ACRU Staff, Author at American Constitutional Rights Union

Ed Meese on Immigration Reform

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:14-04:00May 17th, 2007|

The Hon. Ed Meese, ACRU Policy Board Member and former Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, has co-authored an important paper with Dr. Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation concerning immigration reform.

The Backgrounder paper is titled “Where We Stand: Essential Requirements for Immigration Reform.” At a time when the Congress is considering a comprehensive immigration reform bill that reports indicate will do little to stem the tide of lawless immigration and will do much to reward those who have already breached our borders illegally, this is a much read.

In the paper, Mr. Meese and Dr. Spalding lay out several policy proposals and […]

Farmers Branch Ordinance Gets Another Poll

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:14-04:00May 17th, 2007|

Yesterday, I had the privilege of discussing the Farmers Branch ordinance with Terry Lowry on his Houston radio show, “What’s Up.” There is more news today.

There appears on the MSNBC website a story about the reaction to Farmers Branch. As many readers will recall, the ordinance, which requires landlords to verify the legal status of renters, was adopted by Farmers Branch voters by a margin of 68% to 32%. The balloting was held after a campaign to, as ordinance opponents put it, “Let the Voters Decide.” These, incidentally, are the same opponents who, after the voters did decide, wasted no […]

Assassinating the Dead

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:14-04:00May 17th, 2007|

The Rev. Jerry Falwell’s body had not yet reached room temperature when the vile began to spew forth from his enemies’ mouths and finger tips. Just three hours after his death was announced, Christopher Hitchens, the atheistic columnist and author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, bared his own venomous fangs on national TV, declaring Falwell an “ugly little charlatan” who lived an “empty life.” He declared that there was no heaven for Falwell to go to, but he sure wished there was a hell for him to rot in.

In the succeeding 24 hours, a host of left-wing bloggers and commentators […]

Disrespect for Law Doesn't Always Stop Where You Think It Will

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:15-04:00May 16th, 2007|

A Reuters article published yesterday (“Workers sue U.S. factory after immigration raid”) reports that several hundred illegal immigrant workers at a plant south of Boston have sued the company for cheating them on their wages. The article portrays the illegal immigrants as victims — of the government’s raid, and of factory management’s greed — but there is a different way to look at it.

About a month ago, I wrote in this space that the foremost reason to oppose “sanctuary cities” and their indulgence of illegal immigration is that these things sow disrespect for the rule of law:

“If elected officials pretending to be […]

Local Front in Battle to Restore Rule of Law for Immigration Receives Bipartisan Boost

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:15-04:00May 16th, 2007|

Who says standing against illegal immigration and the consequences thereof is a political loser?

The ACRU has been fighting in support of the mayor of Hazelton, PA and his effort to crack down on landlords and employers who create the demand for and perpetuate the problem of illegal immigration, and the criminological ills and financial burdens that come with it, in his town and similar municipalities across America. Our own John Armor has described the issue very well in his article, “The Hazelton Rebellion.”

Predictably, the ACLU has lined up on behalf of those who break our laws and against the democratic rule […]

ACLU Takes Winnie the Pooh to Court

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:15-04:00May 16th, 2007|

Sometimes, an absurdity jumps off the page. Nothing need be added to the news article itself to reveal the pompous self-importance and stupidity of the participants. Here are the first two paragraphs of a story published on MSNBC on 21 March, 2007 (“School Sued Over Socks”). Even the names of the ACLU attorneys on this ludicrous case are appropriately funny.

“In 2005, Toni Kay Scott, a student at Redwood Middle School in California, arrived at school wearing socks with a picture of the Winnie-the-Pooh character, Tigger. She was escorted by a police officer to the principal’s office and placed in in-school suspension because the socks violated […]

Europe's View

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:15-04:00May 16th, 2007|

We frequently hear from those skeptical of America’s right to act with moral confidence that our “arrogance” has brought us low in the opinion of our “former” allies in Western Europe. In support of this view, they typically cite public opinion polls. As usual, actual polls — like, for example, elections — go unnoted. So note will be taken here, the “America Stinks” crowd notwithstanding.

Today in France, Nicolas Sarkozy took office as President. Sarkozy is a pro-American, pro-free market reformer. Indeed his pro-Americanism was used against him by his socialist opponent, whom he decisively defeated.

The ACLU Takes on James Madison and the Founders on School Prayer

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:16-04:00May 15th, 2007|

When James Madison penned the Bill of Rights in 1789, surely the idea of blocking local school children in Monroe, LA in 2007 from solemnizing their graduation ceremony with prayer was his intent, right? After all, he objected to official prayers, Thanksgiving proclamations to God, congressional chaplains, and worship meetings held in federal buildings while in the first congresses under the new Constitution, didn’t he?

Well, no.

In fact, when Madison’s good friend Thomas Jefferson – no Christian he, and often cited for support from those seeking a radical “wall of separation” between government and all things religious – did things that would […]

Let the People Decide, as Long as They Wear Black Robes

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:16-04:00May 14th, 2007|

John Armor notes that a pro-illegal immigrant group which opposed the Hazelton-style ordinance adopted in Texas (by a vote of better than two-to-one) called itself, “Let the People Decide.” Not to miss a beat, this same group is now going to court, presumably under the motto, “Let the Judges Undecide.” The irony here parallels what the anti-war press has been trying to hang around the President’s neck when he spoke several years ago on a destroyer donning a huge, “Mission Accomplished” sign. If you think the press is going to cover the Texas “vote-then-sue” story with anything like the zeal it covered, and continues […]

'Let the People Decide Illegal Immigration!' (Or Maybe Not)

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:39:16-04:00May 14th, 2007|

One of the slogans of the opponents of the Farmers Branch immigration ordinances, was “Let the people vote.” (See “Anti-Illegal-Immigrant Law OK’d in Texas.”) Now, the people HAVE voted, 68-32, to approve the ordinances designed to discourage illegal immigrants in their town. So, the opponents are going to court to have an unelected judge tell the people and the town they have no right to make this decision.

In short, the ACLU and its allies are attacking the basic right of all Americans, to govern themselves under a “republican” government, which in accord with the constitutional guarantee means government by elected representatives. This subject will […]

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