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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.

Al Sharpton, America's National Scold

By |2023-05-20T09:38:05-04:00April 15th, 2007|

Much has been said of the recent episode in which Don Imus, a radio “shock jock,” made a racist insult against the Rutgers women’s basketball team. I have never listened to Mr. Imus’s program and don’t plan to start. I did hear re-plays of the insult. My reaction is that a media personality who says something of that sort assumes the risk of whatever he gets. It’s the 21st Century, and past time to be done with sliming people because of their race.

It is passing curious, however, that the mainstream media has turned to Reverend Al Sharpton as the Annointed National […]

In the world our fathers knew….

By |2023-05-20T09:38:06-04:00April 14th, 2007|

The estimable Victor Davis Hanson has a dream. It starts thusly:

“I recently had a dream that British marines fought back, like their forefathers of old, against criminals and pirates. When taken captive, they proved defiant in their silence. When released, they talked to the tabloids with restraint and dignity, and accepted no recompense.

“I dreamed that a kindred German government, which best knew the wages of appeasement, cut-off all trade credits to the outlaw Iranian mullahs — even as the European Union joined the Americans in refusing commerce with this Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic, and thuggish regime.

“NATO countries would then warn Iran that […]

Government Sponsorship of Religion — If the Religion Is Islam (Continued)

By |2023-05-20T09:38:07-04:00April 13th, 2007|

For those who may have been interested in yesterday’s story of apparent state sponsorship of Islamic religious practices at a public college in Minneapolis, there is a follow-up today provided by https://www.powerlineblog.com. It is reprinted below. Powerline, incidentally, is one of the most informed, thoughtful and analytically sound blogs anywhere in cyberspace. I commend it to those interested in taking an aggressive stance against terrorism, winning instead of surrendering in Iraq, and preserving our freedoms at home, including freedom of thought, freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Today’s Powerline story on the Minneapolis college is as follows:

SHARIA DESCENDS IN […]

The Top Five Reasons to Oppose "Sanctuary Cities"

By |2023-05-20T09:38:07-04:00April 13th, 2007|

Reason No. 5: Because sanctuary cities facilitate and encourage illegal immigration, they are unfair to legal immigrants, who waited in line, followed the rules and showed respect for the law.

Reason No. 4: Sanctuary cities impose costs on their residents — citizens and legal immigrants — that they shouldn’t have to bear. Tax dollars that ought properly to benefit the people who paid them go instead to underwrite hospital, police, prison and education services for those who are not entitled to be here in the first place.

Reason No. 3: Sanctuary cities […]

OneNewsNow.com: 'American Civil Rights Union Blasts Sanctuary City Policy'

By |2023-05-20T09:38:08-04:00April 12th, 2007|

OneNewsNow.com today features an article on the ACRU’s opposition to the distrubing trend of American cities declaring themselves “sanctuary cities” for illegal aliens. The article – “American Civil Rights Union Blasts Sanctuary City Policy” – comes out of their recent radio interview with Bill Otis, director of legal affairs at the American Civil Rights Union.

As Bill is quoted in the article,

“As serious as the problems of illegal immigration may be even more serious is the problem of officials in this country turning their back on the law.”

The Gonzales Hunt

By |2023-05-20T09:38:09-04:00April 12th, 2007|

The Washington Times today features an editorial from the ACRU’s Director of Legal Affairs, Bill Otis, on the controversy surrounding the Bush Administration’s firing of eight U.S. attorneys, entitled, “The Gonzales Hunt.”

Here is the full text of the article:

The Gonzales Hunt

By William Otis

No one doubts that Congress has the right, if not the obligation, to inquire into malfeasance by the executive branch. But the current campaign against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales reeks of the very political infection it purports to deplore.

[…]

Government Sponsorship of Religious Rituals Found To Be OK — If You've Got the Right Religion, Anyway.

By |2023-05-20T09:38:09-04:00April 12th, 2007|

Whether a public college is impermissilbly entangled with religion would appear to depend on the college — and even more on the religion. In her column today in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Katherine Kersten discusses what gives every appearance of being a double standard when the Minneapolis Community and Technical College tackled the entanglement issue. Religious practices linked to Christmas were put on the Bad List, while, we now see, those linked to Islam were put on the Good List.

Ms. Kersten’s entire column is worth reading, but a few paragraphs, quoted below, sketch out this disturbing case:

[Minneapolis Community and Technical] officials say the […]

Ninth Circuit Helps ACLU 'Cleanse' Library of Worship

By |2023-05-20T09:38:10-04:00April 11th, 2007|

The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this post come from an article on 23 March in the Washington Examiner by Quin Hilyer. It recited that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco had just reversed a federal trial court in Contra Costa County in favor of a religious group that wanted to meet on occasion in a public library. (Keeping religion out of public libraries, and pornography in them have long been ACLU goals.)

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Can't We All Just Get Along?

By |2023-05-20T09:38:10-04:00April 11th, 2007|

Much note has been taken, and understandably so, of the 5,000 mile trip by the Speaker of the House to visit and provide photo-ops for President Assad — the dictator of a country that both the Bush and Clinton administrations have found to be a state sponsor of terror. But for whatever might be made of that journey, it seems ironic that the Speaker and her counterpart in the Senate are unwilling to travel a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue to meet with President Bush. This unwillingness shows itself, moreover, after the Speaker said only last week that the President should be willing […]

Ninth Circuit Helps ACLU "Cleanse" Library of Worship

By |2023-05-20T09:38:10-04:00April 11th, 2007|

Ninth Circuit Helps ACLU “Cleanse” Library of Worship

The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from an article on 23 March in the Washington Examiner by Quin Hilyer. It recited that the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco had just reversed a federal trial court in Contra Costa County in favor of a religious group that wanted to meet on occasion in a public library. (Keeping religion out of public libraries, and pornography in them have long been ACLU goals.)

The Faith Center had asked for the use of the meeting room in the library, on […]

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