op ed Archives - American Constitutional Rights Union

Von Spakovsky: DHS Flouts Law on Student Visas, and DC Circuit Judges Yawn

By Hans von Spakovsky|2023-03-06T11:33:30-05:00March 5th, 2023|

For yet another exampansle of how out-of-control federal bureaucrats think they can stretch the law beyond recognition to meet their policy preferences, look no further than a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The F-1 student visa program that allows foreigners to enter the country and study at American universities is the center of the case, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. Department of Homeland Security.

Press Release: Has Barney Fife Taken Over National Security?

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T11:33:35-05:00February 21st, 2023|

We’ve seen the full spectrum of national security incompetence over the past two weeks, former Congressman and ACRU Executive Director Allen West observes in this week’s Townhall oped.

The Futility of Reasoning with the Progressive Socialist Left

By Allen West|2023-03-06T11:35:56-05:00September 7th, 2022|

Biden and his terrorizing flying monkeys believe that the Thursday night speech was phenomenal, brilliant, and spot on.

Allen West: If At First You Don’t Succeed… Keep Doing Stupid Stuff

By Allen West|2023-03-06T11:36:02-05:00August 15th, 2022|

We all grew up understanding the maxim,"if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." However, that maxim was intended to provide encouragement to learn from previous failures while showing perseverance. In the military we were taught to improvise, adapt, and overcome. Sadly, today there are those who have embraced Albert Einstein's pure definition of insanity, "Do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results." Those people have evidenced themselves to be the progressive socialist left, aka the Democrat party, the political establishment, and their media accomplices.

Allen West: Everyone and Everything Is Racist….if You Disagree With the Left

By Allen West|2023-03-06T11:55:57-05:00May 23rd, 2022|

During the 2020 election cycle, Joe Biden made the abhorrent claim that being Black was contingent upon voting for him. He infamously asserted, "if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." Doggone, what shall I list as my ethnicity on my ATF Form 4473 the next time I go to purchase a firearm, as a law-abiding citizen? The new line of attack for the progressive socialist left in America is to denigrate anyone and everything as racist. It is what we are witnessing as cultural Marxism manifests in absurdities such as critical race theory and equity programs. To the left, it is simple, divide America into two categories, oppressors and oppressed.

Allen West: The Left’s Hatred of America

By Allen West|2023-03-06T11:55:58-05:00May 16th, 2022|

Fast forward to today and there is no debate that progressives, socialists, Marxists, statists, and communists have but one goal in mind. It is the objective articulated by Barack Obama, America's first openly socialist president, in the final days of the 2008 election. He stated at a rally in Columbia, Missouri, "we are just five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

Media Availability: Allen West, Race and American Exceptionalism

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T11:56:05-05:00April 11th, 2022|

In a new OPED for American Constitutional Rights Union, Executive Director Lt. Col. Allen West writes, “This past Thursday evening at the University of Buffalo (UB), I was invited by the Young America's Foundation Chapter at UB to deliver a presentation on “Race and American Exceptionalism.” Before I even arrived, the nature of my visit was made controversial when students on the campus ripped down flyers and even conducted a campus walking protest. Therefore, I knew this would be quite a hostile environment. The question I have is, why?”

ACRU’s Allen West: Just Say No!

By Allen West|2023-03-06T11:56:13-05:00March 22nd, 2022|

So, how did we find ourselves in such a grave situation in America that we have avowed socialists as representatives at various levels of government? The answer is simple, we never said “no.”We are living in a time in America where a certain group of individuals are turning their ideology into policy. And most of this is occurring through the use of edicts, orders, mandates, and decrees. None of which are constitutional, because in a Republic we are to be governed by the rule of law. Instead, we are being ruled as subjects.Since we have failed to say "no", we are on the precipice of losing constitutional governance in America...some would say we already have. I am not one of those.

ACRU’s LTC Allen West: A Black Guy’s Defense of the Constitution

By Allen West|2023-03-06T11:58:58-05:00March 7th, 2022|

The situation in America is no longer about political parties. It is now about two very different philosophies of governance, constitutional conservatism and progressive socialism...Marxism. The crux of the matter comes down to the relationship between the individual citizen and the institution of government. Our founding documents, which Mystal believes are flawed because white men wrote them, establish the individual, their rights, freedoms, liberties, as sovereign over the institution of government. Mystal and his comrades do not believe that to be so.

Media Availability: Lori Roman, ACRU — Corporatism Will Snuff Out Individual Rights… Unless We Stop It

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:06:18-05:00June 9th, 2021|

American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) President Lori Roman has written an op ed which explains how, in the interest of promoting free markets, we might inadvertently be supporting corporatism, a form of economic totalitarianism where government and corporations collude to destroy individual rights.