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The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is dedicated to defending the constitutional rights of all Americans. ACRU stands against harmful, anti-constitutional ideologies that have taken hold in our nation’s courts, culture, and bureaucracies. We defend and promote free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, and national sovereignty.

Hate Crimes: 'Solving' a Non-Existent Problem

By |2023-05-20T09:39:17-04:00May 11th, 2007|

The House of Representatives has just passed a federal bill on “hate crimes,” which seems headed for a White House veto, if it manages to pass the Senate. This has heightened attention to the half of the several states which also have “hate crime” laws.

There are only two things wrong with the state laws: they are useless and arbitrary. There is a third problem with the federal version. It violates the Constitution.

Every “hate crime” law is based on the commission of an ordinary crime. Attacking, harming, or killing any citizen IS a crime to begin with. Damaging someone’s property, whether burning a cross […]

A Study of Neighbors: Is It Safer to Live Where Handguns are Banned or Allowed?

By |2023-05-20T09:39:17-04:00May 8th, 2007|

Building on my last post (“Harvard Study: Gun Control Is Counterproductive”) – I thought it would be instructive to look at one particular table from the aforementioned study published in Spring 2007 in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 30, Number 2:

The table above is taken from page 664 of the issue. It compares the murder rates of various European countries that have banned handguns with those of their neighbors. More significantly, it indicated whether or not handguns are similarly banned in the neighboring countries.

In every case – much like the difference between the state of Virginia, […]

Harvard Study: Gun Control Is Counterproductive

By |2023-05-20T09:39:17-04:00May 8th, 2007|

I’ve just learned that Washington, D.C.’s petition for a rehearing of the Parker case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was denied today. This is good news. Readers will recall in this case that the D.C. Circuit overturned the decades-long ban on gun ownership in the nation’s capitol on Second Amendment grounds.

However, as my colleague Peter Ferrara explained in his National Review Online article following the initial decision in March, it looks very likely that the United States Supreme Court will take the case on appeal. When it does so – beyond seriously considering the clear original intent of […]

ACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project

By |2023-05-20T09:39:18-04:00May 8th, 2007|

AP: ACLU Engaging in ‘Shakedown’ Project

On 5 May, 2007, the Associated Press ran a story entitled “Local Immigration Laws Bring High Costs.” It described a nationwide shakedown project by the ACLU. Only the AP missed the larger story.

The story as written, said, “Cities across the U.S. are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars defending themselves against lawsuits and other challenges to ordinances enacted to keep out illegal immigrants.” It went on to describe how at least 90 cities had considered ordinances like those of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, but that many were backing away in fear of the costs.

And, those […]

AP: ACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project

By |2023-05-20T09:39:18-04:00May 8th, 2007|

On 5 May, 2007, the Associated Press ran a story entitled “Local Immigration Laws Bring High Costs.” It described a nationwide shakedown project by the ACLU. Only the AP missed the larger story.

The story as written, said, “Cities across the U.S. are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars defending themselves against lawsuits and other challenges to ordinances enacted to keep out illegal immigrants.”

It went on to describe how at least 90 cities had considered ordinances like those of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, but that many were backing away in fear of the costs. And, those costs come in two varieties: the fees that cities […]

Re: Gun Rights, Friends Are Found In Unlikely Places

By |2023-05-20T09:39:18-04:00May 7th, 2007|

In today’s America, the United States Constitution is too often treated like the Queen of England – a powerless and non-binding relic of an earlier age. And just as Queen Elizabeth is in the States this week leading up to the 400th anniversary celebration of the settlement of Jamestown colony, the Constitution will occasion the obligatory nod from time to time.

But the Constitution is not like the monarchy, which long ago gave up all real authority. The Constitution, along with its Bill of Rights and other Amendments, remains in effect. Not that you would know that by the way our government leaders […]

Equal Justice Under Law?

By |2023-05-20T09:39:19-04:00May 4th, 2007|

The motto “Equal Justice Under Law” is inscribed above the grand entrance to the Supreme Court. Presumably these words are intended to describe what goes on inside. If the hate crimes bill adopted by the House yesterday becomes law, however, something very different will be going on.

Few people doubt that truly hideous crimes, like the murder of James Byrd (a black man chained by three white thugs to the back of a pickup truck and dragged through the streets until he died) deserve severe punishment. To me, that means the death penalty — and at least one of Byrd’s killers got exactly […]

To Raise the Edifice

By |2023-05-20T09:39:19-04:00May 4th, 2007|

The New York Times just reported on the find of a previously unknown letter from George Washington in May, 1787, to Jacob Morris. It was contained in a scrapbook gathered by a 10-year-old girl in 1826, and was found in a box in a mansion her descendants gave this year to the State of New Jersey.

The letter is important because it is a “new” document from the hand of Washington. Second, it refers to General Horatio Gates. Some congressmen in the Continental Congress wanted at one point to replace General Washington with Gates, because of Washington’s unending series of defeats prior to the Battle of […]

CCD: "Right To Refuse"

By |2023-05-20T09:39:19-04:00May 3rd, 2007|

The California Catholic Daily features an article discussing the effort of the American Civil Rights Union and others to protect a private doctor’s right to refuse to administer medical procedures that violates her religious convictions.

As described in the article, “Right to Refuse”, a California doctor at a fertility clinic is being sued by a lesbian for that doctor’s refusal to artificially inseminate her. Naturally, the ACLU and a slew of homosexual activists have lined up against religious freedom in the case, Benitez v. North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group, et al, is now being heard by the California Supreme Court.

For our view, […]

Rallies for Illegal Immigration: The Big Flop on May 1

By |2023-05-20T09:39:20-04:00May 2nd, 2007|

Yesterday, May 1, was supposed to be a banner day for rallying support for “immigration reform.” (“Immigration reform,” incidentally, is one of those phrases that belongs in the Dictionary for the Politically Incorrect, since its actual meaning is concealed behind its lofty appeal for “reform.” Its actual meaning is: changing immigration law so that illegal immigrants reap rewards for their disregard of the rules).

But I digress. The mainstream media has had little to say about the May 1 rallies. Indeed, the only article I have seen about it is one posted on the MSNBC news site, titled, “L.A. to probe police […]

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