Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The ACLU - It's different now
Sadly, the name of this organization gives great hope, while their performance is often very hard to understand.
And that's my opinion...
And that's my opinion...
Wendy Kaminer discusses her opinion in the Wall Street Opinion Journal:
"Once the nation's leading civil liberties group and a reliable defender of everyone's speech rights, the ACLU is being transformed into just another liberal human-rights group that reliably defends the rights of liberal speakers.
This transformation is gradual, unacknowledged and not readily apparent, since evidence of it lies mainly in cases the ACLU does not take. It's naturally easier to know what an organization is doing (and advertising) than what it is not doing. But a review of recent free-speech press releases turns up only a handful of cases in which ACLU state affiliates defended the rights of conservative, antigay or otherwise politically incorrect speakers. And lately the national organization has been remarkably quiet in several important free-speech cases and controversies."
