Picked this up from WorldNetDaily.com. Great insight on the workings (past & present) of the ACLU:
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Below are the communist goals being implemented by the ACLU in their quest to destroy America's culture and traditions, as put into the Congressional Record by Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., Jan. 10, 1963:
[part of the 45 communist goals Herlong read]
--Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
--Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
--Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
--Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
--Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
--Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television.
--Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."
--Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
--Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
--Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over. Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.
--Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
--Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
The rest of the article - linked below - details how the Communist Party USA was working closely with the ACLU. Not only that, but by law, each case the ACLU wins, their attorneys are paid for out of the public treasury, i.e., by the American taxpayer.
So, what does all of this mean? If you, a relative, or political friends believe in any of the 45 goals of the Communist strategy, you are, in essence, a communist.
I don't use the word "liberal" anymore in describing this socialist filth. Let's call them what they really are.
The rest of the column can be found here:http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41751
The Communist takeover of America
45 goals of the CP read into Congressional Record - 1963
http://news.phaseiii.org/article1080.html
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