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OK, here's one a bit more recent: Earl Browder was Secretary General of the American Communist Party from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944, and when it renamed itself the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its president. In subsequent years Browder proudly proclaimed that the ACLU functioned as "a transmission belt" for the party. To deny the ACLU's founding was attached at the hip to communist organizations is to deny what can easily be proven as truth.
The fact is that any good the ACLU has done is far outweighed by the harm. Wherever there is anti-American action, dangerous organizations, and groups determined to prevent this country from protecting itself, you can almost guarantee that ACLU lawyers will be there acting on their behalf pro bono (the ACLU can afford it; they are an immensely wealthy organization, receiving not only millions in contribuitions from empty-headed people, but also our Federal tax dollars).
To cite all the cases to support the contention that the ACLU is a subversive organization would take a week. Here are a few key cases:
NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association is a Massachusetts group whose purpose is to promote sexual intercourse between adult men and pre-pubescent young boys. One of its many publications has been called "The Rape and Escape Manual." Its actual title is "The Survival Manual: The Man's Guide to Staying Alive in Man-Boy Sexual Relationships."
It details how to build relationships with children, how to gain the confidence of children's parents, where to go to have sex with children so as not to get caught and, if one gets caught, on when to leave America and how to rip off credit card companies to get cash to finance your flight.
In 1997 two men who had avidly read the NAMBLA publications kidnapped a young boy, Jeffrey Curley, raped him, killed him by stuffing his mouth with a rag doused in gasoline, raped the cadaver and dumped it. In his diary, one of the murderers said he had had reservations about having sex with children until he discovered NAMBLA the previous year. The practical, step-by-step advice he followed goes far beyond appeals to sway public opinion in favor of pedophilia. Such language aids and abets felonious conduct. If such conspiracy results in homicide, it is reasonable for NAMBLA to face civil liability if not criminal prosecution.
Jeffrey Curley's parents sued NAMBLA, contending that their literature helped to cause the death of their son. The ACLU is defending them, free.
Ohio's Court of Appeals found NAMBLA complicit in an earlier child-rape case. NAMBLA's literature, discovered in a defendant's possession reflected "preparation and purpose," according to the Buckeye State's top bench.
Now while the ACLU has offered material support to those who openly preach pedophilia and arguably encourage kidnapping, rape, and murder they are energetically hostile to an organization that tries to turn boys into men.
Since 1915, the Boy Scouts have managed land within San Diego's Balboa Park. It has built a swimming pool, a 600-seat amphitheater, and a camping facility that accommodates 300. Camp Balboa serves some 12,000 Boy Scouts annually through daylong events and weekend sleepovers. The Scouts' tie to this land is a 50-year lease offered by the San Diego City Council and signed in 1957. In exchange for their stewardship — including private investment for maintenance and development — the Scouts hand the city an annual lease payment of $1.00.
This arrangement is too much for the ACLU to swallow. It sued the City of San Diego to expel the Boy Scouts from Balboa Park. The ACLU contends that the Scouts are a religious organization and thus should be dislodged from the facility. Never mind that the Scouts did not bar other groups from using the park. In fact, according to Hans Zeiger, an 18-year-old Eagle Scout who has written about this controversy, Balboa Park hosted last summer's San Diego Gay Pride Festival.
The ACLU found a liberal judge to compel the City of San Diego to cancel the Scouts' lease on the park, even though it did not expire until 2007 and, in fact, had been extended in 2001 for 25 years. The ACLU also scored $950,000 in attorneys fees and court costs, thus fleecing taxpayers and deepening its pockets.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in Michigan for a student to be allowed to wear a t-shirt to school depicting President Bush as an international terrorist, in contravention of the school's rule barring political material. When another student was prevented from wearing a t-shirt saying "Support our Troops," the ACLU was nowhere to be seen.
A mantra today is that "we cannot round up and deport the 12 [maybe 20] million illegal aliens in the USA." No, but if they are prevented from working, they will probably return home on their own. To this end, in 2005 the Dept. of Homeland Security and Social Security Admin. has mailed out millions of "no-match" notices to employers where an employee's name, Social Security # etc. do not match (most of the illegal workers have forged S.S. cards), and explaining what the employer must do if the worker cannot verify the information. The DHS considers this an essential immigration enforcement tool. The ACLU shopped around, as usual, to find a liberal judge before whom they could convince to issue a restraining order preventing the DHS and SSA from mailing any more "no-match" notices.
The Minutemen, as you know, simply exercize the right of every American citizen to report law-breaking to the authorities. They are not "Vigilantes." They are not armed, nor do they physically confront illegal aliens breaking into our country. They simply inform the Border Patrol officers when they spot them. Unofficially, Border Patrol officers say that without the help of the Minutemen they would not apprehend half of the current number.
The ACLU has dispatched "monitors" to dog the Minutemen, help the illegals evade them, and even, it is reported, act in some cases as trouble-makers so that the ever-present TV cameras can catch some confrontation. This is all no surprise to those who have seen the ACLU's looney liberal "open-borders" agenda, from supporting driver's licenses for illegals to opposition to detaining illegal alien terror suspects after 9/11, or profiling foreigners from terror-friendly countries, to its efforts to stop local and state law-enforcement officers from helping Immigration and Homeland Security efforts.
Recently, the ACLU sued to prevent New York City from randomly examining the backpacks of subway riders (the same kind of backpacks used by the Madrid and London train bombers).
And on it goes.
A good book about the ACLU is Alan Sears and Craig Osten's The ACLU vs America: Exposing the Agenda (Broadman & Holman, 2005).
The fact is that any good the ACLU has done is far outweighed by the harm. Wherever there is anti-American action, dangerous organizations, and groups determined to prevent this country from protecting itself, you can almost guarantee that ACLU lawyers will be there acting on their behalf pro bono (the ACLU can afford it; they are an immensely wealthy organization, receiving not only millions in contribuitions from empty-headed people, but also our Federal tax dollars).
To cite all the cases to support the contention that the ACLU is a subversive organization would take a week. Here are a few key cases:
NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association is a Massachusetts group whose purpose is to promote sexual intercourse between adult men and pre-pubescent young boys. One of its many publications has been called "The Rape and Escape Manual." Its actual title is "The Survival Manual: The Man's Guide to Staying Alive in Man-Boy Sexual Relationships."
It details how to build relationships with children, how to gain the confidence of children's parents, where to go to have sex with children so as not to get caught and, if one gets caught, on when to leave America and how to rip off credit card companies to get cash to finance your flight.
In 1997 two men who had avidly read the NAMBLA publications kidnapped a young boy, Jeffrey Curley, raped him, killed him by stuffing his mouth with a rag doused in gasoline, raped the cadaver and dumped it. In his diary, one of the murderers said he had had reservations about having sex with children until he discovered NAMBLA the previous year. The practical, step-by-step advice he followed goes far beyond appeals to sway public opinion in favor of pedophilia. Such language aids and abets felonious conduct. If such conspiracy results in homicide, it is reasonable for NAMBLA to face civil liability if not criminal prosecution.
Jeffrey Curley's parents sued NAMBLA, contending that their literature helped to cause the death of their son. The ACLU is defending them, free.
Ohio's Court of Appeals found NAMBLA complicit in an earlier child-rape case. NAMBLA's literature, discovered in a defendant's possession reflected "preparation and purpose," according to the Buckeye State's top bench.
Now while the ACLU has offered material support to those who openly preach pedophilia and arguably encourage kidnapping, rape, and murder they are energetically hostile to an organization that tries to turn boys into men.
Since 1915, the Boy Scouts have managed land within San Diego's Balboa Park. It has built a swimming pool, a 600-seat amphitheater, and a camping facility that accommodates 300. Camp Balboa serves some 12,000 Boy Scouts annually through daylong events and weekend sleepovers. The Scouts' tie to this land is a 50-year lease offered by the San Diego City Council and signed in 1957. In exchange for their stewardship — including private investment for maintenance and development — the Scouts hand the city an annual lease payment of $1.00.
This arrangement is too much for the ACLU to swallow. It sued the City of San Diego to expel the Boy Scouts from Balboa Park. The ACLU contends that the Scouts are a religious organization and thus should be dislodged from the facility. Never mind that the Scouts did not bar other groups from using the park. In fact, according to Hans Zeiger, an 18-year-old Eagle Scout who has written about this controversy, Balboa Park hosted last summer's San Diego Gay Pride Festival.
The ACLU found a liberal judge to compel the City of San Diego to cancel the Scouts' lease on the park, even though it did not expire until 2007 and, in fact, had been extended in 2001 for 25 years. The ACLU also scored $950,000 in attorneys fees and court costs, thus fleecing taxpayers and deepening its pockets.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in Michigan for a student to be allowed to wear a t-shirt to school depicting President Bush as an international terrorist, in contravention of the school's rule barring political material. When another student was prevented from wearing a t-shirt saying "Support our Troops," the ACLU was nowhere to be seen.
A mantra today is that "we cannot round up and deport the 12 [maybe 20] million illegal aliens in the USA." No, but if they are prevented from working, they will probably return home on their own. To this end, in 2005 the Dept. of Homeland Security and Social Security Admin. has mailed out millions of "no-match" notices to employers where an employee's name, Social Security # etc. do not match (most of the illegal workers have forged S.S. cards), and explaining what the employer must do if the worker cannot verify the information. The DHS considers this an essential immigration enforcement tool. The ACLU shopped around, as usual, to find a liberal judge before whom they could convince to issue a restraining order preventing the DHS and SSA from mailing any more "no-match" notices.
The Minutemen, as you know, simply exercize the right of every American citizen to report law-breaking to the authorities. They are not "Vigilantes." They are not armed, nor do they physically confront illegal aliens breaking into our country. They simply inform the Border Patrol officers when they spot them. Unofficially, Border Patrol officers say that without the help of the Minutemen they would not apprehend half of the current number.
The ACLU has dispatched "monitors" to dog the Minutemen, help the illegals evade them, and even, it is reported, act in some cases as trouble-makers so that the ever-present TV cameras can catch some confrontation. This is all no surprise to those who have seen the ACLU's looney liberal "open-borders" agenda, from supporting driver's licenses for illegals to opposition to detaining illegal alien terror suspects after 9/11, or profiling foreigners from terror-friendly countries, to its efforts to stop local and state law-enforcement officers from helping Immigration and Homeland Security efforts.
Recently, the ACLU sued to prevent New York City from randomly examining the backpacks of subway riders (the same kind of backpacks used by the Madrid and London train bombers).
And on it goes.
A good book about the ACLU is Alan Sears and Craig Osten's The ACLU vs America: Exposing the Agenda (Broadman & Holman, 2005).
