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Old Dec 4, 2005 | 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Wow Civic
ACLU regularily defends terrorists kept in Guantamono Bay, Cuba, saying they are treated horrible... even though they are fed with better food than most of us are, given freedom of religion, speech, and shelter.
Freedom of speech? In GTMO? Are you insane?


Originally Posted by Wow Civic
The ACLU compared the U.S. to the Soviet Union when Josef Stalin was in rule and when he killed millions. The ACLU compared our terrorist prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba to the prisons in USSR that tortured and killed millions of innocents in the early 1900s.
You are wrong. That was Amnesty International.


Originally Posted by Wow Civic
ACLU makes this country a more dangerous place by demanding places like Bucs stadium and NYC subways cannot do random checks on people saying it violates privacy. The ACLU fights the Patriot Act, one of the biggest laws in the U.S. that allows law enforcement to fight terrorism. ETC. ETC.!
If what you are saying is that the ACLU values our rights more than it values the government's ability to fight terrorism, you are absolutely correct.


Originally Posted by Wow Civic
After all, would you, as a police officer, stop a middle-eastern man that has wires sticking out of his backpack, or a 4 year old girl on her way to Grandma's house?
Horrible example. In this example the police have the right to stop the middle eastern man because the wires are visible. There is sufficient reason for suspicion.

Simply being middle eastern is not sufficient reason to be stopped and searched.


Originally Posted by Wow Civic
The point is is ACLU's policy is extremely Anti-American.
On the contrary. The ACLU could not possibly be more pro-America.

Last edited by qtiger; Dec 4, 2005 at 07:25 PM.
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