A Landmark Day for Stop The ACLU blog

Posted on July 9, 2005

Today is the 6th month landmark for Stop The ACLU. Jay started his Blogger hosted blog on February 9th of this year. I think that you would all agree that it has been a beacon of truth for America. Even though this site is brand new he has been blogging against the ACLU for 6 months. I must say, it is nice to be off of blogspot.

A Toast:

So here’s to Jay and Stop The ACLU, may you continue to be a voice of truth exposing the evils of the Most Dangerous Organization in America.

Today I am also officially announcing our Blog of the Month contest. Each week, Jay, a wild card judge, and myself will be selecting a Featured Blog of the Week. The post selected for this honor will be cross-posted in its entirety and linked back to its writer’s page on Gribbit Online. At the close of the month each of the winners will be posted here on Stop The ACLU for public vote. The winner of the vote will be selected the Blog of the Month. Items from the online store will be awarded to the winner.

To qualify for blog of the month:

1. The Blog must be a member blog of the Stop The ACLU BlogBurst.
2. Be a BlogBurst posting.
3. Be written on an ACLU topic.
4. Be selected as a Featured Blog of the Week for the week posted.
5. Receive the majority of votes for Blog of the Month (ties decided by Jay and myself).

The posting need not be written on the suggested topic of the week. The only requirement on that point is that it must be anti-ACLU related.

We will be judging posts on:

1. Content
2. Information
3. Its ability to hold the reader
4. Quality of the writing

All who participate in the BlogBurst will automatically qualify for Featured Blog of the Week. If you are not yet a member of our BlogBurst, it’s easy to join. Just go to Protest The ACLU and sign up. I will send you an email explaining what additional information that I need. It’s that easy. So if you are not yet a member, sign up and join the fun.

So good luck everyone.

Also, if you would like to sponsor a prize for Blog of the Month, please let Jay know. As this will cost money, we are asking anyone who can afford it to please consider sponsoring a prize. Thank you.

Blog of the Week for July 7, 2005

Merri Musings

Stop the ACLU! – Just Which Side Are They On, Anyway?
Five Muslim-Americans Detained In Iraq (emphasis mine)

WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – The American military is holding five U.S. citizens, apparently including a Los Angeles filmmaker, among more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq on suspicion of possible terrorist or other criminal activity, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
All of the five are being held without charges or access to lawyers. Three have dual Iraqi citizenship, one dual Iranian citizenship and a fifth man, arrested late last year in Iraq, dual Jordanian citizenship. Of the four arrested this year, one was taken into custody in April, two in May and another in June.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to identify the five. But the New York Times (of course!) on Wednesday identified one as Cyrus Kar, 44, an aspiring filmmaker from Los Angeles who was arrested in Iraq in May.

The newspaper said Kar, a naturalized American born in Iran who had enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1983, traveled to Iraq in mid-May to work on a documentary. He was arrested when he was stopped in a taxi in Baghdad by Iraqi security forces, who found what they suspected what might be bomb parts in the car. Whitman said they included “several dozen” washing machine timers.

Kar’s relatives told the New York Times that on June 14 an FBI agent, John D. Wilson, returned items seized on May 23 from Kar’s Los Angeles area apartment and assured them the FBI had found no reason to suspect Kar. “He’s cleared,” one of Kar’s aunts, Parvin Modarress, quoted Wilson as saying, the newspaper reported.

The Pentagon, however, remained tightlipped. “I’m not going to get into any detail,” Whitman said.” What I will say is that one of these individuals was believed to have knowledge of planning associated with attacks on coalition forces. Another individual had in his possession possible IED (improvised explosive devices) components. One individual was possibly involved in kidnapping and another was engaged in what was described as ’suspicious activities.”‘

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Merri Musings
Thank you Mudville Gazette for your open posts, and to Wizbangblog for their carnival of trackbacks. Thanks for the link Basil

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4 Responses to “A Landmark Day for Stop The ACLU blog”

Jay on July 9th, 2005 2:31 pm

Congrats Merri!
Jay on July 9th, 2005 2:32 pm

Someone sponsoring the prize would be nice, but I’m willing to spend the money to make this fun.
epiphany on July 9th, 2005 10:45 pm

Congratulations Merri! AND what is more, congratulations to Stop the ACLU for six months…and hopefully many more. Keep up the good work.
Merri on July 9th, 2005 11:33 pm

Thank you so much – I’m very flattered! The ACLU makes it so easy to write posts about their antics and flat out wrong policies. Thanks for your vote of confidence in me!