[From "Poetic Irony: A. Mitchell Palmer and the FBI"]

After World War 1, the first “Red Scare” happened[…]
The problems were not caused by communists, however. They were caused by the limp-wristed conservatives[…]
President Wilson put his attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer, on the job of crushing the commies during this Red Scare of 1919[…]
His main legacy is creating the GIU[…]A branch of the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the[…]FBI[…]
Some of my readers would read about raids on communists and give an immediate stamp of approval

Don’t

Hoover was a self-righteous political player who was always out for himself. It was popular to hunt communists back then[…]If he were around today, he’d just as happily hunt us[…]
Palmer set out to do whatever he could to stop the communist scourge

But what a great irony, that the beastly invention he created is what is now being used to force a communistic scourge upon us

The FBI once raided communists, but now they raid those who criticize communists. It was first created as a tool to investigate communist dissent, now it solely investigates patriotic dissent[…]
There is a lesson in this ironic comedy. It is a lesson that conservatives never learn

It is this:
•If you have power, you have to use it to finalize your victory

Principles do not matter in a war. The greatest failure of the conservative is in not realizing that this is a war[…]
The conservatives created an institution (the FBI) to target the worst offenders of the communists. What happened? The leftists took it over and use it to target the average conservative now[…]
Palmer created the foundation of the FBI. Against communists, his was a noble purpose, and an honorable principle. But then his tool was handed over to the Left on a silver platter[…]
We have to learn from the mistakes of the conservatives. We need to make our institutions immune to leftist centralization, no different from what the leftists do