Posted on 04/12/2018 6:41:47 PM PDT by T Ruth
The American Civil Liberties Union, on whose national board I used to serve with pride, raises vast sums of money claiming to defend the civil liberties of all Americans. Unfortunately, however, over the last several years it has turned from being a neutral civil liberties organization to a left wing, agenda-driven group that protects its contributors and constituents while ignoring the civil liberties of Americans with whom it disagrees.
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Now, since the election of President Trump, it has sunk to a new low, becoming a cheerleader for the violation of the civil liberties of those on the other side of the political spectrum. Consider the recent raid on the law office and hotel room of Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. In that raid, it appears as if FBI agents may well have seized material protected by the lawyer-client privilege, including communications between President Trump and his attorney. On the day of the raid, I said that if a similar raid had been conducted on Hillary Clinton … the ACLU would have been up in arms. I condemned its doubled-standard silence.
When I said that, I couldn’t possibly imagine that the ACLU would actually go out of its way to justify and defend the raid, even before all the facts were known. But that is exactly what it has done. David Cole, who identifies himself as the ACLU legal director, said ... this raid on a lawyer’s office is a “sign that the rule of law is alive.”
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It is precisely because the ACLU has abandoned its role as a neutral defender of civil liberties that I have had to speak up so loudly and repeatedly in opposition to the criminalization of political differences and to the violation of President Trump’s civil liberties.
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Agree to become a member of President Trump’s legal team Alan Dershowitz.
As the ACLU has, AFAIK, never supported the 2nd A, it has had no legitimacy for decades.
AD said on Hannity the ACLU should have been all over it but were (not so) strangely silent.....
IOW AD said the ACLU were hypocrites of the highest order.
Which is true. They always have been. Mainly a tool for the left.
He didn’t take the road, he flew there on Epstein’s plane.
Dershowitz is stupid enough to believe that the ACLU used to defend civil liberties.
Used is the word that properly describes him.
The ACLU fights for Communist liberties, always has.
The national ACLU proudly listed the 9 amendments in the Bill of Rights in their building in Washington, D.C.!
Clue: There was no Second Amendment listed.
I’m at the point of not watching Hannity’s show because he has this Hillary loving pedo scumbag on all the time.
Dershowitz is stupid enough to believe that the ACLU used to defend civil liberties.
He did not see the ACLU was working hard to bring down America with its lawsuits. He thought they were defending the Constitution.
But they only did so (nationally) when it benefited the Progressive agenda.
Professor Dershowitz, despite what he *may* have done on the island, is one of the last legit true defenders of true liberalism. The fact he is at serious odds with the ACLU is a serious issue with the ACLU.
The ACLU is a threat to our liberties.
Dershoshitz is a FRAUD. A leftist lying scumbag that defends the clintons at every chance he gets. The fact that Fox gives this pedo a platform is sickening.
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ACLU is another organization that has been completely hijacked by the commie leftist agenda. Don’t be stupid and donate your hard earned cash to them.
In defeating Hillary, Trump is guilty of Obstruction of Just-Us ... the most serious crime imaginable to the Left that thinks they’re the “us” that should always be in power.
I don’t see how they could post the 10th as well.
They were not hijacked by communist. They were organized, initially staffed and are run by communist.
Again, not hijacked. They were, always have been, and ultimately can be nothing but.
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