ACTIONS FOR RESTORING AMERICA [My Title: Official Obama Scorecard]

ACLU ^ | November, 2008 | ACLU

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

How to Begin Repairing the Damage to Freesom in America After Bush

PART 1 - DAY ONE

1.      Stop Torture and Abuse

2.      Close Guantánamo and Restore the Rule of Law for Detainees

3.      End and Prohibit the Practice of Extraordinary Rendition

 PART 2 - FIRST 100 DAYS

1.      Warrantless spying.

2.      Watch lists.

3.      Freedom of Information - Ashcroft Doctrine.

4.      Monitoring of activists.

5.      DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

6.      Real ID Act.

7.      Abortion gag rule.

8.      Ban all workplace discrimination against sexual minorities by the federal government and its contractors.

9.      Death penalty.

10.  "Faith-based initiatives."

 PART 3 - FIRST YEAR RECOMMENDATIONS

1.      Torture and Abuse

2.      Guantánamo

3.      Extraordinary Rendition

4.      Spying on Americans

5.      Monitoring of activists

6.      Real ID Act

7.      Watch lists

8.      Financial watch lists

9.      Employee databases

10.  Secure Flight

11.  Harmonize privacy rules

12.  Civil Liberties Oversight Board

13.  DNA databases

14.  Freedom of Information

15.  FOIA ombudsman

16.  Scientific freedom

17.  Signing statements

18.  Presidential documents

19.  Federal websites

20.  DOJ politicization

21.  Overclassification

22.  Death penalty

23.  Travel to Cuba

24.  Human rights treaties

25.  Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties

26.  'Special Administrative Measures' for prisoners

27.  Prisoner communications

28.  Crack/Powder Sentencing

29.  Medical marijuana

30.  Discrimination against sexual minorities with federal dollars

31.  The Civil Rights Division

32.  Other Agencies' Civil Rights Enforcement

33.  Federal Racial Profiling

34.  Affirmative action

35.  Rights of the disabled

36.  School harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity

37.  Benefit plans covering domestic partners

38.  Same-sex couples under Medicaid

39.  Discrimination against sexual minorities in adoption and foster care

40.  Discrimination By the Federal Government and Federal Contractors Against People with HIV

41.  Political protest

42.  Media Consolidation

43.  Network neutrality

44.  Online censorship of soldiers

45.  Fleeting expletives

46.  World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

47.  The faith-based initiative

48.  Broaden the mandate of the Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination

49.  Local immigration enforcement

50.  Immigration raids

51.  ID theft prosecutions

52.  Deportation to nations that torture

53.  Detention standards

54.  Expedited removal

55.  Board of Immigration Appeals

56.  Single-sex education

57.  Fair housing for domestic violence victims

58.  Discrimination remedies

59.  Home health care workers

60.  Global gag rule on abortion

61.  Abortion restrictions

62.  Emergency contraceptives

63.  Regulations on birth control and religious refusals

64.  Abortion clinic violence

65.  Affordable birth control

66.  The shackling of pregnant prisoners

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I came across this webpage while looking for the text of a speech Obama gave to the Springfield Chapter of the ACLU in 1998. Looks like Obama is off to a good start by the ACLU's standards. The closest thing to a specific list of Obma's National Agenda...

(I put it in Front Page News because it does put all of these issues in one list--mods feel free to move it to vanity of you think it is not Front Page News.)

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

ping

[PistolPaknMama]

So this is the order of importance for the ACLU for the next president? Sorry I’m not following what your post means. Sorry!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I did not hear it, but my son just said offshore drilling is off the table.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

No meaning....only a guide to what Obama might have planned for the country. Things to look out for.

It is much easier to fight specific issues than it is to battle a generic “socialist agenda.”

[Outland]

This country is going to hell in a speed boat.

[ExGeeEye]

That does more to explain the $10-or-so rise in per-bbl oil rates than any other factor(s) I can tink of. Remember they started down from $140-or-so in July when he-who-will-soon-be-missed declined to renew the drilling ban that had just expired.

[PistolPaknMama]

Gotcha, and thanks.

[HollyB]

Thanks for the list!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Read’s like the “Communist Manifesto”. Nothing else to say except we need to rename the ACLU to the American Communist Liberties Union.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re “This country is going to hell in a speed boat.”

Yes. THE TSA banned “handbaskets” as potential weapons.

[HollyB]

You can find an explanation for each item here:

http://72.3.233.244/images/asset_upload_file96_37256.pdf

[SoCalPol]

*Read’s like the “Communist Manifesto*

Exactly, and much of this is also the agenda of the
Paul, Baldwin, Barr Third Party crowd who also post on FR

[woofie]

I dont see “pay my mortgage” on the list

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Also here is the link to the ACLU blog:
http://blog.aclu.org/
The right columns has links to ‘Close Guantánamo Draft Order’ http://72.3.233.244/pdfs/safefree/gitmo_draft_order.pdf
and Briefs for 120 day stay http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/38422lgl20090120.html
and other docs.

Might be good to bookmark as a source of info.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I dont see “pay my mortgage” on the list

Sucks to be us.....

[Vanders9]

I can’t make out whether the writer is advocating some of these measures, or saying they should stop....

[The Californian]

bttt