Criminal Justice
Cyber-Liberties
Death Penalty
Disability Rights
Drug Policy
Free Speech
HIV/AIDS
Immigrants Rights
Int'l Civil Liberties
Lesbian & Gay Rights
National Security
Police Practices
Prisons
Privacy & Technology
Racial Equality
Religious Liberty
Reproductive Rights
Rights of the Poor
Students Rights
Voting Rights
Women's Rights
Workplace Rights
Our plate is pretty full. Maybe you are right about the future of the organization, but it's simply not true that liberals don't care about liberties -- at least ACLU liberals do.
jks
>
> It's true that the ACLU is a dedicated and
> dependable defender of
> liberty, and you have worthy allies in the
> organization as far as
> defense of civil rights and liberties at home is
> concerned. I'm not
> sure, however, of where members of the ACLU stand
> when it comes to
> the defense of republicanism, i.e. the principle of
> self-government
> of an independent people, which the rejection of the
> "White Man's
> Burden" entails. For all I know, some or even all
> in the ACLU
> actually share, for instance, your view of the "war
> on terrorism"
> (investigate, arrest, and prosecute terrorist
> suspects according to
> domestic and international laws, rather than drop
> bombs on Afghans
> and others, assassinate terrorist suspects, or take
> other illegal
> actions), but I'm not acquainted with its public
> stance on the
> Empire's claim to the right to intervention in other
> nations' affairs
> and exercise of power in pursuit of it in general,
> which I believe
> compromises freedoms of Americans and other peoples
> fundamentally.
> As the "war on terrorism" creates more and more
> cases of violations
> of civil rights and liberties of individuals in
> combination with
> violations of other nations' sovereignty (e.g.,
> terrorist suspects
> kidnapped without formal extradition and then pushed
> into a legal
> limbo with no or few rights), the ACLU may have to
> say something more
> public about the Empire, too, even though the
> organization does not
> exist for that purpose.
> --
> Yoshie
>
> * Calendar of Events in Columbus:
> <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>
> * Student International Forum:
> <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
> * Committee for Justice in Palestine:
> <http://www.osudivest.org/>
> * Al-Awda-Ohio:
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>
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