Does the ACLU do more harm than good?

shakenbake19 · 10-03-05, 10:38 PM

Personally, i think that the ACLU does do more good than people think they do. They protect student rights in high school, they do the smaller cases you never hear about because they are constntly being overshadowed by their "ultra-liberal" cases like the "under god" debate.

shakenbake19 · 10-03-05, 10:40 PM

sorry there is no poll with this.......something got screwed up and it wouldn't go through......if one of the moderaters could help me out that would be great.

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One "poll" back atchya!

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SKILMATIC · 10-04-05, 12:18 AM

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Personally, i think that the ACLU does do more good than people think they do. They protect student rights in high school, they do the smaller cases you never hear about because they are constntly being overshadowed by their "ultra-liberal" cases like the "under god" debate.

I think nowadays they do more harm than good but back in the day they did some great things. I admire them in their krux. Now it looks like they hit a bad case of entropy.

Missouri Mule · 10-04-05, 12:24 AM

I'm old enough to remember the bad old days of the Cold War, McCarthyism; the Communist Party under Gus Hall, Stalin and all of that. In my opinion, the ACLU is a far worst enemy of the Republic. It is a malignant cancer that has done virtually everything to undermine everything that is good about the United States. In point of fact, it ought to register as an agent of a foreign power. It plays into the hands of the terrorists who would destroy us. Compared to the damage that Joe McCarthy did to the body politic, the ACLU is 100 times worse. Bin Laden's name ought to appear on their letterhead if they were required to have full disclosure.

jamesrage · 10-04-05, 12:29 AM

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I think nowadays they do more harm than good but back in the day they did some great things. I admire them in their krux. Now it looks like they hit a bad case of entropy.

I agree with you.I think they are nothing more than dinasaurs who have outlived their usefulness and they are trying to hang on.

SKILMATIC · 10-04-05, 12:33 AM

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I'm old enough to remember the bad old days of the Cold War, McCarthyism; the Communist Party under Gus Hall, Stalin and all of that. In my opinion, the ACLU is a far worst enemy of the Republic. It is a malignant cancer that has done virtually everything to undermine everything that is good about the United States. In point of fact, it ought to register as an agent of a foreign power. It plays into the hands of the terrorists who would destroy us. Compared to the damage that Joe McCarthy did to the body politic, the ACLU is 100 times worse. Bin Laden's name ought to appear on their letterhead if they were required to have full disclosure.

Well the thing is they would defend osama and any other terrorist for that matter. And guess who its mostly run by if not all? Thats right liberals. Who woulda thought.

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I agree with you.I think they are nothing more than dinasaurs who have outlived their usefulness and they are trying to hang on.

And that my friend was a post that made sense. The ACLU would be better if it actually stood for 1 thing that america is about.

JOHNYJ · 10-04-05, 11:43 AM

The ACLU at times does some good,just not enough times.It is anti-christian and ideological. It puts theories ahead of people. Even if the facts show it to be wrong ,it will support the politicaly correct theory.

FinnMacCool · 10-07-05, 07:36 PM

I dunno much about the ACLU but I took a look on their website and I'm all for protecting our freedom of speech. its very important.

However it is interesting to note that all you guys attacking the ACLU are in fact pro Bush! <gasp>

Billo_Really · 10-07-05, 07:43 PM

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I agree with you.I think they are nothing more than dinasaurs who have outlived their usefulness and they are trying to hang on.

I don't see how protecting your rights can out-live its usefulness.

SixStringHero · 10-07-05, 07:53 PM

The ACLU has gotten a bad rap within the last few years. Now I'm not too fond of them either because they are ideological and seem hypocritical in a lot of ways, but I think they do do some good in this country.

Only problem is when they go after the Boy Scouts and get them banned from using a public park because their oath uses the word "God." That's not being genuine in my opinion, and I don't like how they get tax payers funding in a round about way by suing cities to recoup their lawyer fees.