Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (F.I.R.E) expands it's scope into general free speech rights

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Since the ACLU has decided only progressive left wing speech is worth protecting, F.I.R.E has decided to take over with regards to free speech advocacy.

FIRE announces $75 million expansion into off-campus free speech advocacy, defense

America’s leading defender of free speech, due process, and academic freedom in higher education is expanding its free speech mission beyond campus. The $75 million expansion initiative will focus on three main areas of programming: litigation, public education, and research.

“America needs a new nonpartisan defender of free speech that will advocate unapologetically for this fundamental human right in both the court of law and the court of public opinion,” said FIRE President & CEO Greg Lukianoff. “FIRE has a proven track record of defeating censorship on campus. We are excited to now bring that same tireless advocacy to fighting censorship off campus.”

Unlike the ACLU F.I.R.E doesn't play politics with deciding who they will help defend.

 

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Since the ACLU has decided only progressive left wing speech is worth protecting, F.I.R.E has decided to take over with regards to free speech advocacy.

FIRE announces $75 million expansion into off-campus free speech advocacy, defense



Unlike the ACLU F.I.R.E doesn't play politics with deciding who they will help defend.

The actual strategy of the ACLU was never about defending the constitutional rights of all, let alone the natural rights of all given that Marxists, progressives, leftists, or whatever, reject natural law. It's strategy was to give the appearance of defending the rights of all as it quietly opposed religious liberty vis-a-vis the states schools and incrementally forsook the constitutional rights of those with whom it disagreed.

 

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The actual strategy of the ACLU was never about defending the constitutional rights of all, let alone the natural rights of all given that Marxists, progressives, leftists, or whatever, reject natural law. It's strategy was to give the appearance of defending the rights of all as it quietly opposed religious liberty vis-a-vis the states schools and incrementally forsook the constitutional rights of those with whom it disagreed.

Some of it's founders were hard core civil rights supporters, but the organization lost it's way. It's now hostile to non-SJW positions and hostile towards any religion except Islam.

It's bought into intersectionality hook line and sinker.

 

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Unlike the ACLU F.I.R.E doesn't play politics with deciding who they will help defend.

Oh no. Here we go again. The Left repeatedly create agencies 100% all about being totally one sided FOR themselves and totally unfair to all others. Then the Right comes along and decides to "fix" things by being fair to BOTH sides! And they brag about it.

I call it the Lez Cheney Blindfolded Stupidity Maneuver.

Just imagine if we had fought war with Hitler this same way who would have won.

 

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Some of it's founders were hard core civil rights supporters, but the organization lost it's way. It's now hostile to non-SJW positions and hostile towards any religion except Islam.

It's bought into intersectionality hook line and sinker.

To be sure, ACLU's history is one of a struggle between Marxists and arguably staunch supporters of civil rights . . . except when it came to religious liberty vis-a-vis the state schools. The ACLU has always opposed school choice and mostly ignored the schools' clear violations of Christians' rights via the Warren Court's erroneous doctrine of separation. Though not communists, the majority of its membership in the earlier years was not exactly comprised of classical liberals either but American liberals, humanists, mostly hostile to America's traditional religious and moral values, and they saw the schools as a tool of social engineering against those values.

Also, Norman Thomas, a member of the Socialist Party of America, served on the ACLU board for many years, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a prominent communist leader and a founding member of the ACLU board, serving until she was expelled by a vote of the board following its contentious adoption, in 1940, of the following resolution:

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“It is inappropriate for any person to serve on the governing committees of the Union or on its staff, who is a member of any political organization which supports totalitarian dictatorship in any country, or who by his public declarations indicates his support of such a principle… within this category we include organizations in the United States supporting the totalitarian governments of the Soviet Union … (such as the Communist Party).”​

The 1940 Resolution was always opposed by a significant minority, and the ACLU’s founding board chair, Rev. Harry Ward, resigned over it after 20 years of service, writing:​

In thus penalizing opinions, the Union is doing in its own sphere what it has always opposed the government for doing in law or administration. The essence of civil liberties is opposition to all attempts to enforce political orthodoxy … [yet] … the majority of the Board and of the National Committee, acting under the pressure of wartime public opinion, tells the minority to conform to its views or get out.​

The resolution was not repealed by the ACLU board until 1967.​

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. . . Moreover, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin and charter members like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn were ardent left wingers who identified with the Communist movement from the start of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.​

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The ACLU's Fifth Column?​

The ACLU’s Fifth Column?

As a young part-timer during the summer of 1977, I went through the FBI’s ACLU files. My colleagues and I discovered that prominent ACLU leaders had worked secretly with the FBI.

www.aclu.org

Also see:

The Real History of the ACLU | The Other Half of History

The ACLU is a traditional left wing group, but history textbooks portray them as a non-partisan defender of all civil rights.

historyhalf.com

In recent years, the Marxist left under the guise of intersectionality and the like as definitely won out.

 

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Oh no. Here we go again. The Left repeatedly create agencies 100% all about being totally one sided FOR themselves and totally unfair to all others. Then the Right comes along and decides to "fix" things by being fair to BOTH sides! And they brag about it.

I call it the Lez Cheney Blindfolded Stupidity Maneuver.

Just imagine if we had fought war with Hitler this same way who would have won.

Some of us do believe in the principle of free speech, for everyone.

In fact I prefer when the left is honest about it's shit, it makes them look like idiots.