QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 19, 2008 -> 09:20 AM)
Seriously, it's not a big deal. I just like ripping the ACLU for inconsistency.
Kap has a valid point, they do appear inconsistent. But part of that is because of their mission statement. Who, in our society are the most likely to have their rights threatened? It is not the same demographic as the bulk of the GOP. It is those people that quite frankly I do not usually agree with, and I doubt many here do. Skin heads marching in Skokie*, KKK in a black neighborhood*. People who fit some terrorist profile. The only comfort I have in some of their efforts is, if those assholes still have their rights, then people who are responsible, rational, decent human beings also have theirs. Once we start erroding those rights eventually we start restricting groups who we do agree with, and by then it may be too late.
This comes from someone whose employer was sued by the ACLU all the way to the US Supreme Court.
*OK, they may be voting anti-Obama (McCain GOP) but I refuse to call them Republicans.