Political hysteria is a dangerous tool of the government. No one is safe, and our very democratic republic is at risk whenever there is a Red Scare or a cessation of certain civil liberties for the demon group of the moment. This is especially true in New England, where the witches burned in Salem, and Sacco and Vanzetti burned in a Boston electric chair 75 years ago this summer.
Shoemaker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomo Vanzetti were anarchists. To the government in the 1920s, Sacco and Vanzetti were more dangerous than actual killers or bank robbers. They were immigrant Italians with strange beliefs. They had the notion that ordinary working people should enjoy the full fruits of their labor. Stranger still, they believed in small, cooperative communities in which mutual aid was a stronger drive than natural selection. They opposed virtually all governments, viewing the state as the tool of the rich to keep the poor down.
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