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[[Image:Wallstreet091707a.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Red Scare [[Terrorist]] Bombing on Wall Street.]]

[[Image:Wallstreet091707a.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Red Scare [[Terrorist]] Bombing on Wall Street.]]

The [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) was organized at Moscow’s behest in 1921, merging [[John Reed]]’s [[Communist Labor Party]] with the [[Communist Party of America]], organized by a former socialist, Midwesterner Charles Emil Ruthenberg.  The Russian [[Bolshevik]]s saw themselves as leaders of a worldwide revolutionary movement.  There was a good deal of disorder, and no small amount of criminal behavior.  

The [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) was organized at Moscow’s behest in 1921, merging [[John Reed]]’s [[Communist Labor Party]] with the [[Communist Party of America]], organized by a former socialist, Midwesterner Charles Emil Ruthenberg.  The Russian [[Bolshevik]]s saw themselves as leaders of a worldwide revolutionary movement.  There was a good deal of disorder, and no small amount of criminal behavior.  

==Links to the Democratic Party==

==Links to the Democratic Party==

The Red Scare was primarily perpetrated by the [[Democratic Party]] under John Burley Swainson, former democratic governor of [[Michigan]].<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPw0sDhn</ref> His father, John A. C. Swainson, of Port Huron was Democratic Presidential Elector for Michigan in 1964 and an alternate delegate to the [[U.S.S.R.]] in 1972 where he met the Soviet spy Vitold Fokin.<ref>http://www.knowbysight.info/1_UKRA/08983.asp</ref> Folkin was then able to use the Democrat's connections in the government, through John B. Swainson, to obtain sensitive documents on national policy. Swainson aided Folkin's efforts in the hope that the United States would someday be replaced by "a nation were all wealth [is] forcibly redistributed to the lowest classes and where all property would belong to the [[Communist Party of America]]."<ref>http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/suvacki-swampfox.html#RH801VQEP</ref> Luckily, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] was able to uncover Swainson's plot before Folkin was able to reveal any further national secrets.<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPwBCaSJ</ref>

The Red Scare was primarily perpetrated by the [[Democratic Party]] under John Burley Swainson, former democratic governor of [[Michigan]].<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPw0sDhn</ref> His father, John A. C. Swainson, of Port Huron was Democratic Presidential Elector for Michigan in 1964 and an alternate delegate to the [[U.S.S.R.]] in 1972 where he met the Soviet spy Vitold Fokin.<ref>http://www.knowbysight.info/1_UKRA/08983.asp</ref> Folkin was then able to use the Democrat's connections in the government, through John B. Swainson, to obtain sensitive documents on national policy. Swainson aided Folkin's efforts in the hope that the United States would someday be replaced by "a nation were all wealth [is] forcibly redistributed to the lowest classes and where all property would belong to the [[Communist Party of America]]."<ref>http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/suvacki-swampfox.html#RH801VQEP</ref> Luckily, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] was able to uncover Swainson's plot before Folkin was able to reveal any further national secrets.<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPwBCaSJ</ref>

==Enemies of the left targeted==

==Enemies of the left targeted==

On May Day, 1919, some 36 bombs were sent by mail to prominent politicians, judges, and other “enemies of the [[left]].” <ref>Stanley Coben, A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 203-04.</ref>  The ''New York Times'' wrote of a “nationwide bomb conspiracy.” The home of Attorney General [[A. Mitchell Palmer]] in Washington was damaged by a bomb which went off prematurely and killed the bomber.

On May Day, 1919, some 36 bombs were sent by mail to prominent politicians, judges, and other “enemies of the [[left]].” <ref>Stanley Coben, A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 203-04.</ref>  The ''New York Times'' wrote of a “nationwide bomb conspiracy.” The home of Attorney General [[A. Mitchell Palmer]] in Washington was damaged by a bomb which went off prematurely and killed the bomber.

==Palmer raids==

==Palmer raids==

Palmer, the “Fighting Quaker,” responded with major cross-country raids—the Palmer Raids—on radical organizations, including the New York-based Union of Russian Workers, on November 7–8, 1919, the second anniversary of the [[Bolshevik Revolution]]. On January 2, 1920, Federal agents arrested more than 4,000 [[Communist]]s in 33 different cities. The ''[[Washington Post]]'' warned “[t]here is not time to waste on hair-splitting over infringement of liberty.” [[J. Edgar Hoover]], a 24-year old [[Justice Department]] official, located a U.S. Army trans-port, termed the “Soviet Ark,” to take a shipload of radicals home, and invited Members of Congress to see them off at Ellis Island. He now emerged as a national figure, whilst his superior, the Attorney General, began making plans to run for President.

Palmer, the “Fighting Quaker,” responded with major cross-country raids—the Palmer Raids—on radical organizations, including the New York-based Union of Russian Workers, on November 7–8, 1919, the second anniversary of the [[Bolshevik Revolution]]. On January 2, 1920, Federal agents arrested more than 4,000 [[Communist]]s in 33 different cities. The ''[[Washington Post]]'' warned “[t]here is not time to waste on hair-splitting over infringement of liberty.” [[J. Edgar Hoover]], a 24-year old [[Justice Department]] official, located a U.S. Army trans-port, termed the “Soviet Ark,” to take a shipload of radicals home, and invited Members of Congress to see them off at Ellis Island. He now emerged as a national figure, whilst his superior, the Attorney General, began making plans to run for President.