Justice Department launched its second series of raids against leftists and labor organizers across more than 23 states. Because the raids targeted entire organizations, agents engaged in mass arrests, and President Hoover later admitted that there were "clear cases of brutality".
Although the DoJ initially claimed to have taken possession of several bombs, no evidence of the bombs was produced. In their entirety, all the raids only confiscated four pistols.
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Currently in an argument with a lib who insists that Dick Cheney is now "the only good republican" because he's publicly decrying Trump. Because Trump is a traitor who colluded with Russia to steal the presidency.
Utterly mind-boggling. I'm no fan of Donald Trump (though obviously I don't believe Russiagate is real. Trump had business dealings in Russia that is improper for a president but that sort of corruption is small time compared to what a lot of politicians get up to) but Dick Cheney has got to be one of the worst living people. He's definitely got to make the shortlist for "most destructive people" to live in the Post-WWII era. A large burden of the guilt of a million slaughtered Iraqis and Afghans rests on his shoulders.
Which is what I said, more or less. Response was "Sure but Cheney's crimes were over there, not here. Trump was here." What sort of fucked up logic is that?
Compared to the War on Terror, or even compared to the destruction of Libya under Obama, Trump's worst crimes are mild. Like, even if he actually did steal the presidency and commit treason, the actual impact of that crime is far less than the War on Terror. I'm not terribly concerned by Trump's supposed "assault on democracy" because it's pretty clear we don't live in one, but inasmuch as it was an assault on those values, worse things occurred under the Bush admin.
Trump's worst crimes were probably war crimes (I guess you could say he bungled the COVID response, and he did, but it's clear our entire system of governance was completely ill-equipped to deal with a pandemic) and those are a.) standard for any president, to my knowledge Trump's war crimes weren't worse than anything Obama or Clinton did and b.) a direct result of the wars Cheney helped start in the first place.
absolutely zero need to engage after that, call them a nationalist psychopath and dip
Stop arguing with libs for your own sake. It benefits no one and your energy is better spent elsewhere