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I checked out the ACLU.ORG page and I have to ask if organizations like this should still have credibility. I went straight to their Human Rights section and Checked their stance on Human Rights and Racial Justice.
"Policies and practices at the federal, state, and local levels continue to disproportionately burden racial and ethnic minorities. Minorities are unfairly victimized by racial profiling. People of color are profiled while they drive, shop, pray, stand on the sidewalk waiting for work, or travel on airplanes, trains, and buses. In addition, racial minorities are often subject to police brutality, unfair housing and loan practices, harsher disciplinary methods in schools, and a subpar quality of education."
Then I checked out their Election 2016 page @ https://medium.com/acluelection2016
It is littered with Anti-Trump and has Anti-Gop sentiment while hoisting up Clinton.
So, the ACLU is a shining example of liberalism. I would bet that liberalism is being forced in High School more, if not exclusively nowadays. It's not just Liberal Professors.
The Human Rights and Racial Justice page says "The United States has made significant progress in recent decades on eliminating racism and structural discrimination, but there is still a long way to go" ~This reinforces the idea of 'progressivism' and the liberal concept of 'systemic racism' .
Since, I am not a liberal democrat I don't pay attention to the commentary. It's amazing though, that not even 5 minutes into democrat media, even I have to snap myself out of their hypnosis. When Donald Trump's comment, asking African-American voters, "What do you have to lose?" , Hillary responded with, "Everything!". This shows how Democrat voters are kept on the hook, like an ant that wants sugar or a junkie that needs a fix, the fear mongering is real. The claim Democrat leaders make is that without them the world will fall apart and evil people will take away everything, yada yada, and the kitchen sink. The Democrats then call it progressivism, in that it is a long battle that must be fought, anything other than Democrat is intolerable. This is more than idealism, this is a grift, a hustle. Want to talk about projection? The claims against Trump would be more fitting as claims against the Democratic Party.
"Policies and practices at the federal, state, and local levels continue to disproportionately burden racial and ethnic minorities. Minorities are unfairly victimized by racial profiling. People of color are profiled while they drive, shop, pray, stand on the sidewalk waiting for work, or travel on airplanes, trains, and buses. In addition, racial minorities are often subject to police brutality, unfair housing and loan practices, harsher disciplinary methods in schools, and a subpar quality of education."
Then I checked out their Election 2016 page @ https://medium.com/acluelection2016
It is littered with Anti-Trump and has Anti-Gop sentiment while hoisting up Clinton.
So, the ACLU is a shining example of liberalism. I would bet that liberalism is being forced in High School more, if not exclusively nowadays. It's not just Liberal Professors.
The Human Rights and Racial Justice page says "The United States has made significant progress in recent decades on eliminating racism and structural discrimination, but there is still a long way to go" ~This reinforces the idea of 'progressivism' and the liberal concept of 'systemic racism' .
Since, I am not a liberal democrat I don't pay attention to the commentary. It's amazing though, that not even 5 minutes into democrat media, even I have to snap myself out of their hypnosis. When Donald Trump's comment, asking African-American voters, "What do you have to lose?" , Hillary responded with, "Everything!". This shows how Democrat voters are kept on the hook, like an ant that wants sugar or a junkie that needs a fix, the fear mongering is real. The claim Democrat leaders make is that without them the world will fall apart and evil people will take away everything, yada yada, and the kitchen sink. The Democrats then call it progressivism, in that it is a long battle that must be fought, anything other than Democrat is intolerable. This is more than idealism, this is a grift, a hustle. Want to talk about projection? The claims against Trump would be more fitting as claims against the Democratic Party.
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These Clowns were founded back in the 20 to support the Socialist and Communist Movement in America... they started Fighting the Anti Bolshevik movements and then spread into spreading their Anti American rhetoric and later supporting the Kids Protesting the War in RVN...
I did a report/essay on them In My"Poli-Sci 101" Class in 1972... when you could still find more on their History... since 1980 they have scrubbed their Image... and expanded into Human Rights and Social Justice ...
In Class We Called them the American Communist Loud-mouth Union they worked on the Primes that the squeakiest Wheel gets the Most Grease
I did a report/essay on them In My"Poli-Sci 101" Class in 1972... when you could still find more on their History... since 1980 they have scrubbed their Image... and expanded into Human Rights and Social Justice ...
In Class We Called them the American Communist Loud-mouth Union they worked on the Primes that the squeakiest Wheel gets the Most Grease
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The ACLU supports the constitutional rights of everyone, not just liberal topics. Here's a couple of examples that I don't think anyone would consider supporting liberals--one case about students wearing crosses and rosaries and one about anti-abortion speech. But a lot of conservatives get mixed up and are anti. ACLU because the ACLU supports the constitutional rights of all groups, including ones conservatives don't want to see have their constitutional rights enforced.
ACLU Supports Students’ Right of Religious Freedom
COLORADO SPRINGS –The Colorado Springs Gazette has reported that a local middle school has announced a policy forbidding students from wearing certain Christian symbols to school, unless they are worn underneath clothing.
The ACLU strongly opposes the decision of Colorado Springs School District 11 on the basis of religious liberty.
Mark Silverstein, Legal Director of the ACLU said, “The First Amendment protects the right of students to express their faith by wearing crosses, rosaries, or other religious symbols without interference from school officials. Our Constitution protects the right to individual religious liberty and the ACLU is here to support everyone who chooses to exercise that right.”
“For over 90 years the ACLU has always defended the religious liberty of all Americans. It is one of the most fundamental of our nation’s freedoms,” said ACLU Executive Director Ray Drew.
According to the Gazette, Monsignor Bob Jaeger of the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs has stated that the church is OK with the school’s position and Colorado Springs School District 11spokesperson Elaine Naleski states that this policy is necessary to prevent the use of crosses and rosaries as gang symbols.
ACLU-NJ Defends Anti-Abortion Student's Free Speech
NEWARK — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today revisited the most important student speech case — Tinker v. Des Moines — with a friend-of-the-court brief submitted in support of a Bridgeton High School student's right to wear a red armband bearing the word "life."
"While the ACLU seeks to ensure that public schools do not impose religious views on students, we just as fervently fight against school officials who try to silence the religious and political speech of students," said ACLU-NJ Legal Director Ed Barocas.
Bridgeton school administrators banned the student from observing a nationwide day of solidarity against abortion, which she had wanted to mark by distributing anti-abortion literature during non-instructional hours and by remaining silent, letting her red "life" armband speak for her. The school district's initial objections, according to the student's lawsuit, arose from a misreading of the establishment clause, which prevents the government from imposing religion on individuals. But, as the ACLU-NJ explained in its brief, as long as the speaker is a student, not a government official, religious speech deserves the same protections as any other speech.
The school district failed to meet standards that allow exceptions to students' free speech rights, offering no evidence that the student's message would cause a material disruption of the school. Even the district's fairly restrictive dress code policy does not allow the school to sidestep the First Amendment. The dress code, which allows students to accessorize their uniforms with jewelry and hosiery, cannot grant administrators the discretion to ban forms of speech that the Supreme Court expressly protected in Tinker v. Des Moines. In that case, a school did not have the right to prohibit students from wearing black armbands to protest the war in Vietnam.
"Schools cannot silence a student's free speech just because her message might make others uncomfortable," stated Ronald K. Chen of Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, who submitted the brief on behalf of the ACLU-NJ. "Students do not shed their right to free speech at the school house gate - it's as true today as when the Supreme Court declared it 41 years ago."
The ACLU-NJ ardently defends religious freedom. In recent years, it successfully defended a second-grader's right to sing the song "Awesome God" at an after-school talent show and helped overturn the dismissal of jurors in a criminal trial based on the prosecutor's belief that they had worn overtly religious clothing.
ACLU Supports Students’ Right of Religious Freedom
COLORADO SPRINGS –The Colorado Springs Gazette has reported that a local middle school has announced a policy forbidding students from wearing certain Christian symbols to school, unless they are worn underneath clothing.
The ACLU strongly opposes the decision of Colorado Springs School District 11 on the basis of religious liberty.
Mark Silverstein, Legal Director of the ACLU said, “The First Amendment protects the right of students to express their faith by wearing crosses, rosaries, or other religious symbols without interference from school officials. Our Constitution protects the right to individual religious liberty and the ACLU is here to support everyone who chooses to exercise that right.”
“For over 90 years the ACLU has always defended the religious liberty of all Americans. It is one of the most fundamental of our nation’s freedoms,” said ACLU Executive Director Ray Drew.
According to the Gazette, Monsignor Bob Jaeger of the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs has stated that the church is OK with the school’s position and Colorado Springs School District 11spokesperson Elaine Naleski states that this policy is necessary to prevent the use of crosses and rosaries as gang symbols.
ACLU-NJ Defends Anti-Abortion Student's Free Speech
NEWARK — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today revisited the most important student speech case — Tinker v. Des Moines — with a friend-of-the-court brief submitted in support of a Bridgeton High School student's right to wear a red armband bearing the word "life."
"While the ACLU seeks to ensure that public schools do not impose religious views on students, we just as fervently fight against school officials who try to silence the religious and political speech of students," said ACLU-NJ Legal Director Ed Barocas.
Bridgeton school administrators banned the student from observing a nationwide day of solidarity against abortion, which she had wanted to mark by distributing anti-abortion literature during non-instructional hours and by remaining silent, letting her red "life" armband speak for her. The school district's initial objections, according to the student's lawsuit, arose from a misreading of the establishment clause, which prevents the government from imposing religion on individuals. But, as the ACLU-NJ explained in its brief, as long as the speaker is a student, not a government official, religious speech deserves the same protections as any other speech.
The school district failed to meet standards that allow exceptions to students' free speech rights, offering no evidence that the student's message would cause a material disruption of the school. Even the district's fairly restrictive dress code policy does not allow the school to sidestep the First Amendment. The dress code, which allows students to accessorize their uniforms with jewelry and hosiery, cannot grant administrators the discretion to ban forms of speech that the Supreme Court expressly protected in Tinker v. Des Moines. In that case, a school did not have the right to prohibit students from wearing black armbands to protest the war in Vietnam.
"Schools cannot silence a student's free speech just because her message might make others uncomfortable," stated Ronald K. Chen of Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, who submitted the brief on behalf of the ACLU-NJ. "Students do not shed their right to free speech at the school house gate - it's as true today as when the Supreme Court declared it 41 years ago."
The ACLU-NJ ardently defends religious freedom. In recent years, it successfully defended a second-grader's right to sing the song "Awesome God" at an after-school talent show and helped overturn the dismissal of jurors in a criminal trial based on the prosecutor's belief that they had worn overtly religious clothing.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield
On that I'll have to counter you, Brother SSG Matthew Adkins. The ACLU did offer to represent the Westboro Baptist Church when they claimed their right to free speech was being violated. Do they tend to lean left? Yes but they will and have sought to represent everyone equally.
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If you truly believed the words you just wrote, michael, you would know that laws that target specific groups, whether by race or gender, violates the principle of WE THE PEOPLE and equal protection under the law. No one person can deny that racism or bigotry exists, but that is the beauty of our system and as long as no one ACTs on those feelings then the system works as intended. Feelings cannot be prosecuted, discrimination can.
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