One Less Thing...

December 27, 2005
...to feel guilty about.

A letter, apparently authenticated, written by the journalist Upton Sinclair has come to light in California: Sinclair was told by the lawyer for Sacco and Vanzetti, poster children for systematized American injustice according to his story Boston, that the pair were guilty as all get-out and that plausible alibis had been constructed by the defense.

It just wasn't politically convenient, or good copy, or even safe, for him be called a traitor to the movement and to write that novel. He was, after all, too valuable as the eponymous muckraker, exposing the self-serving schemes of the bloated capitalist bourgeoisie against the rights of man.

Courtesy Betsy's Page

Yet Another Really Great Blog weighs in and lifts the conversation above the partisan.

How can spreading untruth and damaging myths bring about a better world? The engineer in me rebels at the very thought. No good can come from ignoring what is real, only trouble and failed systems.

Update: It now appears the material may not be such a clear indication of misleading intentions.