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Posted on 11/17/2018 5:45:00 PM PST by OddLane
In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals. In the early 1970s, the ACLU's membership rose from around 70,000 to almost 300,000. Many new members were attracted by the organization's opposition to the Vietnam War and its high-profile battles with President Nixon, but such members were not committed to the ACLU's broader civil libertarian agenda. However, the organization's defense of the KKK's right to march in Skokie, Illinois, in the late 1970s weeded out some of these fair-weather supporters and attracted some new free speech devotees. But George H. W. Bush's criticisms of the ACLU during the 1988 presidential campaign again attracted many liberal members not especially devoted to civil liberties.
To maintain its large membership base, the ACLU recruited new members by directing mass mailings to mailing lists rented from a broad range of liberal groups. The result of the shift of the ACLU to a mass membership organization was that it gradually transformed itself from a civil libertarian organization into a liberal organization with an interest in civil liberties. This problem was exacerbated by the growth within the ACLU of autonomous, liberal, special interest cliques known as "projects." These projects have included an AIDS Project, a Capital Punishment Project, a Children's Rights Project, an Immigrants' Rights Project, a Lesbian and Gay Project, a National Prison Project, a Women's Rights Project, a Civil Liberties in the Workplace Project, a Privacy and Technology Project, and an Arts Censorship Project. This loss of focus led Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz to waggishly suggest that "perhaps the Civil Liberties Union needs a civil liberties project."
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Too bad the ACLU never supported the 2nd Amendment.
RGB living on borrowed time for not supporting All Civil Liberties.
Too bad the ACLU never supported the 2nd Amendment.
RBG living on borrowed time for not supporting All Civil Liberties.
The ACLU was founded by Communists and has always been a communist front.
In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals. …False.
“I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is of course the goal.”The communist leopard is not changing its spots.
— Roger Nash Baldwin, ACLU co-founder
“gradually transformed itself from a civil libertarian organization into a liberal organization with an interest in civil liberties”
The ACLU was ALWAYS a Communist organization. Always, from day one.
Interesting, thanks.
A few months ago, Jeopardy had a question/answer in which they stated that the ACLU loved the Constitution.
I have noticed several more times before and after where they put a liberal slant rather than just ask a question.
However, the organization’s defense of the KKK’s right to march in Skokie, Illinois, in the late 1970s …It was not the KKK, but the National Socialist Party of America.
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […]That always seems to be the angle from which the American Communistic Litigation Union has worked.
In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat — that is, with the agrarian National Reformers. …
That was the actual answer?
What a load. The ACLU was founded circa 1920 by Roger Baldwin, who was greatly enamored with the Soviet Union and who belonged to the revolutionary socialist IWW party. It has never strayed far from its roots.
The ACLU has never been about liberty. It has been about the destruction of our Republic using the courts. Knowledgeable conservatives have always referred to it as the American Communist Lawyers Union.
Mencius Moldbug shares a few choice selections from ACLU founder Roger Baldwin's 1928 paean to the Soviet dictatorship.:
"My own prejudices are amply conveyed by the title of this book. Though over half of it is devoted to a description of the controls by the Soviet state, I have chosen to call it Liberty Under the Soviets because I see as far more significant the basic economic freedoms of workers and peasants and the abolition of privileged classes based on wealth; and only less important, the release of the non-Russian minorities to develop their national cultures, the new freedom of women, the revolution in education — and, if one counts it as significant, liberty for religion — and anti-religion."
"In Soviet Russia, despite the rigid controls and suppression of opposition, the regime is dominated by the economic needs of workers and peasants. Their economic power, even when unorganized, is the force behind it. Their liberties won by the Revolution are the ultimate dictators of Soviet policy. In this lies the chief justification for the hope that, with the increasing share by the masses in all activities of life, the rigors of centralized dictatorship will be lessened and the creative forces given free rein. Peasants and workers are keenly aware of their new liberties won by the Revolution. Anywhere you can hear voiced their belief that, whatever their criticism and discontent, that they are “free.” And they constitute over ninety percent of the Russian people."
“I have noticed several more times before and after where they put a liberal slant rather than just ask a question.”
Yes, I’ve seen that, too. The entertainment media stand with the forces of evil.
They are still around and have not changed one bit.
They still are fighting for the pervert against normal people.
Great comments BUMP!
ACLU E.S.A.D.
the ACLU supported the Nazis and Ed Virdolyak when they marched on my house and burned down my garage in 1970. i was 2. no one cared still to this day, no ones ever been charged with a ‘hate-crime’. F*ck them buncha liars from the start, bold-faced criminal from the inception, the ACLU is ONE BIG LIE.
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