Posted on 05/22/2005 10:20:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
What are the real goals of the American Civil Liberties Union?
American Civil Liberties Union sounds like an organization that protects American values. Many people believe that the ACLU is the nation’s guardian of liberty and great protector of the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, the ACLU was never a promoter or protector of American values or the Constitution. In fact, ACLU might as well stand for the American Communist Lawyers Union.
The ACLU has created the façade that it is a champion of the oppressed but it uses the powers of the government to coerce all members of our society into accepting a socialist existence.
Don’t believe me, just read what Roger Baldwin, the co-founder of the ACLU said: “I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself. … I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. I don’t regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it.” In spite of Baldwin’s Communist leanings, President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 16, 1981.
Baldwin didn’t create the ACLU in a vacuum, he had plenty of help. A group of Communist Party officials, fellow travelers, anarchists and radicals joined Baldwin to found the ACLU in 1920.
Former chairman of the Communist Party USA William Z. Foster was also an ACLU co-founder. Foster said, “The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.”
The ACLU’s official policy statement reveals that the intent of the ACLU (like the Communist Manifesto) is to undermine the moral fabric of our society.
Policy numbers 62 and 75 reveal that the ACLU is opposed to a parent’s role in educating their children, including home schooling and vouchers. Obviously they believe the education of our youth is too important to be left to parents.
Policy numbers 239 and 242 state that the ACLU is opposed to the death penalty – even for the most heinous murderers. What is worse, the ACLU demands that all criminals (except murderers) be given suspended sentences and released back into the community. We already know that most convicted criminals are prone to resume their life of crime once released from prison. The ACLU policy of leniency is on display every day. These are examples of ACLU policies that are designed to weaken the fabric of our society.
The ACLU mirrors Lenin’s “Rules for Revolution.” Lenin’s rules were revealed after a 1919 raid in Düsseldorf, Germany. The files marked “Communist Rules for Revolution” included corrupt the young, control all means of publicity, divide people into hostile groups, destroy people’s faith, preach democracy but seize power, encourage government extravagance and discontent, foment strikes and civil disorder, break down moral values and create a pretext to control all firearms.
These were Lenin’s plans to undermine a society and create chaos in order to successfully overthrow a government. And all this time you thought that the ACLU was really concerned with your civil liberties.
Now you know that the goal of the ACLU was and continues to be to promote Communism. Baldwin and his Communist buddies ran the ACLU for 30 years promoting the goals of the Communist Manifesto and little has changed since he left. While it is true that not all ACLU members or supporters are Communists, all must be sympathetic to the ACLU goals or they wouldn’t be associated with the ACLU.
Once created, the ACLU provided legal protection to Communist infiltrators in the United States. Since then, the ACLU has been the legal arm of the Collective Left (Communists, Socialists, Progressives and Liberals) anarchists, radicals and members of the Ku Klux Klan and NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association). Former ACLU Southern California staff attorney Rees Lloyd is now working to expose the ACLU. Lloyd describes the ACLU as, “the Taliban of American liberal secularism.”
I guess that the ACLU’s goal must be to create anarchy and destroy our society.
Jack Ward is a retired aerospace employee who lives in Santa Cruz. He provides a conservative, local viewpoint to the Register-Pajaronian. The opinions of columnists are not necessarily those of the Register-Pajaronian.
To become the Amerikan Socialist Liberties Union.
Well, you know what they say about birds of a feather.
Actually, there are a lot of us.
Now, I would've had no problem if he'd said, "The history of the ACLU's influence has shown that their aim is to undermine the moral fabric of our society."!!!!!
Until they gain power, when the death penalty will be imposed for everything--such as exercising free speech and the civil liberties we used to have under the Constitution.
Something interesting I discovered in my search for their "policy statement" is that they have a FORUM on their website (see links along the bottom of their home page), and the forum has a LOT of anti-ACLU members arguing with pro-ACLU members. Pretty interesting that they allow free expression on their website!!
The good thing about the internet, is anyone who really wants the truth can go source information themsleves. As opposed to the massive disinformation the mainstream media has been serving up by the truckloads for more than a little while now. :)
What you say is true, monkeywrench. I think, though, that if you are an author wishing to be authoritative and enlighten people, it would be more effective if you provide sources. That would automatically send the message that you are willing to back up your statements and are not exaggerating or hedging. JMO, 'cos I know it works for me as a reader who only wants to be told the truth.
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