"Left Attacks ACLU for Defending Mil o Yiannopoulos’ Right to Free Speech"

[John Young]

ACLU has become primarily a money-raising 
endeavor, paying its staff extremely generous 
salaries and perks. It turns down requests which 
does not promise fund-raising prospects. In this 
it is like the Greenwalds who rush to promote 
very lucrative grants for high-profile projects. 
Check out the ACLU main site for its gold-plated 
campaigns and screeching about contributions.

This bankable version followed departure of 
long-time supporters repulsed by the greed and 
cozying up to wealthy donors. It ain't what it 
claims to be, and once was, maybe could be again 
if it dumped the sleases who chase media coverage 
like politicians, actually pursuing civil 
liberites spectaculars like ambulance-chasing 
lawyers. Far from being public defenders.

The org's alleged neutrality is bogus, it is 
tipped toward profitable non-profitibility, 
hardly alone in that, to be sure, ever ready to 
arrange tax write-offs for over-loaded dudes and 
dudettes, and in that way perfectly comfortable 
with governments who dispense privilege and civil 
liberties to those who never really challenge 
authority. Every government agency, corporation 
and NGO has a civil liberties policy as rancid as privacy and security.

Coda, few cypherpunks ever wrote code, those that 
did went on to better rewards in industry and 
government from which most came. The code mantra 
was an inside joke to get grunts to labor for 
free, even go to jail, since not many could 
qualify for ACLU expensive and exclusive standards,



At 03:40 PM 2/14/2017, you wrote:
><http://observer.com/2017/02/aclu-defends-breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-free-speech/>http://observer.com/2017/02/aclu-defends-breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-free-speech/
>
>[partial quote follows]
>
>"On February 1, Breitbart technology editor and 
>right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was 
>scheduled to speak at the University of 
>California-Berkeley. Students at the university 
>protested his speech, and radicals—many of whom 
>may not have been studentss—turned violent.
>"Yiannopoulos’ speech was canceled for safety 
>concerns, as demonstrators 
><http://watchdog.org/287426/violence-censorship-berkeley/>threw 
>rocks and fireworks at the building where the 
>speech was set to take place. What began as a 
>speech to 500 students expanded to thousands as 
>the media (including this writer) wrote 
>countless articles about the riots and Yiannopoulos.
>"If the Left wanted to shut Yiannopoulos down, 
><http://observer.com/2017/02/i-helped-create-the-milo-trolling-playbook-you-should-stop-playing-right-into-it/>they 
>failed by behaving in such a manner that raised 
>his profile. Who knows how many people wondered 
>who this person was who caused such a backlash, 
>and how many of those people then found at least 
>some of what Yiannopoulos says to be acceptable?
>"In a 
><https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/civilities-why-milo-yiannopoulos-is-a-man-to-be-feared-its-not-what-you-think/2017/02/10/3bff3f8e-ef06-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.ab05c2e09ed2>follow-up 
>article on the riots, Washington Post columnist 
>Steven Petrow spoke to a lawyer for the American 
>Civil Liberties Union, Lee Rowland. Rowland told 
>Petrow that she finds much of Yiannopoulos’ 
>speech to be “absolutely hateful an 
>despicable—but those adjectives don’t remove 
>his sspeech from the Constitution’s protection.”
>[end of partial quote]
>Jim Bell's comments follow:
>The ACLU is being correct, at least here.  They 
>were also attacked in the late 1970's, for 
>standing up for the right of Nazis to march in 
>Skokie, Illinois.  That march (which never 
>actually happened) was humorously portrayed in 
>John  Belushi's movie, "Blues Brothers".
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0
>(Head Nazi is played by actor Henry Gibson, 
>perhaps most famous for the TV show, "Laugh-In".
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU
>       Jim bell
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU>T