ACLU: Conceived In Tyranny

[Dave...]

ACLU: Conceived In Tyranny INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY http://www.investors.com/editorial/edit ... 7412764090 Posted 9/21/2006 The Enemy Within: From the beginning, the American Civil Liberties Union has aligned itself with America's adversaries. Its unrelenting strategy has been to twist our Constitution into a weapon against American values and security. ACLU founder and longtime executive director Roger Baldwin's infamous quote still haunts his organization today, a quarter-century after the radical activist's death: "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 propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal." It's a statement that's been repeated and reprinted so many times, some Americans might be numbed rather than outraged upon hearing it again. But it's no urban legend. The man who started the organization that claims to be the leading safeguard of the U.S. Constitution did say it, along with plenty of statements mirroring those sentiments. Baldwin was already steeped in communist thought when in the late 1910s he jump-started the American Union Against Militarism, which was established to oppose the U.S. effort in World War I. Within the AUAM — the progenitor of the ACLU — Baldwin formed the Bureau of Conscientious Objectors to defend war resisters. He also joined the anti-war socialist People's Council. In 1918, Baldwin pleaded guilty to his own draft dodging and was sentenced to a year in prison. He told his local draft board he refused to perform military service and "any service whatever designed to help the war." He opposed the draft in principle, during war or peacetime, or "for any purpose whatsoever." That didn't mean Baldwin or the ACLU was pacifist, anti-violence or anti-oppression. In 1934 in an article in Russia Today, he described himself as "anti-capitalist and pro-revolutionary." According to Baldwin, "When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever." The Soviet Union, he said, "has already created liberties far greater than exist elsewhere in the world. . . . It is genuine, and it is the nearest approach to freedom that the workers have ever achieved." In Baldwin's view, American workers had "no real liberties save to change masters," and if they only understood their own interests, "Soviet workers' democracy would be their goal." Catholic League President William Donohue, author of "The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union," recounts how Baldwin, during a guided tour of the Soviet Union in 1927, was confided to by his tour guide, who "broke down and confessed that the secret police ran the country and deliberately concealed from fellow travelers the terrible torture that took place behind closed doors." Baldwin later admitted to his biographer Peggy Lamson that he was "too prejudiced" to let that revelation affect his thinking. He told her, "Great upheavals like the Russian Revolution have their price, I told myself." In the 1930s, Congress investigated the ACLU and found it to be "closely affiliated with the communist movement in the United States, and fully 90% of its efforts are on behalf of communists who have come into conflict with the law." According to the congressional investigation's conclusion, "It claims to stand for free speech, free press and free assembly, but it is quite apparent that the main function of the ACLU is to attempt to protect the communists in their advocacy of force and violence to overthrow the government." The Soviet Union may be long dead, but as Fox News' Bill O'Reilly writes in his soon-to-be-released book "Culture Warrior," the ACLU "is still using Baldwin's strategy, wrapping itself in the flag and defending the rights of the 'folks.' Unless, of course, the folks are Christians, Boy Scouts, parents who want to know if their underage daughters are having abortions, or concerned Americans who want sexual predators who hurt children held accountable." In the guise of protecting our constitutional rights, the ACLU does everything from defending child molestation advocates (as in the case of the North American Man/Boy Love Association in Massachusetts in 2000) to preventing our armed forces from recruiting; it sued the Defense Department this year for "violating American high school students' privacy rights." As Congress discovered over 70 years ago, the ACLU doesn't stand for free speech; it stands against America.

 

[tim_from_pa]

I am thankful for the Internet these days where one can view many opposing views on any subject. not too long ago in history, we all believed what was spoon fed to us. Speaking practically, I find two things that stand out that should be questioned.1) If the masses are going a certain route, it ought to be questioned. This does not mean that everything they do is wrong, but knowing man's nature, and how propaganda caters to it, I oftentimes found this to be the case. Jesus said it himself when he said "narrow and straight is the way....." etc. The path of truth is often the narrow (and violently opposed) one.2) Follow the money trail, especially if they are LOUD speakers and promoters that make their views known nationwide. There are lots of conspiracies that one does not have to be a lunatic to believe. When money is to be made, the purveyors often spread their propaganda and so-called knowledge to sway the public. Examples of this is the salt conspiracy---- it is not bad for you. They keep lowering the cholesterol and blood pressure numbers every year so that everyone "needs" medication even though just as many people have coronary heart disease with low cholesterol as with high, but they don't tell the public that.Along this line are special interest loud groups like PETA. We all are made to feel guilty if we even think of trapping a rat running around our barns (some guy a few years back was prosecuted for animal cruelty for doing that). But on the same breath, these righteous animal saviors kill animals themselves if they can't find the (impossibly) right owners that fit their criteria. Its a mask to cover their hatred for animals.One can say the same for politics, science, and so forth. Again, these are high-profile, "spread the message" type groups that paid millions for television ads or whatever.I think I said enough. One gets the idea---- and bottom line---- what does the bible say on that subject? That's how one has to ultimately decide.