ACLU Set Agenda for Next President
Posted on November 2, 2008
Via ACLU:
How to Begin Repairing the Damage to Freedom in America After Bush
The next president will become chief executive of a nation that has been greatly weakened – in particular, our freedoms, our values, and our international reputation have been greatly undermined by the policies of the past eight years.
Part 1 – Day One
Day One: Stop Torture, Close Guantanamo, End Extraordinary Renditions
1. Stop Torture and Abuse
2. Close Guantanamo and Restore the Rule of Law for Detainees
3. End and Prohibit the Practice of Extraordinary Rendition
Part 2 – First 100 Days
1. Warrantless spying. Issue an executive order recognizing the president’s obligation to comply with FISA and other statutes, requiring the executive branch to do so, and prohibiting the NSA from collecting the communications, domestic or international, of U.S. citizens and residents.
2. Watch lists. Issue an executive order requiring watch lists to be completely reviewed within 3 months, with names limited to only those for whom there is credible evidence of terrorist ties or activities.
3. Freedom of Information – Ashcroft Doctrine. Direct the attorney general to rescind the “Ashcroft Doctrine” regarding Freedom of Information Act compliance, which instructs agencies to withhold information whenever there is a “sound legal basis” for doing so, and return to the compliance standard under Attorney General Janet Reno, which promoted an “overall presumption of disclosure” of government information through the FOIA unless it was “reasonably foreseeable that disclosure would be harmful.”
4. Monitoring of activists. Direct the attorney general and other relevant agency heads (eg, Defense and Homeland Security) to end government monitoring of political activists.
5. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. Order renewed civil rights enforcement at Civil Rights Division, DOJ.
6. Real ID Act. Direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend the regulations (73 Fed. Reg. 5272) for the Real ID Act pending congressional review.
7. Abortion gag rule. Rescind the Executive Memorandum of March 28, 2001, known as the “Mexico City policy” or “Global Gag Rule,” prohibiting foreign aid to organizations overseas that promote or perform abortions.
8. Ban all workplace discrimination against sexual minorities by the federal government and its contractors. Issue an executive order prohibiting sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination by federal contractors, and expand the existing order banning sexual orientation discrimination in federal employment to also protect against gender identity discrimination.
9. Death penalty. Implement a federal death penalty moratorium until racial disparities are addressed. The federal death penalty system suffers from obvious and extreme racial disparities.
10. “Faith-based initiatives.” Restore fundamental religious-liberty protections by halting Bush Administration efforts to permit direct funding of houses of worship, underwrite religious proselytism with taxpayer dollars, and allow government-funded religious discrimination.
This moonbat wishlist is much less likely to happen under McCain than Obama. I think we can read between the lines on who this “non-partisan” organization is rooting for. Make sure to get out and vote on Tuesday.
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These are evil times. McCain-Palin 08.
Thanks for this enlightening comment. You conservatives sure know how to act civil.
So when will the ACLU start fighting for the civil liberties of gun owners?
Since the court has ruled that it is an individual right, the ACLU should be falling all over themselves to join the NRA in abolishing the hundreds of laws that abridge that right…
The so-called ACLU will be disbanded in the creation of Obama’s new world order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTp_atr2G9E&feature=related
The ACLU claims to believe in the right to practice a persons religion but they wont let us say prayers in our schools? We should be able to congregate for a few minutes before eating or matches to say our prayers. Those that dont want to participate can wait quietly and patiently for a few minutes or begin eating or stretching. That is what I call freedom. Stifling our rights is against the basic principles of this country’s greatest foundations.