Posted on 01/06/2005 1:00:19 PM PST by CHARLITE
Roger Nash Baldwin was the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a notable American Communist. These are facts. Now, read his words:
“I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is, of course, the goal."— Harvard Class Book of 1935, spotlighting Baldwin's class of 1905 on its thirtieth anniversary.[1]
“Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise...We want also to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a good lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country, and to show that we are really the folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions.”— Baldwin's advice in 1917 to Louis Lochner of the socialist People’s Council in Minnesota. [1]
Frankly, it appears to me, that, just as many conservatives follow the lead of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and yes… Reagan, without diluting their principles, the ACLU membership of today remains steadfast in following Nash’s founding ideals, yet they are often mistaken for true American patriots of the Left. The ruse is working. “We want also to look like patriots in everything we do.” Roger Nash Baldwin
George Soros funds the ACLU. Certainly you all remember George Soros?
“Soros may be the biggest political fat cat of all time. Convicted in France of insider trading, Soros specializes in weakening or collapsing the currencies of entire nations for his own selfish interests. He is known as the man who broke the Bank of England. His power is such that his statements alone can cause currencies to go up or down.
His position is also reflected in his funding of the ACLU, which itself favors the legalization of all drugs—even heroin and crack cocaine—and opposes virtually all measures taken to curtail drug use. In another example of its extremist approach, the group has rejected funds from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and participation in the Combined Federal Campaign, because acceptance of the money would require adopting measures to make sure it does not employ terrorists or support terrorist activity.” Cliff Kincaid, “The Hidden Soros Agenda:” Accuracy in Media [2]
To expand your knowledge regarding George Soros and his connection to the ACLU, consult the entire article quoted in [2] above.
My personal concerns go well beyond the socialist history of the ACLU in matters pertaining to civil liberties. I see Baldwin and his successors as standing squarely against Christianity, God and the United States of America. Even though the ACLU finds willing co-conspirators in liberal Justices on the Supreme Court, they also abuse and exploit the appeals process using the concept of the amicus curiæ or “friend of the court” brief to legally shred the fabric of the founding principles of this Republic.
“ACLU Finds Pot of Gold at the Foot of the Cross"
Los Angeles County Supervisors decided to turn tail and run rather than fight a lawsuit threatened by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Why such weak-kneed response? Because lawyers for the county ominously warned that the county might lose the case and have to pay the ACLU's attorney's fees.
"The ACLU is demanding that the county remove a tiny cross from its seal, one of nearly a dozen symbols it portrays. One need only look at the seal to see just how ridiculous is the ACLU's demand.”—Phyllis Schafly, 22 June 2004 [3]
Remember it was Baldwin who said, “We want to get a good lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country, and to show that we are really the folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions,” all the while he was most concerned that the organization was sure to “…steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise.”
Remember also the most recent ACLU campaigns: To remove ‘under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance… intimidation of using the very words “Merry Christmas,” lawsuits concerning nativity scenes on government property, any display of the Ten Commandments in schools, state sodomy laws and their challenges to the Federal partial birth abortion ban.
“Note that the Founding fathers did not order a separation of church and state, nor did they want to prohibit the free exercise of religion; they simply did not want the government to create its own religion and mandate that all citizens practice such. In other words, we were granted freedom OF religion, NOT freedom FROM religion!! The Secularists along with the help of the ACLU and other far-left organizations, including the Socialists and the Communists, are working to outlaw all religion in the USA.”—Lee Ellis, 2004
References:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Nash_Baldwin
[2] http://www.aim.org/special_report/2089_0_8_0_C/
[3] http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=4259
"On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson
ACLU meet RICO!
That would be sweet...but I won't hold my breath.
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The ACLU will be the downfall of America unless they are stopped.
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