First resignations- Evand and Aschroft

[Maeve_Mari]

Thanks to the heroic efforts of those noble, wise, intelligent fighters for Truth, Justice and the American Way---the ACLU?

Don't get me started on defending the ACLU! They have more than done their share of protecting your civil liberties and the basic tenets of what Americans expect from their government than any other person, group, administration, judiciary, or representative body. They have been the good-dog protecting our the nation for nearly a century.

[Epictetus]

Card carrying member.

Great group, they have done a lot of good.

[Inquartata]

And worked a lot of ill as well. Or do you think it possible for any person or organization to be 100% on the side of the angels every time?

But I mentioned the ACLU only by way of emblem for the entire "movement" which takes just as much of a black-and-white good-vs-evil position as it accuses the Bush Administration of doing when it comes to these laws. Hence any resistance to the latter are to be applauded, and any diminution of their effects are characterized as "progress", because all right-thinking people know that Bush is just out to subvert the Constitution, rape us of our civil rights and establish a fascist dictatorship of those nasty neocons...