Poetic Justice IMO. This is from a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune

I guess I can no longer say w has never accomplished anything positive for the country.

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He reversed the slide of the Democratic party and restored them to power, that's positive.

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Maybe. But the ACLU is much more important to the well being of the country than the democratic party.

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The ACLU is not positive for this country. Lets not forget their defense of NAMBLA and attacks on the Boy Scouts, or the defense of groups picketing outside of war veterens funerals with free speech slogans such as "god hates fags". Heck, theyve even defended SPAM.

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Let's not forget their defense of people you don't like?

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ah yes the old bubble life........*sigh*
..........I think the very fear mongering some accuse bush of regarding the wot ect. is evident here in just another intellectual ( I hesitate to use that word when speaking of the aclu but I''ll try) venue.

The bushshit after 2000 and the supposed rip off of the election, then 911 then the inordinate horror of it all , librarians being frisked etc. of pat. act, did it for them. I’d say that was an effective propaganda campaign that the aclu could not have thought up on their own, but are the clear beneficiaries of.
I wonder who did? Or better yet, who created these as viable points of protest as they were framed and made sure they were creamed from the rooftops??

And of course the irony here is; there IS an ACLU and it does what it does unencumbered and unsilenced…….

They are pretty consistent in their defense of civil liberties, so much so that they often impede on others civil liberties. That is not a positive outcome.

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For the sake of discussion, might you point out how they're impeding on the civil liberties of others? Nobody has the civil liberty of "not being offended"..

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No shit.

I love how the righties love to rail on the ACLU, but they totally ignore when the ACLU actively defends causes that they support.

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toledoblade.com -- Dixon says University of Toledo termination violated free speech right


go get'em tiger.....

You mean this?

I'd bet that when she files suit, if she requests ACLU support, she'll get it. Hell, she may see an amicus curiae brief land in the court, regardless, that defends her right to free speech.

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I'm not sure what the problem is here. She was not silenced, she did was not thrown in jail, none of her civil liberties were violated, what is the ACLU supposed to do? The University has every right to fire employees if they feel there actions run counter to the ideals of the University.

I work for a milk co-op. If I started writing articles saying how milk is the worst thing in the world, even a private citizen, I could very well be disciplined and fired from my job.

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W has always been good to make some funny mistakes and help us have a good start for a bad day.

Im pretty sure the courts have decided there is a right to privacy, but maybe that doesnt apply at soldiers funerals. The Boy Scouts of America are a religious based organization, but the ACLU attacked their choice to keep gays out of their group, their freedom to associate.

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The protests by Fred Phelps were done on public property near the cemeteries where soldiers are buried. Although terrible, they aren't breaking any laws.
Wrong. The ACLU attacked government sponsorship of the Boy Scouts of America, because of their religious discrimination (no homosexuals or atheists are allowed in the organization). Not once, that I'm familiar with, did the ACLU try and force the Boy Scouts to admit homosexuals or atheists.

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