The Two Faces of the ACLU

"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy." - ACLU Founder Roger Baldwin

The ACLU’s original mission is commendable, their fight for the first Amendment’s rights for freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion, is an American right. Equally is your right to protection against unlawful discrimination, due process and from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.

The ACLU works for the rights of people of color, women, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people; prisoners; and people with disabilities. They have eliminated desegregation in public schools, and even backed a student who lost his state-funded merit-based scholarship because he left college to serve a two-year church mission.

According to E-Week the ACLU opposes Obama proposal to reverse a ban to use tracking cookies on federal websites, the ACLU said the policy would allow the mass collection of personal information about every user of a federal government website.

They have fought against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 from converting paper health records to an on-line data base, stating that by doing so it would allow our personal records to be sold. They want a more transparent government and believe that all government records should be made available to the public, including secret government documents.

When Obama apposed the protection of journalist from going to prison for refusing to reveal confidential sources, the ACLU stepped in on behalf of the journalist. In a statement, Comrade Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director, said: "Obama ran on a platform of change that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but Obama has reneged on that important civil liberties issues."

On the surface ACLU seems to be a conservative organization that stands up for the United States Constitution.

So why do so many still think the ACLU wants to undermine their freedom?

Could it be because the  ACLU's founder Roger Baldwin said;

"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. It all sums up into one single purpose—the abolition of dog-eat-dog under which we live. I don't regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it."

Could it be that the ACLU receives funding from George Soros’s Open Society Institute where PBS’s Bill Moyer is the former trustee? Or could it be that the ACLU sided with ACORN claiming they have a constitutional right to engage in its chosen form of voter fraud?

Could it be that the ACLU is for open boarders and encouraging illegal aliens to enter the US and remain here, helping them get drivers’ licenses, college tuitions, welfare and free health care? They opposed deportation saying that illegal immigrants were kept in "barbaric" conditions, kept in detention facilities for a 12 hour stretch, given no soap or paper so they could prepare legal documents? They stated that; "Some had not been able to shower, brush their teeth, or change their clothes in weeks.” posing the question; did these immigrants have these privileges while living in the desert illegally?

Could it be that the ACLU charged the Tennessee Christmas celebration having that a nativity scene as an ’illegal act‘, or while they condone making porn their view is that it isn’t a crime to own pornographic materials?

Could it be that while Obama was apologizing to the Muslims, the ACLU was spying on undercover CIA officers in Gitmo, and support Islamist jihadists who are trying to destroy our country?

Could it be that the ACLU calls for the elimination of 'In God We Trust' from our coins, stating that 'Under God' must also be torn from the Pledge of Allegiance, and the ’Commandments given Moses must never appear as public symbols under government auspices’?

The American Civil Liberties Union even discourages its own board members from publicly criticizing the organization’s policies and internal administration.

Could the fact that the ACLU is now trying to remove the Veterans’ Sunrise Cross in the Mojave Desert that serve as a memorial to the WW1 servicemen, and in recent years, sued to have religious symbols removed from the seals in Ohio, California, Nebraska, Missouri, and in Los Angeles just the threat of an ACLU lawsuit removed a cross from the county seal?

They yell and scream about TV anchors, radio stations, and even journalist because they dare to question Obama and his radical groupies in the administration, but fail to come to the aid of Beck, or Savage when their freedom of speech is endangered. It’s going to be interesting where they will stand on free speech now that Axelrod’s visit with Rupert Murdoch, last week failed at stopping the airing of the ‘Ugly’ within this administration.