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.<\/p>\n
They also sat out the debate on McCain-Feingold, whose main effect was to ration conservative grassroots speech.\u00a0 As to the rights of the unborn to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – well, that just gives ’em a headache.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n 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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I suppose it’ll save a lot of people a lot of money on hotel bills, on the upside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}