ACLU

Once a civil rights organization, now just boosters for the DNC's latest woke agenda items. A once reliable non-partisan Civil Liberties organization, they devolved to align with the DNC over civil liberties. You can't be for minority rights and not for individual rights, as the smallest minority is one... yet, when given the choice, they often choose collective rights over individuals, support racism to fix racism (affirmative action), and ignore parts of the constitution they don't like. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni

Positions

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❝ The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ❞ ~ Ayn Rand ℹ️   Much of their drift away from Civil Liberties is because they have many chapters, and the parent org isn't in control of all the chapters, and the chapters are loaded with left leaning partisans. But the Parent Union isn't immune to partisan biases, and the excuse doesn't matter as much as the outcome. And the resulst matter more than the excuses: the ACLU once firmly believed that and were civil libertarians, but they've drifted away on many issues, to being more partisans and libertarians,. The ACLU officially no longer supports liberty on the following issues: The ACLU supports affirmative action -- which means they no longer defend non-minority individuals against state controlled quotas and preferences. Birth control and abortion - they don't believe in the rights of fully viable full-term fetus's until they've travelled through the magic birth canal to instill humanity on them. So they're not quite NARAL, but they're almost indistinguishable on many issues. Gun rights – they don't believe the Second Amendment protects and individuals right, despite it saying so in the Constitution, the letters of the Founders, by most Historians and Linguists, and multiple Supreme Court cases. The ACLU doesn't care about 4th, 5th or 6th Amendments, or attourney-client privilege, when it is a raid against Trump's lawyer (Michael Cohen). Then they went on to decide that free speech doesn't apply to hate speech, or any speech that isn't liberal/progressive enough. Voting rights – they're against the integrity of our elections (VoterID), they're for criminals and illegals being able to vote (or seem to come down on that side).

Examples

• 2019.04.11 Highschool Suspends Students for 2A - Highschool suspended students for Snapchatting that they went to their brothers gun range and snapchatted their event with the caption, "if there's ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go". The photos were not taken at school. They were not taken during school hours. They did not reference a school.
• ACLU - pedophiles good, Trump supporters bad - The ACLU has defended Terrorists, NAMBLA (Homosexual child abuse), Kiddie Porn, Nazi's, the KKK, drug dealers... But Trump supporters or anti-Immigration folks are causing a rift in the ACLU on whether free speech can go too far. Which reflects poorly on how far authoritarian the ACLU has gone. If you think pedophiles are better than Trump supporters? You're useless.
• ACLU Files and loses Lawsuit over Border-Wall - The ACLU played far left hitman for the DNC by suing (and losing) over Trump's Border-Wall National Emergency. They didn't care about the last 58 National Emergencies, including Executive Order 9066: the Japanese Internment. But defending our border under Trump? That they'll fight, unlike when Obama, Clinton, Carter, Johnson, JFK, Truman, FDR did the same.
• ACLU defends Linda Sarsour - The ACLU defends radical, muslim extremism (pro-Jihad), anti-Feminist and FGM supporter (Female Genital Mutilation), anti-semite, who believes in Sharia law (subjugation of Women), because she's also a Trump hating far left fanatic. The parable of laying down with Dogs and getting up with fleas comes to mind.
• ACLU on Comey Firing - ACLU goes full retard on James Comey firing and repeats DNC talking points, instead of common sense or facts. Virtually every claim in their statement was later disproven. If they don't stop regurgitating the dumbest DNC talking points how can they expect any conservatives or civili libertarians to support them?
• ACLU sues Hospital to end religious liberty (2017) - Gender Re-assignment is a complex issue. The ACLU decides that if a Hospital rejects performing a non-medically necessary female genital mutilation procedure (hysterectomy on a trans person), that they should sue into putting political correctness over medical ethics.
• ACLU/Amber Heard - ACLU took the wrong side, being a slanderous Ghost Writer for Amber Heard, and defaming Johnny Depp, then resisting coming clean when asked. Instead of taking the pro-civil rights position, they tried to be bullies, hacks, and attention seekers, bringing shame to what they once stood for.
• ACLU/Shoot Trump Voters - Loring Wirbel had to resign as co-chair of Colorado ACLU Chapter after an article and FB posting that Trump supporters should be shot.
• Divisive Thanksgiving conversation starters tweet - ACLU tweets abbrasive "Thanksgiving conversation starters"... that are far left dog whistles. Why would they tweet politically divisive suggestions to ruin a Holiday. None of them was really about civil rights, just leftist agendas.
• Leaving Paris Climate Accord is racist - The ACLU moronically claims that pulling out of the do-nothing Paris Climate Accord was fostering racism, other outlets claim it's the end of civilization (or American leadership).
• Lies about Domineque Ray Execution - The ACLU and Medium team up to lie (FakeNews) about an execution. Their claim is that a man was executed without allowing Muslim Clergy present, while Christian Clergy would have been allowed and freedom of religion or equal access was denied. The facts are that Alabama had a policy that only volunteers are allowed (no matter their denomination).
• MAGA hat assault in Boston - Woman (Rosiane Santos) assaults man (Bryton Turner) at a Mexican Restaurant (Casa Vallarta) for wearing a MAGA hat... is asked to leave by cops, refuses, gets arrested. Turns out once fingerprinted, she's an illegal immigrant from Brazil, who also committed a DUI (on a prior occasion) and is now on the path to deportation. ACLU silent on victim.
• Photos of guns are not criminal acts - To show how absurd the leftist PC movement is getting in our schools, two male students (Lacey Township High School, New Jersey) did a weekend run range trip and posted non-threatening photos to Snapchat, with the caption, "if there's ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go."

Conclusion

In the distant past they used to have some plausible deniability because it was often their local chapters that were fanatics, and their national organization was doing damage control and trying to tamp down the damage they were doing. But since they put Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court as the least civil libertarian of a generation, they've become a mockery of their own name and mission.

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🔗 Links

• Wikipedia:American Civil Liberties Union
• https://people.howstuffworks.com/aclu.htm
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-should-amend-the-abused-religious-freedom-restoration-act/2015/06/25/ee6aaa46-19d8-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html?postshare=6371435345896586

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