Posted on 12/05/2006 8:08:16 AM PST by Nancee
"...Roger Baldwin was stongly influenced by his grandfather and...aunt, who were both anticapitalist radicals....grandfather had been thrown out of the YMCA because of his anti-Christian rants....the old man took pride in taking...unorthodox positions,...and he was an outspoken critic of religion and morality...aunt...was a member of the Socialist party,...who marched on behalf of all sorts of left-wing causes. This is where Roger Baldwin's world-view was formed.
"...paused long enough to get married to a like-minded woman, Madeline Doty. After only a couple of months, however, Baldwin found the demands of married life too confining,...he left..., saying that he wanted to learn to live like 'the working man.' The problem he soon discovered was that working people actually worked, and he wasn't ready for that. Baldwin transformed the old Civil Liberties Bureau into the American Civil Liberties Union.
"In his book Liberty Under the Soviets, Baldwin hailed the Communist system for what he saw as the 'far more significant freedom of workers.' He was...more effusive about the freedom to practice 'anti-religion'....admitted that he had joined the Communist party...said, 'I don't regret being a part of the Communist tactic, which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the Communists wanted.'...this is the same man to whom President...Carter awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom....
"During the first sixty years of the ACLU's existence, as many as 80 percent of its board of directors and many of its...members were active in Communist organizations; and 90 percent of the cases litigated, up until the mid-1950's were in defense of individuals suspected of having Communists ties....The ACLU was either a party to or a supporting organization in every major religious battle of the last fifty years...
Nancee
ACLU - We were Communist/anti-Christian before it was cool.
W-H-A-T???
"whatwhatWHAT?
They should've also added that in his later years, Baldwin stated that the goal of the ACLU should be helping to create a One-World Government.
Say it aint so?!?!?!?!?
:-)
Nancee
Stay tuned!
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Nancee
It is so!
Nancee
Bump!
Thanks, I will.
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
Does anybody know if the ACLU has ever issued on official statement swearing off its' communist foundations and goals?
The ACLU remains the most long lasting and successful of the old Stalinist front groups. It was created for the sole purpose of destroying the USA from within by misusing our laws and duping naive fools.
The ACLU is also the role model for other dangerous enemies of the US, notably CAIR, the IslamoNazi front group.
Not only is the answer "no," they are proud of their past. Nuff said.
Thanks for the post...
It's interesting - totally unsurprising, but interesting all the same, to learn more about the origins of this organization. Is this information public knowledge or did it require some research? I did not know it prior to reading it.
I can't imagine why any American, with even the slightest shred of patriotism in their heart, would want to have anything to do with them. Yet, they seemingly continue to thrive.
I have long believed that PC-ness would play a big part in the undoing of America. I think I will add ignorance to the equation.
GSD
Please ping me if you have an ACLU ping list.
Roger Baldwin (a co-founder of the ACLU)
Swearing off? Are you smoking columbian gold? These rotten bastards have been, are, and always will be avowed communists. They pretend to be protecting your "civil liberties" but it's only their well used ruse.
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