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I really wish that conservatives would be able to outgrow the knee-jerk hatred of the ACLU (and probably likewise). Many times, they are on the same side. Find the areas of agreement before looking for the disagreements.

I would like someone to explain how anything - anything - that this particular agency does could be considered “classified”.

"I really wish that conservatives would be able to outgrow the knee-jerk hatred of the ACLU (and probably likewise). Many times, they are on the same side. Find the areas of agreement before looking for the disagreements."

I agree with you on this. My biggest disagreement with them is on the interpretation of the separation of Church and State (which oh by the way isn't even in the first amendment). I think they have that all wrong. However, on other first amendment issues they are usually correct. Including their most hated decision to defend the Neo Nazi's in the Skolki Illinois march. They were correct but I'm glad that a situation was avoided.

One of my biggest beefs is not really with them. It's with media portrayal. The biggest second amendment rights group (NRA) is always portrayed as beholden to special interests, yet they have five million dues paying members. The ACLU is never protrayed that way in the press, but as the upholder of the first amendment. Yet it is made up of perhaps a couple thousand at most dues paying members and they are almost all lawyers.