America, 1. ACLU, 0.
Photoshop by reader John McG., 6/2006.
You may recall in December 2005 when the blabbermouths at the NYTimes revealed a classified program set up by the Bush administration monitor terrorist communications in the US (which inspired an entire gallery of media blabbermouth posters like the one above). The ACLU quickly and literally followed suit to kill the program.
Well, the outcome of their obstructionist efforts is just across the wires:
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. The justices’ decision Tuesday includes no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU wanted the court to allow a lawsuit by the group and individuals over the warrantless wiretapping program. An appeals court dismissed the suit because the plaintiffs cannot prove their communications have been monitored. The government has refused to turn over information about the closely guarded program that could reveal who has been under surveillance.
Reuters has more:
The American Civil Liberties Union had asked the justices to hear the case after a lower court ruled the ACLU, other groups and individuals that sued the government had no legal right to do so because they could not prove they had been affected by the program.
The civil liberties group also asked the nation’s highest court to make clear that Bush does not have the power under the U.S. Constitution to engage in intelligence surveillance within the United States that Congress has expressly prohibited.
“The president is bound by the laws that Congress enacts. He may disagree with those laws, but he may not disobey them,” Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, said in the appeal.
Bush authorized the program to monitor international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens without first obtaining a court warrant. The program’s disclosure in December 2005 caused a political uproar among Democrats, some Republicans and civil liberties activists. The administration abandoned the program about a year ago, putting it under the surveillance court that Congress created more than 30 years ago. The high court’s action means that Bush will be able to disregard whatever legislative eavesdropping restrictions Congress adopts as there will be no meaningful judicial review, the ACLU attorneys said.
The journalists, scholars, attorneys and national advocacy groups that filed the lawsuit said the illegal surveillance had disrupted their ability to communicate with sources and clients.
You can’t connect the dots if you don’t collect them.
Flashback: The left’s selective outrage over privacy invasion.
Look for the ACLU to go after Amtrack’s newly announced random bag search policy.
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Background:
Federal Judge Rules Bush Surveillance Program Unconstitutional
Newsflash: NSA Doing Its Job
Finally: Justice Dept. Opens NSA Leak Probe
In Defense of the NSA
The New York Times Strikes Again
NSA and the Law: What the Times Didn’t Print
Red Alert: Chicken Littles on the Loose
Sorry NYT, America is OK With NSA
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U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.
So there. Let’s start concentrating on protecting Americans and their civil liberties before we worry about those bent on our destruction.
OK?
Now, Go to your room!
HA HA HA…..
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Just another reason we need to have control over the selection of SCOTUS judges, even if it is McCain (insert nose holding here).
The ACLU has done more to degrade, dehumanize, weaken, and demoralize (in all senses of the word) the United States than all the declared enemies of the U.S. ever dreamt of.
As an aside, during the Kelo court case (eminient domain gone wild), I wrote to both the USACLU and its Connecticut chapter. Both said they “were not taking a position on this issue.” No concern for people losing their homes on the whim of the government, but plenty of time to harrass (pronounced “her-ass” by the way) the Boy Scouts and harmless displays of the Ten Commandments.
The ACLU is staffed by anti American vermin, IMHO.
I know, I know, stop sugarcoating it!
Wheeee. I love how it had no comment whatsoever. Let them stew in their 1984 juices for a while.
Great. Thank God for Roberts and Alito.
Now all of you stating you will not under any circumstances vote for McCain, have you changed your opinion yet?
We could have three Supreme Court justices chosen by the Hussein Obamas, who love our country about as much as Al Qaeda, should those commis get into the White House.
Gabe#7
On the nose.
Double that Gabe in # 7.
The ACLU has a Nation Security Project…
like Willie Sutton had a Bank Security Project
like Hannibal Lecter had a Right-to-Life Project
like Bin Laden has a Visit America Project
Oy vey!
Gabe - Worse, we could have three Supreme Court justices who love our country about as much as Michelle Obama.
Excellent point thant I keep mentioning to those (like me) who are frustrated about McCain. THE SUPREME COURT!!!
At least with McCain there is a chance to have someone like Roberts or Alito. With Obama or Clinton there is NO chance! We get more Ruth Ginsbergs (a total linatic) and it won’t be 4 years to correct that problem, it will be a generation. Remember that people!
By their own admission, candidates for a wire tap if I have ever heard of one.
Cue the Trolls in 3….2….1….
Next we have to go after bloggers who criticize the Commander-in-Chief and weaken him in the face of the Enemy. More freedom = less security.
Thanks for this great news Michelle. I love when the hate-America-leftist are handed a resounding smack down like this. Somehow, the coffee just tastes better…
This is great. It seems often groups cave in when the American Communist Lawyers Union just THREATENS a lawsuit. It’s great when someone challenges them, and wins!
I cannot express - in clean language - the deep, abiding and utter contempt I have for the ACLU and anyone who tries to obstruct our national security in these times.
I’m confused, and if someone can clear this up for me I’d appreciate it.
I read in this article, and hear on NPR all the time, about “the President’s domestic wiretapping program.” Is this the program where the NSA monitors the communications of suspected foreign terrorists, and keeps listening even if they call/are called by someone in America? Or is it some other program they are talking about?
Because if it is that program, then “domestic wiretapping” is a wild misnomer.
On February 19th, 2008 at 11:15 am, SHoward said:
Cue the Trolls in 3….2….1….
ROFL Perfect timing.
Not just the Supreme Court but also the 10th Amendment. The government
has no right to create national healthcare! Then, there is premature withdrawal
from Iraq. We will wind up fighting them here if either one of the socialists is
elected. That doesn’t even take into account that OTHER exgovernor of AR that
wants to get into the White House. Hold your nose people, because what we
get otherwise could be a lot worse than McCain. ( You might also want to
remember that one of the big things that got G.W.Bush elected was that he
could reach across the aisle here in TX.)
Yeah, Soap, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than smart. I couldn’t have planned that one any better……
War has been declared on the United States, we have been repeatedly attacked at home and abroad. Thousands of our fellow Americans have been butchered in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Our embassies around the world have been threatened, blown up, and seized.
Our allies have been threatened with mass extinction and the western way of life around the globe has been systematically impinged on a daily basis with intolerant demands upon a tolerant way of life.
Undue respect and consideration has been given to the enemy.
Thank god for a wise US Supreme Court.
In fact, the appointment of judges is why I will be voting for McCain. Can you imagine a Supreme Court with Obama or Clinton appointees.
On-my-soap-box (#13) has an excellent point.
If the ACLU claims of standing are true, then the ACLU is in communication with terrorists outside the US. This is like being in communiction with the Nazis during WWII. Grounds for warrants, seems to me.
LarryD,
The best part is… no warrants needed.
Supreme Court ruling leaves
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GOTCHA ACLU !!!!
Why do people support the ACLU? Money wasted. Fighting for terrorists rights while going after your president.
Better to support ACLJ.
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RE: #27,
I may have an answer for ya, Soap. My old Doctor in Orlando was a card carrying supporter of the ACLU. He would tell me that there was nothing wrong with supporting individual liberties and protecting the little guy.
What happens, methinks, is people that support them are naive. They actually believe that the ACLU really is for individual liberties, even while the cases they pursue may show something different. (ie: not supporting a school teacher that was fired for wearing a cross.) Then they turn around and vigorously fight for something that tends only to help out bad guys.
Again, people get naive. That’s the only possible reason I can think of.
-S
Hey Pelosi, how was the wedding? Now get back to town and renew our program for our safety.
Translation: We all need al-Qaeda to earn a huge living.
ACLU:
Anachronistic
Communist
Liberal
Ugnauts
Attacking
Constitutional
Liberties
Unrelentingly
Thank you Roberts and Alito.
The ACLU will not be happy until Several Million Americans are dead, and a City or two has been destroyed.
ACLU has been voted Employee/Organization of the month by Al-Qaeda 22 out of 24 months the last two years. The New York Times twice has shattered their run with their reveiling of Top Secret Programs, told to them by undercover Anti-American Operatives in our government.
JohnW#19 There is no basis in fact for the misnomer. The press picked it up because it was such a good tool for bashing Bush. They repeated it so often that most commentators don’t bother to correct it. I’ve heard Brit correct it and Bill.O’ states correctly that the ACLU hasn’t brought forward anyone with a case. It’s like Global Warming and Climate change. If you say it enough people don’t need facts. Liberals don’t need facts, they get in their way.
Finally, ACLU slapped down!
Ha ha, ACLU!
Indeed, the courts may be the only reason to vote for McCain.
What we need to do is replace all dhimmis and socialists, whether they be D, R or I, in congress with conservatives. Until then, we will have what we have now.
I’Z IN YR LINEZ
HEARN ALL YR CALLZ!
The ACLU and the NAACP are two of the worst things that ever happened to this
country. While they may have started out with high ideals they have sunk to the
lowest level possible. The ACLU has become an enemy of America and the NAACP
has become an enemy of the Black community because they don’t want to win the
cases they take on, they just want the issue and the publicity it brings. There are
two organizations this country could do without.
Wow what a set back for the ACLU. I guess soon they may have to go back to chaseing ambulkances for their causes.
This is indeed great news…..
SCOTUS I salute you!
Roberts and Alito. Thank you conservatives everywhere for pushing for these guys.
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Umm, Bush DOES have the power under the Constitution to survey any calls inside and outside the country in order to defend the nation. “Domestic spying program” is a misnomer. Bush is monitoring international calls.
But don’t confuse Democrats with facts, and don’t tell them about sections of the constitution the supreme court hasn’t interpreted in their favor on yet. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the President needs Congress’ approval to defend and protect the US of A.
McGangof14 will have no interest in appointing conservative judges.
Conservative judges would through out McCain-Feingold on its ear. McCain would not stomach this.
It’s obvious.
Well put. As a test of people’s gullibility, an organization (I forget which one) conducted a door-to-door “petition drive” asking people to back a Constitutional amendment repealing the first 10 amendments. “Help us get rid of the crime-coddling ‘Bill of Rights’” was the slogan.
And most people who were approached actually signed the damned thing, one woman gushing, “Thank God for what you’re doing!”
Small wonder why a perniciously anti-American organization masquerading under the guise of “civil rights” can get so many people to either mindlessly accept or even support what they’re doing to this country.
And speaking of 2008-2012 potential Justice appointments, I believe that Ruth Ginsberg was a high-level officer of the ACLU before ol’ Bubba nominated her for the Supreme Court.
His wife the Saul Alinsky disciple, or “The Messiah” with a Senate voting record to the left of Teddy Kennedy’s, would like the opportunity to do ol’ Bubba one better. A chilling reminder that “elections have consequences” if there ever was one.
If it is McCain, you have the “control” of the Gang of 14, McCain Feingold, McCain Shamnesty, Juan Hernandez, Jerry Perenchio, Warren Rudman and David Souter, co-author of McCain Feingold and 2000 McCain Presidential Campaign manager Fred Thompson, who voted on Bill Clinton’s Impeachment TO THE LEFT OF THE ENTIRE SUPREME COURT … so, I don’t know about you, but that just does absolutely NOTHING to make me feel better about the courts and other appointments being in the hands of a SO-CALLED Republican.
McCain won’t risk someone who might even THINK about overturning McCain Feingold or McCain Kennedy Shamnesty!
I won’t sign on the dotted line to empower THAT.
#46: That should be “throw out”. I need to start drinking coffee
And John McCain endorsed THEIR standards fro how the FOREIGN TERRORISTS should be tried on American soil with full American citi zenship privileges AS THEIR RIGHT, before a civilian court.
No doubt with Johnny Sutton prosecuting the soldiers who apprehended them in action.
Yet another reason for having a shoot-to-kill policy when dealing with terrorists. All the better to speed them on their way to their 72 virgins.
Sanity prevails,the USA won that battle.I can hear the raving now.Binny will be kicking a goat in his cave.Any comments Rusty?
Hey, ACLU: Crawl back in your holes (or caves). Ha ha ha!!!!!!
docflash,
ROFL good on. Trolls commenting on a victory.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the - Web Reconnaissance for 02/19/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
Imagine what kind of Justice either Billary or Obambi would appoint. The last democrap President appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg . Her record with the ACLU = In 1971, she was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973–1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974–1980.
Think we need more ACLU types on the Supreme Court? Then don’t vote Republican.
Man, this is rich coming from a
true adherant to Sharia LawACLU Islamist attorney! What was it the Islamic Brotherhood proposed…use our laws to bring about the distruction of our western culture/ way of life?If anyone doubted that, well…they’re here!
Thanks, Marshall Russ. Sometimes I’m not sure if I missed something in the news, or if these folks just live in a different universe than me!
Oh, they live in a different universe alright JohnW. One where there are no standards or absolutes.
‘zactly!
Why did Congress recess KNOWING FISA was about to expire? …and what’re we to do about it now?John Boehner - Republican Minority Leader for the House of Representatives.
all you claiming that Johnny boy will pick justices that will directly thwart his past work in the senate are fooling yourseslves. he won’t. he says what he wants to get elected. and, i ain’t buyin’ the chatter. let me see who he picks as his running mate that will tell me everything i want to know.
take that ACLU, an organization that has been defying the rights of the individual and attempting to create the US of Communism to take the place of the United States of America.
On February 19th, 2008 at 2:25 pm, uhangtight said:
I am also waiting to see who he picks for VP. I also want to hear that all these Republican bigwigs that say we should get behind him are telling him he needs to come to us and give us assurances. No President wants to be a one term President. If he were to anger the base like he has recently, as the President, conservatives would desert him forever.
If the MSM was right-leaning, it’d be on the news for a week. This is a good win for America.
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I agree 100%
I heard she ordered the flogging of the maid when her hotel bed was made with a flannel sheet.
Are there any attorneys out there that are fed up enough with the ACLU that they’ll create a “National Civil Liberties Union” group that will stand up for the rest of us? File amicus briefs whenever the ACLU gets its panyties in a twist and provide the court with a conservative, constructionist perspective on things?
While not everything the ACLU does is reprehensible, 99% of it is.
in_awe said:
In other words, 99% of the ACLU is what gives the rest a bad name?
=STFU ACLU
Its funny the number of cheerleaders that warrantless wiretaps have. What was stopping them from getting warrants from the FISA Court? To much paperwork? To large a dragnet (everyone?)? I think some of the folks on here could stand to read some of the gov’t filings in Hepting vs. AT&T. Esp. when the DoJ lawyers suggest that the executive branch is above the law.
I got a better one. A petition arguing for the banning of Dihyrogen Monoxide (DHMO).
It’s a major component of Acid Rain.
It is used in the distribution of many pesticides. Even after washing produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
In it’s solid form it can diminish the immune system and is responsible for thousands of deaths each year. Prolonged direct contact usually results in cell death usually leading to amputation.
In it’s liquid form it causes thousands more death each year, including in the home.
In it’s gaseous form it can burn skin, cause involuntary body tempeture rise, and prolonged exposure can lead to death.
He got a bunch of people to sign the petition to ban WATER.
Solid = Ice
Liquid = Water
Gas = Steam
Don’t believe me?
Why do they refer to this as ‘eavesdropping’, or ‘wiretapping’…?
Think of how many phone calls are taking place at any given moment in this country.
Then imagine how many people it would take to ‘eavesdrop’ on all of those conversations.
If the government were truly eavesdropping then it would need a staggering amount of individuals to listen-in and determine if what they were hearing was of any value.
And while that’s going on, what about all of the calls that aren’t being monitored (for lack of ‘eavesdroppers’)…?
Are they recorded and monitored later on?
But wouldn’t that data then be useless??
Just so long as it isn’t that dreadful Carbon stuff that causes global warming… /sarc
Maybe we can convince the ACLU to become completely carbon free?
Hope Code Pink tried to disrupt it.
guitarguy nailed it. Theyjust can’t listen to evryone all the time.
What I have been told is they have computer programs that can pickup on keywords. They then plug in known code words the bad guys use, and the system keys in on the call in question and alerts the operators.
Point being, as long as you don’t tell anyone your name is Bin Laden, you probably won’t be listened to.
Well, chalk one up for national security.
ACLU: Listen. We are at war. The war clause(s) of the constitution trump Acts or Bills passed by congress but not by 3/4ths of the states. We need more clear thinking Supreme Court Justices and less communists on the court like RBG.
The ACLU, remember, was a close ally of the American Communist Party back in the 20s and 30s. It left the Party in 1940, and, originally, had the right idea of defending the Bill of Rights, but, it was taken over by the Left and has become more radical since then. Unfortunately, that is true for many organizations that started out with a “good idea”, like MADD and Sierra Club. Now it’s full of young lawyers trying to make a name for themselves, as well as being naive and gullible of the radical left. A good idea once, gone bad. I’m glad they lost. I’m glad whenever they lose, usually.