The ACLU’s Fading Light Of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty holding the torch high to show the light of liberty to the world is a symbol that the ACLU decided to adopt. So as the ACLU boasts about protecting our Bill of Rights most people expect them to set the example. While some people are still clinging to the false hope that the ACLU truly believe in what they claim to, in many eyes their light is fading.

Several board members of the American Civil Liberties Union expressed concerns at a meeting yesterday over proposed standards that would prohibit board members from publicly criticizing the organization’s policies and internal operations.

“I cannot vote for these proposals, as I have violated them nearly every time I have written an op-ed piece or spoken to the press,” said Mary Ellen Gale, an at-large member.

Bennett Hammer, a board member representing the organization’s New Mexico affiliate, cited examples of decisions in the last few years that he said had embarrassed the A.C.L.U. and contended that adopting the proposals would be yet another of “the things that have made us a laughingstock with the public.”

The board nonetheless voted against motions to strike the controversial provisions from the proposals and instead opted for further discussion.

These commies need to be stopped..Just think what kind of world out children and grandchildren will be living in if they the ACLU continues to tear down our wonderful country..

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) characterizes itself as America's "guardian of liberty," ostensibly working to "defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." "We work," says the ACLU, "also to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including Native Americans and other people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor."

The ACLU was established in 1920. Its co-founder Roger Baldwin candidly stated, "I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. It all sums up into one single purpose -- the abolition of dog-eat-dog under which we live. I don't regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it."

As of early 2004, the ACLU had nearly 400,000 members and supporters. The organization handles nearly 6,000 court cases annually from its offices in almost every state. During the twenty months following September 11, 2001, its membership rolls swelled by some 55,000 - largely in response to its attacks on the Bush administration for allegedly trampling on the civil liberties of citizens and non-citizens alike.

In practice, the ACLU is part of the "legal left" and works in concert with radical, anti-capitalist, anti-American organizations like the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights to hack away at the fabric of the American constitutional framework.

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