“... At first, the mass arrests (probably of around 10,000 people) and deportations (notably of Emma Goldman) were seen as Palmer’s triumph; the New York Herald reported that he had forestalled a ‘nationwide uprising’ and a Bolshevik ‘reign of terror’. The left of the labour movement was devastated (Hoover targeted union halls), but Palmer insisted he ...”

“... Road. So that’s what they did. On 1 October 2013 Ulbricht was sitting in a public library in San Francisco, logged into Silk Road via the library’s wifi. He was in an online chat with an FBI agent whose job was to make sure Ulbricht was still online when his colleagues swooped. Ulbricht was at a desk across from a slight young Asian woman when a couple of ...”