Posted on 06/26/2006 10:22:51 AM PDT by Jay777
Can we save the ACLU? What am I saying? Don't I want to stop the ACLU? I've said it before, America needs an organization that fights for our civil liberties and protects the bill of rights. Is the ACLU worth saving? Not in its current form. It should be obvious to any intellectually honest person that the ACLU has a left wing agenda that bypasses any claimed mission statement of unbiased protection of civil liberties. They protect the civil liberties of abortion supporters, but have a completely different set of standards when it comes to anti-abortion protesters. They are falling apart within just like all corrupt organizations do when they put greed above the ideals they are supposed to stand for. Hypocrisy eats away at their core when an organization that claims to be the protector of free speech considers censoring the speech of its own members. When an organization that claims to care deeply about people's "right to privacy" begins to monitor its own members emails, and delve into their finiancial history, only the blind sheep can continue to follow without question.
A rebellion is growing within the ACLU that I have to support. Our mission from the get go here, despite the name of the site, has nothing to do with being against civil liberties. We don't necessarily want the destruction of the ACLU as an organization, unless thats what it takes. Our mission is to help stop the dangerous left wing agenda that is going on at the ACLU. If a group of dissenters from within the organization can reform the ACLU to represent the values written in its mission statement, and purge at least part of the hypocrisy from within, it is a cause worth supporting.
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Save it? What for?
Drive a stake through it's heart.
It is Of The Enemy.
Nope. I think the ACLU is too far gone to be saved.
So we should lend our support to freedom fighters within a corrupt evil dictatorship?
Yes, as satisfactory as it would be to watch them crash and burn, I can't condemn the dissenters within trying to change it for the better. So, I'm wishing them luck in doing so. It won't bother me if they fail however.
He makes a good point. If the ACLU were actually worried about EVERYONE's civil liberties...EQUALLY, it would be a good organization. If they could be brought back to that mode as opposed to the "we hate Christians and want to see them squashed" club, they might be worth something.
Nah. The guy who wants to "save" it is the guy who ran it before 2000. It was just as bad back then.
Yep, I've got you added.
Its name has been forever tainted.
The ACLU is, was and always will be a Communist Front Organization!
It's impossible to imagine the ACLU actually being on the side of the USA (despite what a tiny minority of ACLU members might actually think). The majority of them are terrorist-loving, pedophile-loving haters of America. They're not going to be reformed. It's like hoping for the reform of the islamonazis.
I knew I'd get flak on this. At least you guys can see my point. The ACLU would still be just as evil, but if it was pushed in the right direction...that couldn't be a bad thing. Maybe I'm naive.
The ACLU began as a front for Soviet terror and will end as a front for Moslem terror. That's all one really needs to know about that organization.
"We don't necessarily want the destruction of the ACLU"
Why not...the ACLU works to destroy religious freedoms guaranteed us by the US Constitution. This ACLU begs to be destroyed and deservedly so.
I said unless that is what it takes. If they were reformed into an organization that actually did what it says it stands for. Arrrggghhh, you are all right! It is pretty hopeless.
Still why discourage dissent from within seeking to change the hypocrisy?
Or worse.
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