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Savage says the the ACLU should be investigated under the RICO statues..........not exactly sure what that means, but it sure sounds like a good idea.
I think y'all are giving them too much credit for deep thought. It's mostly a power grab. They use the tactic that to weaken others is to thus make their own side (relatively speaking) more powerful. And a cleverly designed whisper campaign (e.g., the suppressive pervasiveness of political correctness, which even has injected itself into the judicial branch) is just the thing.
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Yes, the lead counsel of such an organization is allowed to be on the Supreme Court 96-3, but an outed conservative is not.
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Say it ain't so.
There were several co-founders of the ACLU, one of whom was Norman Thomas.
Norman Thomas ran for President of the US on the Socialist Party ticket, a total of 6 times -- Thomas was also a co-founder of the Socialist Party of the US.
Here's a quote from him:
"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 knowing how it happened."
Btw, his grandson is Evan Thomas, an editor at Newsweak...it was revealed that ET was his grandson by Chrissie Matthews during an interview with ET some years ago on Hardball, back in its early days.
More info. on Mr. Baldwin, thanks to David Horowitz/Frontpagemag.com
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1579
Ever wonder which President awarded Roger Baldwin the Medal of Freedom?
Here's a hint: it wasn't a Republican!
http://www.medaloffreedom.com/RogerNashBaldwin.htm
There is one book that I do hope Google will get to scan into their mega-library
(as I suspect it's not easy to locate a copy of this classic by Roger Baldwin)....
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006D7R2U/qid=1132119848/sr=1-39/ref=sr_1_39/002-3484837-8603266?v=glance&s=books