[LittleAlex]

I am occasionally skeptical of the motives that drive the ACLU, but then they defend Rush Limbaugh's medical records as a matter of personal privacy.

I find that, like many things, people, and parties, there are both good and bad points to their agenda.

-Alex

[liberty2004]

I am occasionally skeptical of the motives that drive the ACLU, but then they defend Rush Limbaugh's medical records as a matter of personal privacy. I find that, like many things, people, and parties, there are both good and bad points to their agenda.

troll alert! defending Limbaugh was a ruse and a bone to confuse wish people like you. The ACLU's single purpose is to destroy this country and turn it into a Socialist hell. If you can't see the reality of the ACLU's actions, then you really need to do some serious and extensive reading.

[snuffy smiff]

welcome to FR-may your stay here be as small as your mind

[dhs12345]

Glass is half empty:

Their goal is to push the country to the left. They pick battles that they are confident that they can win (areas with liberal judges) and occasionally fight for the rights of those on the right so that they don't appear to be pushing the left's agenda.

[Michael.SF.]

Yes, and a few years ago the mantra of the left in defending the ACLU was:

But they defended the Nazi's in Skokie.

So in the entire history of the ACLU there are two cases that everyone proclaims and point to to say they are a neutral group. 12,489 to 2 does not make them neutral.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"I am occasionally skeptical of the motives that drive the ACLU, but then they defend Rush Limbaugh's medical records as a matter of personal privacy. "

If you noticed, their public pronouncement of supporting Rush created a whole stir in the MSM and liberal establishment, which mis-identified Rush as a drug abuser and criminal.

They had an agenda and used the right to privacy to slam Rush.

[Skooz]

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

--Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU

[HardStarboard]

>>>I find that, like many things, people, and parties, there are both good and bad points to their agenda.<<<

You don't need to accept the vast socialist baggage of the ALCU to make a case for privacy of personal medical records!

[bill1952]

Crap. And I thought that trollish activism had ended for awhile.

Begone troll!

[Experiment 6-2-6]

The disdain for the ACLU ranks along the disgust for lawyers in general.

Until, of course, the moment you are in need of them.

However much you may dislike them, their ability to protect those who have no voice is the true purpose of lawyers.

Unfortunately, there are too few lawyers who have the willingness or experience to engage in the constitutional issues involved.

Partly, of course, because it doesn't pay.

I, for one, am seriously seeking involvement of the ACLU on my little island. This place is worse than 'bama in the fifties. And if ANYONE on freerepublic believes state action without Federal oversight is a good thing, perhaps I should rethink my involvement..

[little jeremiah]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The ACLU is 99.99% wrong. Its record of being on the right side is so miniscule it doesn't change a thing.

[Paul_Denton]

I am occasionally skeptical of the motives that drive the ACLU, but then they defend Rush Limbaugh's medical records as a matter of personal privacy. I find that, like many things, people, and parties, there are both good and bad points to their agenda. -Alex

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