Comments on: ACLU Teaching Children How To Be Good Criminals

By: tirade

tirade — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:30:39 +0000

Just because smoking pot is “against the law” doesn’t make it wrong. It’s a bad idea no doubt, but legislating against it creates a massive enforcement problem. Law enforcers almost necessarily need to become belligerent and aggressive.

The BUSTED video is a great tool with which to educate people on their rights. When you know your rights and flex them, it becomes possible to live in the world where frivolous bureaucratic “traffic” and “drug” laws and victimless “crimes” have less of an effect on you. Those laws only exist for the purpose of extorting money from people anyway.

Sometimes I think the ACLU is doing more to help the downtrodden, poor and oppressed than the Christian Right can ever dream. The ACLU busies itself with freeing prisoners and defending rights, while anti-ACLU “Christian” organizations go to war to preserve religious symbols or America’s high incarceration rate. Absolutely shameful.

By: mattarcs

mattarcs — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:03:48 +0000

This sites arguments are a joke. If I smoke marijuana I am immoral? That is not only ridiculous but a whole argument in itself. First of all, stop using the “children” reference in this article. I am a college student, I can vote, I am not a child, so do not refer to the students in this article as children. The college students whom the video was presented to should be aware of the rights meant to protect them. These are not “loop-holes,” they are actual rights meant for protection. There is no reason for someone to go to jail and not be able to get a job in the future because he/she smoked marijuana inside their home. Yes, it is illegal, but like I said that is a whole argument in itself. All of those arguments aside I like to know my rights, even if you see it as someone telling me how to break the laws. As for people who say: “The police get no respect from teenagers anymore as it is,” I ask, are you crazy? I never in my life have treated any law enforcement official with disrespect, but at the same time I have been treated with disrespect just because I was a teenager. Let me tell you a little secret, police break rules. Come over to where I live and take a look around. Let me tell you guys something, you are a joke and your political views worry me, I use to vote Conservative but not anymore, you’re all crazy.

By: Sealife

Sealife — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:00:05 +0000

This web site is full of ANGRY people who use Jesus as their excuse to judge, condemn, and police others. Well who died and made you God? You all must not know much about your prophet, Jesus, who taught unconditional love. Maybe you should spend more time reading the Bible instead of condemning the beliefs of others. Anger is caused by having judgment. The judgments you have of others are the judgments you have of yourself. Look deeply at yourself. Learn to love, not hate.

By: The World Wide Rant - v3.0

The World Wide Rant - v3.0 — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:50:38 +0000

All Yours Rights Are Belong to Us
I continue to be convinced that the Stop the ACLU blog is, in reality, a sham: a blog so chock full of poor argumentation endorsing neo-fascist moralism that its true purpose must be to make conservatives look like complete nutters….

By: Walter In Denver

Walter In Denver — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:28:34 +0000

Libertarians And Right Wingers (Again)
Some of my friends, of both right and left political persuasions, don’t quite get the difference between libertarians and conservatives. Jay at Stop The ACLU blog gives me a good example of the difference with this post about a…

By: Hammer of Truth &#187; Stop the ACLU Needs to be Stopped

Hammer of Truth &#187; Stop the ACLU Needs to be Stopped — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:51:48 +0000

[...] Flex Your Rights, the people behind the popular (in student and libertarian circles, at least) DVD Busted, were just mistaken for being the ACLU. This article was the source for the bad information provided. Flex Your Right&#8217;s response is here. While Stop the ACLU retracted the portion about Busted being an ACLU film, their commentary on the general topic is pretty scary. Now, here is where I really started having a problem…. The video also showed a segment where a young woman hosting a party got herself into a world of trouble when a guest allowed police to enter her home and find drug paraphernalia. [...]

By: Homeland Stupidity

Homeland Stupidity — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:31:59 +0000

Wait a minute. Exactly whose morals do I have to follow in order to be free?

By: Drug WarRant

Drug WarRant — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:34:05 +0000

Idiots who fail to understand the concept of America

By: Jason Sonenshein

Jason Sonenshein — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:56:51 +0000

You can find Scott Morgan's smackdown here. Here's the money quote: "The great irony here is that despite selling 10,000 copies, BUSTED was never criticized publicly until it was mistaken for an ACLU project by a guy who hates the ACLU. We’ve received consistent praise from law-enforcement professionals who typically regard search requests as an “idiot test” and respect citizens who know how to keep their affairs private. If we’d tried to teach the 4th Amendment without depicting petty criminality, BUSTED would be more boring than a romantic evening with abstinence enthusiast Jay Stephenson."

By: Pirate's Cove

Pirate's Cove — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:53:45 +0000

Duke Lacrosse On Hold
I haven&#8217;t really touched on this subject, the whole &#8220;innocent till proven guilty&#8221; thing. Do not want to go off uncocked like the Defeatocrats. But, the investigation into what happened at Duke is getting very serious (as it should)
Du…