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To: jttmab who wrote (140550)	7/16/2004 12:25:47 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Right now the ACLU is being demonized by the right. They've achieved mythical status comparable to Big Business, Big Oil, Big Labor Unions, Trial Lawyers, and the Supreme Court, to name a few. Every generation has its bugaboos. Earlier generations, for example, had Trusts, and Communists, and The Mob, and Demon Rum. Growing up in the South, I used to see "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards everywhere. Not the Earl Warren who ordered the internment of the Japanese during WWII, but the Earl Warren who was in charge of court-ordered desegregation.

To: jttmab who wrote (140550)	7/16/2004 8:01:39 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The ACLU made it an issue, and made the arguments that swayed the Court. Of course, the Supreme Court is not irrelevant. But my comment was an aside on the ACLU. Yes, refreshing myself on the details, I agree that it was a speech issue, as well. Actually, the reasonable criterion seems to me to weigh the potential for the eruption of violence in a given circumstance against the authority's ability to provide police protection. I am not suggesting a "victim's veto", merely prudent concern, similar to that which establishes restrictions based on traffic and other mundane considerations.