For the ACLU, 9/11 is just another day to attack the Bush Administration
Nothing to honor the heroes and the victims of an unprovoked day of savagery that took the lives of 3,000 innocent Americans. No credit at all to a government and an administration, love them or hate them, that has successfully averted another horrific attack, one that EVERY prognosticator predicted would have visited this country by now. The ACLU’s condemnable “commemoration” of this solemn day surpasses the worst I would have expected from the most dangerous domestic organization operating in this nation today. Instead of at least pretending to recognize that this country faces an enemy with medieval bloodlust incomprehensible to most sane human beings that continues to be dedicated to our obliteration, the ACLU once again takes the opportunity to perpetuate this twisted narrative that President Bush is the real enemy to freedom. Let the ACLU speak for itself.
NEW YORK – In the five years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, Americans have successfully kept the light of freedom shining even as the Bush administration has consistently violated the spirit and letter of our laws, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.
“The hallmark of the past five years has been the administration’s stunning dismissal of the rule of law and its willingness to trample on our Constitution,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. “This is our democracy, our America. We must not stand on the sidelines while the president abuses his power and diminishes American values.”
In the ACLU’s view, the most important thing to commemorate on this day is…the ACLU.
Looking back on the past five years, the ACLU has compiled a list of the “top ten” abuses of power since 2001, as well as the top civil liberties victories in response to those abuses. The abuses include:
Wiretapping of innocent Americans without court approval or Congressional authority;
Torture, kidnapping and unlawful detention of prisoners;
The growing “surveillance society” — a combination of new technologies, expanded government powers and expanded private-sector data collection efforts;
Spying on peaceful, law-abiding Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights;
Creation of the Guantánamo Bay camp, where hundreds of prisoners have been held indefinitely, without charges or access to attorneys.
Victories for the rule of law and civil liberties include:Congress’ adoption of the “McCain Amendment” which helped bolster the rule of law in military interrogations;
The dismantling of the massive “Total Information Awareness” spying program which sought to monitor, among other things, innocent Americans’ financial, health, travel and credit card transactions;
Prominent conservatives and conservative organizations joining the ACLU’s fight to keep America safe and free;
The Supreme Court’s landmark June 2006 ruling that the military commissions system established by President Bush to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay is unfair and illegal;
Recent court rulings rejecting government spying without a warrant.
Would it kill the ACLU to acknowledge just once, today for example, that a Dark Ages movement which continues to spread across the globe and every day inches closer to obtaining the means to level a major US city, or worse, wants to KILL EVERY ONE OF US? I understand that a reasoned and continuing debate is necessary in this country when it comes to striking a balance between protecting civil liberties and implementing counter-terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement measures designed to ensure that this, the greatest and freest nation in human history, continues to exist. There is no argument that the Bush Adminstration, or any other adminstration given the privilege by the people to lead this country, should be unfettered to take any action, no matter the circumstance. However, the 9/10 mentality of the ACLU dictates that nothing should change even given new threats, of a breed we’ve never encountered, and should not birth new strategies designed to defend the nation against avowed enemies who will stop at nothing, who do not even fear death in carrying out the ultimate martyrdom mission, who want us ALL DEAD.
The ACLU has opposed nearly EVERY element of the conduct of what is a very real war on Islamic fascism. The ACLU’s “Safe and Free” slogan is nothing more than a slogan. While I don’t doubt that the ACLU believes it is fighting for “freedom,” I am convinced that the ACLU is confusing freedom with inviolable license (or, maybe better, licentiousness) and will savage any force it imagines may compromise that chaotic agenda, no matter the treachery we face. That is the ACLU’s version of “freedom.” But it must be asked — what has the ACLU done to make us more “safe?” It can only be concluded that the ACLU has made it a point to make us LESS safe. Some will scream that it makes no sense that the ACLU would attempt to make us less safe because that would imperil the ACLU as well. That is a common sense rebuttal, but is easily answered. The ACLU’s arrogance, as demonstrated by its outrageously self-congratulatory press release today, leads it to believe that as vanguard to the revolution, it will be immune from the diseased fallout it had a hand in creating should it succeed. This myopia is a symptom of the ACLU’s universe, which has no grasp on the reality that it would be well advised to take today to reflect on. If the ACLU has worked just as hard to make us “safe” as it has to impose its vision of “freedom” on us, I’d like for someone to demonstrate, because the ACLU sure hasn’t.
Thanks Jay for what you’ve done in the last few posts to honor this day.
More on the left’s ways of remembering 911:
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Posted by Greg Scott on September 11, 2006 11:16 am
» Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror
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As angry as this makes me, I will not put them on my blog as this day is NOT for them!
So this is how the ACLU remembers our dead and the horror that was visited upon us, by turning its pompous, self-rightous wrath on the Bush administration?
Disgusting.
I can only assume none of their family members were seared in the flames.
Now what would one expect. The ACLU considers terrorism a legitimate form of political protest protected under the aegis of the First Amendment.
What do you expect the ACLU has pledged it’s loyalty to the United Nation over the United States?