As Long As Our Priorities Are…er, Straight
By Mitch Berg
For almost forty long years, the Ameircan Civil Liberties Union has been AWOL on one of the most divisive civil liberties issues of our era – unreasonable government control and banning of firearms in the hands of the law-abiding.
They also sat out the debate on McCain-Feingold, whose main effect was to ration conservative grassroots speech. As to the rights of the unborn to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – well, that just gives ’em a headache.
Indeed, whenever civil liberties that might be labelled “conservative” are on the block, the ACLU makes like Brave Sir Robin, and bravely turns its tail and flees.
But let a “conservative” get caught in a farcical episode in an airport restroom, and the right to drop trou and get the freak on is essential stuff, dagnabbit
In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy
I suppose it’ll save a lot of people a lot of money on hotel bills, on the upside.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:31 am
The ACLU: Protecting your right to hump in public restrooms,
January 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Mitch would prefer they defend Americans’ right to buy cop-killer bullets. Seems to me there’s another group that has that ground pretty well covered…
January 17th, 2008 at 8:20 am
cop-killer bullets.
Clown, you’re a smart guy. I’m amazed you actually got suckered by that bit of callow spin.
Even the gun controllers dropped that red herring ten years ago.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:52 am
That’s just to make you guys crazy. Substitute “machine guns and bazookas” if you like.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:05 am
When Fred gets elected, I’m buying a Bren gun.
In 7.62x51mm, mind you. 7.7x57R is a pain in the ass.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Why do I get the feeling if AC were shown a machine gun and a bazooka, he probably wouldn’t know the difference?
January 17th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Angryclown isn’t a gun fetishist like you kooks, Cathcart, but he could tell those particular weapons apart.
Angryclown fights wingnut crime armed only with a rhetorical tube sock filled with cat poop.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Mitch said:
“They also sat out the debate on McCain-Feingold”
Wrong again:
“This bill represents a double-barreled attack on political freedom in America”
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/cfr/11403prs20010301.html
The ACLU website also has testimony from them against the bill in both the House and the Senate.
The ACLU also filed a brief in McConnell vs FEC which argued “among other things, the law would prohibit the ACLU from broadcasting a radio or TV ad criticizing the civil liberties position of either the President or his opponent in the 60 days preceding next year’s election. The ACLU argues in its brief that this restriction on so-called issue ads violates the First Amendment.”
January 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Doesn’t matter, RickDFL. It *feels* true.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:50 am
AC wrote:
“Doesn’t matter, RickDFL. It *feels* true.”
The more I read Republicans, the more I begin to regret not studying more post-modern philosophy. Derrida was bunk on language, but he sure had right-wing epistemology nailed cold.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:59 am
right-wing epistemology nailed cold.
Another wide stance joke.
Typical.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
And re the ACLU’s position against McCain-Feingold – bully for them, all of that writing and testifying and all!
But we hardly saw them out front of the push against it.
Look, if you question an ACLU member about their positions on *lots* of issues – Second Amendment, for example – they’ll shake their heads vigorously and say “no, no no, look at the brief we filed in this case in a state circuit court in Mississippi in 1954! We’re giants of liberty!”.
But their efforts against McCain-Feingold were hardly what a reasonable person would call vigorous.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Mitch said: “And re the ACLU’s position against McCain-Feingold – bully for them, all of that writing and testifying and all!”
That’s what they do. You want they should take hostages?
January 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
With the guns they don’t want the rest of us to have?
Sure.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
You want they should take hostages?
Demurring from the defense of perverts in public toilets would be a good gesture.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Clownie, instead of going with the tired old gun angle, you should have pointed out that they are defending a Republican. That would have been more antagonistic.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Geez, Mitch, what did you expect from a union, especially that one?
American Civil Libertine’s Union – truth in advertising.
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January 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Perverts? But Sen. Craig says he wasn’t doing anything. Probably just tapping his foot to the Stars and Stripes march.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
OJ said he didn’t do it, either.
January 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
OJ tried to blow a guy in the MSP airport?
January 17th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Mitch:
“their efforts against McCain-Feingold were hardly what a reasonable person would call vigorous”
That is a debate for another day, but clearly they did not sit it out. So once again you mislead your audience.
Didn’t you just brag about how you cop to your mistakes?
January 17th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Mangy Clown has an advantage over Sen. Craig. With those big floppy shoes, clownie can reach across two stalls.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
That ain’t the only thing that can reach across two stalls, my wingnut friend.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
That ain’t the only thing that can reach across two stalls, my wingnut friend.
The spray distance on your seltzer water bottle doesn’t count.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
The spray distance on your seltzer water bottle doesn’t count.
Nor does the 10-foot handkerchief you stuff down your baggy pants.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:14 am
That ain’t the only thing that can reach across two stalls, my wingnut friend.
Combover?
January 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
AC,
The guy is a politician in power… I doubt very much if Larry Craig wanted to blow someother guy. He was probably going to be the daddy. (I can see how Clown might not understand being the man in the relationship, though… so apologies to him for the confusion.)
January 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I defer, Badda. You clearly know more about cruising for dudes in public restrooms than Angryclown.
January 18th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I disagree. I think Clownie would be a natural cruising for dudes in public restrooms.