[Brilliant]

Add your signature:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/588518315

[Pylot]

Does anyone know if the ACLU is the recipient of federal government grant money??

[dervish]

done

[Bahbah]

Done.

[smith288]

Not to be negative but online petitions dont do anything except bring hits to the website that provides the futile service. Genius on the petition service's part though.

[DJ MacWoW]

ping

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

Excellent...
While you are in the petition signing mood pop over to ipetitions.com and sign the petition demanding an investigation into the national security leaks!
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/investigatetheleaks/

[Clara Lou]

Online petitions are worth zip. However, I'm sorely tempted to sign this one--except it's worth zip.

[Bob J]

I'd love to see the ACLU taken down a few notches but I didn't read anything in your post that would constitute a violation of their C-3 status...unfortunately.

The best way to attack them may be defunding them...look at their contributors, go after the corporations and foundations.

[mewzilla]

There's the ACLU and the ACLU Foundation. I think that's their way to get around the tax law on tax-exempt status.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Like millions of other nonprofit groups in the United States (e.g., universities, houses of worship, social service organizations), the ACLU Foundation pays no federal taxes on its income.

It's worse than that. The ACLU sues the government and then is paid by the taxpayers!

[loboinok]

ACLU ping

[loboinok]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/588518315

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Did anyone see the ex-ACLU lawyer on Fox yesterday? He was great! He looked like your average guy, about 60 to 65, wearing a VFW cap with all the badges/medals on it. He gave specific insight into the practices of the ACLU. The Civil Liberties Act gave them the ability to recoup all of their attorneys fees in a civil rights case. This was done so that anyone who felt their civil liberties had been violated would not be stymied from prosecuting for lack of funds to hire an attorney. At the end of a trial, the ACLU simply petitions the judge to award them payment of all fees and the judge does so under the "entitlement clause". So, guess who is paying all of their attorneys fees - you and me. We are paying to sue the Boy Scouts, to sue for removal of State Trooper memorial crosses in California, to sue for the removal of the Ten Commandments, nativity scenes, etc. from public buildings. U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill in lawsuits seeking to rid the Pledge of Allegiance of any reference to God. An on and on and on.

All they have to do is sit around their board room and think up civil rights suits. They will collect attorneys fees for those suits whether they hold water or not. Easy money.

Anyway, back to the man on Fox. He is spearheading an effort to get Congress to pass legislation that allow them to reign in the abuses of the ACLU. We will never be able to stop funding them completely, but we might cut millions from their annual take. Did anyone see this and get the name of the organisztion?