ACLU: ‘Always Corrosive, Loathsome and Unhinged’
Barbara Simpson writes an excellent article at WND on the latest idiotic actions of the ACLU. This one really makes me scratch my head in wonder. What the heck is the ACLU thinking on this one. They’ve really lost it here.
The American Civil Liberties Union has too much time on its hands.
The organization is like a pesky flea, jumping around uncontrollably, able to draw blood and fully capable of driving you crazy, if not killing you.
The ACLU is at it again and this one takes the cake! No doubt, over the years its taken up some questionable causes, but this latest one proves its lost it.
It not only has too much time to fill but also too much money, so it needs to divine ”injustices” where none exist just to keep its army of lawyers busy.
It touts the fact it litigates nearly 6-thousand cases a year. And it keeps finding new ones.
This organization has been around for 76 years. It claims to be non-profit (the ACLU Foundation is tax deductible, ACLU membership isn’t) and non-partisan. That many of the current efforts are aimed at the Bush Administration and its efforts in the War on Terror – including shutting down Guantanamo – might lead one to question the definition of ”non-partisan.”
Be that as it may, it’s no accident most of its projects deal with clearly liberal/progressive/socialistic views: women’s reproductive health, a support of sex education in schools, homosexual discrimination, a moratorium on federal executions, and equal rights for everyone, including illegal aliens.
So what’s the ACLU up to now?
Consider the city of Sterling Heights, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Given the population changes in that state over the past 30 years, it’s not surprising that 30 languages are spoken among the 125,146 who live there. That certainly represents the effect of immigration on this, and indeed, many cities across the country.
Sterling Heights has, over the years, been conscious of the multiculturalism in the community. In line with that, it has made efforts to meet the needs of its residents.
To quote from the city website: ”The city of Sterling Heights has long valued and fostered the cultural diversity of its residents and businesses …”
So concerned was it, that it was one of the first cities in Michigan to have an Ethnic Community Committee with residents as members who serve as advisors to the elected city council.
In other words, it’s an American city that bends over backwards to accommodate and consider the needs and wants of people who are not native to the country and who seek to maintain their native language and customs while in the United States.
Given all that, what did Sterling Heights do to get the attention of the ACLU and cause the organization to send town officials a pointed letter charging a proposed ordinance is ”unconstitutional, anti-immigrant and unnecessary”?
Unnecessary? Since when is the necessity of laws in this country within the purview of the ACLU? If that were the case, they’d be handling thousands more than 6,000 cases a year!
The only thing the city did was prepare an ordinance requiring businesses with foreign-language signs to also have signs in English identifying what kind of business it is – for example ”bakery” or ”clothing.”
The ordinance was drafted by the city attorney in May, at the request of Councilwoman Barbara Ziarko. It wasn’t an arbitrary request.
The proposed ordinance is part of a complete updating of the city Fire Code. According to Fire Chief John Childs, as reported in the Detroit News, the new ordinance is needed to improve response time for emergency crews.
He explained that people reporting fires or other emergencies would be better able to describe the location to dispatchers if they knew what kind of establishment it was.
In other words, more people would be able to read the signs – in English!
The chief says it has nothing to do with race.
He stresses it’s all about response time and safety.
Clearly, the ACLU thinks otherwise since one of the accusations in its letter is that the ordinance is ”anti-immigrant.”
Does it surprise you that co-signers of the letter were officials from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan and Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development, Inc.?
Go read the entire article exposing how idiotic this kind of ACLU thinking is.
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Unreal – sacrificing safety at the alter of political correctness.
But why did the writer wait until the 16th paragraph to let us know what it was the ACLU actually did…that drove me crazy!