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To: Sully- who wrote (59295)	5/23/2007 10:39:50 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Whither the ACLU Betsy's Page Wendy Kaminer has an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about a trend in the ACLU in not taking cases defending conservative free speech. The organization that once prided itself in defending the free-speech rights of Nazis to march in Skokie is now silent when it comes to conservatives who want to wear anti-gay T Shirts or student newspapers who wanted to reprint the Danish Mohammed cartoons. <<< "ACLU Defends Nazi's Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters," the humor magazine The Onion announced in 1999. Those of us who loved the ACLU, and celebrated its willingness to defend the rights of Nazis and others who had no regard for our rights, considered the joke a compliment. Today it's more like a reproach. Once the nation's leading civil liberties group and a reliable defender of everyone's speech rights, the ACLU is being transformed into just another liberal human-rights group that reliably defends the rights of liberal speakers. This transformation is gradual, unacknowledged and not readily apparent, since evidence of it lies mainly in cases the ACLU does not take. It's naturally easier to know what an organization is doing (and advertising) than what it is not doing. But a review of recent free-speech press releases turns up only a handful of cases in which ACLU state affiliates defended the rights of conservative, antigay or otherwise politically incorrect speakers. And lately the national organization has been remarkably quiet in several important free-speech cases and controversies. >>> betsyspage.blogspot.com opinionjournal.com

To: Sully- who wrote (59295)	5/23/2007 10:41:13 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 90947

Hopefully they'll subpoena the publisher, demand the source's identity, and when the publisher refuses to divulge it throw the sap in jail.

To: Sully- who wrote (59295)	5/23/2007 1:06:24 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Good Grief Andrew Stuttaford The Corner Is it just me, or is this is a story that ABC really should not have released: <<< The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. >>> While I expect that, in reality, this shouldn't be news (if the CIA is not doing such operations, it's not doing its job - and the Iranians know it), this sort of publicity cannot be helpful to any efforts to put an end to the Iranian dictatorship. Worse, stories like this give the mullahs additional ammunition when they argue (falsely) that the Iranian opposition is made up of US puppets. I'll expect the Valerie Plame crowd to go after the leakers. Not. corner.nationalreview.com blogs.abcnews.com