{"id":10560,"date":"2015-12-09T01:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T08:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10560"},"modified":"2015-12-09T01:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T08:06:05","slug":"the-aclu-supports-arbitrary-and-capricious-suspension-of-civil-liberties-to-fight-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/12\/09\/the-aclu-supports-arbitrary-and-capricious-suspension-of-civil-liberties-to-fight-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"The ACLU Supports Arbitrary and Capricious Suspension of Civil Liberties to Fight &#8220;Terror&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The American Civil Liberties Union likes to pretend that it &#8220;wubs&#8221; civil liberties for American.\u00a0 However, they only pretend when it is politically useful for them to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Case in point: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/why-the-aclu-is-suing-no-fly-list\" target=\"_blank\">No fly lists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The ACLU is suing against the use of &#8220;no fly lists&#8221;, considering prohibiting someone from using one particular form of transportation as unacceptable.\u00a0 Indeed the arbitrary and capricious nature by which people can be added to a list, with no recourse to remove themselves from the list, is indeed noxious worthy of nothing but opposition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10561\" title=\"Terror Watch List\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TerrorWatchList-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The loss of <em>any<\/em> civil liberties in such and arbitrary and capricious manner, without recourse to regain such civil liberties, should be eschewed.\u00a0 The abandoning of both due process or the concept of innocent until proven guilty is something that a <em>real<\/em> pro-civil liberties organization would fight against.\u00a0 The ACLU is <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/aclu-opposes-the-no-fly-list-but-is-okay\" target=\"_blank\">not<\/a> a <em>real<\/em> pro-civil liberties organization.\u00a0 With &#8220;reforms&#8221; they have no problem with allowing bureaucrats to arbitrarily and capriciously suspend people&#8217;s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Amendment civil liberties, as ACLU\u2019s media strategist Josh Bell <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/2015\/12\/8\/aclu-not-too-upset-over-using-the-no-fly-list-to-restrict-second-amendment-rights\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There is no constitutional bar to reasonable regulation of guns, and the no-fly list could serve as one tool for it&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The ACLU is all for civil liberties, at least for some people.\u00a0 This should come as no surprise from an organization that supported religious freedom laws to protect non-Christians from the equal application of the law, but <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/the-aclu-now-opposes-religious-freedom-b\" target=\"_blank\">opposes religious freedom<\/a> to not subsidize someone else&#8217;s sex life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It would seem that the &#8220;A&#8221; in &#8220;ACLU&#8221; stands not for &#8220;American&#8221; but for &#8220;Anti-&#8220;\u2026<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The ACLU Supports Arbitrary and Capricious Suspension of Civil Liberties to Fight 'Terror'\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The American Civil Liberties Union likes to pretend that it 'wubs' civil liberties for American.  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