[stephenjohnbanker]

The goals of the ACLU were clear from the group’s founding, as indicated by the writings of its founder, Roger Baldwin: “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 propertied class… Communism is the goal.”

[elk]

"for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. "

Actually, what he MEANT to say was "establishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion."

There, I fixed it.