Ed Helms

And together with the National Popular Government League in May of 1920, they

They published a remarkable letter, which I want to read to you.

This was written by 12 prominent lawyers of the day, and it was called The Report Upon Illegal Practices by the United States Department of Justice.

Here's the letter.

For more than six months, we, the undersigned lawyers whose sworn duty it is to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States, have seen with growing apprehension the continued violation of that Constitution and breaking of those laws by the Department of Justice of the United States government.

Under the guise of a campaign for the suppression of radical activities, the office of the attorney general acting by its local agents throughout the country and giving express instructions from Washington has committed continual illegal acts.

Wholesale arrests of both aliens and citizens have been made without warrant or any process of law.

Men and women have been jailed and held incommunicado without access to friends or counsel.

Homes have been entered without search warrant and property seized and removed.

Other property has been wantonly destroyed.

In support of these illegal acts and to create sentiment in its favor, the Department of Justice has also constituted itself a propaganda bureau and has sent to newspapers and magazines of this country quantities of material designed to excite public opinion against radicals, all at the expense of the government and outside the scope of the Attorney General's duties.

We make no argument in favor of any radical doctrine as such, whether socialist, communist, or anarchist.

None of us belong to any of those schools of thought, nor do we now raise any question as to the constitutional protection of free speech and a free press.

We are concerned solely with bringing to the attention of the American people the utterly illegal acts—

which have been committed by those charged with the highest duty of enforcing the laws.

Acts which have caused widespread suffering and unrest have struck at the foundation of American free institutions and have brought the name of our country into disrepute.

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