On 5/21/13 2:38 PM, brattt wrote:
> On May 21 2013 1:33 PM, O-PGManager wrote:
>
>> On May 20 2013 5:17 PM, brattt wrote:
>>
>>> Even the ACLU is questioning this move.
>>
>> What do you mean "even the ACLU"? The ACLU has relentlessly criticized
>> Obama's war on whisteblowers and journalists.
>
> I didn't know that. I don't much about them. I thought they mainly
> supported left issues.
You hear a lot of grandstanding by the Left claiming that they are the
only ones fighting for civil rights, but most Constitutional rights
issues are not truly left/right issues. The ACLU does pick-and-choose
which of the Bill of Rights they defend. But they clearly take on 1st,
4tha and 5th amendment issues even when it angers some of their Liberal
supporters. Such as their famous defense of the right of the Nazis to
have a parade in Skokie, Illinois.
> Other than that, what did you think of the article?
I think the ACLU is right in this case. It's a shame so many of the
"Champions of human rights" here won't face the fact that the Obama
Administration has been more aggressively infringing on them than the
previous Administration. It all comes down to power in the end.