Posted on 12/25/2008 5:20:55 AM PST by jimbo123
The American Civil Liberties Union sent out an emergency appeal to card-carrying members and donors this week after realizing it is a victim of Bernard Madoff's self-confessed Ponzi scheme.
"We've been hit hard in a way that no one could forecast," Alma Montcla, director of administration and finance for the left-leaning advocacy group, wrote this week.
"Two foundations that have been incredibly generous and longstanding supporters of our national security and reproductive freedom work have been victimized by the Madoff scandal - forced to close their doors and terminate their grants," the plea said.
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"Two foundations that have been incredibly generous and longstanding supporters of SUBVERTING our national security andreproductive freedomGenocidal work on the unborn have been victimized by the Madoff scandal - forced to close their doors and terminate their grants," the plea said.
Good. It’s too bad they weren’t totally destroyed.
I hadn’t thought about this nor really noticed it and it has become a nice little Christmas present.
I agree. Sadly it's only a little over 1% of their total annual take. But then maybe there are more contributors out there who haven't let them know the check is not in the mail. We can hope.
I guess they’ve never heard the phrase “If it sounds to good to be true it generally is”.
It’s all a matter of greed and when everyone else is getting 4% and Madoff is offering three times that return maybe a little light bulb should have gone on.
“The fact communists started it has nothing to do with the fact that Jewish lawyers took it over.”
Have it your way.....(yawn)
These days they're pretty clearly pro-Islamofascist and anti-everything else. I think they even went after a rock in a park that a group of elderly Hindu women had decided would be a suitible linga (traditional Shiva worship involves this).
ACLU went to court to get an injunction prohibiting the city that owned the park from keeping that rock there. The rock was removed.
Now watch as Hussein replaces the lost donations with our tax dollars.
So a bunch of Commies trying to make an evil profit that they would deny the rest of us are going broke because they’ve been scammed?
...I’m smiling...:D
Bern, baby, bern.
My wife made a $500.00 wager I couldn't guess one of my Christmas Gifts.
I'm shopping for new tools as we speak...
:-)
LMAO
no problem. when the bailout comes they’re sure to be compensated for what that evil bernie did to them.
I wonder who the foundations were that were giving to them and were wiped out. too bad for the American Commie Liberal Union (not that I am sympathetic).
Such Merry Christmas to all of us!
Dude. Observant Jews don’t want to kill Christianity.
It’s the atheist former Jews who do that.
When did the Ponzi scheme confess?
[Every cloud has a silver lining.]
It is almost strictly left-wing Jewish movers and shakers getting hit. No wonder they always seemed to believe money grew on trees and should therefore be taxed - it was growing on trees for them. I’m not sure I should feel sad that people who were part of a Ponzi scheme got stuck when the music stopped the game of musical chairs.
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