POLITICS - Watch the ACLU get a new one ripped over Heller..

[Old Ironsights]

This is rich...

http://blog.aclu.org/2008/07/01/heller- ... amendment/

A typical comment:

I joined the ACLU with the expectation that it was an organization that supported ALL of the Articles of the Bill of Rights, not just those that the Left finds congenial.

You have defended Nazis and the KKK, but you draw the line at the NRA? That is indefensible!

Maybe they don't really understand their membership all that well?

:twisted::twisted::twisted:

[O.S.O.K.]

Added my own under the nomen: Utilizingthefirst

[claybob86]

My impression over the years has been that the aclu has very little to do with what their name suggests.

[Hagler]

...well, here is a favorite, #19:

Mark Jaquith Says:
July 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
A “collective” is a group of individuals. How can a collective have a right that the individuals in that collective don’t have? Which of the members of the group gets to exercise that right on behalf of the others? Who decides who that person is?

What about the First Amendment? It talks about freedom of the press, and “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” That’s the same “the people” as in the Second Amendment, which you’ve asserted is a “collective right.” Maybe we should limit freedom of speech to registered press members (who will, of course, be required to store their typewriters in a disassembled and locked state, so that they are not able to exercise that collective right at a moment’s notice). We’ll take their fingerprints, run a background check, and make them demonstrate competency at composing headlines. Of course, no press will be allowed to operate within Washington D.C. — to keep illegal typewriters off the streets.

After all, all constitutional freedoms have limits. The government needs to have the power to regulate especially dangerous free speech and typewriters that are capable of performing automatic carriage returns (”assault typewriters”).

Shawn

[El Chivo]

Great thread! I read down about 60 comments and not one supported the ACLU.

Liberal hypocrisy is nothing new, but it's great to see the responses.

They're ACLU-less.

[O.S.O.K.]

Mine was no. 1016:

UtilizingtheFirst Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
ACLU=American Communist Leftist Union.

Now confirmed for all to see.

The ultimate in hypocritical cognative dissonance.

The great men that founded this mountain of human dignity planted a seed that you can’t kill.

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Best I could come up with at the time...

[pharmseller]

The Nevada chapter of the ACLU is SUPPORTING the 2nd Amendment! How about that!

Q

[Blackhawk]

OI = Levergunner News Man. Keep up the good work. You're keeping me informed when I don't have time to surf the net.

I can't stand the ACLU! Nuff said on that.

Johnny

[Old Savage]

Reagan said "It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they believe so much that isn't true.".

[Old Savage]

Wonder if Junior knows that George Bush saved the second ammendment with his appointments. If Gore had had them they would have voted with the other liberals on the court who refuse to understand the obvious meaning.

[Rimfire McNutjob]

I read for quite some time before I hit the one comment in support of their stance. Ouch. Everyone knew they were leftists and beholden to their large corporate contributors ... no surprise on this stance in my mind.