What's the ACLU, then, chopped liver? (Was Re: Liberals Re: Ramsey Clark)

[andie nachgeborenen]

You flatter me, Yoshie, but there is this outfit I
belong to and for which I work as a cooperating atty
called the ACLU which is full of liberals who defend
civil liberties in time of crisis. It's almsot
certainly much larger than all the far left group in
America put together. The ACLU didn't do so good in
the first Cold War period (late 40s, early 50s), but
it's done fine since. jks

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> At 1:29 PM -0800 2/20/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >Anyway, I thought you _were_ a liberal.
> 
> Liberals don't defend civil liberties -- or any
> other component of 
> liberal democracy -- in a time of crisis.  Left to
> liberals alone, we 
> would have no civil liberties, not to mention
> liberal democracy. 
> Crucially with regard to such cases as Rwanda and
> Yugoslavia, 
> liberals even prefer the imperial right of
> intervention in the name 
> of human rights to the principles of democracy ("the
> rule of many") 
> and republicanism ("self-government of an
> independent people"). 
> Justin, you are in a class by yourself, as far as
> practice of 
> liberalism is concerned.
> -- 
> Yoshie
> 
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> * Student International Forum:
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> * Committee for Justice in Palestine:
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> * Al-Awda-Ohio:
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> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>

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