Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9164 total)
4 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,423 Year: 3,680/9,624 Month: 551/974 Week: 164/276 Day: 4/34 Hour: 0/1


EvC Forum ⇒ Side Orders ⇒ Coffee House ⇒

What's the beef with the ACLU?

Thread ▼ Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   What's the beef with the ACLU?
docpotato
Member (Idle past 5069 days)
Posts: 334
From: Portland, OR
Joined: 07-18-2003

Normal Thread Display
Message 70 of 199 (383562)
02-08-2007 3:16 PM 		Reply to: Message 69 by crashfrog
02-08-2007 3:12 PM

Re: The ACLU
Don't be thick. Clearly they're going to throw the case so that the commies can come in and redistribute the pages of your Bible.
This message is a reply to:
 Message 69 by crashfrog, posted 02-08-2007 3:12 PM crashfrog has not replied
  
docpotato
Member (Idle past 5069 days)
Posts: 334
From: Portland, OR
Joined: 07-18-2003

Normal Thread Display
Message 148 of 199 (384411)
02-11-2007 12:59 PM

Summing up...
So, thus far I've learned:
​
The ACLU seems to have a pretty rigorous definition of what they stand for as an organization and take legal cases based on that definition regardless of how their members might feel about the parties they're defending (Rush Limbaugh, Christian schools, NAMBLA, etc.) They appear to have very little bias in who they take on.
​
Also: Nemesis doesn't read his links thoroughly.
​
So what is the beef with the ACLU?
Replies to this message:
 Message 149 by subbie, posted 02-11-2007 1:03 PM docpotato has replied
 Message 151 by crashfrog, posted 02-11-2007 1:16 PM docpotato has not replied
 Message 163 by Quetzal, posted 02-11-2007 6:29 PM docpotato has not replied
  
docpotato
Member (Idle past 5069 days)
Posts: 334
From: Portland, OR
Joined: 07-18-2003

Normal Thread Display
Message 150 of 199 (384415)
02-11-2007 1:07 PM 		Reply to: Message 133 by Hyroglyphx
02-11-2007 12:44 AM

Re: The ACLU
Don't you think that's odd that an extremely large percentage of Americans can recognize this about the ACLU, but you are sort of preening and fawning them every step of the way?
​
An extremely large percentage of Americans once thought that Saddam was involved in 9-11. Oh, yeah, and an extremely large percentage of Americans are for abortions on demand!
​
So please... as a favor to the world, never use this kind-of reasoning for anything ever again.
​
I don't think there is any other organization with a more sordid reputation than the ACLU.
​
NAMBLA? Oh no, wait! What about The US Government! By your reasoning, because a large portion of the population believes the US Goverment is corrupt enough to falsely imprison and/or kill people for merely espousing their beliefs there is a REASON for the ACLU to exist and do exactly what they're doing since... you know... that large of a percentage of people being so suspicious of the government means that there's reason to be suspicious... or some such nonsense.
​
I think now it is time for you to infinitely regress.
​
Edited by docpotato, : No reason given.
This message is a reply to:
 Message 133 by Hyroglyphx, posted 02-11-2007 12:44 AM Hyroglyphx has not replied
  
docpotato
Member (Idle past 5069 days)
Posts: 334
From: Portland, OR
Joined: 07-18-2003

Normal Thread Display
Message 152 of 199 (384423)
02-11-2007 1:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 149 by subbie
02-11-2007 1:03 PM

Re: Summing up...
As far as I can tell, nj's beef seems to be that he doesn't like the message of some of the groups that the ACLU defends. Can anyone get a better sense of it than that?
​
He said this recently:
​
What is wrong, in my estimation, is that they choose cases, intentionally, that pander to the criminal. They often come down on the side of criminals in an attempt to impugn those who don't deserve it.
​
I know so little about the ACLU, but from what I've seen on this thread so far, it seems that the cases the ACLU takes on are about deciding whether or not someone or something is criminal. Am I wrong about this?
This message is a reply to:
 Message 149 by subbie, posted 02-11-2007 1:03 PM subbie has replied
Replies to this message:
 Message 154 by subbie, posted 02-11-2007 2:06 PM docpotato has not replied
 Message 155 by Chiroptera, posted 02-11-2007 2:13 PM docpotato has not replied
  
docpotato
Member (Idle past 5069 days)
Posts: 334
From: Portland, OR
Joined: 07-18-2003

Normal Thread Display
Message 167 of 199 (384499)
02-11-2007 7:52 PM 		Reply to: Message 165 by Hyroglyphx
02-11-2007 7:15 PM

Re: To summarize
It sounds like your problem is really with the Supreme Court, then?
This message is a reply to:
 Message 165 by Hyroglyphx, posted 02-11-2007 7:15 PM Hyroglyphx has not replied
  
Date format: mm-dd-yyyy
Timezone: ET (US)
  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024