Posted on 12/04/2004 4:28:27 AM PST by Liz
The ACLU was founded on January 12, 1920. Among its founders were William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Louis F. Budenz. All three later became prominent leaders of the Communist Party, USA, although Budenz broke with the Party in 1945 and became a militant anti-Communist.
In 1976, Congress passed the Civil Rights Attorneys Fee Awards Act, which was designed to encourage private lawyers to take on suits to protect civil and constitutional rights. The law provides that judges can order federal and state governments to pay legal fees to private lawyers who sued the government and won. The result has been a flood of civil rights cases in federal court. From The New American Feb. 2, 1987
It's an outrage that US law, passed during the Watergate era, allows the ACLU to collect attorney's fees for makework----Christian-hatng lawsuits it itself launches.
That means "values voters" have been footing the bill for the ACLU's launching a juggernaut to remove Ten Commandments images, Christmas creches and Christmas carols, taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, and because they claim they have a civil right not to see the Ten Commandments, a civil right not to hear the word “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, not to see a creche of the Baby Jesus, not to hear Christmas carols. The ACLU has collected a huge amount of our tax dollars in this left-handed fundraiser for the ACLU.
FReepers can silence the ACLU with a bit of activism. We need to insist our Congressmen repeal this abusive law that allows the ACLU to get rich on harassing Christian America. Congress must repeal laws enabling the ACLU's Christian-hating activities. Cut off the ACLU's funds and watch them disappear. Here's what we can do.
The IRS should determine whether the ACLU is properly accounting for all its tax-funded activities, whether it is inflating legal costs, and whether it is using tax dollars for the purposes stated. We need to know whether the ACLU is engaged in Enron-style accounting and spending practices.
REFERENCE SOURCE FOR
ARGUING REPEAL TO CONGRESS
Apparently, when Congress contemplated the fee-shifting bill three decades ago, it never conceived that 42 U.S.C. §1988 would be used to secure fees in esoteric battles over the meaning of the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
The statute gives a court "discretion" to award attorneys' fees to the prevailing party in civil rights cases.
Study of the legislative history of the statute reveals that Congress intended this statute to apply to civil rights abuses, including certain race and sex discrimination cases, but not to arguments about whether Judge Roy Moore is allowed to display the Ten Commandments in the Alabama courthouse.
During the deliberations on the bill, the Senate penned that "in many cases arising under our civil rights laws, the citizen who must sue to enforce the law has little or no money with which to hire a lawyer."[6] In the recent First Amendment lawsuits filed by the ACLU, the tables are turned.
Small school districts and municipalities can either defend lawsuits and risk paying the ACLU's attorneys' fees if they lose, or they can voluntarily submit to the ACLU's view of the Constitution.
Even if lawsuits over the establishment clause somehow fall within 42 U.S.C. §1988, the statute empowers courts with nothing more than "discretion" to award fees.
In these cases, one would expect courts to withhold awarding fees. Since this is not happening, Congress must take immediate action to clarify 42 U.S.C. §1988 to explicitly exclude lawsuits related to the acknowledgement of God.
Damn, that would be fun......historical, too.
The ACLU is the Secular Taliban ........stomping on the rights of Christians every which way but loose.
Dress will be casual (flannel shirts and Elmer Fudd-style hats preferably)
Oh, I don't know about that Elmer Fudd hat.
I'd rather wear my official FR baseball cap.
Goes nicely with my official FR sweats.
one of the reasons that the left has so much money is that many lawyers, after indoctrination in colleges, donate their time to leftist causes while passing on the costs to the public in higher fees.
True......we need to get that changed.
Wear your FR gear under your flannel shirt. We'll know it's there, soldier ;-)
but they view their public service in the same manner that christians donate their time + money to causes.
one is "secular" + one is "religious".
make no mistake about it, the aclu is derived from marxism, + marxism has a chilastic heritage of creating a perfect society.
many reds died believing in this utopia.
Called deer-stalker hats......ala Sherlock Holmes.
The ACLU won't disappear, but its most odious and annoying activities will slow down considerably.
OK, Sarge.
Giddy up, Liz... spur us on to bigger and better things..
A "defunded" ACLU... WHAT A CONCEPT...
Have been looking at Bob Barr "funny" ever since he went to work for "them" folks.. The ACLU have been throwing "monkey wrenches" into the legal system from day one.. thats partly why the gears of jurist prudence grind and make so much noise..
"FIRE THEM ALL"... -AND/OR- Create a mirror image to the ACLU (i.e ACL.US) to sue various MSM / MSP / Hollywood / and Academia(Profs,colleges) using the ACLU's tactics.. to restore some semblance of order.. What the ACLU does, has WORKED.. Some of these leftist organizations(and people) will fold like a Hart, Shaffer and MARX Suit.. or better WILL FIGHT bringing notority to things the public is largly UNAWARE of.. those "entities" don't want that I would think.. Currently they(leftists) argue among themselves being clanish like they are.. The ACL"US" could shine a light on the roaches..
The 1st Amendment's biggest offenders are the MSM and MSP.. Oh! and Acedemia(don't forget "them").. The ACLU won't touch them for obvious reasons.. BUT the ACLUS could.. sending a "chill" down the back and right up the main stream whatever's bunghole.. A dream you say!.. Absolutely.. but then coffee induced activism is still LEGAL.. .
(Blush) Thanks for the kind words. Better believe I intend to spur us onto bigger and better things.
Not sure yet whether we need a legal appartus to get what we want......after all, we have GWB in the WH, and we own all that lovely real estate on Capitol Hill, with no mortgage due for the visible future.
Plus we got the "mo", baby.
bimp
No, these are lawyers. They deal in one thing, money. If it ain't gonna make a buck, they'll drop it in a hurry. Just as, I feel, Reverend Jesse would be long gone, if there was not money to be made.
Wise men are instructed by reason; lesser men, by experience; the ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature. Cicero
One guess where the ACLU falls on that list.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
Nice find (smile).
Might want to ping your lists to this thread.
ACLU Ping! I missed this one. Thanks for the heads up Liz!
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