The red scare and the palmer raids

The red scare is the fear of communist, after a series of anarchist bombings. The people of the United States are now living in fear; people are being jailed for expressing their true feelings. The liberties of the people are being ignored. The people of America fear the thought of a revolutionary war. The red scare didn’t last very long at all. Mitchell palmer is attacking politics, because he believes they are being unfair. There is a lot of social and political conflict going on, there have been a series of strikes and bombings. After the attack on politics, palmers house was nearly destroyed, the social conflict could have been avoided if palmer did attack the government. Palmer is holding the communist responsible for the series of bombings; palmer has started publicized raids against “radicals and leftist”. The men that are working under palmer are destroying union offices and headquarters owned by communist. People have no freedom of speech, a sailor shot another man for not standing during the national anthem. Palmer is attacking foreigners, who he believes are born radicals, palmer believes radical foreigners are trying to overthrow the American way of life. The American government is now starting to support antiradicals; they have just passed a law supporting the deportation of aliens and radicals. Most of radicals are from non English speaking areas/ groups, in some states such as Idaho and Oregon are passing laws forbidding any written document that is not in English. This law is a law that I believe will help the American government shut down radicals, and aliens. Palmer is asking for the department bureau of investigation to investigate and watch all radical groups. T. Hoover reported back to palmer, that a revolution could start at anytime, after finding out that a revolution could be coming up soon, he has then ordered more raids and more arrest. Many of the people who are being jailed are beginning to be deported. More than have of the people arrested are being deported. African Americans are the main victims of the palmer raids, many whites are starting to fear the fact that African Americans are being employed and there will be less job opportunities, many whites are starting to bring back the racist fears of the past. Racism and conflict with radicals are now starting to become linked together, the social life and the economy is changing because of African Americans, and radicals. The Klux Klan is now making a rebirth do to all the racial tension. The palmer raid was to single out Bolshevik, and the African Americans. The red scare and the palmer raid are truly against radicals and palmer is trying everything he can to get the radicals out of the US. In my opinion that is a bad idea because he is now starting unnecessary conflicts.