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Is the ACLU Trying to Undermine the U.S. Military?
Fox News ^ | Monday, February 21, 2005 | Bill O'Reilly

Posted on 02/22/2005 9:45:04 AM PST by Jay777

Is the American Civil Liberties Union trying to undermine the U.S. military? That's the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo".

As you know, I believe the ACLU has become a partisan progressive organization no longer interested in expression of liberties. Rather, it wants to advance a political agenda. As always, I could be wrong, but the evidence weighs in my direction.

Now the ACLU has filed a number of information requests, designed to spotlight atrocities by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. What this has to do with civil liberties— I don't know. But I do believe the military should be held accountable for what it does, so I have no problem with the request.

The latest expositions released today from the ACLU involve pictures some American soldiers took, pointing weapons at detainees and the beating of an Iraqi accused of rape. Those are the highlights of a thousand-page report.

The ACLU has been after military scandals since October of 2003, about the time the Abu Ghraib situation hit. Once again, accountability is necessary but witch hunts are not.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aclu; fifthcolumn; oreilly; usmilitary
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My personal anti-ACLU Blog:

http://www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com

1 posted on 02/22/2005 9:45:05 AM PST by Jay777
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To: Jay777

The title made me laugh - was there every any doubt?


2 posted on 02/22/2005 9:45:35 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: All
You can join the fight against the ACLU and their ilk by becoming involved with and supporting the following organizations:

Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org

Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org

American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org

The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/

Stop the ACLU Coalition (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - http://www.stoptheaclu.org


Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:

ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas

ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits

ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd

Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit


Additional information:

The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back

Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')

ACLU fulfilling communist agenda

Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings

See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU

This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members

Anti-ACLU Page

The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)

The Becket Fund

Christian Legal Society

Pacific Justice Institute

Landmark Legal Foundation

American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy

The Liberty Council

ACLU-Watch

ACLU (Know Thine Enemy)

My personal Anti-ACLU Blog


"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935


"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.


Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list


3 posted on 02/22/2005 9:45:36 AM PST by Jay777 (Join The Resistance at www.stoptheaclu.org)
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To: Jay777

Brilliant observation by Bill "Captain Obvious" O'Reilly.


4 posted on 02/22/2005 9:46:28 AM PST by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
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To: mlc9852

Not in my mind, but I gotta give this guy props for calling them out so much...especially for those who do doubt.


5 posted on 02/22/2005 9:46:34 AM PST by Jay777 (Join The Resistance at www.stoptheaclu.org)
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To: RepCath; Liz; IronJack; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP; Iris7; wkdaysoff; ApesForEvolution; EdReform; ...

Ping!


6 posted on 02/22/2005 9:47:10 AM PST by Jay777 (Join The Resistance at www.stoptheaclu.org)
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To: Jay777
American
Communists
(and)
Liberals
Union

7 posted on 02/22/2005 9:48:13 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Jay777

So I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, is the ACLU helping in the war on terror? It's a simple question because I'm a simple man. And if that organization is not helping the USA in this life and death struggle, how are we Americans supposed to view the ACLU? And that's "The Memo."

I know how I view them!


8 posted on 02/22/2005 9:48:35 AM PST by Jay777 (My personal blog: www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com)
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To: All

There i go again, posting to myself!


9 posted on 02/22/2005 9:49:15 AM PST by Jay777 (My personal blog: www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com)
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To: jan in Colorado

ACLU Watch, Ping.


10 posted on 02/22/2005 9:51:41 AM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
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To: Jay777

The funny and ironic thing is, the ACLU (American Communist Lover's Union) attorneys would be the first ones beheaded by the terrorists, just as they would have been the first ones sent to the camps by the Soviets they once worshipped.

Having these traitors in our midst is a really scary thing. I wish our society would exercise a bit more common sense and tell the ACLU creeps to shove it.


11 posted on 02/22/2005 9:52:27 AM PST by henkster ("The time has come for someone to put their foot down, and that foot is me." Dean Vernon Wormer)
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To: HMFIC

When the aclu began, their by-laws tell of overthowing the government of the United States and replacing it with a communist government. Now we know x42 and his sometimes wife were members of the aclu but not the ABA when they went into our whitehouse. Since the formation of the aclu they have contributed to the changing of our laws, made new laws limiting our rights. As the bolshiciks did in Russia, the aclu is and has been doing in America. They are using our laws to change the laws in favor of communism.


12 posted on 02/22/2005 9:55:04 AM PST by tillacum
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To: henkster

Come tell the ACLU to shove it! We are currently working on a campaign to expose the ACLU's agenda. It needs work and volunteers!

http://www.stoptheaclu.org

Join the discussion forum!

Leave me a comment on my blog at:

http://www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com


13 posted on 02/22/2005 9:55:51 AM PST by Jay777 (My personal blog: www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com)
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To: Jay777
Is the ACLU Trying to Undermine the U.S. Military?

You want the politically correct version, or the truth?

14 posted on 02/22/2005 9:57:08 AM PST by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: Jay777

Consider it done.


15 posted on 02/22/2005 9:57:17 AM PST by henkster ("The time has come for someone to put their foot down, and that foot is me." Dean Vernon Wormer)
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To: Jay777
Hey Bill -- the ACLU is trying to "undermine" the Republic ITSELF...

But we appreciate you shining whatever spotlight you can on them.

16 posted on 02/22/2005 9:58:01 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Jay777

I think that the ACLU should investigate the school teacher sex system the way they went after the Priest scandels.


But I won't hold my breath!!LOL!!!


17 posted on 02/22/2005 10:00:39 AM PST by TruthConquers (Delenda est publius schola)
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Is the ACLU Trying to Undermine the U.S. Military?

Yes. End of thread.

18 posted on 02/22/2005 10:00:50 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: F16Fighter

I think Bill is likeminded on this issue! One thing I DO love about Bill is his hatred of the ACLU!


19 posted on 02/22/2005 10:01:02 AM PST by Jay777 (My personal blog: www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com)
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To: HMFIC

When the aclu began, their by-laws tell of overthowing the government of the United States and replacing it with a communist government. Now we know x42 and his sometimes wife were members of the aclu but not the ABA when they went into our whitehouse. Since the formation of the aclu they have contributed to the changing of our laws, made new laws limiting our rights. As the bolshiciks did in Russia, the aclu is and has been doing in America. They are using our laws to change the laws in favor of communism.


20 posted on 02/22/2005 10:03:52 AM PST by tillacum
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