From the “Nieman Marcus for Bubbas†(Sam’s Xmas) Catalog:
70†tall “Nutcrackersâ€â€”ouch!
I said
“No Peddlers
No Jehovah’s Witnessesâ€
You are warned…
ACLU: Here’s Your Sign update
A work in progress…
Below is a listing of the blogposts that are a part of the ACLU: Here’s Your Sign meme pool game. While, admittedly, this game’s a fun way to ridicule the ACLU or to highlight its assaults on society, hopefully these signs will be useful in creating some real world memes of our own to aid in combating its depredations.
In no particular order, gleaned from trackbacks, following the tags and searches on both blogs that link to this post and any mention of ACLU sign meme:
Adam’s Blog contributes:
“Warning: This Organization is Harmful to the Health of Our Nation”
iHillary contributes three graphic signs:
Subversion is the highest form of patriotism
And ACLU: Jihad Wing of the Democratic Party
Ouch! 😉
Is it Just Me? Offers a view we can all hope for:
Stuck on Stupid rings in with
Association (of) Contemptible Leftist Ultraists
Holly at Soldiers’ Angel offers
A Conservative’s Corner goes for the throat:
Annihilate Civil Liberties Union–We’re here to Annihilate YOUR Civil Liberties
A North American Patriot shows us the ACLU’s Checkin sign and dumpster
Cao’s Blog pictures a leader of the ACLU’s favorite religion
Harvey at Bad Example offers a sign from the ACLU Junta:
Unión Civil Americana De las Libertades
¡Ahora abra las fronteras!
Español hablado aquÃ
Romeocat @ Cathouse Chat gives us a peek at the runners up in the ACLU signage picks
“Christians NOT Welcome” and “Relativistm, Hypocracy, and Immorality for All”
…then shows us the selection for the Anti-Civil Liberties Ubermensch:
“All Your Rights are Defined by Us”
TMH’s Bacon Bits features another First Amendment warm fuzzy from the Anti-Christian License Union:
The ACLU’s Mess-Free Cross Extraction Service
In a Southern California County Near You!
Pirate’s Cove finds a treasure with
Communists R’ Us
Your Rights Are What We Tell You
A Lady’s Ruminations thumps a theme:
Anti-Christians for a Liberal Universe: We are the Devil
The Four Horsemen—cheats offers a creative buncha tags and this sign:
And…
Appeasing Criminals and Leftists Unapologetically: That’s What “Civil Liberties” Means, Stupid!
Musing Minds notes the ACLU’s fondness for criminals:
ALL CRIMINAL LIBERTIES UNION We Believe in Rights for Criminals – Not for Victims!
A Knight’s blog wields a mace with:
“ACLU: Making you free against your will.â€
Publius Rendezvous pegs CAIR America’s the ACLU’s sign here:
Oblogatory Anecdotes paraphrases the Apostle Paul with
“If there is anything Unvirtuous, ugly or of ill-repute… “
(preach on, bro)
Jay at Stop the ACLU notes that the ACLU doesn’t hate religion
“We just hate Christianityâ€
Kender’s Musings offers a dream sign for posting on ACLU offices:
CAUTION
DEMOLITION IN PROGRESS
The Right Track gives Islamic Jihadists a little help with targeting. heh
Jihadists Aim Here
Jo’s Café is so darned mean to the poor ACLU. *sigh* I wish I’d thought of
this sign
heh
Merri Musings notes the ACLU’s protection of child rapists with her
ACLU/NAMBLA sign
John on Pros and Cons offers an historical perspective:
THE ACLU: “Undermining America and American Values since 1920?
And a commenter, Bart, suggested:
THE ACLU: “Driving America into the ground, so you don’t have to.â€
“Got Guilt?â€
“Shirkers of the World, UNITE!â€
THE ACLU: ACCOMPLISHING THROUGH LIBERAL JUDGES WHAT COULD NEVER BE PASSED THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX.
THE ACLU†“Just Sue it!â€
The ACLU–This is not your father’s leftist front organization.
The ACLU: What divides us, destroys our collective morale and undermines our traditional values can only makes us stronger.
The ACLU: Defending your First Amendment rights! (unless, that is, you use those rights to advocate positions we disagree with).
*whew!* Ya think John oughta tag Bart? 😉
The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns doesn’t seem so crazy with the
I know there are likely quite a few I’ve missed. Some folks haven’t been tracking back, others have been dropping the ball on tagging (or been outa the loop once tagged). That’s the way these things go. I’ll do an occasional search for more and update as they turn up.
Stop the ACLU interviews Alan Sears
The following interview with Alan Sears, Presient of The Alliance Defense Fund is crossposted from Stop The ACLU
First of all, I want to thank you on behalf of Stop The ACLU, all of our contributors, and supporters. It is an honor to have this interview with you. We appreciate the Alliance Defense Fund does for America by fighting the ACLU, and protecting life, and liberty.
1 Could you tell us a brief summary of how ADF came about?
Enough was enough. Dismayed by years of the erosion of liberty through activist courts in1993, thirty-five leaders of various Christian ministries came together to discuss the growing legal threats to religious freedom, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) was born. ADF’s purpose was to develop sufficient means to win – through training, strategy, coordination, and funding to support litigation. In just eleven short years, ADF has trained over 850 allied attorneys, 405 law students, and provided funding for over 1,500 cases, including twenty-six victories at the Unites States Supreme Court.
2. What inspired you to write your new book, The ACLU vs. America?
In December 2003, I appeared on the O’Reilly Factor to discuss the ACLU’s legal attacks on the public celebration of Christmas. During that interview, Bill O’Reilly asked, tongue in cheek: “Isn’t the ACLU an organization that started out with good beginnings, but has just gotten off track over the past decade?” There was no way to answer it in a 25-30 second sound bite. Craig Osten (my-co-author) and I pondered O’Reilly’s question and realized that most Americans believe this myth that the ACLU had good roots. We knew that the truth had to be told: that the ACLU had a completely different agenda for America right from the start, an agenda that sought to legally undermine every American institution in order to reshape our nation as the ACLU and its founders saw fit.
3. What would you say to those people who say that just because the ACLU was founded on Communism does not mean that they still have communist goals?
Baldwin fastidiously claimed he was not a communist, and in fact, purged the ACLU board members who actually belonged to the party when Stalin and Hitler linked arms in 1939. Despite this, Baldwin had repeatedly expressed admiration for the Soviets and had many communist and socialist allies. In an interview a few years before his death, ACLU Founder Roger Baldwin said to Peggy Lamson (a former ACLU board member): “The Communists say, we don’t care what the majority says, this minority is right, and if we can impose our will on the majority, we will do so.” This type of self-image sums up the modern-day ACLU, which has demonstrated, time and time again, blatant disregard for the will of the people and the democratic process. For example, the ACLU has filed or supported lawsuit after lawsuit to either block public votes on constitutional amendments affirming traditional marriage, or to overturn the results (which have yet to be in the ACLU’s favor). When Alaskan voters passed a constitutional amendment in 1998 affirming marriage as between one man and one woman, the ACLU’s former executive director said: “Today’s results prove that certain fundamental issues should not be left up to a majority vote.”
4. I have read in your book that the ACLU filed a brief in favor of legalizing child pornography. When I wrote about this, many people wanted solid proof. Where can one see in the record how the ACLU defended this?
There are several examples. The files at the U.S. Supreme Court are a good starting point. In 1983, the ACLU submitted a friend of the court brief in the case of New York v. Ferber, arguing that the distribution of child pornography is protected by the First Amendment. The ACLU Policy Guide states: “The ACLU believes that the First Amendment protects the dissemination of all forms of communication. The ACLU opposes on First Amendment grounds, laws that restrict the production and distribution of any printed and visual materials even when some of the producers of those materials are punishable under criminal law.” ( i.e. child pornography).
In the mid-1980s, when I serving as the Director of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, the then-legislative counsel of the ACLU testified that it was the ACLU’s position that once child pornography was produced, there should be no government restriction on its sale and distribution.
5. Recently a judge in California ruled that the Mt. Soledad cross was unconstitutional despite the majority of San Diego voters supported keeping the cross. What are your thoughts on judicial activism in America today? Should judges be using international law in interpreting the Constitution?
In his biography by Peggy Lamson, Roger Baldwin said: “I placed my faith in the courts…” What he meant by that was that he knew the ACLU could not achieve its aims through state and federal legislatures or by taking their case to the people. He knew that the courts would be the most useful method of imposing the ACLU’s agenda on the people. The outgrowth of that strategy is the judicial activism we see today, where the ACLU and its allies are using the courts to deny the expressed will of the people and to impose new laws via judicial fiat. In the Mt. Soledad case, the ACLU attorney James McElroy expressed his disdain for the majority when he said after the vote: “It still doesn’t mean a damn thing. Voters should have never voted on it.”
ADF believes that judges should interpret the Constitution as written and consistent with its original meaning. It is not an “evolving document” with emanations from penumbras as judicial activists’ state.
As far as international law, this is just another example of how the ACLU has tried to change the rules to get their way. They came to the realization that the Constitution can only be stretched in so many ways, that they are eventually going to reach a limit with how far they can advance their agenda with domestic laws and courts alone!
I think Chief Justice John Roberts said it quite eloquently during his confirmation hearing when asked about international law. He said: “Looking at foreign law for support is like looking out over a crowd and picking out your friends. Foreign law, you can find anything you want. If you don’t find it in the decisions of France or Italy, it’s in the decisions of Somalia or Japan or Indonesia or wherever.” He went on to state that international law was a misuse of legal precedent and we would wholeheartedly agree.
Nevertheless, the ACLU, along with its former counsel Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have been the biggest proponents of using international law as precedent to undermine our national sovereignty, which millions have sacrificed and died to defend and preserve.
6. What do you find is the biggest threat to liberty in our society today? How can we counter this?
The biggest threat to liberty today is the agenda of advocates of homosexual behavior, which Craig Osten and I detail in our previous book, The Homosexual Agenda: The Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today. The ACLU has helped develop much of this agenda and has worked very closely with these advocates. The ultimate goal of many homosexual activists is to progressively silence and punish any dissenting viewpoints when it comes to homosexual behavior. In places such as Sweden and Canada, people with sincere religious objections to homosexual behavior are facing fines, loss of employment, and even imprisonment for expressing their views.
How can we counter this? First of all, we can show up. When ADF and its allies have shown up against legal advocates of homosexual behavior in the courtroom, with the training, strategy, and coordination to win, we’ve been successful in defeating the agenda of homosexual advocates, including same-sex “marriage.”
Secondly, it will take resources. The ACLU and its allies, including radical advocates of homosexual behavior, have tremendous financial resources at their disposal. The ACLU Foundation has $175 million in assets. The Gill Foundation, whose mission is to push the homosexual agenda, has spent millions of dollars to achieve its aims. The Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal and Defense and Education Fund, and Planned Parenthood, all have massive amounts of funds, including millions from corporate America, to spend.
Thirdly, Americans need to become educated on the threats to liberty, and that is why we wrote the ACLU book, as well as our previous book on the homosexual agenda, to awaken the majority of Americans who still respect the values of life, liberty, and family that made our nation great.
7. Is it possible to reform the ACLU? Can they be changed, or is countering them the only option?
It’s not a public company and is controlled by a private board. It’s tough to “reform” an organization that had a very different agenda for America right from the beginning. In addition, they have had eighty years to build the legal precedents that they have used to advance their agenda, and even if the ACLU went out of existence today, those precedents would still be in place. Therefore, it is going to take a long-term, strategic effort to reverse those legal precedents, and put new ones in place that affirm religious freedom, the sanctity of life, marriage and the family.
8. What is your strategy in fighting the ACLU? Are there other ways people can get involved?
ADF has a four-fold plan to fight and eventually defeat the ACLU. That plan is training, coordination, funding, and direct litigation. Our goals include training at least 5,000 allied attorneys over the next ten years to take on the ACLU and its allies and building an in-house attorney mentoring program – to train and equip the next generation of attorneys. But you train all the attorneys you want, and if they do not have a coordinated plan of action, it is not going to make much of a difference. That is why ADF focuses on strategic coordination to make sure that we are working in unity towards a common goal of reversing the legal damage inflicted by the ACLU and its allies on our nation, rather than working against each other. Thirdly, we make sure that when our allied attorneys show up in court to take on the ACLU, that they have the necessary financial resources to win. ADF has funded over 1,500 grants for legal cases and projects in just eleven years. Finally, ADF wants to grow litigators, lawyers on our staff who are actively involved in defending religious freedom, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
9. Currently there is legislation in the House by Congressman Hostetler that is asking to reform the attorney’s fees act in the Civil Rights Act to not apply in Establishment Clause cases. Does ADF support this?
We talk about the need to reform this in our book, as it has become a financial cash cow for the ACLU and one of their weapons in their campaign of fear, intimidation, and disinformation to force public officials to bow to their agenda. While ADF does not delve into legislative issues, we hope this effort by the congressman passes to fix this loophole which the ACLU has exploited for years to bully towns and municipalities into compliance.
10. Do you support grassroots efforts like Stop The ACLU.Com and Stop The ACLU.Org in informing the people of the ACLU’s actions and other civil liberties groups? How can we motivate others to get involved? What would your advice be in helping our organization’s success?
ADF is thankful for any efforts that raise awareness of the ACLU’s dangerous agenda for America and encourages citizens to get involved in combating it. I believe that the American people are increasingly rejecting the ACLU’s agenda as more and more of it is brought into the light. Keep on doing what you are doing, highlighting the ACLU’s most recent outrageous statements and positions, and I am sure your efforts will be successful.
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Counterpoint
As against some who discount the heroic sacrifice of American troops in Iraq and Afganistan…
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Think of this song and weigh the words of Lt. Col. Steve Boylan as Mass Media Podpeople and Loony Left Moonbats and their ilk in the “tear America down” crowd thump the “2,000 dead” nerve:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Shortly before U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000 on Tuesday, the chief spokesman for the American-led multinational force called on reporters covering the conflict not to look at the event as a milestone.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force’s combined press center, described the number as an “artificial mark on the wall.”
“I ask that when you report on the events, take a moment to think about the effects on the families and those serving in Iraq,” Boylan said in an e-mail. “The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone. It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives.”
And as you contrast the service of our men and women in uniform to the “tear America down” crowd, consider the ancient Persian advice to parents to
“Teach your children to despise all lies”
h.t. Michelle Malkin for the link to the comments by Lt. Col. Steve Boylan.
Ha!
Plus de discours de fart de Jean Faud sKerry
From the mouth of the jackass posing as the Junior Bloviator from Taxachussetts:
“We know next to nothing about the legal philosophy of the person President Bush has selected to replace Justice O’Connor casting the deciding votes on the most difficult issues confronting our nation,” said Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.)._1_
Say what?
This from a guy who promised last year to release his full military records—since, after all, his whole campaign was built on his “war hero†record—then said he had released his records, then in January of this year, promised once again to release his full records, and finally did release hi full records… to his biographer (who says he can’t talk about them) and a couple of sKerry-friendly media outlets that’ll only say, “Trust us. There’s nothing there.â€
He says we know next to nothing about the legal philosophy of Miers. Guess he hasn’t read this:
Meanwhile, all we know about Jean Fraud sKerry is that his record has “holes and gaps, lacks and losses, absences and insipidies and the like†which seem to emphasize—in the face of Jean Fraud’s on-the-record lies and slanders—that he is a lying S.O.B who crapped out and betrayed his “brothers in arms.â€
We know where the B.S. is; where’s the beef, Jean Fraud?
Note Cao’s information, her post today and the blogroll below if you’d like to gig Jean Fraud to release his records, as he has repeatedly promised to do.
We’ve formed a blogburst group and here are the bloggers who are contributing so far. If you want to join the blogroll for Free Kerry’s 180, click here to email me, include the url for your blog. The blogburst is every Tuesday, so don’t forget to blog about it. All you have to do is encourage Kerry to set his 180 FREE, I’ll send you the code for the blogroll.
The more people we have, the merrier!
What do you listen with?
Curmudgeon mode: on.
Lunch. Listening to the first movement of Mahler’s Symphony #1. (BTW, it’s available for a liten at the Beeb. Just poke around a while in the “radio” files. Most of ’em are real Audio–which I despise–but play well with the OLD windows Media player. heh)
Anyway, listening (and recording–why not?) it struck me that I’m also listening in my head to a Leinsdorf-directed version. I do that. I hear what is happening (recording or live) but what I really hear is what’s in my head. The Beeb’s symphony is good. Well worth a listen. I happen to live with Leinsdorf’s version in my head more.
And that’s really how I listen to music: with one’s memory and mental “ears” tuning, comparing, editing in and out of the performance to hear the best. From what I can tell, most folks don’t really listen to music. Oh, they hear what’s going on, sorta. The beat affects them and some of the other sounds–maybe lyrics or whatever. But, if recording sales are any indication, what sells is stuff people can’t really be listening to. If they listened to it carefully (and had ears to hear and tonal, rhythmic and linguistic development to understand what they were hearing), most top 40 “artists” would be living on skid row.
Seriously.
go to my blogroll and CLICK on Keep the Coffee Coming. (Or, what the heck, just CLICK on the link in the previous sentence. heh). Listen to some of the music she blogs. Compare and contrast the artistry of most of the folks she posts to the crap manufactured for top 40 rcordings. There’s (usually, for almost all the songs Kat posts) a qualitative difference in prosody, melodic composition, instrumental artistry and the simple ability to reproduce pitch accurately of the music Kat posts as against the crap being churned out for big CD sales/radio play nowadays.
The problem is that all too many consumers have crap for ears. And what’s between their ears is so degraded (in ability to understand what the music they listen to is) that they don’t even know it.
Sad, really. Because better music would also help those who listen to it be more able to handle abstract thought. (ClICK HERE for just one of many lists of articles about the benefits of good music on thinking and learning) Hmmm… could it be that that is the key to Red State intelligence? Despite the crap lyrics and even crappier vowell and consonant production of so-called “country” singers, they at least still produce music that has (usually) a good sense of tonality, decent prosody, more logical structures and better-quality harmonies than other crap. Higher quality crap music=higher quality crap thinking? maybe…
Curmudgeon mode: staying on…
Border Drive-by
Just stopping in briefly.
Yeh, another reason to insist on assimilation: Stopped to make some lunch. Had to turn the twist-tie on a new package of corn tortillas backwards to open it.
I blame some wetback working for slave labor wages in the tortilla factory who’s not learned that quitessentially American lesson: Righty-tighty; Lefty-loosey.
*sigh*
Gimme!
It’s evil and it’s ugly… but I want one!
CLICK HERE (1MB download) to play the mpeg.
h.t. Noahware
Guard The Borders–The Law of Walls and Gateways
For Guard The Borders today, I’m going to lean heavily on Daffyd ap Hugh…
In fact, if you want, you can simply skip this post entirely and go directly to this post on Big Lizards, page down until you get to his immigration comments and just read. As an intro to ap Hugh’s commentary, let me just say that while he endorses a “fence†or “wall†approach to guarding our borders, he has some interesting—no, important—things to say about gates, too.
A brief sample:
…America needs a constant influx of new blood, new ways of thinking, and new cultures… so long as the immigrants themselves are forced to assimilate. This is a point that Dennis Prager stressed with a great deal of vim (and volume). In a very literal sense, America was built by immigrants, but immigrants who had every intention of becoming Americans — not living as Poles, Russians, Chinese, or Mexicans in exile.
Our schools should indoct[r]inate both the children of immigrants and the native born in what it means to be an American — and why the immigrants left their home countries in the first place. Our civic, cultural, and religious institutions should echo, not fight this message. And the government should not merely encourage but require assimilation as a necessary condition to continued guest-worker privileges…
Just go there. A Feast of Talk, and the Law of Barriers
Guard the Borders… but make a way for those law-abiding citizens of other lands to become Americans, not just invade and set up their own ghettos.
(Hmmm… seems like we need to look at “allowing†some in academia, among the Mass Media Podpeople and others to learn how to become Americans, too… )
Guard the Borders Blogburst features posts every Monday on border security, immigration and related issues.
Linked at Cao’s Blog–open trackback Wednesday, TMH’s Bacon Bits’ Bacon Break and Stop the ACLU’s Open Trackback Party
N.B.: edited some typos and added the links to Cao, TMH and Stop the ACLU.