I’ve been hoping to run into neutral source about this. The trial was very fishy for sure, but I’m not completely buying this saintly martyrdom cult as they were so close to the Galleanist terrorist group that used mass killings (bombs and poisonings) hoping to ignite a revolution in US.
Love the Morricone theme though!
Galleani spent his time in America in the North, I don't know if he ever made it to Florida. He was shot in the face by police, while speaking on behalf of striking workers, and then charged with inciting a riot. lol. He didn't get a fair shake.
You can't trust any mainstream source on the matter. The big newspapers decide the framework of debate, and they all opposed Anarchism, Anarchism is the most feared enemy of the wealthy and powerful. They would never legitimize the ideas of Anarchism, and therefore the people who support those ideas. It would be like UFC promoting Bellator.
When I went to college (the supposed place of higher education, honesty and enlightenment) I looked in the library and found a book "the history of terrorism" In it they claim Mikhail Bakunin is the godfather and inventor of terrorism, for advocating the upheaval of the power structure, by any means necessary. Even today, in a place of higher learning, Anarchist theorists are despised for their ideas... Well, it's obvious to see why the system (courts, business, schools, media, politicians) hates Anarchism. It wants a level playing field, and that's bad for those in power.
You won't get a more honest account of Sacco and Vanzetti anywhere.
The decision cast by the jury says it all. There's is no way to know one way or another who robbed that warehouse, yet the jury was more than happy to sentence them to death, just because they opposed the current system. There wasn't nearly enough evidence to convict them.
IS there any evidence of them working with Galleanist terrorist groups?
That's just how the media work, they try and lump all radicals into one category, then they name the most violent as the leader, kill him, declare the movement dead, and move on.
The Zapatistas in Mexico although peasant farmers were well aware of this, and they chose to mount their rebellion without any leaders, hence them wearing ski masks to hide their identity's, like Black Bloc anarchists still do today.. The media responded by naming Subcomandante Marcos the leader. they refuse to even acknowledge that the class war is a global struggle without one main or any main leaders (on the side of the poor) Anarchists have and never will be treated fairly by the mainstream media. That would be like Hitler fairly describing Jewish people during WW2. It goes against everything they stand for, every lie they tell is meant to keep them powerful and us powerless... to accurately explain Anarchism to the masses... it will never ever happen. Never.
They still use the same tactics today. There was a local revolutionary group called Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in the 90's. They evicted the housing minister from his office (illegally) and shut down the Toronto stock exchange, and financial sector with a protest, among other actions. They helped organize a tent city for homeless in Toronto. They weren't violent though, at all. Despite breaking the law in the name of civil protest occasionally they were good citizens. They had the support of teachers unions and several mainstream and lawful advocacy groups. The leader and some of his friends went to the WTO protests (In Washington or Seattle I forget) and was detained by American authorities at the border. He was questioned on the where-abouts of Bin Laden... That's how the powerful think, anyone that opposes their system is lumped together with terrorists and treated as such. Eventually the courts banned all the people in the group from talking to each other and the group fell apart. Now they've gentrified the area and you don't see homeless people anymore. There were plenty of stories of homeless people being escorted to the middle of nowhere by the police, then beaten and left there.
In short, you can't trust the mainstream media to be accurate, they're probably lying a lot more then Sacco and Vanzetti were.
And whether they had any involvement with Galleanist groups is somewhat irrelevant as they weren't charged for those things. They were charged for a robbery, in a case where no one actually saw the robbers.
Another example is "In the Name of the Father", a bunch of innocent squatters (that opposed the system) were blamed and charged for an IRA bombing they had absolutely nothing to do with. But the public ate it up, because the media told them it was the truth.
Hell even Saddam Hussein was murdered for making weapons of mass destruction, that they never found, because he wasn't making them. They just make up charges and punish people that oppose them, whether guilty of the crimes or not, it happens in every country. Watch "The act of killing" to see how communist and labor-rights activists in Indonesia were treated, regardless of the law. It's a global trend. Hence the popular saying amongst radical leftist groups. "Class war is the only war". In every country all over the world the same struggle ensued, the poor fought for their rights, were violently oppressed by the rich, and demonized in the media, which is owned by the rich.
The Nazi's said the same thing about the Jews, Kristallnacht.
NGO's are always more honest when it comes to reporting the facts on the ground level. I've done countless media studies, mostly during the war on terrorism. Mainstream western sources choose to omit facts often, even when picture and video evidence is available to contradict them. And almost no one notices.
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