Join the Fight at StoptheACLU discussion forum
Posted on 02/03/2005 1:26:07 PM PST by worldclass
It is because there is a pot of gold hidden under it attracting the ACLU like honey attracts bees. A little-known 1976 federal law called the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act enables the ACLU to collect attorneys' fees for its suits against crosses, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Ten Commandments. This law was designed to help plaintiffs in civil rights cases. But the ACLU is using it for First Amendment cases, asserting that it is a civil right NOT to see a cross or the Ten Commandments.
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I highly suggest reading WND's recent Whistleblower issue on the ACLU. It is incredible what these commies do on public funds.
Ping!
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 (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - 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
The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)
American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
Is this why they are refusing to allow the IRS to audit them?
nikos
Ventura County Ping!
So there was money in complaining about the Ventura and Simi Valley Crosses!
If you want on/off the Ventura County Ping list - freepmail me!
I saw a commercial on FNC that exposed some of the radical policies of PETA like how they praised a bomber for their cause. It was a commercial for a site against. It occured to me, that perhaps we could produce a commercial for this site. We could expose some of the ACLU's communist origins and goals. We could show people how they are the one's at the forefront of fighting the freedom of religious expression. We could show how they use the "seperation of church and state", and how it isn't in the constitution.
If we could organize our efforts and pool our resources, contacts, funds, and ideas. Maybe someone knows someone who has the expertise in creating media such as this? Maybe we could even find an organization to sponsor it. It would be hard, and the hardest thing might be getting it on the T.V. I'm not sure on the details of how to make it happen, that's why I'm proposing it to you all. It's just an idea...maybe a good one, maybe unfeasable, but I wanted to get it on the table. It would take some teamwork to make it happen. I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on this. Thanks, Jay
I've been working this idea with members of the stoptheaclu.org.
Stop the ACLU Coalition (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) -
http://www.stoptheaclu.org
People are often under the illusion that the poor ACLU has to get by on donations. The great "pro bono" myth. It's a rare lawyer that ever truly does pro bono--although they sometimes have to write off bad debts. The truth--civil rights lawyers chase ambulances just like John Edwards. When they win, they are granted "reasonable and customary" fees, which generally are equivalent to what a personal injury lawyer would get under the same circumstances. The prevailing defendant, of course, gets nothing. Defendants always, always lose. They can just lose bigger in the cases that the plaintiff actually wins.
I hope this helps:
I don't know much about formatting a link, sorry...
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41808
Does this mean that gun rights folks can get legal funding for opposing gun control? SAF needs to check this out. Boy, wouldn't that get the ACLU in a tizzy if all of the funds were used up next year protecting our gun rights!
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.
Under the aegis of the ACLU's Foundation---worth some $135 million---any number of financial travesties can be hidden. 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.
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you couldn't be more right. Thanks for the info.
"Does this mean that gun rights folks can get legal funding for opposing gun control? SAF needs to check this out. Boy, wouldn't that get the ACLU in a tizzy if all of the funds were used up next year protecting our gun rights!"
Fascinating idea. I, of course, would rather end all funding. But this wouldn't be a bad way to bring more attention to the issue.
And .. this is why we so desperately need tort reform.
Did you read my idea?
Unbelievable!!!
Thanks for the ping...These cockroaches need to be exposed to some light!!
You mean we can end all this crap with a simple change of the law? This should be our #1 issue. Write your congress person and tell everyone to do the same.
Good for you bringing this up.
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Men in Black
Levin, Mark R.
How America has turned from the most representative form of government to rule by an oligarchy of judges...
From same-sex marriage, illegal immigration, and economic socialism to partial birth abortion, political speech, and terrorists' "rights," judges have abused their constitutional mandate by imposing their personal prejudices and beliefs on the rest of society. No radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And we, the people, need not stand for it.
In Men in Black, Mark Levin explodes myth after myth about the federal judiciary, including the biggest one of all: the idea that Supreme Court judges are somehow imbued with greater insight, wisdom, and vision than the rest of us -- and that for some reason Almighty God has endowed them with superior judgment about justice and fairness. But as Levin demonstrates again and again in these pages, judges are men and women with human imperfections and frailties. Some have indeed been brilliant, honorable, and moral, but others have been corrupt, unprincipled, racist, and even mentally impaired (yes, Levin names names).
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