Making noise is the first step. If we continue to sit on our backsides and hope the Federal Government will do something...we are handing our First Amendment Rights over to someone else to tell us how to exercise them.
Let us not forget the effectiveness of protests as demonstrated by the change in regulations, court rulings, etc. that have not been to the benefit of the United States.
I agree in part, but it's important to aim that "noise" in the right direction. Asking the ACLU to stop via a letter campaign and marches will have no more effect than "peace talks" with Islamic Jihadists will stop their terrorists activities.
Directing those letters instead to the White House may be more effective, but I doubt it. President Bush has already signaled that he is ignoring the conservative mandate of the last election.
Perhaps the best option for us right now is to build an NRA-type organization to counter the ACLU (although, let's not have the type of compromises the NRA is infamous for). This organization could serve five functions:
1. Provide paid conservative constitutional lawyers to defendants (like the Boy Scouts) being attacked by the ACLU.
2. Lobby the government to ensure that non-activist judges are confirmed, and that activist judges are rejected.
3. Provide watchdog services by monitoring and publishing the ACLU's activities.
4. Provide a judicial rating system so that voters know which judges are activist (remember that all these judges start out at the local level where they are elected by the people). Even after they are elected, we need a system that tracks and rates activist judges and tells us who they are, where they serve, who appointed them, and what they are doing (in terms of their rulings). Basically, we need to "out" all activist judges so that they are no longer working in the shadows.
5. Mount informational advertising campaigns to educate the general population about the activities and dangers of the ACLU and the activist courts. Most people, particularly the young graduates of our public schools, believe that the ACLU is a benevolent American institution fighting for Constitutional rights. We must counter their propaganda with the truth.