The American Civil Liberties Union is teaming up with three other groups to monitor attempts by Minuteman Project-style groups to do in California what the MMP managed to do in Arizona. Details here or here. These are the three other groups:

1. The Association of Immigration Law Attorneys. Since that phrase only returns a few search hits, I'm going to assume the reporter got their name wrong, and that's actually referring to the "American Immigration Lawyers Association":

AILA's attitude towards anti-terrorist measures reflect the radical views of its executive director, Jeanne Butterfield. Before she was elected to head AILA, Butterfield was executive director of the Palestine Solidarity Committee. The PSC had acted as the political arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization in much the same way that Sinn Fein acted as a representative of the Irish Republican Army. Besides excusing PFLP terrorist attacks and campaigning against U.S. aid to Israel, the PSC under Butterfield also supported Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and was active in the antiwar movement opposing American intervention to liberate Kuwait. The PSC and PFLP are Marxist organizations...

2. The San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association. If their name ("The Race Lawyers Association") wasn't enough of a clue, what appears to be their sister organization in San Francisco was started by Cruz Reynoso (former member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission who was voted off CA's Supreme Court), and Mario Obledo, who also founded MALDEF. But, for the best clue to where they're coming from, search for their name here: tinyurl.com/8jz8v.

3. The San Diego branch of the National Lawyers Guild:

The NLG was founded in 1936 by Communist Party USA (CPUSA) lawyers and liberal fellow-travelers. A watershed moment for the organization occurred in its third year, when its National Executive Board chose not to adopt an amendment to the NLG Constitution condemning dictatorship and supporting democracy - an amendment its Communist organizers called "divisive." "The real aims of the National Lawyers Guild," read a 1950 report by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, "as demonstrated conclusively by its activities, . . . are not specified in its constitution or statement of avowed purpose. In order to attract non-Communists to serve as a cover for its actual purpose as an appendage to the Communist Party, the National Lawyers Guild poses benevolently as 'a professional organization which shall function as an effective social force in the service of the people.'"

The NLG has also appeared at all three of the anti-Minuteman or anti-SOS protest in SoCal, most recently the one in Baldwin Park. See also "Violent lefties protest Minuteman Project".

Of course, the NLG's background is quite similar to the ACLU's history:

Its co-founder Roger Baldwin candidly stated, "I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. It all sums up into one single purpose -- the abolition of dog-eat-dog under which we live. I don't regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted and I traveled the United Front road to get it."

On a hilarious note, the NC Times story ends with this:

Monitoring will be modeled on similar efforts by the ACLU in Arizona.

"We believe that our presence and our non-confrontational approach were largely responsible for there being no serious incidents in Arizona," the ACLU's William Aceves said.

Now, see this. The ACLU team in Arizona spotted and tried to report someone they thought had illegally entered the U.S.: Sean Hannity. Hilarity ensued as it turned out that Hannity had been inside the U.S. all the time. On a more serious note, see "Border Patrol Has Issues with ACLU Operatives in Monitored Sector", "The political correctness industry is in a tizzy right now", "N.M. ACLU suspends chapter over Minuteman Project", and the links in "ACLU sends in the heavyweights".

In a perfect world, the Minutemen would be considered to be the mainstream group, and the press would tag organizations like the ACLU, NLG, and AILA with labels like "controversial" or "present or former communist fronts" or "very far-left if not completely communist". If you think the MSM should consider telling the truth more often, please send the links in this post to any outlet that considers the ACLU to be a mainstream group.