True America: The First Red Scare

The United States has faced domestic radicalism in its past. In a pattern, beginning with Lincoln's suppression of the press and suspension of habeas corpus, it has responded by curtailing civil liberties. Despite massive domestic counter-terror programs terrorist acts continue to occur. The Boston Marathon bombing is the most recent example. This amateur video, Red Scare: American Reaction to Communism" shows the extremes --"willingness to bend laws" in the young narrator's terms--which American law enforcement used to suppress leftist radicals and anarchists after World War I. The Espionage Act of 1917 mentioned therein has been invoked more times by the Current Occupant than before in the struggle against global jihad which began with the attacks of September 11, 2001