Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Geeze, just how dishonest dim can a group of lawyers be?
From the ACLU web site:
OK, lawyers are supposed to be dishonest -- but not stupid. Do the lawyers of the ACLU really believe that nobody who visits their web site has even a passing familiarity with the Constitution?
And liberals wonder why so many people shake their heads about what's happened to liberal institutions like the ACLU since their good old days. Combine dim dishonesty like this with the standard claims of moral superiority and what do you get? A Republican majority.
From the ACLU web site:
It is probably no accident that freedom of speech is the first freedom mentioned in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."But guess what's the first freedom mentioned before the "first" freedom, in there where they put that ellipses?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." [Amendment #1]Yes, it's that "freedom of religion" thing that the ACLU is not at all fond of ... so *poof* it's deleted from the Bill of Rights! [catch via Opinionjournal]
OK, lawyers are supposed to be dishonest -- but not stupid. Do the lawyers of the ACLU really believe that nobody who visits their web site has even a passing familiarity with the Constitution?
And liberals wonder why so many people shake their heads about what's happened to liberal institutions like the ACLU since their good old days. Combine dim dishonesty like this with the standard claims of moral superiority and what do you get? A Republican majority.
