Coston's Complaint: The ACLU Tries to Co-opt Tea Party

Friday, November 18, 2011

The ACLU Tries to Co-opt Tea Party

The ACLU is trying to co-opt the tea party movement. It looks like the dirty, freeloaders known as OWS is leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. So, this leftist organization wants to cozy up to responsible citizens, who when protesting respect the rule of law; don’t defecate in public and basically cause a general stench in the lives of other people.

American Civil Liberties Union President Susan Herman says she’s concerned about her organization being branded as left-wing and went so far as to draw parallels between the civil rights group and the tea party movement.

“The ACLU is non-partisan. We’re not Democrats, we’re not Republicans,” Herman told POLITICO in an interview to promote her new book, “Taking Liberties.” “Probably more of our positions happen to coincide with more progressive, Democratic or liberal organizations, in terms of number of issues. But what I can tell you is that there are places where we agree with people who are right-wing libertarians.”

The ACLU’s positions not only coincide with the progressive’s, they receive most of their funding from these fascist, anti-federalist organizations. DiscovertheNetworks.org enumerates their biggest contributors:

The ACLU has received funding from the Open Society Institute, the Arca Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Columbia Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Columbia Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the JEHT Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Lear Family Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago.

And if that isn’t bad enough, the ACLU says they respect the Constitution just as much as the tea party.

In some ways, Herman said, there was even an overlap between the ACLU and the tea party – at least in rhetoric.

“I think we are in total agreement with the tea party that the Constitution is our governing document. Our rhetoric is going to be very similar to the tea party’s in that we say we should get back to our fundamental constitutional principles,” said Herman. “We just have different interpretations of what the Constitution means.”

The U.S. Constitution was designed to limit the power of the federal government and to respect private property rights and natural law. The ACLU proclaims they want to get back to the fundamental principles of the constitution. It’s too bad their guiding principles are founded in the old Soviet Union's.