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To: abuelita who wrote (33781)	11/28/2000 5:07:07 PM
From: Ex-INTCfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

I've given them money. I may need to become a member soon. INTCfan

To: abuelita who wrote (33781)	11/29/2000 10:54:03 AM
From: jambo-bwana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35685

Rose, the ACLU is a remarkable organization - also one that the right-wingers love to hate! One of my favorite stories about the ACLU is from the 70s. In the suburb of Skokie, IL - a suburb that was at the time heavily Jewish with a fair number of holocaust survivors - a Nazi party wanted to march through downtown Skokie. They needed a permit to do that and the city council ruled against granting them a permit. The basis for the refusal was a matter of preserving law and order, sensitivity for the feelings of the Jewish residents, etc. Well, the ACLU decided to represent the Nazi party and its first amendment rights which the ACLU felt was being violated. The case went all the way to the US Supreme Court which held for the Nazi party's right to march. Skokie granted a permit to march and the actual march was a non-event with just a handful of marchers and massive security. The amazing thing about this whole episode was first the idea that the ACLU - a bastion of liberalism - would defend the right of the Nazis to march and even more remarkable that the ACLU attorney who represented the Nazis was Jewish!! He took a tremendous amount of grief because of his decision to defend their right to march - but was unrelenting that no matter how repugnant the views of any group, their rights under the constitution were sacrosanct.