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To: WinteryDays

OK, absent context you make a valid point. One that I agree with from the standpoint of a private sector tax paying business.

Now lets add the context of the ACLU being an entity that is at least in part funded by tax dollars gained from suing public infrastructure and collecting lawyers fees for doing so.

Lets add the context that the ACLU is supposedly doing much of this suing under the pretext of privay rights and the ability to speak your mind freely.

I ask you this, how does an entity in this context retain its credability (barf) on the issue of supporting free speech for all when they restrain their own people from excercising that very speech?

Do as I say not as I do? Sure looks that way to me!


20 posted on 05/24/2006 8:10:27 AM PDT by BlueStateDepression
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To: BlueStateDepression
What they are doing is absolutely not hypocrisy. It's not. No-one is fighting against free speech here. Exercising a persons right to associate with whom they will is not hypocrisy.

Remember the board member is still free to express themselves however they want. No one is impeding that. But the ACLU has the right to NOT associate with that person for whatever reason.

A defense lawyers defense of a criminal is not hypocrisy on the part of a defense lawyer.
42 posted on 05/30/2006 11:56:39 AM PDT by WinteryDays
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