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Common
10-04-2018, 04:31 AM
This is the most telling article from progressive liberals on how far the left has gone and how unhinged theyve become.


Former American Civil Liberties Union leaders say the group is making a serious mistake in opposing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with a $1 million ad buy focused on sexual misconduct allegations.

"They are not civil libertarians. They are serving a different master now," said former ACLU vice president Michael Meyers, who served on the group's national board from 1981 to 2005.


Meyers said the TV ad campaign, which compares Kavanaugh to famous sex abusers, violates the civil libertarian principle of presumption of innocence and shows the ACLU is increasingly guided by partisanship over principle.



"It's not ironic, it's tragic," Meyers told the Washington Examiner. "It's hypocrisy. It's bald-face hypocrisy. It's outrageous hypocrisy. It's a violation of everything we believe in as civil libertarians. It's appalling, shocking. It's unacceptable."


Wendy Kaminer, an ACLU national board member from 1999 to 2006, said the ad campaign strays from the ACLU’s core civil liberties mission and could undermine the organization’s work.


“I think the ad is appalling and one more example of progressive political sentiment trumping civil liberty concerns at ACLU,” Kaminer said. “You should ask national legal director David Cole how he feels about arguing a case before a Justice Kavanaugh who the ACLU has labelled a [Bill] Cosby-like sexual predator."


Cole did not respond to an email requesting comment.


The ACLU, which reaped a $120 million (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aclu-membership-skyrockets-trump_us_5b3db75de4b07b827cbd69b8) donation windfall in the 15 months after President Trump’s election, said this week it would spend $1 million on anti-Kavanaugh ads. The ACLU board issued a resolution Saturday opposing Kavanaugh over misconduct allegations and his response. It was the fourth time the group opposed a Supreme Court nominee.


Meyers wrote a letter Tuesday to ACLU President Susan Herman and executive director Anthony Romero registering his opposition to the ad campaign.


"I am embarrassed for you if neither of you opposed the national board’s policy shift or its leap to hard and fast conclusions about reports and accusations from persons whose memories are so cloudy and possibly mistaken," Meyers wrote in the letter, which he shared with the Washington Examiner.


The letter continued: "Indeed, with this latest breach of the Non-Partisanship policy, it is now abundantly clear that the ACLU has crossed over from being a civil liberties defense and advocacy organization to a partisan in the vaunted fashion of the so-called 'Resistance Movement' of the screaming progressives that seemingly now constitute (according to Anthony's estimates) in the 'millions' of ACLU members."


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-aclu-leaders-blast-appalling-anti-brett-kavanaugh-ad-campaign

Hoosier8
10-04-2018, 08:36 AM
Dershowitz is lambasted by the left for still having principles and claiming even Trump has civil rights. The DNC media will not put him on.

ripmeister
10-04-2018, 09:43 AM
This is unfortunate. One criticism I've always had about the left is them getting their shorts in a twist when the ACLU defends a right wing hate mongers free speech. That is what they should be doing, defending civil liberties regardless of political persuasion.