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ACLU Inauguration Fiasco
Personal | 1/14/05 | Hubert D. Rabon

Posted on 01/14/2005 5:57:02 AM PST by hdrabon

The ACLU's "constitutional" lawsuit with this Tuesday's Presidential Inauguration is a three-way taxpayer hit:

1. By act of Congress, the ACLU is allowed to bill (likely at the highest rate possible) the government/taxpayers for the costs of bringing the suit, and automatically is paid, regardless of the suits' outcome.

2. By operation, the cost of defending against the suit is charged to the taxpayers, again, likely at the highest rate.

3. By function, the cost of hearing and adjudicating the suit is at taxpayer expense.

Of course, it was members of the legal industry, Congress's largest and only functional built-in lobby, who made the law!

Our imperial legal industry -- Minor risk and guaranteed high return. The setup against liberty is becomming more and more clear.

Hubert D. Rabon


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1 posted on 01/14/2005 5:57:03 AM PST by hdrabon
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Should have been dismissed as soon as it was filed. Frivolous.


2 posted on 01/14/2005 6:00:38 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: hdrabon

Its time to put brakes on these sharks.


3 posted on 01/14/2005 6:01:09 AM PST by An Old Marine (Freedom isn't Free)
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To: hdrabon

American
Communists (and)
Liberals
Union

Needs to go away.


4 posted on 01/14/2005 6:01:12 AM PST by HMFIC (The Peace Symbol is the FOOTPRINT of the American CHICKEN!)
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To: hdrabon

I'm curious as to what percentage of all annual lawsuits are filed by W/OACLU!


5 posted on 01/14/2005 6:02:10 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: HMFIC

Write your congressman and have them take the law off the books that allows the ACLU to collect taxpayer money for these lawsuits.


6 posted on 01/14/2005 6:03:47 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: mlc9852

Yeah, it will be a cold day when someone of consequence and appropriate legal ability files a Rule 11 against the ACLU for not doing due diligence and filing a frivolous lawsuit. To do so would open a can of sabre-tooth worms for the imperial legal industry. HDR


7 posted on 01/14/2005 6:05:16 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: An Old Marine

OK, then lets talk about finding out-of-the-box ways of starving the legal industry's cash cows, and returning the legislative and judicial branches of our government to the people! -- HDR


8 posted on 01/14/2005 6:06:59 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: HMFIC

Anti Citizen Lawsuit Union -- HDR


9 posted on 01/14/2005 6:07:34 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: 100%FEDUP

Since the legal industry controls Congress, and Congress gives the money for research such as this, it isn't likely that we will ever get to know under the current anti-citizen environment engendered by the legal industry. -- HDR


10 posted on 01/14/2005 6:09:25 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: Piquaboy

Right -- But pick a Congressperson who IS NOT an attorney by trade, or someone not in attorneys' pockets.


11 posted on 01/14/2005 6:10:23 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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BINGO!

We're gonna have to ditch the entire lot as defective items and start over. Rule #1: One CANNOT hold office IF THE ARE or EVER HAVE BEEN a stinking land shark!


12 posted on 01/14/2005 6:11:31 AM PST by HMFIC (The Peace Symbol is the FOOTPRINT of the American CHICKEN!)
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Gee! that would really make it hard. Most of those people are lawyers.


13 posted on 01/14/2005 6:14:41 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: HMFIC

Obviously -- The problem is, though, that most citizens are not aware of the Antitrust nature of the legal industry. Most of us never have to go to court and learn the hard way the justice is not the first order of business for our local courts. The first order of business is the growth and perpetuation of the local legal industry.

If the media were not so set or avaoiding these issues, or were not afraid of the legal industry. . . . -- HDR


14 posted on 01/14/2005 6:15:05 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: mlc9852

Not only that, but they should have been fined.


15 posted on 01/14/2005 6:15:18 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Dan Rather's got to go!)
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To: hdrabon

good post.


16 posted on 01/14/2005 6:16:34 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: Piquaboy

Yep -- We get what we pay for, especially when we choose to be ignorant, sleepy, and naive. The War on Terror requires diligence on all fronts. We are dealing with an industry that is an internal threat, and that thrives on our divisions (Democrat/Republican, Liberal/Conservative, Black/White/Hispanic).

But you certainly have the idea of what is actually going-on behind on the more obvious problems in our country. -- HDR


17 posted on 01/14/2005 6:17:41 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

That's what a Rule 11 would do, but bringing something like this into the mix (as well as any civil-suit mix where a Rule 11 is clearly justifiable), would begin to expose the realities of the industry. To much risk, not enough benefit. -- HDR


18 posted on 01/14/2005 6:19:27 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Blessings,

HDR


19 posted on 01/14/2005 6:19:57 AM PST by hdrabon (No surprise here!)
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To: hdrabon

ACLU - Anti Christian Liberties Union.


20 posted on 01/14/2005 6:20:14 AM PST by Living_the_life_of_Dilbert
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