ACLU Has Massive Database Of Its Members’ Financial Information

Stop The ACLU ^ | 11-May-06 | Jay Stephenson

[Jay777]

[Jay777]

ACLU Hypocrisy Ping!

[Commander8]

So much for their obsession with privacy.

[1rudeboy]

Some caller to the Hannity show (yesterday?) observed that the ACLU searches everyone's bags entering its building. Not randomly, but universally.

[groanup]

Typical ACLU. Typical, "we're the good guys so we can do it because we care".

[michigander]

Many folks here feel the same way.
If you aren't doing anything wrong, what's the problem?

[BW2221]

Of course, the ACLoosers will tell you that it can't provide membership demographics, which is a lie. But, we all know the organization is far-left, heavily (if not exclusively) DemocRAT and has an inordinately large number of trial lawyers and secular Jews.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

. . . and then there was the donor database the Clintons illegally used government computers for . . .

[Rennes Templar]

They must be searching for more money, surely theyr'e not searching for security purposes.

[samadams2000]

You know what their trump card is...???

Abortion Extortion. When those two databases sinc up and they do a cross mailer the sh*t will hit the fan. Someone will overreach.

[Peach]

Democrats were okay with Eschelon and Carnivore which captured every phone call, every e-mail, every baby monitor (!), every ATM transaction and more, and that program is okay, pre war on terror, but this program isn't okay.

Eschelon and Carnivore information:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543118/posts?page=1#1

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542838/posts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543318/posts

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21387

Oops - Clinton's NSA spying program accidentally (ahem) captured a Republican's phone calls.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1553101/posts?page=1

And just for kicks, the Commies insisted on FISA:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21453

Flashback: Gore planned to bug America:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559386/posts

NYT called domestic surveillance a necessity when Clinton was president:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556815/posts

[HarleyLady27]

Whats the difference in having the phone companies having you phone numbers and the NSA having them????

I think people protest to much to hear their jaws clacking....

[nosofar]

There is one big difference. The ACLU is not a government agency. Even so, it does smell a bit of hypocrisy.

[Ann Archy]

As James Lieleks just said on Hugh Hewitt's show......"they want Bush to CONNECT the Dots WITHOUT being able to COLLECT the Dots"!!

[kinoxi]

one difference is that you choose your phone company and can change it(or stop using it) at any time. government databases don't have a good history. i agree personally with the NSA datamining project, it makes sense. i also look across the pond to atrocities committed in the UK over their 'information databases' concerning DNA misidentification, however, and am wary of where this leads

[SunkenCiv]

The American Civil Liberties Union is using sophisticated technology to collect a wide variety of information about its members and donors in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a bitter debate over its leaders’ commitment to privacy rights.

What a huuuuge surprise.

[Jay777]

Bah! So since they are not government seeking to stop terrorist, and instead are defending them in court...this makes it ok that they collect info on people?

[AmeriBrit]

Just what is it the MSM expects to gain by being silent about all this crime by the democRATs against the American citizens and the discovery of whats in the translated files, other than they're all democRATs themselves. You would think they would be falling over themselves trying to scoop each other. It just doesn't make sense.

Why do the MSM, the DemocRAT party and the ACLU hate America so?

[Political Junkie Too]

How about this one from March:
Democrats' Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty Battle

A group of well-connected Democrats led by a former top aide to Bill Clinton is raising millions of dollars to start a private firm that plans to compile huge amounts of data on Americans to identify Democratic voters and blunt what has been a clear Republican lead in using technology for political advantage...

Ickes said his new venture, Data Warehouse, will at first seek to sell its targeting information to politically active unions and liberal interest groups, rather than campaigns.

As it stands now, the DNC and Data Warehouse, created by Ickes and Democratic operative Laura Quinn, will separately try to build vast and detailed voter lists -- each effort requiring sophisticated expertise and costing well over $10 million.

-PJ

[the invisib1e hand]

Data Warehouse

That name is too honest.

I'm for the centralization of databanks. It'll make it easier for some righteous hacker to do them in when the time comes.