Sick of the ACLU? Then Sign This…
September 21st, 2005 at 11:48 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesYou may or may not know, but when the ACLU wins its oodles of lawsuits (you know, like taking down crosses, displays of the Ten Commandments, nativity scenes, the usual…), you pay their attorney’s fees through your tax dollars?
Stop the ACLU has more details.
Sign the petition here: Stop taxpayer funding of the ACLU.
September 21st, 2005 at 11:56 pm
Thank you so much.
September 22nd, 2005 at 3:03 pm
You may or may not know, but when the ACLU wins a lawsuit, that means that the opposing side was DOING SOMETHING THAT VIOLATED SOMEONE’S RIGHTS. Courts aren’t just handing out money for no reason. Maybe taxpayers should do more to be involved in the decision making that’s causing these judgments rather than trying to stop an organization that protects everyone’s rights.
By the way, you apparently missed the news that they recently defended a child’s right to sing a religious song (“Awesome God”) in a school talent contest. Yes, they’re so evil.
September 22nd, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Aw, how sweet of them.
Too bad my wife gave them a nice bitch slap over that very subject here
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:52 pm
if they were trying to protect “everyone’s” rights, there wouldn’t be a problem. and, here’s the thing: you can protect other people’s rights all day long, but why do you need my money? if they are so dang vital and important, shouldn’t they be able to sustain themselves?
and about that kid singing…it was a friend-of-the-court brief, so they really weren’t swooping in on a white horse, coming to save the day. more like trying to get some more press. there have been tons of decisions that have protected the very same thing as in this case.
you won’t find them on the ACLU website, cause they LOST.
September 22nd, 2005 at 7:28 pm
The image of the ACLU defending someone’s rights is a nice one, and the fact that Lesley believes it is proof that the art of marketing is not dead.
If they ACLU were TRULY about defending the civil liberties of Americans, they would have brought suit against the Internal Revenue Service for the multiple egregious violations of citizens’ rights they’ve committed over the years. I realize that taking money forcibly from free people isn’t as onerous as a statue of the Virgin Mary on a streetcorner, so I guess I should cut them some slack.
September 22nd, 2005 at 10:54 pm
Thank you all for bitch-slapping Lesley for me. I don’t have the time or energy tonight to pay attention to bed-wetting nitwittery tonight.
September 23rd, 2005 at 9:01 am
Bitch-slapped? Hardly. It seems that you and your buddies simply don’t understand the mission of the ACLU. Perhaps you should research them and (gasp!) talk to an ACLU attorney before forming an opinion. Though I know that’s not how people like you form opinions–on facts, so I’m just wasting my time here.
September 23rd, 2005 at 9:25 am
Mmmmmm…… bye!
September 23rd, 2005 at 9:56 am
With Lesley’s political beliefs being a “combination of socialism and libertarianism” I think she has enough confusion in her life to deal with right now. Given such a combination, it’s probably hard to understand actual “facts”, even those that come from people who’ve met a real live ACLU attorney or 6 in person.
September 23rd, 2005 at 10:48 am
See, what you don’t understand, Lesley, is we understand the mission of the ACLU all too well. It is to protect the guilty while subjecting the innocent to fend for themselves.
Fox News:Around the nation, state and local authorities are checking refugees’ pasts as they are welcomed into homes, schools, houses of worship and housing projects. In some states, half the refugees have rap sheets.
snip
Civil libertarians call the checks thinly veiled race and class discrimination against people who have suffered already. The checks are made on those evacuated or forced to seek help from charities or others — in other words, people who are often black and poor.
“I think it’s happening partly because who these people are and where they came from,” said Steve Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island ACLU. “The mere fact that people have past criminal records in and of itself doesn’t say anything about harm to the community.”
I would just love to see you put your home where your mouth is. Follow the advice of your beloved ACLU and welcome unknowns into YOUR home and community without any kind of check. After all the ACLU could very well take this to court, find a friendly judge, and win this one and they would be right, right? I mean the states would obviously be, “DOING SOMETHING THAT VIOLATED SOMEONE’S RIGHTS.” So, go ahead. Don’t offend anyone by doing a back ground check. Invite them in to your community and home and off them some pretzels and a coke. Go ahead. Keep us posted. Let us know how it all turns out for ya………yeah, didn’t think so.