“The focus on 1931 is misleading since the ACLU very publically purged its CP members several years later.”
There you have it. Nothing to see at the ACLU, move on everyone.
/Sard/
If you are interested in facts (no sarcasm in my case), I did not say or imply "Nothing to say in the ACLU, move on everyone." I am extremely critical of the organization's statism and double standards (though it is often a zealous ally of the guns rights lobbyists in Congress). I was merely pointing out that it purged (much to the criticism of other leftists), their Communist element after 1931. IMHO, I do not find people credible who leave out facts that contradict their claims. Do you feel otherwise?
Here is a statement from a lefty who hates the ACLU's anti-CP purge:
One black mark on Baldwin's record was the 1940 expulsion of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a member of the ACLU's Board of Directors who openly belonged to the American Communist Party. The American Communists had by that point favored peace and neutrality in international relations, but this did not matter to Baldwin, who felt--presumably with a convert's zeal--that no Communist could be a civil libertarian. Flynn's removal from the ACLU board, more than a decade before the McCarthy hearings, had a chilling effect on the U.S. civil libertarian community, which still included many professing communists.