fuzzykitten99
VIP Member
Originally posted by acludem
The ACLU for over 80 years has worked tirelessly to protect the civil liberties of ALL Americans. From the Scopes Monkey Trial (yep, the ACLU hired Clarence Darrow to defend the teacher) to Brown v. Board of Education (yet again, the ACLU helped to fund the defense team led by Thurgood Marshall) to cases establishing Miranda rights, banning forced prayer in public schools, protecting the rights of students of all faiths to wear religious symbols to school, the ACLU has been on the forefront of protecting our civil liberties. Sure, sometimes the ACLU goes a little overboard, keep in mind not all chapters are alike. This is like saying every Baptist church is the same, or every labor union is the same.
Now more than ever, the ACLU is needed to fight government abuses of the Constitution. The Bush administration is using 9/11 as an excuse to violate the privacy of ordinary law abiding citizens. They want to know what books you check out from the library and buy at stores. They want to know every website you visit, they want to read every e-mail you send and recieve. They want to create a dossier on every American citizen. This should never happen in a free society and the ACLU is doing everything it can to prevent it.
acludem
Why, do you have something to hide? Are you secretly funding terrorists? If not, then what do you have to be afraid of?
I would not have a problem if someone wanted to search my home if they thought something fishy was going on. I KNOW I have nothing to hide and I am not doing anything illegal. That said, my information may have gotten mixed up and mistaken for someone else. Because they are doing their jobs and looking for troublemakers, I would have no hard feelings.
Our HS went through something similar when the school wanted to start doing random searches of lockers becaues of recent drug activity being reported near the school. We would be notified when they would take place, so it wouldn't be a surprise inspection. There were alot of kids who protested, but most of us figured that we didn't anything illegal, or anything ot hide, so no big deal.