The classic admonition to physicians should also apply to those who would defend our liberty. The American Civil Liberties Union, apparently, does not share this vision. If their actions are to be taken as sincere, they are missing the proverbial forest for the trees. No, actually, they are missing big ol’ honkin’ redwoods for a few pine needles on the forest floor.
The ACLU, a former stalwart in defense of actual liberty, has taken up the cudgel to stop our government from protecting our foremost civil liberty: the right to life. The issue at hand is the surveillance on alleged Americans who are suspected of terrorist links. The surveillance takes the form of intercepting telephone calls and e-mails that are made from these alleged Americans to overseas recipients who are known terrorists or suspected of terror links.
The basic story may be found here, and in this the ACLU has some curious friends:
It was filed by the ACLU, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greenpeace and individuals on behalf of journalists, scholars, attorneys and national nonprofit organizations that communicate with people in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere.
Now, why Greenpeace thinks they’ve got a dog in this fight is open for question. It is, however, obvious why CAIR does. They are as soft on Islamic terror as it is possible to be without actually manning the barricades themselves. And they view it as heinous whenever someone notices that virtually all terrorists that act or plot against us are Muslims.
Lost in the the noise is the hard fact that our government’s first, and some might say, sole duty, is to protect its citizens’ lives. Protect them against Islamic threats from without, and from within, America. Our borders are porous, and we’ve got more than a few traitors in our midst.
This is not a question of civil liberties. It is a question of who is in favor of preserving our fundamental liberty, the right to life. And the ACLU and its friends in this matter have come down against our basic liberty.
self evident truths 