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C'mon man - not cool at all.  

You might also try crafting a more substantial story instead of just cribbing the news for a line or two and then throwing bombs at the end (as with your Koran post).

Wonder what they're shredding?  Can't be anything illegal, immoral, or incriminating, could it?

Drudge Report

The head of the ACLU is shredding documents over the objections of his records manager and we're supposed to think it's all on the up and up.  This will probably help - imagine it's a big, nasty corporation like GM out to destroy the little guy...there, now that you have that picture do you still think the shredding is just an innocent way to create space in the office?  I didn't think so.

get your own site.

I merely suggested that crowding out other recommended diaries by promoting your own isn't fair to the community and the boom came down.  Take it easy my friend.  

Just because I'm not a very frequent poster doesn't mean that I'm not invested or interested in the RedState community, as I've been floating around from almost the beginning.

I didn't know that one had to be deputized by the powers that be, or have a penchant for snarkiness, to opine on what they think is bad form (as in calling for the kicking of the Koran).

why the right wing so vilifies the ALU?

An organization dedicated to protecting Americans's Constitutional rights -- what on EARTH is the problem with that?

Sometimes even I can get exasperated with the ACLU, though...

For instance, when the ACLU defends the KKK. But they, too, have civil rights.

So, let me in on the secret. What's so bad about the ACLU?

Its hostility toward the Boy Scouts of America.  Recently, the ACLU got the Defense Department to agree to publish guidance to military bases, reminding them that they couldn't overtly sponsor religious organizations.  The intent was to caution military bases from sponsoring Boy Scout troops.  

What wonderful timing!!  At a time when military communities are under intense strain, they need every effective civic support organization they can get. (Especially when military-family boys, who need male role models in their pre-teen years, have seen lots of their dads deployed overseas).  But, the ACLU saw no problem in pressing this issue at this time.  So what if base commanders, concerned over ACLU legal and public relations pressure, decided they couldn't risk allowing the Boy Scout troops on base to use the post gym or parks? The ACLU, after all, has its principles!

FORTUNATELY, SecDef Rumsfeld came forward and spoke up for the value of Scouting on military bases.  And, the House of Representatives passed OVERWHELMINGLY a resolution in support of the Boy Scouts.  Seeing that they actually faced a fight, the ACLU apparently slunk away; I've heard nothing more on this issue.

But the Scouts in San Diego weren't so lucky.

Did you know that the Sea Scouts built a boating facility in Balboa Park, San Diego, which all its citizens could enjoy?  Did you also know that the same Sea Scouts can't use that facility now, because they're a "discriminatory" organization?  And, guess who spearheaded the attack on the San Diego Sea Scouts.  YOU GUESSED IT!

Seems the ACLU's idea of Scouting is--our way, or the highway.  If they don't like how the Scouts do business, 100%, then they must be shut down!  Who cares how much civic good they do?

Not the ACLU.

But, Maryscott, something told me you knew this already.  Seems to me that your innocent question ("Oh mercy me, why oh why are so many people so mean to the ACLU?) is a bit disingenuous.  You don't strike me as naive.  (Then again, you are a Disciple of Corn).  I think that, once again, you're visiting our RedState house to try to aggravate your hosts.

Well, you wanted to stir the pot...consider it stirred!  Care to defend the ACLU assault on the Boy Scouts?  

defense of NAMBLA on my "why I don't like the ACLU" list.

Sure the ACLU occassionaly defends in areas that I support, but for the most part the ACLU comes across as a bully.

Yes, Klan mbmbers, Nazis, Communists, Unabomber-ists, and members of every other radical, anti-American political group have rights.  So do child rapists, serial murderers, and people who swindle the elderly of their retirement savings.

That doesn't mean the ACLU has to go around looking to get these people off on technicalities when they've actually done something wrong.

Extremism in the defense of the oppressed is no vice.  Moderation in the recognition of the truly guilty is no virtue.

If the ACLU was about all civil liberties all the time, then protecting the freedom to associate, a la NAMBLA and the KKK, should be extended to the Boy Scouts.  It isn't.  This, to me, proves that they are a leftwing shill.

They may have got this idea from the U.N. which

also needed space. It's a marvelous coincidence

that the need for space is obtained by destroying

potentially incriminating evidence.

and burn you if you disagree with them.  Ask an ACLU member what the 2nd, 9th, 10th or 14th amendments are and they'll have a fit trying to explain how they don't really mean what they say.

In the Sixties on the issue most important to me. I know a few former members from the time who resigned in protest, as I would have.

Also, I tend to eschew organizations founded by communists. That's just me.

 should bother to learn something before you yap about it.

The ACLU isn't suggesting that the boy scouts dont have the freedom of association it defends for the KKK/NABLA.  They are suggesting that the boy scouts shouldn't recieve government $$.  If the KKK was getting government $$ and the ACLU was fighting that, would you have a problem with it?