Vic's News 2016 Apr 13

…On this day in 1919 Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. He was arrested and convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 which was blatantly unconstitutional and was rammed through by Wilson. Although this was a travesty, Debbs got what he deserved because he was a rabid communist rabble rouser. His sentence was commuted by Harding in 1921. Republicans were bitterly opposed to the Sedition Act of 1918.