The ACLU is a Danger to America
Sometimes I wonder whose side the ACLU is actually on when it comes to the Global War on Terror. They have filed lawsuit after lawsuit challenging almost every tool at our government’s disposal to keep America safe. You would think by the very name of the organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, they would be for at least some of the things which make this country great, God, the military, patriotism and the Constitution. This ultra liberal organization has gone as far as redefining patriotism from being proud of the accomplishments of the United States and its history to apologizing for its faults and defending those who attack us. This country was founded on the principle of religious freedom and yet the ACLU has made every attempt to take God out of our country. This country was founded on the idea that people have the right to defend themselves and yet the ACLU wants to outlaw guns. And now they are trying to protect the same people who are trying to kill us. This organization is trying to protect them from the United States government which is charged with protecting us.
The Bush administration on Friday asked a federal judge to delay enforcing her order for a halt to the government’s warrantless communications surveillance program.
The Justice Department argued that ending the intelligence-gathering program threatens “the gravest of harms to the government and to the American public” and leaves the country “more vulnerable to terrorist attack.”
“We respectfully submit that this court should not override the national security judgment of the president and the nation’s senior intelligence officers regarding the harm that would result” from the program’s suspension, the government lawyers argued in a motion filed with the court.
Why doesn’t the ACLU get it? The terrorists want to kill all of us, not just Republicans. They will kill flower children as quickly as they would soldiers. They hate us, period. Why is that so difficult to comprehend? It is almost as if the ACLU does not understand the nature of the warrantless surveillance program. This is from their own website.
Too many people think we can stop terrorism by monitoring all the hundreds of millions of people who live in America, and by removing the legal safeguards that protect us against government spying.
The problem is, the government is not interested in domestic phone calls, nor do they listen to private phone calls unless those calls either originate in countries that sponsor terrorism or the phone calls are made to those countries. The ACLU says that the President violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by secretly okaying the surveillance (of course they would defend the New York Times for releasing this super secret information), when most of the FISA judges says the President Bush did not violate the law.
After a while of reading some of the lawsuits filed by the ACLU, I get the distinct feeling they care more about achieving an agenda than protecting the Constitution of the United States. Robert Novak wrote that our activist courts are in a state of chaos.
The background of a federal district court declaring President Bush’s national security eavesdropping unconstitutional was a conservative’s fantasy. The judge, a former Democrat politician and civil rights activist, wrote what read more like a political manifesto than a judicial opinion. What’s more, she was responsible for contributions to an organization that was a plaintiff in the case she decided.
District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s decision has been stayed and probably will be reversed by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Nevertheless, she was playing more than a cameo role on the stage of history. For this opinion ever to have been issued by an activist judge in Detroit, in the opinion of several legal scholars and distinguished lawyers whom I contacted, shows the judiciary in a state of chaos.
Taylor ended up with the case because of forum-shopping: filing multiple lawsuits in quest of a favorable venue. With the executive and legislative branches in Republican hands, liberals count on activists in the federal judiciary such as Judge Taylor. That explains why normally censorious legal scholars tend to excuse her shoddy judicial opinion and ethical trespassing.
In picking Judge Taylor, the ACLU should have done their homework. This woman is wacky. In her opinion she wrote: “There are no hereditary kings in America.” Phrases like these tend to make me scratch my head and say, “Huh?!” But to the point, this liberal organization went court shopping in order to secure a verdict of their liking. It was not about protecting the constitution or protecting someone’s social security check from the vile clutches of an evil government. This lawsuit was about winning against a Republican President.
The President is charged with protecting the people of the United States, while the ACLU seems to believe it is their duty to protect everyone else from the United States. The sad thing is they really do not believe they are hurting America by their litigious behavior. It is incredibly dangerous to be speeding down a one-way street going the wrong way with your eyes closed, which is exactly what the ACLU is doing. Their idiotic behavior is endangering the American people and they do not even know it. Or even scarier, they do know they are endangering the American people and they just don’t care. Either way, the ACLU and their ultra liberal henchmen judges are a danger to the United States.
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