On 02/14/2017 02:52 PM, John Young wrote:
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,
ACLU comes in late after the CCR NLG and others have done the hard
work, polishes the apple, takes all the credit, and uses it to
fundraise. Their local chapters do as much as they can on a limited
budget begging the regional for 'bigger guns' if needed and generally
not getting the assistance. They are fan clubs and literature
distributors. The thing that really irks me though is the NLG and CCR
give kudos to the ACLU for their work but I'll be damned if I can ever
remember any sort of reciprocal behavior.
The NLG used to stalk the "Tombs" at 100 Centre St Manhattan criminal
court after antiwar protests bailing people out, and if you asked them
where to return to money to they'd say "Keep it"
HAHAHAHA! I GUESS that's 'paying for protesters'... If you don't mind
sitting in a literal human sewer with a cheeze sandwich of some yellow
gummy shit on white 'bread' with umn... I think it was mayonnaise
anyway... That's all you got until you were released, or 'housed' if
you REALLY did something the cops didn't like...
Rr
At 03:40 PM 2/14/2017, you wrote:
[1][2]http://observer.com/2017/02/aclu-defends-breitb
art-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
[3]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,
[4]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
[5]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.â€
[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".
[6][7]https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0
(Head Nazi is played by actor Henry Gibson, perhaps most famous for
the TV show, "Laugh-In".
[8][9]https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU
Jim bell
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References
1. http://observer.com/2017/02/aclu-defends-breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-free-speech/
2. http://observer.com/2017/02/aclu-defends-breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-free-speech/
3. http://watchdog.org/287426/violence-censorship-berkeley/
4. http://observer.com/2017/02/i-helped-create-the-milo-trolling-playbook-you-should-stop-playing-right-into-it/
5. 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
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU