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Thursday, June 30, 2005
This Made My Day
I just had to post this for all to see. I get frustrated in this fight against the ACLU. It feels like a David and Goliath thing sometimes, and too often it is so exhausting. I watch as the ACLU and judicial tyrants take away our liberties daily, and sometimes it feels hopeless. As much money as the ACLU has contributed to it, and even through our tax money....and then I look at my little grassroots effort....sometimes I get down in the dumps. I've got a Store set up, and a donation button in the sidebar, but so far the contributions are minimal. I'm not sure what to do to get this fight off the ground sometimes. I get frustrated that more people don't do something. I appreciate everyone who does our blogburst with us, and all the petitions I ask you all to sign. I want to be able to raise money to advertise and organize a nationwide march. I appreciate everything you all are doing to help. I want to take this fight to the next level, and any advice you all could provide would be awesome. Again, thank you to everyone who support us. Now that I've said all that...after we reprinted Mr. Lee Ellis' work in today's blogburst. Many thanks for your e-mail, Jay. Much appreciated.
You also help to restore faith to this old combat veteran who almost died in WWII during the invasions of the Japanese-conquered islands in the South Pacific. I will be able to move on to my new life knowing that we WWII vets had not done all this in vain. Now that I am 81 and halfway to 82, I think of these things.
May God bless you and your comrades, both male and female, who have taken up the cudgels against the far-left traitors who are putting their own power, ego and greed above the good of this country which has given all people so much freedom and so many opportunities!
You all are off to a good start. Your web site looks good. Since you liked my oped re the ACLU, you may also like my latest column on the Supreme Court, titled "America -- A nation under God --- or another France." it is on the Frontiers of Freedom web site at http://www.opinioneditorials.com/writer.php?id=lellis
Please put me on any e-mail list you start for those who are also on the same wavelength. If any of my opeds can help you, please feel free to use them on your site.
Keep up the good work. The barbarians are at our gates and the hinges are rusting. Your generation will be the new Minutemen at Concord firing another shot that WILL be heard around the world.
It is important, indeed imperative, that Americans create an oasis of freedom in the heart of the Middle East. This is the main reason we are in Iraq, despite what the Durbins, Reids and Pelosi's of the Democrat party (actually reregistered Socialists) are trying to promulgate! We have built the largest embassy in Iraq with about 2,000 employees. Believe me these people are not typing clerks. Their listening post will help save the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of innocent civilians here in the USA.
Freedom is the most contagious element known to man. Once implanted, it spreads. It is this that will help change the Middle East and help stop terrorism. We are blessed in having a President who understands this nand had the foresight and vision to fearlessly launch the attack on one of the most brutal despots known to man in order to plant the seed of freedom in the heart of the Middle East. The Iraq war and 9/11 are tied together. Don't let any of the media convince you otherwise.Thanks again, Lee
-----"Evil can never be appeased, only challenged!" Lee Ellis 1999------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
BlogBurst 6/30/05
During my scan of google alerts on the ACLU, I came across an article in the ChronWatch that dealt with the recent rulings by the United States Supreme Court. A thread titled "Freedom of Religion in America: Adieu!" I have decided to re-print the article today as my BlogBurst contribution to Stop The ACLU and Gribbit's Word. Freedom of Religion in America: Adieu! Written by Lee Ellis
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
A few days ago, the majority of the Supreme Court ruled as if it were using the Constitution of France instead of the Constitution of the USA. The French Constitution states that its nation is a secular one, while our Constitution states that we are a nation under God. One would not know this if the majority of the Supreme Court today is to be believed.
Mark Levin states in his book, Men in Black, “Chief Justice William Rehnquist has written that the Court ‘bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life.’” Based on a misreading of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Court has propounded and expanded the concept of a ‘wall of separation’ between church and state.
The framers of the Constitution wanted to ensure that all Americans could worship freely, without religious persecution. So they prohibited the federal government from ‘establishing a religion’ and equally prohibiting it from ‘interfering with the people’s free expression of their religion.’
States, however, were permitted to have established churches (the Puritans were the officially established church in Massachusetts.). Even two of the most secular framers, Madison and Jefferson, appreciated the role of religion in the public life of the United States. Jefferson himself wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that our liberty is not endowed by states or governments, but by God.
President George Washington established Thanksgiving Day as a day of prayer to God. And it was not until 1897 that the Congress decided to stop appropriating money for education at religious schools.
In that now-famous letter, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists that the U.S. legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free exercise of, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.” Interestingly, a mere two days after writing this letter, Jefferson participated in church services held in the House of Representatives.
Yet liberal judges have seized on this image of a wall of separation, and are waging a war on religious freedom in our country.
Now the Socialist movement, the ACLU, and other liberal organizations (some with “Mom and Apple Pie” names to fool its readers, its fiscal donators and the country) have been partly successful in its efforts to drive the Judeo-Christian religion out America. The secularists have not failed in making most of Europe and Canada almost wholly secular and they are working hard to do this to America.
How?
They have crammed our courts with liberal legislative judges as replacements for Constitutional judges, and now their representatives in Congress have filibustered to keep President Bush from appointing a majority of Constitutional federal judges. Finally, the ACLU has tried to eliminate any mention of “GOD” from all public places. I don’t think that the word, “God” is a symbol of any one particular denomination or denotes any one specific religion, do you? So why do they act as if it does?
Apparently, the ACLU has forgotten that the founders were only afraid of a federally-owned religion ruled by a King or a President, not by free religious bodies governed by themselves.
In addition, the secularists have convinced enough people that they cannot offend any minority; they must all be “politically correct.” They accuse the majority of “trampling” on minority rights. What about the rights of the religious majority? Is not the minority trampling on those? Do the atheists not offend those who believe in God when they try to eliminate Judeo-Christian religious symbols from all public arenas?
One of the most important causes for the Bush Administration and American voters is to get Congress to accept only Federal judges who believe in and will rule upon and in light of what is actually written in the Constitution of America, not that of France, nor any other document, nor of a personal letter written by an individual—whether he is Thomas Jefferson or not.
The ONLY way this will happen is if you elect a STRONG majority of conservatives to Congress in 2006 and 2008!
Fail this and bid welcome to a godless nation. Or prepare to bid Adieu (literally and ironically, “to God”) to any semblance of freedom of (not from) religion in America.
About the Writer: Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and a former vice president of both CBS and Gannet. He resides in Indio, California, where he writes op-eds that appear in several local newspapers. Lee receives e-mail at indiolee@dc.rr.com.
We can take comfort in the fact that the judicial year is over for the United States Supreme Court and that the worst court in history is no longer seated in session. We can also hope that at least 2 are expected to retire prior to the beginning of the next judicial year.
This past week's rulings have been nothing less than invasive. The Eminent Domain ruling is hopefully going to backfire on at least 1 of the 9 Justices. An effort to seize Justice Souter's home in New Hampshire to build a Hotel is in the works. This is not a prank. It's a real project. A project that the Justice himself helped to make possible.
Who do we have to blame for the current illogical activities of the high court? The American Civil Liberties Union that's who. The ACLU's promotion of judicial activism has led the 9 Justices to unofficially declare themselves King by Committee of the United States.
How else can we describe them? The Justices have taken it upon themselves to ignore the very document that they are to judge the application of other laws by. Laws passed by the legitimate body to do such legislating, the United States Congress.
The Supreme Court has ruled that you can seize private property and turn it over to a private development company for the purpose of generating more revenue for the local government. This is the common good that the high court has seen fit to make legal something that is in direct contrast to the 5th Amendment to the Constitution.
The Supremes have taken it upon themselves to make law instead of judge law. Starting with Roe v Wade, the high court has chosen to ignore the Constitution. No law on the federal level was in question in Roe v Wade. A state law banning a medical procedure was at issue. The last time I checked, medical procedures are NOT covered by the Constitution at all. And the court's decision to even hear the case was a violation of the 10th Amendment.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” How can they forget that one? Think of all the Looney decisions that have come before the Supreme Court. How many of them actually contain violations of the Constitution? None of the religion challenges do.
Medical procedures aren't covered in the Constitution. And Congress hasn't attempted to pass a law forcing a national state run religion upon us. Did I miss an action by Congress? Have the legislators of this nation been corrupted by the Church of Scientology at the insistence of Tom Cruise? Did they pass a law stating that ALL Americans must convert to the Looney cult of Scientology? I don't think so.
But yet the Supremes have ruled consistently that a cross in public view and the 10 Commandments hanging on the wall violate the Establishment Clause. At what point was Congress involved with the 2 county courts in Kentucky? If they were, I didn't catch it.
The 1st Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." This Amendment doesn't say, Ohio shall make no law or California shall make no law, it says CONGRESS shall make no law.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
URGENT ACTION: Court Bans Commandments Sign the Petition to Stop Judicial TyrannyThe Petition States: TO: PRESIDENT BUSH, LEADERS IN CONGRESS As a concerned citizen, I am deeply disturbed by the latest Supreme Court rulings undermining our rights and the Constitution. I am calling on the President to nominate, and the Senate to confirm to the U.S. Supreme Court and all federal courts, only those nominees who: --Uphold the original meaning of the Constitution. --Defend the right of the people to publicly acknowledge God and affirm that children in the womb deserve the same legal protection the rest of us enjoy. I am also urging the U.S. Senate to change the filibustering rules and end the ideological blockade against President Bush’s court nominees. More than 40 million unborn children have died in America since the tragic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In recent years, public opinion has shifted dramatically toward the side of life and pro-life citizens are joining together by the thousands to ensure protection of the unborn. Confirming only pro-life justices and judges not only protects the unborn, but our nation as well. I'm back from vacation and ready to roll!
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Another One of My Rants
If you are reading this to edify yourself with facts and statistics, you are in for a shock. I am writing a good old fashioned Rant. I guess I'll start with something that Al Gore said in the 1992 election. "Everything that should be up is down and everything that should be down is up." That is my assessment of the Educational system in America. This writing was to be a facts, facts, and more facts sourced and mind blowing. It is mind blowing alright. I found that the material I was researching is far too vast to put into a simple blog. This info is stuff that books are written about. One fact that I did come across was the 2003 International Mathematics score card. No surprise. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, "U.S. 15-year-olds performed below the international average of 29 industrialized countries in both mathematics literacy and problem solving in 2003."We are the richest nation on the planet. More technology originates from the United States than anywhere else on Earth. We spend more money on Education than any other nation. But yet, our students are below average in the basic skills. No wonder so many bankrupt people are roaming around. If you can't add and subtract, you can't handle money. If you cannot multiply, you cannot factor interest payments and savings. If you cannot divide, you cannot plan a budget. The same score card also stated the following: The OECD average score of males was greater than that of females in combined mathematics literacy and in each of the four mathematics subscales in 2003. Males outperformed females in two-thirds of the participating countries in combined mathematics literacy; Iceland was the only country where females outperformed males. In the United States, males outperformed females in both combined mathematics literacy and the space and shape subscale. No such sex difference was detected among U.S. 15-year-olds in their performance on the other three subscales. In 33 of the 40 countries, including the United States, there were no performance differences between males and females in problem solving. Is it any wonder why the numbers of home schooled children are on the rise? Religious based education has always been a cut above public schools. And the National Education Association is dead set against public funding of private education. Why? Because they loose money. It only makes sense to me to pay the same amount of money that would be spent on a child in public school, to a private school to off-set tuition. But of course, the NEA lobby has nixed that each time it's been proposed on a large scale. Several years ago, Cleveland had a school voucher program (the first in the country) to do just that. We are talking about a public system that for the bulk of the 80's was under threat of state take over. Cleveland Public Schools have been mis-managed for decades. But of course, the NEA which at that time was the NEOTA in Ohio, challenged and got the voucher program over turned as it violated the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment to divert public funding to a private, religious based school. Smaller class sizes, fewer distractions, personal instruction, and morality are taught in these schools. Test scores are higher in private school educated students than public school students. This has always been a fact. My nephews have a couple of friends, brothers, who are home schooled. Their mother doesn't work and is available to teach them during the day. Of all my nephews' friends, these two boys are the most well mannered children I have ever met. They are respectful and bright. They don't make the errors that my nephews make. In other words, they are never in any trouble. There are organizations of home schooled children that meet for the social aspects surrendered when deciding upon home schooling. These kids take trips to the Science museums, aquarium, the zoo, and the like. It gives them an opportunity to interact with other children and engage in a educational experience. And the best part of it is, the schooling parent is there too. Hillary Clinton came up with an idiotic concept while she and her husband were infesting the White House. They stated, "It takes a village to raise a child." Bull! It takes a parent. The communal implications of a village raising a child is anti-American. And as such dangerous as a program. Thank GOD that the Constitution has a term limit for Presidents. My fear is the politically incompetent will elect her President one day. She is already setting herself up to be the first woman President of the United States. And I shutter at the thought. Education will suffer under the stupidity of an idea like a village raising a child. Especially with the number of pedophiles in our communities. If you haven't noticed, the number of teachers charged with having sexual relationships with minors in their care is on the rise. And barely a week goes by where a child or group of children hasn't gone missing. In our fast paced world we have become blinded by the quest to achieve at the expense of our children and our communities. If a child is lucky enough to live in a home with 2 parents, both must work to maintain a comfortable lifestyle. But all too often in this day in age, single mothers are left to raise children on there own. Working sometimes two jobs to pay the bills. No luxuries in families like these. And more importantly, no supervision. Gang activity, drug use, theft, and other criminal enterprises are influencing our kids. Televisions and video games are babysitters. The days of the quaint term of "latch-key kids" have morphed into a situation where children are out on the street rather than in their home studying. Or worse yet, plopped down in front of the television playing a video game. I was a latch-key kid. But when I was a child, our afternoons were spent riding bicycles, playing baseball, or football. We filled our time with activity. Now, if a kid isn't an over weight couch potato then they are a thin gang member. Activities such as the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and their sister organizations Girl Scouts and Brownies, are under attack by the American Civil Liberties Union. American... ha... Not hardly. The ACLU's quest to remove GOD from public institutions such as schools, military bases, police and fire stations, has led to a drop in the number of charters the Boy Scouts of America and their companion organizations have issued. This atheist organization has been on a mission to sanitized our nation from the influences of GOD, morality, and freedom since 1920 under the guise of protecting the very freedom they are seeking to remove. Where were they last week when the Supreme Court ruled that a community could seize your home under eminent domain in order to develop the property for a private enterprise? They weren't protecting the rights of the home owners. No, they were too busy finding a gay rights advocacy program to fight for in federal court, or a monument to deface by taking any reference to GOD or the symbols of religion from them, or worse yet, finding a NAMBLA member to protect. Liberals, their ways, their organizations, and their politics makes my physically ill. Every time I write about the ACLU I have an overwhelming urge to wash my hands. If I were speaking this out loud, I would wash my mouth out with soap for mentioning that vile organization. Because it is the ACLU that has led the efforts that created the problems that I've outlined here in this post. They are responsible for the destruction of the American Way and pushing the American Dream out of the reach of those who need to dream the most. Children. End of Rant (for now) Please stop by the ACLUBulldozer online store and pick up a bumper sticker or t-shirt. All proceeds go to advertising for a national march on state ACLU offices. Help put an end to the evils of the Most Dangerous Organization in America
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Monday, June 27, 2005
In true activist fashion, the Supreme Court today released 2 decisions on public displays of The 10 Commandments. Failing to define a clear line in the sand, the US Supreme Court today left more questions then answers. In McCreary v ACLU, the high court ruled that the 10 Commandments were placed inside the courthouses with the intent of promoting religion, and therefore violates the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment. In the 5-4 split decision, Justice Souder writes for the majority, " The touchstone for our analysis is the principle that the 'First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion.'" He goes on to state, " Manifesting a purpose to favor one faith over another, or adherence to religion, generally, clashes with the 'understanding, reached ... after decades of religious war, that liberty and social stability demand a religious tolerance that respects the religious views of all citizens.'" I have a problem with this. First of all, Congress didn't attempt to pass a law establishing a national religion as stated in the text of the 1st Amendment. " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." And because Congress, or any other branch of the federal government, wasn't involved in the posting of the 10 Commandments in these 2 courthouses this is a state matter. The 10th Amendment states, " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. " Search as you may, but you will not find any provision in the Constitution that prohibits states from establishing religion or regulating it. And since Congress played no part in this case what-so-ever, I am not convinced that the 1st Amendment was being violated. What this comes down to is, the ACLU through their efforts since 1920, has convinced the federal court system that their responsibility is to interpret the Constitution under a phantom " spirit" of the document. The fact that the document took 11 years to author and pass and the language used was specifically selected to remove any doubt as to the intent of the document, is immaterial to the ACLU and the liberal left. The other case decision related to the 10 Commandments the court released today was Van Orden v. Perry. This case is centered around a monument of the 10 Commandments on the State House grounds. The monument is 1 among many on the grounds and has been there since 1961 without challenge. Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist wrote, " According to Judeo-Christian belief, the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God on Mt. Sinai. But Moses was a lawgiver as well as a religious leader. And the Ten Commandments have an undeniable historical meaning." Rehnquist also said that the statue's placement on the grounds among secular monuments was "passive," rather than confrontational. Rehnquist was joined in his opinion by Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas. Justice Breyer wrote his opinion separately.
Justice Stevens, writing the dissent on behalf of O'Connor, Souter and Ginsburg, said there was nothing passive about the display.
Having noted that the first commandment "I am the Lord thy God" is more boldly displayed than the other nine, he wrote, "The message transmitted by Texas' chosen display is quite plain: This state endorses the divine code of the 'Judeo-Christian' God." Again, same thing... Why was this even heard? It didn't even start as lawsuit. This is a state matter. Congress was not involved in the placement of this monument. As Bill O'Reilly would say, " Go have another glass of Koolaid." Thank you to Mudville Gazette and Outside The Beltway
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What I like to call the Hive the informal socialist apparat that uses liberal rhetoric differs from the classic Left in its avoidance of naming its ultimate goals. Today the old socialists and Communists of yore seem quaintly naive in their ingenuously open espousals of revolution.
In the old days The New Republic could say: "In order to have socialism, we must have a new Constitution." Socialists recognized frankly that socialism would be impossible under the Constitution, and they didn't pretend otherwise. The Old Left proclaimed its creed boldly, hoping to galvanize the masses.
That changed when the "progressives" saw that honesty, for their purposes, was not necessarily the best policy. Even the "working classes" feared and hated socialism, so there was no prospect of socialism's winning through either bullets or ballots.
At this point the progressives adopted a subtle strategy: they chose evolution over revolution. Instead of abolishing the Constitution, they would control its interpretation. It would become a "living document" of fluid and adaptable meanings. If you can't win by the rules, change the rules! And do it in such a way that most people hardly notice you're doing it.
Except for its Communist minority, the Hive has never been directed by commands from above. Instead it uses peer pressure, verbal signals, and the amorphous power of "public opinion." It accustoms the general public to accepting its definitions of discrete "issues," couched in reformist, seemingly "pragmatic" language, so that the bees " the agents of the Hive " range from conscious ideologues to passive dupes.
The Hive is so powerful in controlling public opinion that it has transmuted its ideology into etiquette. "Politically correct" language, extending even to pronouns, is largely Hive-imposed. "Everyone" is no longer "he," but "he or she"; homosexuals are "gays"; unborn children are antiseptic "fetuses," and those who kill them are no longer abortionists, but "abortion providers." Old words like fornicate, promiscuous, and unchaste are replaced by the bland sexually active.
The archetypal Hive institution was the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1927 its long-time leader, Roger Baldwin, visited the Soviet Union, where he said there was no need for a civil liberties union, since the "working class" already ruled in Russia. Later, two top officials of the American Communist Party would be appointed to the national board of the ACLU. Subservience to Stalin was fully compatible with devotion to American "civil liberties" as defined by the ACLU.
Liberals revere the ACLU as the "watchdog of the Bill of Rights," but this depends on whether you count the Second, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments as part of the Constitution. The ACLU never has. It upholds peculiar interpretations of other amendments, using the First Amendment to defend Communists and pornographers. (It likes to point out that it has also defended neo-Nazis and Klansmen, but there's a big difference: the ACLU has never welcomed such "right-wingers' to its national board.)
In the name of "rights," the ACLU has actually campaigned to lead the federal courts to strike down the laws of the states, thereby usurping the powers reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment. It has never defended property rights or opposed taxation; and above all, it has made systematic legal war on federalism. All its efforts have tended to promote the socialist model of totally centralized and secularized government. And it has done much to change the U.S. Supreme Court's understanding of the Constitution, wildly inflating the meanings of a few pet clauses while reducing inconvenient clauses to dead letters. The remaining powers of the states now exist only by the sufferance of the Court.
Not that the Court was hard to seduce; during the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt appointed a series of Hive liberals Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and subsequent presidents added Earl Warren, William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The ACLU reading of the Constitution has become the standard accepted by the courts, lawyers, legal scholars, and the media. And nobody describes the ACLU as "socialist," despite its history and the obvious pattern of its pursuits.
The Court scored one of the Hive's greatest coups when it ruled in 1973 that laws against abortion, state laws, of course, violated the Constitution. This ruling (supported by the ACLU, of course) capped a long Hive campaign of twisting words from their accepted meanings. (Though it says it favors "choice," not abortion as such, the Hive has no objection, of course, to forced abortion in Communist China.)
Roosevelt himself was an enemy of individual rights; his agenda was collectivist, directed against private property, and he readily used the FBI and IRS to punish his opponents. He also put Japanese-Americans into wartime concentration camps. He showed favor to the Soviet Union from the first year of his presidency through World War II and allowed Communist penetration of his administration. He remains a hero to the Hive.
After Roosevelt's death Martin Dies, Richard Nixon, Joe McCarthy, and the House Un-American Activities Committee sought to purge Communists in government. To the Hive, this period remains "the era of McCarthyism,"a period of "hysteria" and "witch-hunts," "one of the darkest moments in our nation's history." What this boils down to is that the "progressives," for once, were on the defensive. Soviet agents, far from being imaginary "witches," had infiltrated even Roosevelt's inner circle and the Manhattan Project, enabling Stalin to get nuclear weapons.
Here the Hive's rhetoric reached its highest level of fluidity. At first, McCarthyism purported to mean false charges against innocent liberals of harboring Communist sympathies. Later, when the taboo on Communism had been struck down, the Hive celebrated even real Communists, the Hollywood Ten, Lillian Hellman, Paul Robeson, as "victims of McCarthyism," virtual martyrs in the catacombs. Merely to identify Communists as Communists, it turned out, was persecution, "McCarthyism." Its real sin was not libel, but (accurately) "naming names." At a deeper level, the sin was principled disapproval of socialism. And the Hive's real target, all along, was anti-Communism.
Such shifting definitions are central to the Hive's modus operandi. But most people don't notice its semantic bait-and-switch operations. Today the media have passively accepted the Hive's account of the "devil of McCarthyism." Despite the complicity of American Communists in the Soviet mass murders, the Hive treats them as an oppressed minority of "idealists," devoted to "civil rights" and "social justice."
Many Hive causes have had Red roots. I've mentioned the ACLU. W.E.B. DuBois of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an avowed Communist. Such feminist leaders as Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, and Susan Brownmiller started out as Communists; feminism is not so much anti-male as anti-Christian. The "women's movement" is the ladies' auxiliary of the Hive.
The Hive's three general targets are private property (which provides material independence of state power), the family (which affords loyalties prior to the state), and religion (which claims authority above the state's). Property is attacked under the guises of civil rights, affirmative action, antitrust measures, discouraging smoking, consumer protection, environmentalism, equality, gun control, and tax equity; the family, under the guises of sexual freedom, contraception, "choice,""gay rights" (including homosexual marriage), women's rights, children's rights, divorce reform, and opposing censorship; religion, under the guises of separation of church and state, state education (in which prayer is forbidden, the Hive's notion of "religious freedom"), teaching Darwinism as "science," and demands for female, married, and homosexual clergy. (The Hive even has its theologians, such as Richard McBrien of Notre Dame, who labor to eliminate supernatural revelation and authority from religion.)
The elections of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush showed that the Hive's hegemony over American public discourse had failed to eliminate popular conservative sentiment. Moreover, the Hive's Queen Bee died when the Soviet Union collapsed.
I used to doubt that the Hive could continue to exist without the Soviet Union. I was wrong. Bill and Hillary Clinton have given the Hive new life and energy.
Clinton seems never to have been an outright Communist or sympathizer. He advertised himself as a "New Democrat," unlike the McGovernite left. He gives lip service to property (he favors a "strong economy"), the family (with touching constant references to "our children"), and religion (quoting the Bible incessantly). Nevertheless, the concrete measures he favors always centralize power at the expense of private life, whether the measure is national health care or job leave for new parents. Bill and Hillary (renowned for advocating children's rights) have won the loyalty of the Hive, which ferociously defended him against impeachment (denouncing "sexual McCarthyism"). Favoring abortion and homosexual rights, they have made the sexual revolution the agenda of the federal government.
The Hive has adapted surprisingly well to the failure of socialism. Faced with the triumph of market economies, it now concentrates its energy against its ultimate target: Christianity. And it has an ideal front man in Clinton, who, Bible in hand, professes Christianity even as he works to subvert it.
During the Cold War, the Hive was anti-American. But under the Clinton regime it has become pro-American. The U.S. Government has replaced the Soviet Union as the Queen Bee, the vehicle of "progress" around the world.
And why not? By now the U.S. Government has abandoned the Constitution and incorporated most of the goals of the Hive. It may not exemplify the old socialist dream, but it's about as good as it gets. I have been guilty these past couple of days of reprinting the work of others. My reason, the idiot trolls out there that cannot believe that a Conservative can take information gathered from the personal experiences of many years and form an opinion based upon personal observation. My sources tend to be the MSM from the last 35 years of my life. Public information that has stuck in my gray matter that I have no way to source and credit.
But to satisfy those idiot trolls who come here, or to my sites, or to Cao's, or Kender's, or anyone else's in our circle of friends and drop their Moonbat Troll droppings in hit and run attacks, I am using the info at my disposal to back up my claims. Using the info directly in this way, no one can claim that I use spin to arrive at my observations.
Each word posted has been written and sourced by others. Where I have interjected my 2 cents, you are able to see.
Placing your trust in this organization which has such an unsavory past is irresponsible. Every time I read one of their press releases I have an overwhelming need to wash my hands. And every time I say the words American Civil Liberties Union, I feel the need to wash my mouth out with soap.
End of my 3 day (with an intermission) Rant
Thank you to Mudville Gazette and Outside The Beltway
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Sunday, June 26, 2005
Loathed by Bill O'Reilly, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell. And with good reason. They represented American Nazis in 1978, NAMBLA in 2000, and they consistently oppose any governmental endorsement of religion. That includes school-imposed prayers, as well as nativity scenes and Ten Commandments monuments on public property. ACLU strangely refuses to take a position on the civil liberty issue of gun rights.
| 1919 | Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer claims that communist agents have constructed a plan to overthrow the American Government on November 7th, 1919, the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Palmer and his assistant J. Edgar Hoover arrests over 10,000 suspected anarchists and communists and holds them without trial, ultimately releasing all but 247, who are deported to Russia. These mass arrests become known as the Palmer Raids. | | Jan 1920 | Palmer arrests 6,000 more suspected communists and holds them without trial. He announces that the communist revolution is planned for May 1st as justification. | | 1920 | ACLU is founded in response to the Palmer Raids. Roger Baldwin is named first director of the ACLU. | | 1950 | Roger Baldwin steps down as director, but continues work as spokesman for the ACLU. Patrick Murphy Malin becomes director, and starts the ACLU on greater membership, growing it from 9,000 to 60,000, mostly through the founding of local chapters. | | 1963 | John de J. Pemberton becomes Executive Director of the ACLU. | | 1970 | Aryeh Neier becomes Executive Director of the ACLU. | | Jun 1978 | Ruling in favor of the ACLU, the U.S. Supreme Court commands that the predominantly Jewish city of Skokie, Illinois allow the National Socialist Party of America to march down its streets. | | 1978 | Ira Glasser becomes Executive Director of the ACLU. | | 25 Sep 1988 | During one of the Presidential debates, Vice President George HW Bush paints his opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, as practically un-American: "He said, 'I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU.' That was what he said. He is out there, on out of the mainstream." | | 23 Sep 1991 | ACLU Answers. Issue: Pornography "We support the prosecution of child pornographers under existing laws for the harm they inflict on children. But we believe government may not restrict the distribution of child pornography once it has been published." | | 1997 | Reno v. ACLU | | 16 May 2000 | After winning a $328 million wrongful death suit against the murderers of fifth-grader Jeffrey Curley, his parents file suit against NAMBLA for inciting the crime. The ACLU agrees to represent the organization, much to the dismay of almost everyone on Earth. | | Dec 2000 | Shirley Parraguirre, clerk of Clark County, Nevada, announces plans to require fingerprinting and police background checks of ministers performing wedding ceremonies. The proposal is rescinded after the ACLU points out that neither Jesus Christ nor Martin Luther King, Jr. would be allowed to marry people under the rules. | | May 2001 | Anthony D. Romero becomes ACLU Executive Director. | | 8 Sep 2001 | In an editorial, Bill O'Reilly claims that the ACLU supports the practice of pederasty because they defended NAMBLA in court. | | 13 Sep 2001 | During an exchange with Pat Robertson on the 700 Club, fellow televangelist Jerry Falwell declares that America's immorality is what caused the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center: | FALWELL: | I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say: "You helped this happen." | | ROBERTSON: | Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system. | | FALWELL: | Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged". In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time -- calling upon God. | | | 9 Jan 2004 | On The Radio Factor, Bill O'Reilly makes a comparison to the Third Reich: ?The ACLU is the most fascist organization I have seen in decades. They want to tell you how to live. They don?t want to abide by the Constitution. They want to go around the Constitution. They?re intellectual fascists, and they use the courts as their Panzer divisions.? | | 12 May 2004 | The ACLU announces a settlement with Stevenson High School in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The school had omitted valedictorian Abby Moler's submission for the 2001 yearbook because it contained a quote from the Bible (Jeremiah 29:11). The Michigan chapter of the ACLU sued the school on behalf of Moler, claiming that they violated her right to free speech. The school ultimately agreed not to censor yearbook submissions on the basis of religious or political speech. | Then there is the 45 goals of the Communist Party in the US as described and outlined in the Congressional Record of January 10, 1963. These items were excerpted from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen.
- 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
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- 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
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- 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
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- 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
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- 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
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It seems that the biggest advocate of these priciples has been the ACLU. They have captured one of the political parties. Liberals make up the bulk of the over 400,000 + membership. Why? Because liberals are easily influenced by words such as civil liberties. And the liberal party in the US is the Dumocraps. And what kind of proof do I need? Howard "YeeeHaaaw!" Dean is the Chairman of the DNC. The facts of this organization are that they have no respect for the values that made America great. From its founding 85 years ago by 2 self-proclaimed Communists with ties to over 300 Communist front organizations to their full filling of the 10 Platforms outlined by Karl Marx. Take a look at the 45 items read into the Congressional record on January 10, 1963. Of those items, how many have been championed by the ACLU? The answer is most of them. And those on the left still continue to defend this organization. Why? Ignorance... there is no other word for it. More to follow.
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The ACLU--Against Sexual Abstinence
Thursday the ACLU opened its new website, Take Issue, Take Charge, the purpose of which is "stopping government funding of ineffective and harmful abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and ... promoting responsible sexuality education." In other words, the ACLU has a brand-spankin'-new program and website designed solely for the purpose of insuring that the only sure way to stop the spread of STDs and unwanted pregnancies is not taught to young people in favor of teaching them "responsible sex." Why? In the name of "reproductive freedom." "Take Issue, Take Charge is for people who believe that the government should stop interfering with the decisions we all make about whether or when to have children, including to deny teens the information they need to prevent pregnancy," said Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, Louise Melling. Apparently abstinence will not stop pregnancy, but condoms will. But let's get to the nitty-gritty, shall we? This isn't really about teens and reproductive freedom, this is about the deep-seated ACLU fear that "abstinence" is "too Christian." Look at the reasons they cite for opposing the teaching of abstinence-- "...[M]any of these programs promote gender stereotypes, discriminate against gay and lesbian youth and all too often proselytize on the public's dime." How does teaching abstinence promote gender stereotypes and discriminate against homosexuals? What proselytizing? The unspoken assumption is that only Christians are interested in promoting chastity, and then only the "right-wingers," who will certainly promote gender stereotypes and discriminate against homosexuals. The writer doesn't even bother to explain these bald assertions--they are just made as though "everyone knows" they're true...the fallback position of the liberal zealot. It should also be noted that, following its "initial focus on sexuality education," Take Issue, Take Charge "will target other pressing reproductive rights issues, including increasing access to emergency contraception and combating refusals by hospitals, insurance companies, pharmacies and others to provide basic reproductive health services." First let's get all the kiddies doing it, then we'll move on to making abortion more available and affordable. And we can sue everybody who tries to stop us and make a hefty buck in the process. What a scam. Cross-posted at The Pulpit Pounder. Thank you Mudville Gazette
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ACLU: Do As We Say Not As We Do
At Jay's request, I am posting this piece that I had on my site, Sweet Spirits of Ammonia, yesterday.
I know I'm a day early but when you catch the ACLU with its pants down well, you have to point it out.
Hypocrisy abounds and the "cherished" idealism of the pontificating popinjays of the left is cast to the wind.
After persecuting organizations for any perceived exclusionary tactics, here they go with prejudice, bigotry and no due process, excluding one of their own. I hope he sues the pants off them and they are banned from the public feeding trough. Maybe some conservative group can defend this man's rights in court.
The ACLU may fight for those holding unpopular beliefs and taking controversial stands, but the ACLU of New Mexico suspended an entire chapter of the organization because a member of the board of directors is leading the state's Minuteman group.
The state organization suspended its Las Cruces chapter after learning that a member of the group's board, Clifford Alford, was heading the formation of a Minuteman group in New Mexico.
Gary Mitchell, a Ruidoso attorney and president of the ACLU board of directors, said the suspension of the southern chapter was a technical move to make sure the leader of the New Mexico Minutemen, a civilian border patrol group, no longer had authority to act or speak on behalf of the ACLU. "We will not tolerate racism and vigilantism in the leadership structure of our organization,'' Mitchell told the Albuquerque Journal. "They are repugnant to the principles of civil liberties and the mission of the ACLU.'' Alford has said he's not a hateful vigilante and that he would like to see immigration policy reformed. He has said that if the federal government allowed more immigrant workers to enter the country legally, many problems on the border would be solved. He reportedly scouted the New Mexico-Mexico border two weeks ago for sites to station his 42 volunteers to detect illegal immigrants sneaking into the country. His group plans to offer food, water and medical aid while reporting the illegal immigrants to the U.S. Border Patrol. Mitchell said the ACLU was not trying to muzzle Alford. It is just a matter of not wanting him representing the ACLU in a leadership position. When Alford refused to resign, the state board decided over the weekend to temporarily suspend the 14-member southern board until new elections are held. Mitchell said the ACLU's rules do not provide a means for removing a single board member, so the entire board had to be suspended. "We are not going to tolerate anyone depriving anyone of liberty without due process of law, not going to tolerate vigilante groups on the border without speaking out against them and without monitoring," Mitchell said.
Alford said the dust-up is the result of a lack of understanding about how the Border Watch group plans to operate. He said the ACLU didn't ask questions, "just attacked." Thanks to WorldNetDaily.
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Stop The ACLU BlogBurst 06/23/05
Constitutional Amendment Banning Flag Desecration & the ACLU's Opposition to It For a couple of decades now, Congress has repeatedly attempted to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning the burning of our national flag. Until now, the chances of its passing have been nil. Yesterday, the House passed a bill banning burning of the flag by 8 votes. Now it's on to the Senate.
The ACLU has released a statement, "the House’s approval of the "Flag Desecration Amendment" a loss for freedom and an unwarranted assault on the First Amendment." And are Claiming, "Nationwide, there is growing opposition to this proposal. The First Amendment Center issued a survey in which 63 percent of those polled said that the Constitution 'should not be amended to prohibit burning or desecrating the American flag.'" source
Well as a Cold War Veteran, I am appalled every time I see the flag that I was willing to die for, desecrated by these liberal wackjobs that have the French mentality of capitulation to our enemies.
First off the symbolism of flag burning is related to the desire of the person or persons doing the burning of a wish that the same happen to the country whose flag is being burned. Think of it, who on an international scale burns our flag? Extremists who want to destroy America. Who burns Israel's flag? Islamic extremists who wish to exterminate Israel from the Earth.
So when one of our own citizens, burns our flag on the streets of a city in the United States, they are publicly calling for our destruction. And that angers me.
Liberals would have you believe that it's protected under free speech. You see, they really don't think that it's free speech. They really want the USA as it is today destroyed. It has been their goal to turn this nation into a socialist state since its founding in 1920.
Critics of my position point out that Baldwin renounced Communism. That is true. It happened when Germany and Stalin signed the non-aggression treaty. The ACLU even adopted a policy to not allow members who are members of the Communist Party. Several high ranking individuals were removed from the membership roles only to be reinstated after the war when the policy was revoked. source
And to further their communist cause, they will resort to anything. As stated in the 45 goals of the Communist Party entered into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963:
- 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. (To which they would include burning of the national flag.)
- 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
Public discourse is a natural thing. Protesting unfavorable government policies is natural. And a Constitutional Right. But your exercising of your rights under the Constitution cannot interfere with my rights. And burning the flag offends me.
And if a visual offense can spark the ACLU to come to the aid of an atheist who is offended by a cross that is part of a memorial on top of a hill that's been there for decades, then why are they opposing my position. I'm offended. I want it stopped.
Ever since 1814, when Francis Scott Key wrote the Poem "The Star Spangled Banner," our symbol has been that flag. It is by nature a battle flag. Why? Because freedom comes at a cost. We are always at war. War against forces that are aimed at destroying us. And the ACLU is one of those forces.
Here is a list that I prepared for our members to draw source material from: From aclu.org For more than a decade, the Citizen's Flag Alliance and others have expended seemingly endless resources lobbying candidates and members of Congress to pass a constitutional amendment giving the government the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the American flag. Civil libertarians have fought back hard, organizing coalitions of veterans, religious leaders and other Americans who believe that such a constitutional amendment would undermine the very principles for which the American flag stands. While our fight against the proposed amendment has made headway in recent years, the margins of our victories remain precariously thin. Recent calls for patriotic unity threaten to bolster the cause of those who wish to protect the symbol of our freedoms at the expense of the freedoms themselves. We urge you to read about the history of the flag amendment and why Americans across the country oppose this amendment. Then make your voice heard! (source) · ACLU talking points on why this amendment is unwarranted and unconstitutional · ACLU letter to the Senate opposing the flag amendment · ACLU letter to the House opposing the flag amendment ACLU Calls Flag Desecration Amendment Assault on Free Speech; Says Measure Fails Very Principles Flag Embodies (05/25/2005)
WASHINGTON - Noting that free expression and the right to dissent are among the core principles for which the American flag stands, the American Civil Liberties Union today strongly urged Congress to reject the reintroduced Flag Desecration Amendment. The House Judiciary Committee is considering that measure today.
House Votes to Amend Constitution Once Again; But Margin of Support For Flag Amendment Drops Again (07/17/2001)
WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives today voted by a slim 8-vote margin to once again approve a controversial proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban desecration of the American flag. This year's vote was particularly noteworthy, the American Civil Liberties Union said, because the number of votes for the amendment dropped under 300.
Flag Desecration Amendment Marked Up in House Judiciary; ACLU Urges Opposition, Says American Strength Based in Tolerance (06/20/2001)
WASHINGTON - With the perennial flag "desecration" amendment set for yet another floor vote as early as next week, the American Civil Liberties Union is again urging lawmakers to oppose the misguided and dangerous proposal.
House Subcommittee Approves Flag Amendment; ACLU Says Patriotism Can Not Be Forced (05/24/2001)
WASHINGTON -- A House subcommittee today approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit "desecration" of the American flag. In response, the American Civil Liberties Union joined with veterans and reiterated its strong disapproval of what it calls a misguided and counter-productive initiative.
Flag Desecration Amendment Reintroduced; ACLU Vows to Renew Grassroots Campaign Against Measure (03/13/2001)
WASHINGTON - As proponents once again reopened their drive to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban desecration of the American flag, the American Civil Liberties Union today joined with veterans and urged members of Congress to reject the proposed amendment once again
From The House & Senate 1 . Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress and the States to prohibit the act of desecration of the flag of the United States and to set... (Introduced in House)[H.J.RES.5.IH]
2 . Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. (Introduced in Senate)[S.J.RES.12.IS]
3 . Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. (Introduced in House)[H.J.RES.10.IH]
4 . Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. (Reported in House)[H.J.RES.10.RH]
Burning our flag isn't free speech. It is inciting violent destruction of our nation. And if the libs can't see that, they are mentally flawed.
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