Throughout American History we have seen the multiple opinions people can have on immigrants. Whether they are Irish, Russians, Africans, or Southern Europeans, Americans have found reason to stray away from being friendly to their new countrymen, at first. This is seen vividly in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who were charged and convicted of robbery and murder. The contributing social reasons these men were convicted in American society were Sacco and Vanzetti’s nationality and political beliefs. Both men were anarchists who believed, “Capitalism,..., was little more than an organized system of banditry under which the rich and powerful extorted the poor.”(262) America was a dangerous place in the 1920s for an
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This case is not similar in the evidence, because the evidence is very clear in this case, but because of the public opinion of the criminals who committed the crime. As said in The Economist, “There was little doubt of Mr Tsarnaev’s guilt. “It was him,”(The Economist) The living Boston Bomber is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has since been sentenced to death by a jury in Boston. Tsarnaev is a Muslim and he committed a disgusting act of terror. In the public's opinion that has happened to many times in this country to call the act an isolated incident. With Islamic terror wreaking havoc on the world in the last twenty to thirty years, it public views on people like Tsarnaev are not kind. Like the public outlook on anarchists in the 1920s, in modern day Islamic terrorists bring similar feelings to nationalistic Americans who see the Islamic terror as a threat to their beloved country and people in the 1920s saw anarchists. The despising of a group of people who threaten our existence parallels in these two cases. Would Tsarnaev been convicted if he wasn’t Muslim? Probably, but the support he had from liberal and socialist parties was similar to that of Sacco and
This case is not similar in the evidence, because the evidence is very clear in this case, but because of the public opinion of the criminals who committed the crime. As said in The Economist, “There was little doubt of Mr Tsarnaev’s guilt. “It was him,”(The Economist) The living Boston Bomber is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has since been sentenced to death by a jury in Boston. Tsarnaev is a Muslim and he committed a disgusting act of terror. In the public's opinion that has happened to many times in this country to call the act an isolated incident. With Islamic terror wreaking havoc on the world in the last twenty to thirty years, it public views on people like Tsarnaev are not kind. Like the public outlook on anarchists in the 1920s, in modern day Islamic terrorists bring similar feelings to nationalistic Americans who see the Islamic terror as a threat to their beloved country and people in the 1920s saw anarchists. The despising of a group of people who threaten our existence parallels in these two cases. Would Tsarnaev been convicted if he wasn’t Muslim? Probably, but the support he had from liberal and socialist parties was similar to that of Sacco and