Part of the information for this item comes from an article published by World Net Daily on 25 November, 2006. The rest of it comes from personal research by the author.

Andrew Douglas Reed, of Asheville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on 1 November, 2006, to fifteen counts of “sexual exploitation of a minor.” The maximum sentence for those offenses was 81 years. He was given a 10-month sentence, and the ACLU was heavily involved in this appalling result.

Mr. Reed’s attorney is Bruce Elmore, Jr., who is also attorney for the ACLU in Buncombe County. He encouraged “community leaders” to write […]

On 18 October the ACLU (presumably the California Branch) filed suit against the City of Fresno, claiming that it was violating the rights of homeless people by bulldozing their tent towns and destroying their personal property.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court seeks an order to stop officials from uprooting the homeless encampments in downtown Fresno. According to an ACLU lawyer, “Some of the people rousted in the raids lost clothing, medication, tents and irreplaceable items such as family photographs, personal records and documents.”

City officials, on the other hand, said the tent cities set up by the homeless are safety hazards, a […]

The Associated Press reported on 28 October that the ACLU has dropped its challenge to the Patriot Act claiming that “due to changes made in the law in its recent reenactment,” the Act was now acceptable.

The ACLU had filed the case in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor and five other nonprofit groups. It was the first legal challenge to Section 215, the part of the Patriot Act that allows federal agents to obtain such things as library records and medical information.

The ACLU announced, however, that it remained ready to defend any business, organization or individual […]

On October 17, the ACLU ran a full-page advertisement in the Washington Post, describing itself as “the most conservative organization in America.” The ACLU asserted that, “Since its founding, the ACLU has fought to conserve the system of checks and balances and defend the Bill of Rights.”

Of course, the ACLU was founded by Roger Baldwin, a communist, and since its founding has promoted, at best, socialist views of how America should conduct itself. As for the Bill of Rights, we are still waiting for the first time that the ACLU has acted to defend, rather than denigrate, the Second Amendment which guarantees the […]

According to the New York Sun, the Connecticut ACLU has gotten into a spat with the national ACLU over ads the latter ran in that state. The ads attacked Senator Joe Lieberman for his pending support for the Terrorism Detainee Act, just passed by Congress. The Hartford Courant ran with the tagline, “Will Senator Joseph Lieberman pass this test on American values?”

The Chairman of the Connecticut ACLU, Don Noel, Jr., told the Sun that he and other board members believed this ad “broke the organization’s pledge to stay out of electoral politics.” He claimed the national office agreed with his complaint. The […]

An article in Jurist, Legal News and Research, published at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on 12 September, 2006, reported a federal trial court decision in favor of photo voter ID as a prerequisite of voting. This decision went against the grain of several other courts which have ruled against such laws.

This judge wrote, “determining whether an individual is a United States citizen is of paramount importance when determining his or her eligibility to vote.” This is mere common sense. American elections should be determined by the votes of American citizens, and no others. As Homer Simpson would say, “D’oh.”

This is […]

The LaCrosse Tribune on 16 September, 2006, ran an article describing how the Town of Arcadia, Wisconsin, caved in before financial threats from the ACLU. The Mayor had proposed five ordinances, which the City Council seemed likely to approve. They would have: informed federal authorities about complaints of illegal workers, made English the official language, forbade the display of flags of other nations unless accompanied by the US flag, and required that all signs and City documents be printed in English.

The City Attorney then advised the Council and the Mayor that, “”It is our opinion, in looking at precedent, that if the mayor’s proposals are […]