{"id":8555,"date":"2020-01-02T08:46:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T07:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2020-01-02T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T07:48:35","slug":"january-2-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8555","title":{"rendered":"January 2, 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Justice Department launched a series of raids on January 2, 1920, with follow up operations over the next few days. Smaller raids extended over the next 6 weeks. At least 3000 were arrested, and many others were held for various lengths of time. The entire enterprise replicated the November action on a larger scale, including arrests and seizures without search warrants, as well as detention in overcrowded and unsanitary holding facilities. Hoover later admitted &#8222;clear cases of brutality.&#8220;<sup id=\"cite_ref-17\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmer_Raids#cite_note-17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The raids covered more than 30 cities and towns in 23 states, but those west of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio were &#8222;publicity gestures&#8220; designed to make the effort appear nation&shy;wide in scope.<sup id=\"cite_ref-18\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmer_Raids#cite_note-18\">[18]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Because the raids targeted entire organizations, agents arrested everyone found in organization meeting halls, not only arresting non-radical organization members but also visitors who did not belong to a target organization, and sometimes American citizens not eligible for arrest and deportation.<sup id=\"cite_ref-19\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmer_Raids#cite_note-19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmer_Raids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>, 02.01.2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department launched a series of raids on January 2, 1920, with follow up operations over the next few days. Smaller raids extended over the next 6 weeks. At least 3000 were arrested, and many others were held for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8555\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}