J. Edgar: The Most Powerful Man in the World Page #4

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but there was a time...

when the average American feared

for their safety and survival, Agent Smith.

In Chicago, a coal strike started

by communist labor shut off all the power.

Riots followed.

And on Armistice Day

in Centralia, Washington...

veterans fresh back from the war

were murdered by radicals.

The red revolution had arrived on our soil.

No, no. We can't take them down

one by one.

They'll go underground and we'll have

a bomb inside every senator's mailbox.

We need to have a simultaneous raid,

hitting all of them at once.

- Who are "they"?

- You're here to find out.

Now listen, I want a card on every

radical person in this country.

Against the wall, gentlemen.

I wanna know who, where they're from,

what group, what they say.

Who have already committed crimes?

I care more whether they intend to.

Against the wall, gentlemen, thank you.

- How many are on our team?

- Only you four for now.

I'll have locks installed.

No, Miss Gandy.

That would bring too much attention.

Nothing is to be alphabetically ordered.

I want the cards to be broken down

into subjects and categories.

Now, this system should be easy enough

if explained.

If not, finding information

should prove impossible.

And trust no one,

not even our fellow agents.

Half our colleagues are on both sides

of the payroll.

But the crimes we're investigating

aren't crimes, they're ideas.

Well, if your idea...

Against the wall, gentlemen. Thank you.

If your idea is to come into our country

and plot the overthrow of our government...

then, yes, indeed, that is a crime.

Mrs. Goldman married a U.S. citizen.

The man she married hasn't visited

her once in prison, yet this man...

the man she's lived with since her

wedding, he visits nightly.

What happens when we raid this

list of yours and find nothing?

No guns, no bombs,

just innocent people deported.

From every corner of this nation,

the American people...

have urged the Attorney General

to do something about this...

and return the United States

back to peace.

Now, I'm happy to send your objections

to Mr. Palmer himself...

but, in the meantime,

expose Miss Goldman's sham marriage...

and you will change that suit of yours.

- Pardon me, John?

- Your suit, sir, your suit.

This isn't a saloon.

Have respect for yourself,

but, more importantly...

have respect for this department.

Miss Gandy?

Miss Goldman, are you an anarchist?

I decline to answer.

Do you deny that you are an anarchist?

I decline to answer.

Do you believe in the overthrow

of the government of the United States?

I refuse to answer.

Do you advocate the assassination

of public officials?

I refuse to answer.

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