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The final nail in the ACLU's coffin
The Hill ^ | 06/11/18 | Alan M. Dershowitz

Posted on 06/11/2018 1:31:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The director of the American Civil Liberties Union has now acknowledged what should have been obvious to everybody over the past several years: The ACLU is no longer a neutral defender of everyone’s civil liberties. It has morphed into a hyper-partisan, hard-left political advocacy group. The final nail in its coffin was the announcement that, for the first time in its history, the ACLU would become involved in partisan electoral politics, supporting candidates, referenda and other agenda-driven political goals.

The headline in the June 8 edition of the New Yorker ( The A.C.L.U. Is Getting Involved in Elections—and Reinventing Itself for the Trump Era ) tells it all: “The ACLU is getting involved in elections — and reinventing itself for the Trump era.” The article continues: “In this midterm year, however, as progressive groups have mushroomed and grown more active, and as liberal billionaires such as Howard Schultz and Tom Steyer have begun to imagine themselves as political heroes and eye presidential runs, the ACLU, itself newly flush, has begun to move in step with the times. For the first time in its history, the ACLU is taking an active role in elections. The group has plans to spend more than 25 million dollars on races and ballot initiatives by Election Day, in November.

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To: yesthatjallen

UFLA

Union For Leftist Abuse


21 posted on 06/11/2018 2:20:04 PM PDT by elbook
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To: yesthatjallen

Some of us have called the ACLU by its actual name for the last 30-40 years: American Communist Lawyers Union.

It did just enough “defending” of conservative/non-communists to keep its cover of wanting the destruction of this constitutional republic alive. And the liberal-leftist press helped out.


22 posted on 06/11/2018 2:24:49 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar
Some of us have called the ACLU by its actual name for the last 30-40 years: American Communist Lawyers Union.

I substituted Anti-Christian for American Communist, but both shoes fit.

23 posted on 06/11/2018 2:29:40 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Paladin2

Yep.


24 posted on 06/11/2018 2:38:30 PM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: yesthatjallen

So, can the federal government cease paying the ACLU for suing the government?


25 posted on 06/11/2018 2:40:27 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: freedumb2003
"I wish it was the nail in the coffin."

Following their trial and conviction, I wish to see the ACLU's short drop and quick stop.

26 posted on 06/11/2018 3:17:20 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: yesthatjallen

If figured they were a far left operation when I first heard of them back in the 60’s.


27 posted on 06/11/2018 3:19:28 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

I’m guessing the American Communist Lawyers Union will give up their 501C-3 status and become just another company?


28 posted on 06/11/2018 3:34:10 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: yesthatjallen

When my failing employer asked me to take
a pay cut and train a younger employee to
take my job (in NJ) I ran to the state labor
board and ACLU and all I could get was a
affirmation that as an at will employee I had
to take it or leave it. As an over 50 white male
I deserved it!

/s


29 posted on 06/11/2018 3:37:40 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: yesthatjallen
I believe they are *****TAX EXEMPT***** because they promised to stay out of politics.
30 posted on 06/11/2018 3:39:33 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: yesthatjallen

Dershowitz is a great example of a man of the left who travels rightward.

The ACLU cares nothing for halting the TSA, the NSA, and other common violators of the Fourth Amendment and civil liberties. They are fine with political correctness tyranny. They used to just love murderers, but not their victims. Now they just love big government in all its forms.

Like the mainstream Republican party, what the hell good are they?


31 posted on 06/11/2018 3:56:38 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: yesthatjallen

Same goes for the hate group known as the SPLC - Southern Poverty Law Center.

Far left group that only has one job; be a fake credible organization designed to label any right wing group racist or whatever it wants.

It should formally be labeled a hate group by the US Government.


32 posted on 06/11/2018 3:58:54 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: Ohioan; yesthatjallen

Yes, indeed, you’re right! I’m plenty old enough to remember the ACLU before Trump and before Alan’s stints on their director’s board. Alan Dershowitz is truly a rare bird because he’s actually able to put aside his liberal-left leanings in the pursuit of civil jurisprudence. He is a civil libertarian.

Unfortunately, because he is a liberal leftist, I think he’s viewed the ACLU through rose colored glasses, and it’s only now, with Trump, when the radical Left has taken over his Democrat party that he can plainly see all the corruption that we’ve seen all along.


33 posted on 06/11/2018 3:59:27 PM PDT by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WIINNING WAY)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Lawyers don’t pay taxes, the suckers pay taxes.


34 posted on 06/11/2018 4:00:22 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: yesthatjallen

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So, now any donations to the ACLU should be fully taxible.
.


35 posted on 06/11/2018 4:00:26 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: yesthatjallen

It was never neutral: founded by communists.


36 posted on 06/11/2018 4:03:03 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: freedumb2003

All of the ACLU, ADL (Anti-Defamation-League), and SPLC - with the Rainbow-Push (and ALL of their variations of for-profit and not-for-profit side-corporations!) are as tax-deductible as the fake Clinton Foundation, right?


37 posted on 06/11/2018 4:03:56 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: yesthatjallen
The ACLU is no longer a neutral defender of everyone’s civil liberties.

It never was.

38 posted on 06/11/2018 4:36:23 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The admission that the ACLU is working for the communists and Nazis against American citizens and their civil rights means that the ACLU should be open targets for street justice.


39 posted on 06/11/2018 5:00:58 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Gil4

The late great William Buckley called them the Anti-Chriistian Lunacy Union.


40 posted on 06/11/2018 5:14:00 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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