The ACLU Doesn’t Get Any Money from the Government……..Right?
Posted on January 25, 2006
The ACLU is receiving a TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR SETTLEMENT as compensation for suing the government over the way names get on the no fly list after two whiny little journalists were detained at San Francisco while checking in for a flight to boston.source
For those of you that wonder how the ACLU gets their slimy, traitorous hands on our hard earned tax dollars, here ya’ go;
The government will compensate the ACLU for attorneys’ fees, settling a lawsuit initiated by two San Francisco peace activists who were detained while checking in for a flight three years ago.
But at the end of the day this tale does have one small, amusing bit…..the Bush hating enemies of Freedom that caused this ruckus in the first place won’t get one danged dime.
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Other coverage: Washington Post
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From the linked ABC report: “The documents were released as part of a lawsuit brought on behalf of Rebecca Gordon and Janet Adams, who co-publish a newsletter critical of the Bush administration. They were stopped while checking in for a San Francisco flight to Boston three years ago and detained until cleared for travel.”
It is very telling that this doesn’t bother you at all. I have always believed that people who hate the ACLU also hate civil liberties and are the enemies of freedom. You are making the case for me better than I can make it myself.
Hating the ACLU is a civil liberty. And I love to hate those rat bastards. Hence, I love civil liberties. Let me know when the ACLU takes on a 2nd amendment violation case and we’ll talk.
You have to love our tax dollars at work. The government should pass a law prohibiting the paying of attorneys fees. Let them collect from any settlement the plaintiff receives. No settlement, no fee.
ACLU is nothing more than an open cash register sucking in our tax dollars. It has to stop.
Maybe we can sue the ACLU and force them to pay our outrageous legal fees bankrupting them out of existence.
To John, the ACLU only recognizes the First Amendement. The Second Amendment does not exist. We should start our own civil liberties legal union. The American Civil Rights Union, ACRU. We can sue everyone who violates our rights to keep and bear arms and accrue the monies and legal fees generated to put the ACLU out of business.
Redsonja, exactly why would it bother me that a government agency charged with the security of air travel, (in this instance) are doing their job and making certain that the flight is, indeed, secure?
Before you ask if I think it is ok for the government to target people that are critical of the administration, let me point out a major item about the stupidity of that question;
Radical islamic terrorists are critical of the government, logic dictates that others that are critical of the government may very well be allies of those terrorists, or at the least could be sympathetic to terrorist organizations grievances, if not the actual causes, so safety, security and common sense demand that critics of the administration, any administration, especially in war time, be given extra scrutiny.
So contrary to being an “enemy of civil liberties” sonja, I am someone that realizes we are at war, and knows that there are going to be, of necessity, sacrifices to be made, and if I have to wait a little longer at the airport, so be it, because it sure beats being dead from hijackers.
And to head off your next attack, no, I don’t feel bad for those people that are detained for their views…..and here is what I would tell anyone that found themselves in that position;
Nobody said freedom of speech is free, and if you wish to have the government not pull you aside and give you extra scrutiny, remove your head from your nether regions and be a true defender of freedom, and not an unknowing accomplice of our enemies.”
If the government stop violating civil rights, the ACLU wouldn’t get any money from the taxpayers. So in order to stop the ACLU from getting paid any time that the government loses a case, better stop the government from imposing a dictatorial ruling in a democratic country. If you can stop the government from acting in a fascist way, we’ll have no need for the ACLU.
Maria? You did not just say something so blatently stupid as to earn yourself a WTF are you thinking girl?
A) We do not live in a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic
B) There is NOT a dictatorship in this country, evidenced first by the fact that you are still allowed access to a computer, and
C) If you don’t undertstand what the word “fascism” means please don’t use it here until you do.
Now….what civil rights has the big bad givernment taken away from you maria?
Kender’s comments makes clear that he is the enemy of liberty. So there’s no surprise that he hates the ACLU.
If you can be forbidden to ride in an airplain for thinking Bush is a dictator and saying it out loud, then he IS a dictator. If you can be legally restricted from ordinary rights because you are critical of Bush & Co., then there is nothing left to fight for. The America we knew and loved is gone. It looks like the people on this site hate that old America where freedom was the norm and not a special right for a privileged few.
I don’t want to live in a totalitarian society. If you were smart you wouldn’t either.
Nice way to twist the words, comradesonja. I stand by the assertation that the TSA, being charged with the security of flights inn this country, ahve a duty to make certain that the passengers on those flights are not a risk to the passengers and crew of that aircraft.
Does it bother you, for some reason, that the logic of extra scrutiny of those that dislike our government is a good security measure?
Do you think, for one moment, that those that wish this country harm are completely silent until they attack? (you very well may believe that, which, in your head, would mean that anyone critical of the administartion would actually be a patriot for questioning it, in which case all a terrorists need do is loudly question the government and they would be beyond suspicion, but I am getting into convoluted thought patterns worthy of the most rabid conspiracy theorists, and OT)
I would bet that you are against “profiling” for security porposes, aren’t you, comrade?