Day: February 1, 2006

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Stop the ACLU

This week’s Stop the ACLU post is from Gribbit.

This has been a very disappointing period of time for the ACLU. Two strict constructionists appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. One of which reviews Supreme Court appeals from the 9th Circus, Justice Alito. I have a feeling that there will be a lot of cases from the 9th making it to the Supreme Court as well as an increase in the number of reversals nation wide.

Just yesterday, the ACLU released 8 press releases in between their meals of sour grapes and Koolaid. They can’t get their politicians elected at the ballot box. Some of those which they have gotten elected are proving impotent due to their lack of any real power in Congress. But now, the federal judiciary has been taken back by those who actually read what the Constitution says and not trying to look for some hidden meaning. I don’t believe in the Davinci Code nor do I believe the Constitution says anything other that what is printed in it.

[Note: see the links to the ACLU press releases at the foot of this post—ed.]

The ACLU usually prefers to stay in the shadows. They lurk there like criminals waiting to roll some drunk for what little money that he may have. They send out “advisory letters” which advises that the city or town either comply with their wishes, or they will tie them up in very costly legal proceedings. And it isn’t so much the fight for what’s right that is important to the ACLU. No, it’s that big payoff of legal fees reimbursements that will be ordered by the judge. Taxpayers money going into the hands of this Anti American institution.

I received a letter from my Congressman a few months back in which he tried to assure me that the ACLU does not receive taxpayers money. Well, my Congressman is wrong.

There exists a little law where the option of requiring the losing party to reimburse the legal fees of the winning party in civil rights cases. So if the respondent in a civil rights case is the federal government and the government loses, who’s paying the ACLU? We are, John/Jane Q. Taxpayer is footing that bill. The same is true on the state and local level.

So the ACLU uses this as a tool to intimidate cash-strapped cities and states to advance their agenda. For instance, the debate over public celebrations of Christmas. Every time it’s been actually challenged in court, the ACLU loses. But yet, if your town puts up a nativity scene in your local park, the ACLU will send an “advisory letter.” So your town will take it down and bow to the will of the mighty ACLU.

The ACLU is a terrorist organization. They are more powerful than Al Qaeda. Why do I say that? Because they use our own laws against us. They are destroying us from within. And this is why they are concerned about the NSA eavesdropping program. Because they know, if we can listen in on Al Qaeda, we can listen in on anyone who is a threat to our way of life. And that means them too. That is using their twisted logic anyway.

This is why they are pushing the domestic spying falsehood. If the NSA were listening in on your conversation with Aunt Mildred getting her cookie recipe, that would be domestic spying. In this program, one end of the conversation must be either known or suspected Al Qaeda. And at least one of the parties has to be outside of the United States. This being true, it cannot be labeled domestic can it?

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http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/24023prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/discrim/24032prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24037prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/24040prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24029prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24028prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24009prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24036prs20060201.html

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More MMPA Cultural Illiteracy

[Note: MMPA=”Mass Media Podpeoples’ Army”]

In yesterday’s best of the Web, James Tarranto cites this lil graph that lends itself to some morbid amusement:

“In the original version of this report, Newsweek misquoted Falwell as referring to ‘assault ministry.’ In fact, Falwell was referring to ‘a salt ministry’–a reference to Matthew 5:13, where Jesus says ‘Ye are the salt of the earth.’ We regret the error.”–Newsweek online, Feb. 6 issue

Yep. Newsweak. Assigning culturally illiterate (let alone biblically illiterate) reporters with no grounding in the memes* of Western Civilization or the Bible to write about comments of someone who is steeped in the single greatest influence on the English language: the Bible. But never fear, as Rolling Stone’s Jeff Sharlet is equal to the task of matching Newsweak’s cultural illiteracy by accusing Senator Sam Brownback of homosexual-bashing with a reference to Matthew 7:20.

(7:19) Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.(7:20) Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. (KJV)

BTW, ABCNews online doesn’t fare much better in reporting the incident. Apparently no one at ABCNews could find a Bible to check the reference, so they said Brownback’s comment, “”You’ll know them by their fruits,” was a reference to Matthew 7:19, instead of correctly noting it was a close paraphrase of verse 20. If this were an exam, I’d have to mark ABCNews’ article wrong on the facts. Close, but no cigar.

Ahh, it’s just a sign** of the ever-growing cultural illiteracy of American society. Perhaps even of functional illiteracy as well-at least among the members of the MMPA. Who can check the facts when reading is so haaaaarrrrrrd?

h.t. to John at Powerline, who note also that Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University debate team took the Harvard debate team to the cleaners a month ago… *heh*

[*Heck, everyone’s heard of the meme “salt of the earth” haven’t they? Here’s its origin, in context. Makes a difference, doesn’t it?

**Sign, not symptom. A symptom is something a patient can describe to a physician. These folks are so clueless it takes an outside observer to see the signs of their subliteracy in their grunts and squeals.]

A shot across the bow gone awry at Diane’s Stuff and TMH’s Bacon Bits and Basil’s Blog

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SOTU/OTA Wednesday

About that State of the Union address last night… I didn’t watch this one, just as I have not watched the SOTU for several years, now. Instead, I read the transcribed address at the Whitehouse.gov site. I find the “sizzle” factor to be a distraction. How someone delivers a speech has some significance, but I just want the meat. On average, I’d probably give the speech a solid “B.” An “A” tending toward “A-” for the foreign policy section. A Solid “C” for the domestic section, IMO. Read it for yourself and judge the contents.

Good things: Explaining the need to take the fight to the terrorists (for those who simply haven’t been listening since 9/11-apparently just about half the pols in the room. *sigh*). Hitting the old Gray Whore and her pimps with a bitch-slap on the so-called ‘domestic surveillance lies, as in,

…to prevent another attack — based on authority given to me by the Constitution and by statute — I have authorized a terrorist surveillance program to aggressively pursue the international communications of suspected al Qaeda operatives and affiliates to and from America. Previous Presidents have used the same constitutional authority I have, and federal courts have approved the use of that authority. Appropriate members of Congress have been kept informed. The terrorist surveillance program has helped prevent terrorist attacks. It remains essential to the security of America. If there are people inside our country who are talking with al Qaeda, we want to know about it, because we will not sit back and wait to be hit again.

Exactly.

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