WILL ANY OF THE BECKSTERS LOOK THIS UP?

(h/t Daily Beast)

In this video, Glenn Beck condemns Pres. Woodrow Wilson for denying free speech to thousands who opposed America's entry into World War I.


There's no doubt that civil liberties were violated but what Beck didn't tell us is the target of the raids: socialists, communists and anarchists. Here's what the Dictionary of American History has on the raids:

From February 1917 to November 1919, federal agents deported sixty aliens of some 600 arrested as anarchists. More raids followed over the next two months, the most notable being the 249 persons, including Emma Goldman, deported on December 21 aboard a single "Red Ark," the Buford. The most ambitious raids occurred on January 2, 1920, with lesser efforts continuing over the next few days. In all, Hoover utilized 579 agents from the Bureau of Investigation and vigilantes from the recently disbanded American Protective League to orchestrate massive raids against communists in twenty-three states. At least 4,000 and perhaps as many as 6,000 persons from thirty-three cities were arrested. Most were Communist Party members or suspected members.

This contradicts Beck's assertion that Wilson was in fact on the side of the communists and socialists.