After today's ruling, with regrets, I am cancelling my ACLU membership

[scheming daemons]

The ACLU argued on the side of corporations today.


The ACLU, normally a bastion for good and a protector of INDIVIDUAL rights in this country, sold its soul to join in hammering the final nail in our democratic-republic.


To actually argue in FAVOR of corporate personhood... either completely misguided or with an alterior motive, I don't know.... that's my breaking point with the ACLU.


Goodbye, ACLU. You successfully worked to make me and my family serfs.




ON EDIT:

Link to the amicus brief that ACLU filed on BEHALF of Citizens United:

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission-aclu-amicus-brief

[Mojambo]

1. The ACLU argued FOR?

Holy shit.

[scheming daemons]

6. They filed an amicus brief on behalf of Citizens United

[MindandSoul]

2. The ACLU has obviously sold their soul to the highest bidder!

[ima_sinnic]

3. with everything wrong and worth fighting to fix, their priorities are shit

who gives a fuck about the poor widdle corporations' "freedom of speech"?

good grief, they can get their funding from GE, Haliburton, and Comcast, then, if they're so "concerned" and that's where they want to put their energy.

[shadebeams]

4. The ACLU went along with this? I am done with it. NT

[joeybee12]

5. They have a blind spot...they only see everything through 1st amendment rights...

...they were wrong, wrong, wrong on this and I hope more people cancel so they get the message.

[w4rma]

7. I don't see anything on the ACLU's website about this.

If they did, they aren't advertising it.

[scheming daemons]

8. Link here:

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission-aclu-amicus-brief

[w4rma]

9. Here it is: buried.

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission

[Generator]

10. Wow gotta rescind that membership again

Priorities is it. Last time they pissed me off and I wasn't a member for 20 years was over that creep-Oliver North- yep his civil liberties were being violated-wah de fucking wah. They don't get what is important. It's some legal fantasy land not real people's lives.

[joeunderdog]

16. They will STALK you for years, and you will not get away easily.

I gave them probably $50 5 years ago and they have sent me $150 in renewal mailings. Never seen anything like it.

[paulsby]

11. the ACLU is there for the constitution. they fight for (their interpretation) of it

this often benefits the little guy, but not necessarily

[Unvanguard]

12. I'm fine with that. They consistently take a strong, absolutist approach to the First Amendment.

We need that kind of view; it's a valuable one, though not one that should always triumph.

[scheming daemons]

14. The 1st amendment.. and the other 9 bill of rights... apply to CITIZENS (individuals)

...not entities.


Corporations are *NOT* citizens. The Bill of Rights applies to INDIVIDUALS.

[burning rain]

21. & this demonstrates why absolutism is folly, & leads to tyranny.

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[TheWebHead]

13. my experience w/ aclu

was that I received more in direct mail, far more, than what I donated to them, so I concluded donating any more to them was a waste of my money that would be recycled in postage costs back to me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Ah that is sadly another paralel to the rise of fascism in other places

[struggle4progress]

17. I think you have some problems with reading comprehension

[treestar]

18. Likely they saw it as free speech

Like defending the nazis

the thing is there is in theory at least no problem here, we don't have to vote for whoever the corps tell us to in their ads.

Most of this is based on the supposed helplessness of the American voter. Unable to resist corporate ads.

[bbgrunt]

19. shit--i just sent them more.

[burning rain]

20. Fools.

Corporatist/fascist regimes are rough as hell on civil liberties. The ACLU has fucked itself and all of us.