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Refuse to Surrender Your Freedom

http://www.aclu.org/refusetosurrender/?orgid=EA111704A
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It appears the ACLU is launching a protest against Bush on inauguration day. In fact, they even imply that President Bush is deliberately seeking to take away our freedoms.
 
Here is a recent campaign they are running on their website:

 
 
 
Help Us Get 100,000 People to Take the Pledge by Inauguration Day -- January 20th


Today our most fundamental freedoms are in jeopardy. Only a bold, spirited movement of people like you who refuse to surrender your freedoms can protect our civil liberties.

On January 20th, George Bush will pledge to uphold the Constitution. Our goal is to recruit 100,000 new ACLU supporters by that day to proclaim "I REFUSE TO SURRENDER MY FREEDOM" by taking this simple pledge:

"I pledge to join with over 400,000 ACLU members and supporters to help ensure that the President, his administration, and our leaders in Congress fulfill their duty to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution.

By reaffirming my commitment to the American values of justice and liberty for all, I am enlisting in a powerful movement to defend our freedoms against assaults on our civil liberties."

Let's make it clear to those who seek to take away our freedoms that they are on the wrong side of the law... the wrong side of core American values... and the wrong side of history. Take the pledge now and stand strong in support of freedom.

 

Warning: Before you sign the petition, or donate money to this "worthy" cause, please read this:

 

A.C.L.U.'s Search for Data on Donors Stirs Privacy Fears
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #25 By: Independent1 - 12/23/2004 8:01:31 PM
"To boil it all down, how is this a problem? The BSA recieves limited assistance from the gov in the form of charters. They could do without it."

The point is the ACLU is not ultimately trying to stop the scouts from having access to public lands. They are using the case to advance other issues. The case was mostly directed not at the use of public lands, but government employess heading troops while on government time, etc.


Unless the employees are on night shift, I don't see how that's possible. Especially since every troop that I've been in , was a scout master for, or in my area are all held at night. That's so parents can get involved and bring their kids to meetings. And you rteally should do a little more research.

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Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #1 By: Danny Bassette - 12/18/2004 8:51:49 PM
Keeping freedoms is good. And supporting groups that do this is also good. But the ACLU didn't state what freedoms they claim Bush will take away, seems too broad to me. I'm inclined to think it's merely an attempt to gain leverage. I read something recently where the ACLU went after the department of defense saying they couldn't interact with the boyscouts because they were a religious group. Seems to me like the ACLU is about taking away freedoms in the name of equality while claiming they are protecting those same freedoms.
In other words: Protecting freedom good, ACLU good in theory, bad in practice, that's my opinion on this subject.
Of course, we should also have the freedom to give up our freedoms, but only if we are then free to take them back


They can try all they want! Seems that SecDef Rumsfeld has other ideas. See link.

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