Okay looks like I might be able to do some catching up over here today. First, the ACLU placed a full page ad in The New York Times on Friday, November 11, 2016, that's worth reposting over here. At the end I share links to the American Civil Liberties Union.
If you are concerned about your civil liberties under USA's new Russian Obligate CEO who keeps mesmerizing his supporters with hopes of returning our country to some mythical White Nation that never existed and never can be in today's real world. The one that is multi-cultural, over-crowded, with resources depleted, and a home planet that we are warming up alarmingly, which in turn is, and will continue to, upend age old natural patterns that our society depends on for its survival. But I digress. The ACLU was letting the incoming US Administration know that they remain a force to be reckoned with.
But, you know the Alt-Right is also a mighty force to be reckoned with, after all they have convinced themselves they are god's own warriors. Keep in mind they just conned America out of its government, and the ACLU is going to need a hell of a lot more support, intellectual, money, and vocal proactive citizens defending their efforts through letters to editors and your Representatives on both sides of the fence.
Complacency is our greatest enemy! Can you help protect America?
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November 11, 2016 | American Civil Liberties Union
Dear President-elect Trump,
For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has stood as this nation’s premier defender of freedom and justice for all.
As you assume the nation’s highest once, we must ask you now as president-elect to reconsider and change course on certain campaign promises you have made.
Specifically, you promised to:
- amass a deportation force to remove 11 million undocumented immigrants
- ban the entry of Muslims and institute aggressive surveillance programs targeting them
- restrict a woman’s right to abortion services
- reauthorize waterboarding and other forms of torture
- change our nation’s libel laws and restrict freedom of expression
These proposals are not simply un-American and wrong-headed. They are unlawful and unconstitutional, and would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, as well as other statutes and international treaties.
