ACLU & Communism: What’s the Difference?
Written by Nedd
Monday, 28 August 2006
If you read no other article from this web site ever again, I urge you to read this one.
If you read this one and cannot decisively conclude for yourself that the ACLU is not an arm or a front for the Communist Party or for Communism itself, I have to conclude that you are likely either a Communist sympathizer or gasp, a Communist itself.
The Congressional Record - Appendix, pages A34-35, as posted on this page, is the source by which we will cite and for sake of time, briefly but clearly make our compelling case. In 1963, a constituent of Florida Democrat Congressman A.S. Herlong urged the entry of 45 goals of Communism as identified in the book The Naked Communist.
So how many of these objectives would it take to convince you that ACLU backers are Communist sympathizers? Would 1-3 do it? Probably not. 4-6? Likely no but keep talking. 7-9? OK, Kareiva, you’re starting to get warm. 10-12? Now you’re beginning to make your case. 13-15? I can’t take the heat!
What if I laid out at least half of these 45 goals (22 to be exact) and did so using links from the ACLU’s web site? Would that convince you? I think it would convince all but those who intentionally want to continue their association with them.
In 1935, 15 years after the formulization of the ACLU, founder Roger Baldwin penned his immortal (or shall we say immoral?) words:
“I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
Less than 3 decades after those everlasting statements, Congressman Herlong entered a vast amount of the proof.
More than 4 decades after these entries, the ACLU continues to perpetuate the Communist agenda, perhaps not totally internationally (though its footprints are well known) but most definitely domestically.
Maybe we should get a good definition of Communism before proceeding. From Dictionary.com:
1.
a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
2.
(often initial capital letter ) a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.
Any quarrel that both of these definitions, particularly the second one, apply to the ACLU?
Ready to begin? Remember, I said I would be brief. Or at least I'll try.
* Goal 11: Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.
Link here. You'd think the United States was a third world nation with massive violence and systematic civil rights abuses if you believe what this page says. While there is no doubt a need for improvement on the part of public officials in adhering to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the citizens they serve, there is no greater country in the world than the good old U.S.A. And that is not in doubt.
The question that needs to be asked is if America is such a terrible nation, why is the ACLU going to the UN to make its case? I thought the purveyors of the Bill of Rights would be the standard bearers in practicing what they preach. Doesn’t the 1st Amendment say that the people have a right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances”? I don’t see the ACLU going to the government for too much of anything, except to bring government officials to the courtroom.
The ACLU of Texas expressed its dismay of America’s immigration laws by once again going to the UN instead of our elected officials. The ACLU does not believe in the greatness and sovereignty of America.
* Goal 13: Do away with all loyalty oaths.
Perhaps the modern day ACLU would add “especially those with ‘God’ included”. Link here and here.
What more do I need to say? The evidence is there for you to see.
* Goal 15: Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
While one can argue that neither Communism nor specifically the ACLU holds one party hostage, it is not arguable that one party has elements substantially entrenched. I daresay most of you know which one I’m referring to.
The ACLU’s scorecard for the 108th & 109th Congresses is the barometer of evidence. Over half the House Democrats in the 108th Congress voted with the ACLU at least 80% of the time. 30 Democrats disagreed with the ACLU on only one issue (usually on the ban on the date rape drug Raves which the ACLU opposes) and 17 were 100% in agreement with the ACLU. The highest score a Republican achieved with the ACLU was 64%.
In the 109th Congress, a whopping 63 House Democrats had a 100% score while 39 Democrats disagreed with the ACLU only once, giving a total of half the members in Washington in line with them.
Is there any doubt which party is in the grip of the ACLU?
* Goal 16: Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
This one could fill a library. But we’ll provide one example, a significant one that has changed America for the last half century, the Everson vs. Board of Education which you can get a glimpse of by clicking here and here.
This was a technical decision in the sense that gave rise to the ACLU-like group in Americans “United” (www.au.org) and has largely changed the course America has chartered by interjecting a ban on religion in conjunction with public schools. This decision also gave rise to the bastardization of the metaphor “separation of church and state”, a term silent for nearly a century and a half, which, like the Everson decision, is continually misused and abused by the ACLU and AU.
Time and space does not permit me to address this further so use Google or your favorite search engine to research pursue it if you wish.
* Goal 17: Get control of the schools.
Again, there is much evidence of the ACLU using the schools to achieve its agenda. The courtroom is a favorite of theirs when schools are hesitant to support ACLU wishes. One example of that is their “Every Student, Every School” project which, the ACLU’s web site states, is for rural communities to require Gay/Straight Alliances in their schools (primarily at the behest of homosexual activist groups like the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network - www.glsen.org). Those who balk can expect to hear from the ACLU and be prepared to shell out major bucks in court.
”Every Student, Every School” is a chilling phrase, perhaps even including private, charter and Christian schools. Although the ACLU is not actively pursuing non-public schools to push its agenda, its ally in GLSEN has already made an impact in them. GLSEN’s Day of Silence (for the sexually confused) is already occurring in some private and religious schools across America – see here for proof.
The ACLU has removed much of the “Every Student, Every School” program off its site, despite its appearance on a Google search but it’s still on the ACLU of Georgia’s web site as well as here and mentioned elsewhere. And the ACLU spares no effort or expense in suing schools that balk on anything homosexually oriented. So does the ACLU control schools on this issue? The facts are not in doubt.
* Goal 18: Gain control of student newspapers.
This is evident in some locations. If a student wants to put something in a school paper that may be considered vulgar, homosexual, anti-war or something similar and the school hesitates, the ACLU is happy to strong arm the school into submission. Here is one example and here is another.
The ACLU of New Hampshire has a web page on this as well.
* Goal 19: Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
The facts are not in doubt on this issue either. The ACLU has defended affirmative action protesters like By Any Means Necessary (www.bamn.com) as you can see by going here and here. The ACLU, however, is more noted for its lengthy support of anti-war groups. Here and here are a couple others.
Google has loads of stories on this one so if you want more, click here.
* Goal 20: Infiltrate the press.
The ACLU has done a thorough job of that through the years. Vast majorities of the mainstream media in newspapers, radio and TV are card-carrying ACLU members. These individuals are frequently censors in their reporting, heavily showing a one-sided bias in favor of ACLU positions on abortion, homosexuality and war protests with scant coverage to those most of us consider mainstream. One such reporter on our NBC TV affiliate here in Chicago, Renee Ferguson, proudly touts her association with the ACLU.
The ACLU has done an excellent job of not only getting favorable press coverage; they have well altered our vocabulary to make their evil sound good. For example, to describe abortion and partial-birth abortion, they use the words “disarticulate” and “privacy”. To describe acceptance of homosexuality, they use the words “equality” and “non-discrimination”. To describe the acceptance of pornography, they will use terms like “free speech” and “censorship”.
So as much as the ACLU says they support freedom of speech, they don’t practice that in reality and neither do most of the liberal media.
* Goal 21: Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
Goal 20 covers the radio and TV aspects of that. However, they ACLU also has done their job to gain the support of those in motion pictures.
In an exclusive report obtained from the paid subscription publication National Journal, the ACLU was hemorrhaging money and memberships in the 1980s and frantically sought never revenue streams. ACLU National Director Ira Glasser proposed and engineered efforts to gain the support of the likes of Hollywood. This included campaigns to persuade actors and actresses to join the ACLU, not to mention pornographers like Larry Flynt, who sits on the board of directors of the Southern California ACLU. Since Hollywood has money to burn, this was considered an easy way to get donors and promote the ACLU’s social liberalism.
In part due to Glasser’s recruiting efforts of Hollywood and other filthy rich celebrities, the ACLU’s coffers went from approximately $55 million in 1990 to over $200 million by the time Glasser left the ACLU in 2001. The ACLU now had a key constituency in addition to the pornographers, abortionists and militant homosexuals. Here is a result of the ACLU coming to the aid of Hollywood.
The ACLU also acknowledges the support of the entertainment industry on their web page here. It is likely a major reason why the Northern and Southern California branches of the ACLU are key players in almost any issue in the state and why the politics of the state are as leftist as it is.
* Goals 22 & 23: Discrediting American Culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. Controlling art critics and directors of art museums, promoting “ugliness, repulsive and meaningless art”.
While you may not see the ACLU go to court against art museums and much of the private sector, the ACLU has traditionally supported vulgarity in the art field. Their web page has identified a few examples and they went out of their way to support materials repugnant to the majority of Americans in a brief in favor of Karen Finley vs. the National Endowment for the Arts.
Here is a fairly recent case where the ACLU defended something that many of us would be considered, as identified above, meaningless and possibly offensive.
* Goal 24: Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
Oh, boy! You can write a book on this one. The ACLU is absolutely embedded in it You don’t have to look far at all to see the proof. The Internet is totally replete with such information. But let me provide you just one from the book ACLU vs. America.
In the chapter ACLU vs. Children, co-author Alan Sears, who served in the Reagan Administration under the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, worked with Focus on the Family’s founder Dr. James Dobson to produce a thorough report on the effects of pornography in America. One testimony in the report is as follows (certain elements considered graphic are minimized simply for the sake of this article):
I will never forget a particular set of photographs shown to us at our first hearing in Washington, D.C. It focused on a cute 9-year-old boy who had fallen into the hands of a molester. In the first picture, the blond lad was fully clothed smiling at the camera. But in the second, he was nude, dead and had a butcher knife protruding from his chest. I served for 14 years of a medical school faculty and thought I had seen it all. But my knees buckled and tears came to my eyes as those and hundreds of other children were presented…. showing pitiful boys and girls with their rectums enlarged….and their vaginas penetrated….Perhaps the reader can understand my anger and disbelief when a representative for the American Civil Liberties Union testified a few minutes later. He advocated the free exchange of pornography….in the marketplace….This man said with a straight face that it is the ACLU’s position that child pornography should not be produced but once it is in existence, there should be no restrictions on its sale and distribution.
Disgusting!
Want to know more? Go get the book. It’s worth every penny.
* Goal 25: Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
Again, there is no shortage of finding ACLU suits in these areas. And if you’re lucky to get one, read their policy manual on porn. It is startling.
However, if you don’t have one, no sweat! Here is a link to ACLU Policy Number 4 as your evidence. Their policy positions and relentless lawsuits, either in defense or as a plaintiff, are chilling reminders of what this organization will due to promote evil and sugarcoat it in the process.
* Goal 26: Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy.
We covered this in part with the ACLU support of Gay/Straight Alliances in the public schools. The rabid California ACLU is currently and very actively supporting the perpetuation of it in state public schools and using the most liberal Democratic legislature in the country to do so. Check their web sites, both for the Northern and Southern chapters, visit their archives, Google the information. It’s there for all to see.
Plus as many of you know, the ACLU is in state courts, actively seeking to overturn traditional marriage laws and fighting marriage amendments. They have largely been unsuccessful (outside of Massachusetts and to some extent in California) but they are relentless on this matter. Yet in the face of its losses (still continuing to this date), the ACLU launched a national same sex marriage campaign in May 2005 to continue their advocacy on this issue.
In addition, the ACLU’s fight in favor of promiscuity is brought to light by telling states to disregard abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, calling them “unsafe” and “dangerous” and in effect, promoting condom based education. Only the utterly absurd can buy that one but the ACLU has a couple guinea pigs to promote this nonsense – see here and here.
The ACLU could care less about the diseases and consequences promiscuity and sexual behavior, “normal” or aberrant, bring about. Sexual freedom trumps all else. After all, the ACLU’s president, Nadine Strossen, personally advocates porn in her book and watches it herself. Hence, why should the ACLU oppose it?
* Goal 27: Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social religion”. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch”.
You may not think the ACLU infiltrates churches but I assure you it does and not just a handful of them. Liberal denominations like the United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church, Presbyterian USA and others have bought into the ACLU’s agenda of homosexuality and abortion. The Metropolitan Community Church, a denomination all its own which actively marries homosexuals, is an entity all its own in support of the ACLU.
From these groups, the ACLU seeks their ministers and other church personnel who oppose traditional marriage and/or support homosexual marriage as allies and names on court documents. You can find them online in court filings and on a few ACLU web pages.
Perhaps no denomination or church has been more supportive of the ACLU than the Unitarian-Universalist Church. I invite you to read my friend and co-writer Debbie Smith’s column on this issue, the first of its kind on the web (that I’m aware of). See the ACLU’s ties with this movement that can be considered a cult at best and non-religious at worst.
Like the other liberal denominations above, the UCC actively promotes abortion and homosexuality as well as the teaching of evolution. And why does it? Because the ACLU conducts many of its meetings in these “churches”. A Google search will support this statement.
* Goal 28: Eliminate prayer or any phrase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state”.
We covered the “church and state” phrase earlier in this piece so we won’t rehash it here. The ACLU doesn’t use it quite as much as it used to and to the extent others like Americans “United”, Freedom from Religion Foundation (www.ffrf.org) and People for the “Anti” American Way (www.pfaw.org) do but they do practice it in their relentless pursuit to sanitize America of public prayer.
Like the proliferation of pornography, there is an endless array of items regarding the ACLU and prayer but perhaps one of the most egregious cases was when Joe Cook, director of the ACLU of Louisiana, likened a school board who allowed prayer in a Louisiana school parish to terrorists. More details about the suit (not the obnoxious and egregious comments) can be located here.
The ACLU’s position on prayer can be found here (note in this case the false claim of “constitutional principle of separation of church and state”). The ACLU in one breath says that “Every child in the United States already has the right to pray in school on a voluntary basis -- it's called the First Amendment” and then in another breath their policy manual states that it “opposes the infusion of other types of religious practices and standards into the public schools. These include such practices as baccalaureate exercises in the form of religious services, prayer meetings at athletic events, the taking of a religious census of pupils ... and the profession of religious observance or belief as a consideration in the evaluation and promotion of teachers." [1932, 1962] ”.
So a child can freely pray in school but not at a baccalaureate service or athletic event. What kind of gobbledygook is that? It’s called ACLU censorship, meaning the ACLU dictates when a kid in school can pray and when he or she can’t. And though there was no ACLU suit in this case, the ACLU supported such censorship in Nevada earlier this year.
* Goal 32: Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics.
While one may have difficulty seeing the ACLU in this arena, the ACLU is part and parcel to it in some areas. One of them is its support for homosexuals to adopt children. They cite all the usual sources – American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Pediatrics – in promoting their position.
In a case where Florida’s ban on homosexual adoption law was challenged and upheld, the ACLU noted these groups (and other similar ones) in its brief.
In a similar case but which led to the striking down of Arkansas’ law, the ACLU once again quoted the same groups, notwithstanding other child groups that don’t have the same political connection that believe homosexuals should not adopt.
The entrance of groups like GLSEN also serves the ACLU’s purpose in public school that was addressed earlier.
* Goals 36 & 37: Infiltrate and gain control of more unions and big business.
The ACLU’s input in unions and business is striking. In terms of unions, like the militant abortion and homosexual groups as well as pornographers, the ACLU will file suits to achieve its purposes on behalf of them. Perhaps the teachers’ unions most come to mind since the schools are an ACLU stronghold. Whether promoting policy on homosexuality among children or in support of transsexual individuals, count on the ACLU to be at the forefront.
When it comes to businesses, the ACLU can be counted on to have an effect. Though the ACLU may not go after such with such zeal as they do the public sector, the ACLU will often use state or federal law to achieve its objectives. However, if a business touts a diverse workforce (read: promotion of homosexuality, transvestitism and transsexuality), the ACLU proudly touts it. And if a business promotes contraceptive or abortion coverage for its employees, bet on the ACLU praising it and proclaiming it as a role model for others.
More details on the ACLU infesting big business can be found in the section The Private Sector in the 90s book Twilight of Liberty by William Donohue.
* Goal 39: Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
While the ACLU may not be dominating the psychiatric and psychological fields, they have no doubt infiltrated their ranks as noted earlier in its support of homosexual adoption and for calling abstinence for teens “dangerous and unsafe”. The ACLU will support these agencies in saying that homosexuals cannot change their orientation, despite a recent statement of the American Psychological Association that they can.
And the ACLU says that transsexuals who don’t get their supposed hormone treatments or other “treatments” supposedly available to the gender misguided are no different than cancer patients not receiving chemo treatments and such amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment” under the 8th Amendment.
Can anyone sanely argue that is infiltrating the mental health profession by defending those who want sex change operations? And what legal firm wants their reputation soiled by representing such nutcases? Apparently the ACLU doesn’t care about its reputation.
* Goal 40 & 41: Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.
Sure and why not? The ACLU opposes parental consent, let alone notification, for teen to have an abortion and opposes a California initiative to permit that. The most important decision a pregnant teen will have regarding will be denied by the ACLU. In fact, the ACLU bizarrely urges parents to tell legislators to oppose their rights to know these things, titling it “dangerous”.
The ACLU opposed the rights of the students of one Kentucky County to opt out of pro-homosexual indoctrination mandated earlier against them. So here is another example of the ACLU telling parents to stay out of the lives of their children.
Encourage promiscuity? We covered that earlier in the ACLU’s opposition to abstinence teaching in favor of condom based education. The facts are not in doubt when we say the ACLU promotes promiscuous sex among teens. And if a kid wants a homosexual club in his school and administration officials say no, it becomes financially perilous for the school and the district.
* Goal 42: Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.
We partially covered this earlier under Goal 19. But one area where there seems to be a serious insurrection of and that concerns illegal immigration.
Over the last few months, we have seen illegal immigrants, frequently in the form of students, marching all over America, particularly in big Hispanic cities like Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Chicago. The pictures have been plastered on hundreds, if not thousands, of web sites and blogs across the Internet. And despite the ACLU’s continual opposition to municipalities, states and Congress making laws to secure our borders and deport the illegals, Americans across the country are retaining a sustained voice in support of immigration reform laws and in support of making English as the official language.
Yet the ACLU continues to stand up for these lawbreakers, tacitly encouraging them to continue to do so. California has been arguably the biggest haven of the illegals, with the illegals claiming the state is their homeland and the ACLU ready to defend them in a heartbeat if the police arrest them or obstruct in any way.
And like the antiwar loose cannons, this is the newest constituency of the ACLU.
OK, so I wasn't as brief as I hoped. But did I make my case? I hope so.
How to Disarm ACLU supporters
If you know think you know someone who supports the ACLU, ask them. If he or she says no, you need go no further. But if yes, ask if he or she supports Communism. If he or she affirms so, you may as well stop as you are unlikely to have any impact. Thankfully, there aren’t likely to be too many of these folks as they will likely equate Communism with countries like China, Cuba or Russia.
However, if your friend or family member indicates his or her support for the ACLU but rejects Communism, print out this article and hand it to them. You can do so using either the printer friendly or PDF icon. If he or she is an Internet friend, e-mail this piece, using the tool on the site to do so or thru your favorite e-mail program. But before you do, be sure they see the 45 goals of Communism first. They may not agree with them all but if they are honest, they will be unable to argue with too many of them.
Next, be sure your friend or family member clicks to read the links provided, especially the ones linked to the ACLU’s web site. While some individuals may be skeptical on the application of some of the links, the ones leading back to the ACLU are fairly straightforward.
See if you can gain a consensus on a few items, perhaps with an emphasis on family matters. Most honest people, regardless of political persuasion, don’t want their families tampered with.
Each individual is different but if you can get a concession on anywhere between half (11) or 2/3rd (15) of the 22 goals, you may have won that person over.
Keep in mind that despite this seemingly long report, we have only provided a brief analysis of only half the goals of Communism, hence the ACLU. The first few pages of the first chapter of ACLU vs. America cover founder Baldwin’s roots, his ties to the Soviet Union and his admiration and yes, love for Communism. The whole book, however, is well worth your read.
I don’t know how many individuals will be won over by this piece but we need to persuade as many as we possibly can. Those individuals who seem to be generally good people but who view the ACLU as a civil rights organization need to examine the facts as outlined here. If they are honest with themselves, they will see the ACLU in a totally different light than they currently do. Perhaps an emphasis on patently absurd items like citing abstinence as unsafe and dangerous and opposing parental control of one’s children might do the trick.
Although the ACLU is no doubt a formidable organization, appearing in court more than any other person or group in America outside the federal government, and having seemingly bottomless pockets to push its agenda, I am very convinced it is a vulnerable organization. I do not believe a majority of ACLU supporters and donors want an immoral America with families divided, partial birth abortion and same sex marriage thrust on the people, homosexuality taught as normal in the public schools, pornography completely unregulated, and all vestiges of religious symbols, including the 10 Commandments and public crosses, removed.
I do not believe a majority of ACLU backers want our borders open to anyone and everyone, especially since border security appears to be the one bipartisan issue bringing Americans together. I cannot believe that many of them aren’t concerned about our national security and the threats to it by ACLU lawsuits defending terrorists and radical Islam. And I refuse to accept that a majority believes we are committing such systematic atrocities for Americans that we need to sacrifice our sovereignty to the UN.
I made my case to expose to you half the goals of Communism and its links to the ACLU. My goal now is to get you to agree and tell others. And if you are a contributor, my goal is to persuade you cease your donations.
If I am wrong about the ACLU, please make your case. I don’t, however, think you can make an intelligent one. But if I am right, please enable us to bring down the ACLU today. It’s our goal – to keep America safe and free from the ACLU.
And I hope yours as well.