Posted on 06/07/2005 9:38:01 PM PDT by CHARLITE
For years the American Civil Liberties Union has pushed its agenda in terms of what the Constitution “really says,” and what freedom “really means” through judicial extortion. In 1978, the Supreme Court exempted the ACLU from the “ambulance chasing” prohibitions that apply to nearly every other lawyer in the country. Over the years this has enabled the ACLU’s legions of pro bono attorneys to target various organizations they feel are vulnerable to their lawsuits, to dredge the ranks of the “offended” until they can find someone who will agree to let the ACLU stick their name at the top of a case, and then to attempt to force a group’s acquiesce to their demands by threatening a costly legal case they usually cannot afford.
Many who dared to stand up to the ACLU may have won the battle in the court room, but lost the war as their organizations were driven into bankruptcy under crushing legal bills.
In the last few years, however, the tide has started to turn. Alternate civil liberties groups, such as The American Center for Law and Justice, conservative radio commentators, and even some in the mainstream media, have drawn attention to the ACLU’s pattern of abuse, fanatic beliefs, and outright hypocrisy. For the first time the ACLU is faced with legitimate public outcry over its tactics and slowly those who once would quietly give up their freedoms have been instilled with the will (and pro bono legal support) to fight. In addition, despite the efforts of obstructionist liberals in Congress, the court system is being given a much needed infusion of new judges who recognize that their interpretation of the Constitution should in some fashion be similar to that of those who wrote it. The ACLU understands its days of forcing Christianity, traditional values and freedoms out of American public life are numbered.
Out of a sense of desperation and frustration toward this new threat, the ACLU has recently begun to change the target of their court cases to include the leaders of public groups and the private individuals who are leading the charge against them.
The best known case involves popular talk show host Sean Hannity. While interviewing volunteers of the Minuteman Project last April in Arizona, Hannity inadvertently crossed the US/Mexico border for a few minutes then immediately returned. It was a simple mistake and easily understood in light of the pathetic security of our borders. The ACLU, which led the good fight by trying to obstruct the Minutemen and goad them into conflicts while enabling the rampant invasion of illegals into our nation, decided this was an offense that could not be tolerated. Apparently upset at Hannity’s drawing interest to the good work of the Minutemen, Arizona State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, under the auspices of the ACLU, demanded Hannity’s arrest.
It is quite obvious that Sinema and the ACLU were not motivated out of a sense of respect for immigration law or fairness, but out of personal hatred toward Sean Hannity. The ACLU does not like what Hannity has to say, so what better way to silence him than by having him arrested and thrown in jail? But this is a larger issue than just the ACLU trying to embarrass Hannity. It is indicative of a terrifying new trend from the ACLU by which they are attempting to hold individual citizens legally liable for doing nothing more than thinking the ACLU is wrong. With large organizations starting to resist them, the ACLU must now find a new defenseless target unable to afford to fight them: private citizens.
There are several other cases in recent weeks that nicely illustrate this trend. In Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, the ACLU has called for the arrest of school teachers and administrators because the ACLU does not feel they have adequately excised all Judeo-Christian influences or references from their classrooms and cafeterias.
In San Diego the ACLU is suing five local personalities, including Rush Limbaugh sub Roger Hedgecock, because they do not like the wording they have chosen to represent the “Arguments For” section of a local ballot initiative to save the Mt. Soledad Cross. Who cares about freedom of speech and the right to voice your political opinions, the ACLU does not agree with it so it must be Constitutional to censor it. What is next? Arresting talk show hosts?
In the Keystone School District in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, even after the school board caved-in to the demands of the Pittsburgh ACLU, the ACLU is still suing the district because it felt that some in the community still “hoped” that there would be a prayer offered at the high school graduation. Suing a school district because some people in the community, who have no connection to the actual school district, “hope” something happens? Just what does that mean? Last time I checked “hoping” was still Constitutional. This case is nothing short of the ACLU trying to punish rank and file tax payers for not falling into line with its edicts. Just what will it take for the ACLU to feel adequately comfortable with the average citizen of Clarion County’s lack of hope at ever opposing the dictates of the ACLU? Will it be the ACLU individually suing every conservative American until we finally agree to live out our lives as Godless, Socialist drones, or would it just be Brown Shirts and Thought Police?
The ACLU is out of control.
The ACLU can no longer even pretend to support freedom, the Constitution, or Bill of Rights. What once may have been an organization dedicated to high ideals has now degenerated into a literal threat to our liberty. They are going beyond just trying to prosecute every Boy Scout troop and are now moving on to either sue people just like you and me, or have us arrested and subjected to criminal prosecution.
How ironic it is that a group that thinks terrorists should not be in prison feels that those who disagree with it should. Sounds a little like the ACLU is no longer endorsing civil liberties. Yet, as long as the political prisoners are Christian or American, the ACLU is all right with it!
About the Writer: Dustin Hawkins is a freelance writer and graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. His website is: http://www.dustinmhawkins.com/.
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It's time to go after the ACLU everywhere, and to especially get them fined for drumming up false charges that take up court time and hurt people.
People need to start to sue the ACLU out of existance.
They need to start documenting their activities and investments.
For all we know, they are financing Al Qaeda the way they are so anti family values in America.
They are the enemy of America, no doubt.
Let's crush liberals like the insipid bugs they are!!!
Nam Vet
I agree, nice post.
I see the ACLU as a greater threat than all the terrorist gathered together all over the world.
I hope we can finally get something done to stop these people dead in their tracks.
Okay, I've read the story and seen his video.
Now, even if that was Mexican soil upon which he stepped (it clearly was not) exactly what crime was committed?
Hmp?
bump
And besides, it isn't illegal to go into Mexico.
"Sounds a little like the ACLU is no longer endorsing civil liberties."
The article's author must be as naive as he is well-intentioned. The ACLU HAS NEVER been about "endorsing civil rights." The ACLU was initiated in the 1920's to protect anarchists, rioters, communists, domestic terrorists, undesirable immigrants, etc. The ACLU's mission is to PROTECT, under the guise to legally defend, leftist subversives and fanatical activists. Plain and simple, the ACLU is a communist front acting as a civil rights advocate while in essence the ACLU acts as a subversive political party using the legal system as a platform to enable its political agenda which is to undermine and to destroy the traditional rudiments of America's sovereignty. Also, ACLU's ASSAULT targets America's patriotic middle-class: the productive, economically independent and self-determining, taxpaying and moral religious conscience of America.
The most effective counter to perverse ACLU's destructive proMarxist activism is to expose that organization in glaring analytical terms and in blaring factual public discussion. History itself demonstrates what pro-Marxist ACLU really is and for what it really advocates. If Americans accept that Marxist communism/socialism is the antithesis of American founding precepts for governance because American precepts are formed upon the most advanced tenets for human rights and freedoms, then American citizens can easily presume that the ACLU is their enemy.
Socialism (e.g., equality through redistributed wealth, etc.) can only advance through increased centralized government tyranny - through an entitled, enlightened elite cabal of tyrannts. Sort of a projected dystopic synthesization of the United Nations and France.
it was founded by avowed communists who have worked tirelessly to undermine this country
see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415907/posts
Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005 (FREEPERS stop taxpayer funding of ACLU)
Mark
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