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Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech
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| 21 Jun, 2018
| Robby Soave
Posted on 06/21/2018 11:50:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
If you don’t talk in front of the speech police, is that withholding evidence?
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:52:14 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
They have our back--
oops, I meant they are about to stab us in the back.
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:53:38 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: MtnClimber
The ACLU, like the SLPC, is an anti-American front group that seeks to destroy our country, culture, and norms.
It is as simple as that.
They both need to be crushed, broken into a thousand little pieces, and those pieces cast to the 4 winds.
And after that are a hundred other groups that must be addressed in the same manner.
Only if we do this will our great Nation survive.
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:54:59 AM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
To: MtnClimber
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. - Eric Hoffer
Fortunately, there are now dozens of groups like Institute for Justice, Landmark Legal, etc. to do the important work that the ACLU used to care about.
To: MtnClimber
The commies having problems from just being commies, huh?
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:57:59 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: MtnClimber; All
Progressives were all for the First Amendment when they controlled nearly all the information flow in the nation.
Now that there are some alternatives to the Progressive media, not so much.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:01:23 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: MtnClimber
It isn't the first time. The reason the ACLU found for not defending the Second Amendment - this is according to its website - was that its legal "experts" considered that a "group right" (it would have been unique among the Bill of Rights if it were) and so when
Heller came along affirming that it was, in fact, an individual right as were all the others, the ACLU placed the matter "under review". Where it remains, some ten years hence. That's quite a review.
Let's not pretend here - the idealistic days of the ACLU defending the rights of the Nazis to march in Skokie are now forty years past, and the current crop of activists in that organization would never have done it. What is being discussed in this article is how they manage to reconcile the two opposing points of view, which, being contradictory, can only be lied about. It's a cover story.
To: MtnClimber
The ACLU opposes free speech for the people it hates.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:06:08 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
To: MtnClimber
I’m over 60. Donald Trump is a gift from God. President Trump will slow the slide of America into the abyss of leftism. With a 2nd term, President Trump will make it so I don’t have to watch the complete dissolution of all that is good about America. I’ll be dead before the leftists completely ruin America.
The left has won. They took over the public schools, and now indoctrination is on auto pilot. Every year more and more indoctrinated mush heads become legal voters.
You can’t fight the will of the people. But you can craft the will of the people.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:09:16 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: MtnClimber
American Criminal Liberties Union.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:10:03 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: MtnClimber
AntiAmerican Communists Liberties Union.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:15:59 PM PDT
by
IC Ken
(Stop making stupid people famous)
To: cgbg
Their name should be changed as follows:
ACCLU
“American CERTAIN Civil Liberties Union”
In the SAME way that a DEVOUT florest or baker is now not allowed to follow the tenets of his most personal beliefs.
To: MtnClimber
Gone are the days when the ACLU fought for NeoNazis' rights to march in Skokie, Ill, because, you know, free speech.
Now the ACLU is overrun by SJWs who cannot stand the thought of giving even an inch to thoughts or speech they do not approve of.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:16:15 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Billthedrill
Let's not pretend here - the idealistic days of the ACLU defending the rights of the Nazis to march in Skokie are now forty years past, and the current crop of activists in that organization would never have done it. I should have read all of the comments before posting my own. You said it much more succinctly than I ever could.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:17:39 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: MtnClimber
ACLU - America’s Commie Leftist Union
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:19:00 PM PDT
by
Maceman
(We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
To: MtnClimber; wardaddy; Pelham
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:24:10 PM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: brownsfan
"You cant fight the will of the people. But you can craft the will of the people."
Yep. And it's been going on for a
long time.
Propaganda by Edward Bernays [
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of human behaviors, thoughts and opinions is the primary element in society. Those who hold the knowledge and manipulate these unseen mechanisms in society constitute the invisible government and are the true rulers of humanity. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, and our ideas are suggested, by men we never heard of. - Edward Bernays (1928)
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:35:38 PM PDT
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: Ohioan
I know. They were founded to lead the USA into communism using patriotic sounding plans.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:44:44 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
But he's totally cool with being a fig leaf for communists:
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posted on
06/21/2018 1:00:21 PM PDT
by
oblomov
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