The ACLU Is At It Again!
Posted on December 20, 2005
From an article in the Star-Tribune:
The American Civil Liberties Union accused the FBI of misusing terrorism investigators to monitor some domestic political organizations, despite apparently disparate views within the FBI whether some groups supported or committed violent acts.
“Using labels like domestic terrorists to describe peaceful protest activity can chill robust political debate in this country,” ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner said in New York. The ACLU said it will publish the FBI reports it obtained on its Web site Tuesday.
In one case, government records show the FBI launched a terrorism investigation of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Norfolk, Va., despite acknowledgment by one FBI official that, “The FBI does not consider PETA a terrorist organization.”
Ok, let’s take a breath here, PETA is a radical group that gives money to the Animal Liberation Front. This is a domestic terror organization, and any leads to find these people and put them behind bars is the job of the FBI.
The FBI responded that it conducts its investigations appropriately – subject to U.S. laws and Justice Department guidelines. It said the ACLU mischaracterized some passing references to political groups in FBI files to suggest those groups were under investigation; in other cases the FBI confirmed it was acting on tips tying groups to alleged illegal activities.
“You end up in FBI files with your name and your group’s name because you’re doing stuff,” Assistant Director John Miller said. “By and large, the FBI has done a pretty good job sticking to those rules.”
The FBI documents indicate the government launched its terrorism investigation of PETA because the group was “suspected of providing material support and resources to known domestic terrorism organizations,” including the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front.
Ah, I wondered if they were giving money to ELF, another domestic terror group I have been complaining about for many years. The ACLU wants to complain about the FBI investigation of organizations with ties to domestic terrorists? Hmm, they like Nambla, and they don’t like Christianity. They defend terrorists of all stripes, and attack our government, even when they are doing their jobs. They were founded by a communist, and seem to be pushing that agenda often. Is anyone done with this organization yet? I truly believe that there are so many ACLU lawyers because getting money on Establishment cases has become an easy job. There are too many lawyers to compete in the market place so they join the ACLU and sue at the drop of the hat, and our tax payer dollars pay the fee. Is there anyone left in the country, who is not a cliff-dweller, that is not upset about this situation? We are funding an attack against our culture, and fighting terror!
People the time for OUTRAGE is now! Stop making excuses for the behavior of the ACLU.
The FBI reports also linked PETA to the government’s investigation of a bombing outside the Shaklee Cosmetic Corp. in Pleasanton, Calif., in September 2003. The FBI said Shaklee conducted animal testing of cosmetic products and its parent company was a frequent target of campaigns by PETA and another group, Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty.
Separately, the FBI files said PETA protested a rodeo in Las Vegas in December 2003 with representatives from the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front.
PETA’s lawyer, Jeffrey S. Kerr, denied his organization has provided support or resources to the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front, calling such claims “tired old allegations.” Kerr said any terrorism investigation was “a scurrilous waste of resources.”
I am sure PETA would like us to think that is the case. However, I have been aware of PETA’s relationship with ALF for years.
Those evil FBI agents, going after people that blow up private property. Whatever where they thinking…
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Apparently we’re all supposed to marry an animal, convert to Islam, and give the keys to our car to the first Mexican we see. Then the ACLU will be obsolete.
Despite having no love for the ACLU (or any alignment with any of the groups they defend), I have come to see their extremism as counterbalancing that of a rather hardcore neoconservative force dominating our government that seeks to severely limit individual freedoms. I don’t believe, apostle, that they really want us to marry an animal or convert to Islam; they just want us to be able to do so if we choose to.
“…severely limit our freedoms.”
The freedom to do what? What freedom has the conservative movement taken? Conservatives follow the Constitution, while the ACLU and the rest of the left want to rewrite it. We follow the law that was originally written, not the pipe-dream socialist haven liberals want America to be, which is just another form of Soviet Russia.