The ACLU Is Going Down...

The Rant ^ | June 10, 2005 | Justin Darr

[Kaslin]

For years the American Civil Liberties Union has pushed its agenda as to what the Constitution “really says,” and what freedom “really means” through judicial extortion. In 1978, the Supreme Court exempted the ACLU from the “ambulance chasing” prohibitions that apply to nearly every other lawyer in the country. Over the years this has enabled the ACLU’s legions of pro bono attorneys to specifically target various organizations they feel are vulnerable to their lawsuits, dredge the ranks of the “offended” until they can find someone who will agree to let the ACLU stick their name at the top of a case, and then attempt to force a group’s acquiesce to their demands by threatening a costly legal case they usually cannot afford. Many who have dared to stand up against the ACLU might have won the battle in the court room, but lost the war as their organizations were driven into bankruptcy under crushing legal bills.

However, in the last few years the tide has started to turn. Alternate civil liberties groups, such as The American Center for Law and Justice, conservative radio commentators, and even some in the media, have drawn attention to the ACLU’s pattern of abuses, fanatic beliefs and outright hypocrisy. For the first time the ACLU is faced with legitimate public outcry over their tactics and slowly those who once would quietly give up their freedoms have been instilled with the will (and pro bono legal support) to fight. In addition, despite the efforts of obstructionist liberals in Congress, the court system is being given a much needed infusion of new judges who recognize that their interpretation of the Constitution should in some fashion be similar to those who wrote it. The ACLU understands its days of forcing Christianity, traditional values, and freedoms out of American public life are numbered.

Out of a sense of desperation and frustration toward this new threat, the ACLU has recently begun to change the target of their court cases to include the leaders of public groups and the private individuals who are leading the charge against them.

The best known case involves popular talk show host Sean Hannity. While interviewing volunteers of the Minuteman Project last April in Arizona, Hannity inadvertently crossed the US/Mexico border for a few minutes then immediately returned. It was a simple mistake and easily understood in light of the pathetic security of our borders. However the ACLU, which led the good fight by trying to obstruct the Minutemen and goad them into conflicts while enabling the rampant invasion of illegals into our nation, decided this was an offense that could not be tolerated. Apparently upset at Hannity’s drawing interest to the good work of the Minutemen, Arizona State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, under the auspices of the ACLU, demanded Hannity’s arrest.

It is quite obvious that Sinema and the ACLU were not motivated out of a sense of respect for immigration law or fairness, but out of personal hatred toward Sean Hannity. The ACLU does not like what Hannity has to say, so what better way to silence him than by having him embarrassed and thrown in jail. But this is a larger issue than just the ACLU trying to embarrass Hannity. It is indicative of a terrifying new trend from the ACLU where they are attempting to hold individual citizens legally liable for doing nothing more than thinking they are wrong. With large organizations starting to resist them, the ACLU must now found a new defenseless target unable to afford to fight them: private citizens.

There are several other cases in recent weeks which further illustrate this trend. In Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, the ACLU has called for the arrest of school teachers and administrators because the ACLU does not feel they adequately exorcised all Judeo-Christian influences from their classrooms and cafeterias.

In San Diego the ACLU is suing five local personalities, including Rush Limbaugh sub Roger Hedgecock, because they do not like the wording they have chosen to represent the “Arguments For” section of a local ballot initiative to save the Mt. Soledad Cross. Who cares about freedom of speech and the right to voice your political opinions, the ACLU does not agree with it so it must be Constitutional to censor it. What is next? Arresting talk show hosts?

In the Keystone School District in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, even after the school board caved into the demands of the Pittsburgh ACLU, the ACLU is still suing the district because they felt that some in the community still “hoped” that there would be a prayer offered at the high school graduation. Suing a school district because some people in the community, who have no connection to the actual school district, “hope” something happens? Just what does that mean? Last time I checked “hoping” was still Constitutional. This case is nothing short of the ACLU trying to punish rank and file tax payers for not falling into line with its edicts. Just what will it take for the ACLU to feel adequately comfortable with the average citizen of Clarion County’s lack of hope at ever opposing the dictates of the ACLU? Will it be the ACLU individually suing every conservative American until we finally agree to live out our lives as Godless, Socialist drones, or would it just be Brown Shirts and Thought Police?

The ACLU is out of control. They can no longer even pretending to support freedom, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. What once may have been an organization dedicated to high ideals has now degenerated into a literal threat to our liberty. They are going beyond just trying to prosecute every Boy Scout troop and are now moving on to either sue people just like you and me, or actually have us arrested and subjected to criminal prosecution. How ironic it is that a group who thinks terrorists should not be in prison feels that those who disagree with them should. Sounds a little like the ACLU is no longer endorsing civil liberties but political prisoners.

[AnOldCowhand]

Ping for later

[Romish_Papist]

As much as I'd like to see the ACLU utterly destroyed, I think this is just so much wishful thinking. It's just too entrenched and powerful. Fight it yes, but destroy it? Sadly, that's doubtful.

[MudSlide]

Well anyone can say what they want about him but Senator Joe McCarthy scared the bejeeezus out the communist party in the US.

That one question they all hated

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?

So all of the card carrying HollyWeed and Northeast Communist tore up there cards and went underground - did they go to Russia - no - did they stop being communist - no - where are they - they are hiding out in the Democrat party.

The Communist Party in the US is now made up of the Democrat Party - The ACLU as the legal arm and the MSM as the propoganda arm.

Left - Liberal - Democrat - Socialist - Communist.

Fellow Travelers

[ArmyTeach]

Shakespeare reverbrates in so many of our commonly used phrases that half of the time we are not even aware of it.
"My Kingdom for a horse..."
"All's well that ends well "
"Once more into the breach "

On and on. I'm no Shakespearing expert, but never miss an opportunity.

[LIConFem]

"Shakespeare reverbrates in so many of our commonly used phrases..."

Yep!

I'm not an expert either, but I have read all of the plays and sonnets over the past 10 (or so) years. Hated having to read the plays in HS. Funny how we change as we get older. :o)

[ZULU]

Illegal aliens, paedophiles, mass murderers, all are grist for the ACLU mill.

But Christians, the Bible and America's Judaeo-Christian traditions are all anathema to them.

If the House Un-American Activities Committee was resurrected, the ACLU would be #1 on their list, followed by NAMBLA.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What once may have been an organization dedicated to high ideals has now degenerated into a literal threat to our liberty.

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[hosepipe]

[ What once may have been an organization dedicated to high ideals has now degenerated into a literal threat to our liberty. ]

ACLU has ALWAYS been a threat to the Constitution and therefore our freeedom..
From the git-go..

Funny that the ACLU and George Bush(and the republican party) are on the SAME PAGE when it comes to illegal alien insurgents.. and against the Minutemen.. at the very least..

[Big Digger]

OK then, what is the ACLU's standing to demand the arrest of anyone?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

ACLU contributors are 'of a free and open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so, and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are…'

- - Another Shakespeare fan.

[andyk]

OK then, what is the ACLU's standing to demand the arrest of anyone?

Oh, I don't know. Probably the same standing as any other individual or organization to demand anything of anyone. It has no legal basis; it's just grandstanding. C'mon, it's the ACLU!

[djreece]

Personally, I hope our whole corrupt judicial system is also going down. Recent years have showed it is fatally flawed.

[righttackle44]

"Arizona State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, under the auspices of the ACLU, demanded Hannity’s arrest."

I'm a born-again Christian, and that prevents me from
vividly descrbing what I think of Krysten Sinema. Let ms
just say that I think Sinema's integrity and character would not stand the probe of a mosquito. Neither, I think, would the character of our local ACLU or its director.

[darkangel82]

The Reagan Justice Department should have taken care of NAMBLA 25 years ago.

[ZULU]

Maybe Jimmy Cahtah's Justice Department should have taken care of NAMBLA, or maybe Bill Clinton's Justice Department should have taken care of NAMBLA.

Reagan's plate was pretty full and he had to deal with a lot of Commie stool pigeons in Congress, like John F. Kerry, in his fight to keep a second Cuba from springing up in Central America, while trying to undermine the Evil Empire the wussie liberal Democrats were so afraid to deal with.

[XHogPilot]

Thanks for your excellent post.

[CyberAnt]

What they leave out of the story is that there is a "no man's land" section that runs between the two countries, so Hannity did not step into Mexico and back into the USA.

But .. even if he did .. they all seem to think it's okay for every ILLEGAL person in the world to do exactly the same thing.

Also .. there is legislation working it's way through congress re helping to shut down the ACLU factory of lawsuits.

[Bogey78O]

I stumbled upon it here... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418566/posts

It had a different title though.

[mwilli20]

How many tachers and administrators who "stand their ground" can they arrest? How many students can they be allowed to inconvenience and injure?

They can arrest and injure as many as the media can ignore. And believe me that's a very large number.