This is a retread thread from 2002.
So Rep. Barr was a member of the ACLU in 2002. So what? Is he active in the organization circa 2008? Is he still even a member?
I guess the McCain apologists are getting worried.
Exactly. The liberal McCain supporters are panicked.
Barr can go to hell and take Buchanan with him.
Well, you are right. It is 2002, and it’s a retread.
But was that all that long ago? It has been evident to the dullest eye since at least the 1980s that the ACLU is more interested in supporting abortion and atheism than individual rights and freedoms.
They might take on a token Nazi or two as clients, just to show that they support constitutional rights for everyone, even the worst of us. But I don’t notice them coming to the rescue of parents who want their kids to get a decent moral education in our public schools, or pro-lifers arrested for praying on public sidewalks and beaten by the police in the process.
No one who claims to be for family or life could POSSIBLY sit down with the ACLU. Maybe Barr has some explanation. Maybe he thought he could convince them to change their ways. But I haven’t heard it, and it doesn’t seem to be very evident here in this article.
This is old news. Let's just move on!
[snicker]
If McCain had worked for the ACLU in the past, the Libertarians flooding these Barr threads ad nauseum would be all over the Senator like off-white on wild rice.
Leni
Barr's close association with the ACLU communists continued on for years after this article, and to my knowledge exists to this day. And he wasn't just "a member." He was on their payroll.
And I'm no "McCain apologist." [see tagline]
My first bad experience with Barr was when he came into my home state six years ago and endorsed uber-RINO Greg Ganske over conservative Bill Salier in the US Senate primary.
Barr is whacked. He doesn't think we need a fence on the border, and that the recent CA gay "marriage" decision was "the way it's supposed to work."
Feh...