FBI TACTICS ARE MENACE TO CIVIL LIBERTY, SENATOR NORRIS CHARGES

FBI Tactics Are Menace To Civil Liberty, Senator Norris Charges Progressive Solon In 3 Hour Address Flays Federal Agency's Handling of Cases In Detroit WASHINGTON, D. C—Continuation of Federal...

...In Sioux City, after being held incommunicado overnight, Carlson was able to prove that he was not the person wanted and he was released to return to Fremont at his own expense...
...It is painful for me to discuss it and disagree with one in whom I have such great confidence as I have in the attorney general.'' Reads Affidavit After reading at length from the affidavits submitted by the arrested persons in the case and noting that-there was no dispute concerning the facts...
...Such a procedure cannot be permitted to live if we are to have a free country — if we are to have a land such as we boast of, where human liberty is sacred, that kind of procedure must be outlawed and prohibited...
...Hoover has an organization, maintained at public expense, writing speeches for him to make or for anyone else to make who will take the speeches...
...State Trade Bars Are Attack Object WASHINGTON, D. C—The U. S. disintegrating into a "Balkanized mesh of trade barriers" which is stifling trade, halting the exchange of goods and thereby contributing greatly to unemployment, the unemployment conference or the house was told in a report from its committee on interstate trade barriers...
...They would look up every step you had ever taken in your life and confront you with every error you had ever made...
...I disagree with his whitewashing of what happened in Detroit as shown in his letter.'' Norris told the senate...
...George W. Norris...
...Norris said, "will never forget that their father was brought from the porch into the house by the FBI men, apparently to increase the disgrace of his handcuffing, so that he could be handcuffed in the presence of his entire family, consisting of his wife's mother and his three boys...
...Norris reviewed in great detail the arrest of 12 persons in Detroit by the FBI on charges of recruiting soldiers for the Spanish loyalist government...
...They would take you to an office and strip you naked and search you...
...FBI Tactics Are Menace To Civil Liberty, Senator Norris Charges Progressive Solon In 3 Hour Address Flays Federal Agency's Handling of Cases In Detroit WASHINGTON, D. C—Continuation of Federal Bureau of Investigation methods would mean "destruction of human liberty in the U. S." Sen...
...Long after we are dead the evil effects of their notorious mistakes and inhuman conduct will tell on the ming generation...
...which inevitably follow from which there is no escape, that I protest -.gainst the activities of the FBI...
...It developed that the Carlson wanted for the offense had a four inch scar across the back of his neck, weighed about 150 pounds and had dark hair...
...They would ask you all kinds of questions about your life, about your family relations...
...Carlson said he was arrested on charges of having impersonated a federal officer and of having cashed a bad check...
...The arrested Carlson said he had no scar, wcig'.is about 190 pounds and has gray hair House Searched After he was arrested and taken from Fremont...
...When he makes a speech a copy is sent to practically every newspaper in the V. S. . . . "I have made these remarks with the hope that the conditions now prevailing may be improved in that respect and that we may cease to follow a course which will put bloodhounds on the trail of honest citizens and permit their lives and liberty to be jeopardized by fclows who will wreak their vengence under the guise •f law enforcement officers...
...After Norris analyzed the record of the FBI in the Detroit case he told the senate of the arrests on June 22, 1939 of a man named C. J. Carlson, a veteran of the world war earning a living as a traveling salesman...
...veteran Nebraska Progressive, declared here last week in a three hour speech on the senate floor...
...It is because of such injury and the thing...
...Norris declared: "If you were arrested for spitting on the sidewalk and the FBI had a warrant for vour arrest for that great offense, the first thing they would do to von under this method of doing business vrould be to put you in handcuffs...
...his house was searched and his family questioned...
...Carlson's sons...
...Norris concluded by referring to FBI head J. Edgar Hoover as "the greatest hound for publicity on the American continent today . . . Mr...
...He said he disagreed with the report submitted by Atty-Gen...
...Robert Jackson concerning the FBI's part in the affair...
...That is a wrong to their young hearts which will last as long as they live...
...Nee., to Sioux City...

Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 20


 
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