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The Man Who Couldn’t Fly

Michael Ceraolo

Years after Haymarket,
years before Guantanomo,
there was Antonio Salsedo,
who emigrated here in 1902,
who worked as a typesetter for an anarchist paper
(Cronaca Sovversiva),
who was arrested in March 1920,
who was held as a private prisoner of the Department of ‘Justice’,
who was specifically not turned over to the Labor Department that handled deportations,
who was tortured,
who confessed to crimes he may or may not have committed,
who implicated others in these real or imaginary crimes,
who suffered for this confession,
who on May 3, 1920 at 4:20 AM defenestrated himself from the fourteenth floor of the building where he was “under surveillance”

A Justice Department official:

“Salsedo was lawlessly a prisoner,
. . .held incommunicado in a secret prison
controlled by detectives of the Department of Justice,
that this person was fourteen stories above the street,
. . .that his body struck the pavement with an impact
that turned it to a pulp”

That would seem to have given his widow an ironclad lawsuit
But no one ever went broke underestimating
the ability of the American judicial system
to excuse official mendacity
Case lost in lower court,
and
a Three Stooge review affirmed the atrocity,
though
perhaps that should only be Two Stooges,
giving
credit to the man who dissented:

“If a man is confined against his will for two months
. . .continuously and grievously injured
. . .continuously threatened with death,
can it be said as a matter of law
that the wrongdoer should not have foreseen
that the infliction of such wrongs
. . .might naturally and probably lead to loss of mind
and that self destruction might follow?”

Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come e,
bisogna che tuttoe cambi
(the more things change the more they stay the same)



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