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7/9/2025, 12:16:58 PM
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https://xcancel.com/WireRacing/status/1942424383584170103#m
>It’s hard to overstate how insane the US was after declaring war on Germany in 1917. One filmmaker was sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a movie about the American Revolution, because it portrayed British soldiers in a negative light
Goldstein huh? Committing blood libel? Who'd have thunk?
>A guy in Texas was sentenced to 3 years in prison for saying “I hope Wilson goes to hell”; when pacifist Hutterites in South Dakota refused to buy war bonds, the county sheriff seized all their livestock and auctioned it off
>A teacher in Maine got fired for taking a driving lesson from a German; a pastor in Iowa was sentenced to 5 years in prison for criticizing the people who burned his church down over the fact that he was a German immigrant
>A mob in Berkeley burned a pacifist church to the ground; the American Bar Association announced that lawyers shouldn’t defend anyone charged with “disloyalty”; a former US senator was indicted for saying “There is no reason for this war”
>The most insane persecution, of course, was reserved for labor union members and Socialists, who were beaten, tarred and feathered, tortured with methods developed during the war in the Philippines, and sometimes killed
>The “imperial boomerang” was much in evidence: both the first-ever government agency created to spy on Americans and the nationwide vigilante group the American Protective League were founded and led by Philippine War veterans
>The APL, which was created with federal government support, did everything from attack antiwar rallies with clubs and bats to ransacking libraries for left-wing books and books written by Germans. In small towns, they would force residents to sign loyalty pledges
>Another trademark was making people whose patriotism was suspect kiss the American flag in public; in one town, a guy refused and was beaten to death by the APL, despite being an enlisted man in the military
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https://xcancel.com/WireRacing/status/1942424383584170103#m
>It’s hard to overstate how insane the US was after declaring war on Germany in 1917. One filmmaker was sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a movie about the American Revolution, because it portrayed British soldiers in a negative light
Goldstein huh? Committing blood libel? Who'd have thunk?
>A guy in Texas was sentenced to 3 years in prison for saying “I hope Wilson goes to hell”; when pacifist Hutterites in South Dakota refused to buy war bonds, the county sheriff seized all their livestock and auctioned it off
>A teacher in Maine got fired for taking a driving lesson from a German; a pastor in Iowa was sentenced to 5 years in prison for criticizing the people who burned his church down over the fact that he was a German immigrant
>A mob in Berkeley burned a pacifist church to the ground; the American Bar Association announced that lawyers shouldn’t defend anyone charged with “disloyalty”; a former US senator was indicted for saying “There is no reason for this war”
>The most insane persecution, of course, was reserved for labor union members and Socialists, who were beaten, tarred and feathered, tortured with methods developed during the war in the Philippines, and sometimes killed
>The “imperial boomerang” was much in evidence: both the first-ever government agency created to spy on Americans and the nationwide vigilante group the American Protective League were founded and led by Philippine War veterans
>The APL, which was created with federal government support, did everything from attack antiwar rallies with clubs and bats to ransacking libraries for left-wing books and books written by Germans. In small towns, they would force residents to sign loyalty pledges
>Another trademark was making people whose patriotism was suspect kiss the American flag in public; in one town, a guy refused and was beaten to death by the APL, despite being an enlisted man in the military
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