...and it's good to have my observations confirmed by someone who should know:
The former head of the American Civil Liberties Union has ripped the group for no longer defending all free speech — claiming it now cherry-picks cases that fit a new “progressive” agenda.
Ira Glasser, the ACLU’s executive director from 1978 to 2001, bemoaned the group for recently changing its guidelines to limit the rights it fights to uphold.
“There is a requirement now for ACLU lawyers that before they take a case defending someone’s free speech, they have to make sure that the speech doesn’t offend or threaten other civil liberties values,” he told Bill Maher on Friday.
After pausing to make a confused expression, he continued, “In other words, before they’re gonna defend your free speech, they want to see what you say.”
Read the whole thing.
The ACLU became the American Communist Leftist Union over a decade ago, probably 20 years back. To call themselves champions of "civil liberties" is the same lie that the DPRK (and the former DDR) tells about "democracy."
ReplyDeleteACLU became more or less a legal enforcer of Leftist ideology a long time ago. They're just more open about it now. I'm sure that kind of loyalty comes at a cost being paid by American taxpayers, one way or another.
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