Posted on 08/07/2005 8:33:56 PM PDT by Jay777
The Center for Reclaiming America for Christ has uncovered documents revealing that the Florida Supreme Court is responsible for helping to fund the ACLU of Florida — using interest from legal trust funds generated by unsuspecting home buyers, heirs, and legal awards and settlements. Between 1990 and 1997, the Florida Bar Foundation (FBF), a creation of the Florida Supreme Court, provided more than $600,000 to help pay the salary of the ACLU of Florida’s legal director.
Incredibly, the Florida Supreme Court approved these appropriations, despite the fact that the Court often issues rulings in cases argued by the ACLU’s legal director. One would assume that such funding would create a conflict of interest — but not in the eyes of the Court. In a letter faxed to the Center, the FBF admitted that every instance in which it offered funding to the ACLU of Florida, it was “specifically approved from time to time by the Supreme Court of Florida.”
The Mechanics of IOTA Accounts
This is further evidence of the Court’s skewed ideological agenda. In 1956, the Florida Bar Foundation was established by the Florida Supreme Court in order to provide legal assistance to the poor. Sadly, at least in this case, the Court used the funds of unsuspecting Floridians to promote a radical ideological agenda.
In 1981, in an effort to increase the level of funding for the Foundation, the Florida High Court adopted the nation’s first IOTA (interest on trust account) program. Under the IOTA program, all monies that change hands via an attorney (i.e. home purchases, lawsuit awards, probate accounts, divorce settlements, etc.) are to be temporarily deposited in a pooled interest-bearing account. Chances are: If you settled a lawsuit, inherited money,...
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However, the truth is that the ACLU has used the government (the Florida Supreme Court) to operate a multi-million dollar foundation which strips monies from unsuspecting Floridians so that it can fund legal efforts to oppose common sense legislation passed by the elected representatives of those same unsuspecting citizens. READ MORE
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 - 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 group just started on December 3, 2004 and are looking for new members to their yahoo group
My Personal Anti-ACLU Blog (Check it out and leave a comment!)
commie lawyers.
All while FL hasn't the money to see to children they remove from homes of their parents into foster care.
Political realities hurt.
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Truly stunned. I am at a loss for words.
"sort of".
The money is int the attorney's trust account. The interest from that account is turned over to the IOTA fund. The monies themselves are not pooled.
It is worth noting that the money usually remains for very short times (days) AND the client usually has the option of having an interest bearing account created when large amounts are at issue. When you have very small amounts, (ie filing fees) the interest is pennies.
It is ever worth noting that in the past the attorneys USED to include an interest clause where the attorney recieved the interest for those very short times.
That said, there is ZERO reason to directly fund the ACLU. It is bad enough they fund legal aid.
What an outrage - there are blatant conflicts of interest involved, not to mention a despicable mis-appropriation of public funds to support anti-American leftist whackos.... this should be on the front page of every paper in the country, but of course they love the ACLU and will not even report it....
For some reason, I think this will not get any MSM attention at all.
Thanks for this very timely and relevant report.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST! Contemptible.
MSM will have to acknowledge this if Bill O'Reilly gets ahold of this one.
I smell big issue here for the GOP.
This reeks of cronyism. And from the Court itself.
***The GOP is too passive to run with this significant opportunity to align with reality the TRUTH about ACLU. When has the GOP confronted or addressed the serious issues caused by ACLU's specious manipulations of the legal system to promote its subversive agenda during the past 40 years? The GOP cannot handle the predictable ACLU/Leftist hurls of the stale ad hominem tag "McCarthyism." Who in the GOP rebutted ACLU president Nadine Strossen's scare mongering propaganda? The GOP must EDUCATE American citizens on principles and responsibilities of governance in accordance with founding precepts and ideals. (NO apologia for Slavery and Jim Crow!) America's younger generations conditioned by NEA's leftist ideological homo-sexology dictum to public school systems (K-12) don't have a clue - not one clue.
It wouldn't surprise me if the judges were also commie lawyers.
Nothing in Florida politics, or the Dems' behaviour, surprises me anymore.
I see your webpage is "stop the ACLU".
You might have seen a post I made recently about the ACLU and the Ten Commandments. If you feel the ideas would be of use in stopping the ACLU, I'd love to know...
Cheers!
I think a disclaimer idea just might satisfy the courts. You should write your Congressman with this idea. Or consult a lawyer on their thoughts.
Let me re-check your website, I'd like to find a sympathetic one I could trust...
Thanks, and (as usual)
Cheers!
True, but O'Reilly might go wild with this if you can get his attention - he was really ripping apart the ACLU the other night, and the left-liberal legal culture in Florida has also been a big interest of his with that terrorist scum professor in Florida now on trial.....
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