Where Were You, ACLU?

Posted on September 8, 2005 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU | 1 Comment

If the ACLU is on the side of protecting the rights of anyone and everyone why is it so selective in the cases it will accept? Could it be that the causes which are anathema to its core membership are not worthy of the organization’s protection?
One would think freedom of speech would be high up [...]

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ACLU to Gitmo terrorists: Don’t talk

Posted on September 8, 2005 - Filed Under War On Terror | 9 Comments

From World Net Daily
The Pentagon permitted lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union to sit in on interrogations of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and, in some cases, advise the terrorists of their rights, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
That’s the word from U.S. military sources, some of whom are astonished the ACLU was permitted to interfere [...]

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