THE ACLU AT 100

THE ACLU AT 100

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - BLOGGER - CINOPS BE GONE - THURS., MARCH 19, 2020

CATALYST - "JOURNAL OF THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS"  DEC. 19/2020 +++ From the President's desk. Bill Donohue

Preface:

    The ACLU is a fraud. If you are a member, you have been duped. You joined because it is politically correct to join. But that does not make it right or honest. Americans who fight for the rights of unborn babies, conservatism, people of faith and traditional family values view the ACLU as the enemy. The ACLU hates the other America and shows us no respect. Justice is truth in action. ACLU stop being an enemy of justice! ghk

   
"The ACLU will celebrate its centennial on January 20, 2020. Always contentious, it has become the most influential civil liberties organization in the nation. It reputation as a non-partisan organization that vigorously defends the free speech rights of all Americans, independent of their ideology or political leanings, is well known.

    
However, it is a reputation that can be seriously challenged. Indeed as I detailed in The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union (Transaction Press, 1985), it would be more accurate to say that the Union is the legal arm of the liberal-left.  ... the Union entertains a vision of liberty: that is increasingly libertine: its promotion of radical individualism works to undermine the kind of moral census that is bedrock of free societies...

    
The ACLU was nominally founded to defend free speech rights, but its real interests was the rights of labor. Baldwin pushed the ACLU to the radical fringe of the Labor movement, leading Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, to accuse him of aiding an abetting revolutionary movements, Baldwin was a Communist fellow-traveler.... He vigorously defended Stalin-ism...

    
Though the ACLU took a moderate position on many issues in the 1940s and 1950s, in the 1960s it resorted back to its more radical ways. It was on the social and  economical issues that it turned decisively left. Egalitarians on the ACLU's board started lobbying for economic rights, and in 1984 succeeded in developing a policy declaring poverty to be a civil rights issue....

    
Making matters worse is the ACLU's push to legalize all drugs. It also wants to legalize street prostitution, pornography, and gambling. Only someone drunk on individual rights would conclude that such activities contribute to the makings of a free society. ...

  
  In the late 1970s, Rep. Henry Hyde authored a bill restricting the federal funding of abortion. The ACLU, determined to cast his effort as an attempt to shove Roman Catholic doctrine down the throats of the public, summoned a lawyer to follow him into church on Sunday. She entered her spy notes in a 301 - page brief, which got nowhere. When asked about this Hyde, said, "I suppose the Nazis did that - observed Jews going into Synagogues in Hitler's Germany - but I hoped we would have gotten past that kind of fascistic tactic....

    
Freedom from religion has always played a much bigger role for the ACLU than freedom of religion. The list of religious expressions it object to is quite long. In the 1980's, it worked to strip the Catholic Church of its tax-exempt status...

    
In more recent times, the ACLU has been quick to hail its defense of neo-Nazis as evidence of its non-partisan approach. But anyone knows that these nuts pose no real threat.  More seriously, why is the ACLU reluctant to defend the free speech rights of pro-life demonstrators, or conservative speakers on college campuses....The author of the First Amendment James Madison, never envisioned that freedom of speech would come to mean the defense of child pornography....

    
Dershowitz maintains that "after Trump took office, the ACLU has never been so cash rich, yet principle poor." What matters most of that money is not coming from civil libertarians who care about free speech, due process, the rights of the accused and defending the unpopular," Deschowitz notes. "it is coming from radical leftists in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and other areas not known for a deep commitment to civil liberties....

George H. Kubeck,  I have been a member of the Catholic League for more than 50 years. Senior membership is only $20.00 yearly. Please Join: Tel. (212)- 371-3191