11 replies on “Renew your ACLU membership.”

  1. I donated a few weeks ago. I work for them in a heartbeat. Without civil liberties, freedom is dead. Do we know if the judge is conservitve? The cries of “activist jugde” will begin soon.

  2. I donated a few weeks ago.

    Great!

    Do we know if the judge is conservitve?

    In fact, the judge is a liberal Democrat, one of the first black female judges on the federal bench. So I’m sure those cries have already started. :)

  3. When they pay as much attention to the Second Amendment as they do to the First…. maybe.

    When they agree that employers have First Amendment rights, just as unions do (a position denied during the first 30 years of its existence)…. maybe.

    When they stand up for the First Amendment rights of employees, rather than for the power of unions to extract from employees monies against their will…. maybe.

    When they show ANY interest in defending the First Amendment rights to political speech for those who want to spend money in politics…. maybe.

    When they show defend the rights of individuals to free political speech, as opposed to defending labor unions’ power to forced political speech with money extracted from employees (as they have done in one of my cases)…. maybe.

    When they act to defend the free assembly rights of Operation Rescue with as much vigor as they defend the rights of the North American Man-Boy Love Association…. maybe.

    When they show more interest in the actual text of the Constitution than they do in “rights” derived from “penumbras” and “emanations”…. maybe.

  4. I’m yet to find any interest group with whom I agree on everything. And I’ve never found anybody with whom I agree about the interpretation of every portion of the constitution. And I’ve certainly never found an organization that stands up for every single one of my beliefs, every time.

    There’s such a thing as “good enough.”

  5. There’s also such a thing as picking and choosing. But most organizations that pick and choose — and all do — nevertheless do not assume quite so arrogant a name.

  6. Heh, I agree somewhat with James. You are right Waldo, no one can agree one hundred percent with anyone else, it simply can be too much to expect. But for some of us, it is obvious that the ACLU will never be able to represent our feelings very well. The ACLU is about as likely to receive my membership as Planned Parenthood, NOW, or PETA.

  7. I have an offer for both of you, CR UVa and James. I’ll join the NRA if you’ll join the ACLU. For one year, each of us.

    I suspect that my distaste for some of the NRA’s positions is equivalent to your distaste for some of the ACLU’s positions.

    Will either of you take me up on it? If you both do it, I’ll join for two years.

  9. I’ve got a gun, my wife’s got a gun, and I sure would like to have some more. I find that people who don’t like guns generally haven’t fired one. That’s because target shooting things that explode is great.

    My favorite picture from that Flickr set has got to be “At the Moment of the Shot” — the wince, the recoil, the ejecting shell, and the whiff of smoke.

  11. James:

    I agree with this:

    When they show ANY interest in defending the First Amendment rights to political speech for those who want to spend money in politics…. maybe.

    EXCEPT that the First Amendment should NOT be used for what I see as mostly GOP efforts for “Free Speech Zones”. The day when that happened, the so-called guaranteed ‘free speech’ wasn’t so free anymore. I don’t call a cage on a street 10 blocks away a “free speech zone”, I call it preventing free speech from happening because it is inconvenient or hard to manage.

    I agree, NAMBLA is not anywhere on my list of people or organizations I would like to see protected, much like the KKK.

    When they act to defend the free assembly rights of Operation Rescue with as much vigor as they defend the rights of the North American Man-Boy Love Association…. maybe.

    Along similar lines, I wouldn’t want to see people who violate another’s rights and have advocated violent means as worthy of much protection either.

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